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The Slim Shady LP (Music)
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The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album by Eminem, released on February 26, 1999.The album served as Eminem's major-label debut, and became his first work to receive significant public recognition, but is not actually his first-ever release. That title goes to his debut album Infinite (1996), which was a critical and commercial flop upon release, only selling around 1,000 copies and evoking many a complaint of Em's rapping style on the album being overly similar to rappers like Nas and Jay-Z.Following a suicide attempt and the invention of an angry and violent (yet darkly humorous) alter ego, Em released The Slim Shady EP a year later, and things started turning around. Most notably, the EP gained the attention of Dr. Dre, who quickly got in contact with Em, signed him to his label Aftermath Entertainment, and began work on an album with him, the end result being this. The album takes a look into Em's psyche both through the cartoonish obscenity of his alter ego Slim Shady (introduced in the namesake EP) and his real-life struggles with poverty and bullying among other subjects.The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, won two Grammy Awards (Best Rap Album and Best Rap Solo Performance for "My Name Is") and would go on to be certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA in 2000, elevating Em from underground buzz to mainstream celebrity. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Subverted in the music video of "My Name Is", directed by Philip Atwell, where Eminem dresses up like Johnny Carson, Marilyn Manson, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. | |
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Frothy Mugs of Water | |
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Frothy Mugs of Water: The clean version of "My Name Is" took the "drank a fifth of vodka" line and replaced "vodka" with "Kool-Aid". | |
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Hypocrite Has a Point | |
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Hypocrite Has a Point: "Guilty Conscience" revolves around Dr. Dre and Eminem being the respective angel and devil of several men's consciences. Dre spends the song trying to talk the men out of committing crimes, but in the song's final verse, Em calls out Dre for doing so while having a criminal history of his own, bringing up his 1991 assault of TV host Dee Barnes and the violent gangster persona he had when he was in N.W.A. He asks Dre how he can tell others not to be violent, and Dre replies that it's because they "don't need to go the same route that I went". He's on the right side of every argument he gets into in the song (trying to prevent a store robbery, the rape of a minor, and the murder of a woman and the man she cheated on her husband with), but Em pointing this out (and taunting him for it) ultimately makes him give up the struggle and turn to the dark side. | |
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Tropaholics Anonymous | |
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Tropaholics Anonymous: "Just Don't Give A Fuck". | |
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The Bully | |
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The Bully: "Brain Damage" is about a real-life incident from Eminem's youth where he was beaten into a coma by bullies. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Arguably the whole album takes place in one due to the dramatization of the hardships Em raps about. "Brain Damage", for instance, takes place in a world where teachers will not only allow bullying to happen, but will assist the bully in beating up their victim. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Many, many, many songs sing about murder, rape, violence, STD's, pedophilia, adultery, misogyny, suicide, and drug abuse... in a comedic fashion. | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction / I Resemble That Remark!: In the last verse of "Guilty Conscience", Dre tries to convince a man not to kill his wife and the man he caught her in bed with. Em then rebuts by pointing out that Dre has his own history of violence, having assaulted TV presenter Dee Barnes in 1991 and presented a gangster image as part of N.W.A. Dre reacts indignantly to this characterization of him...by threatening to kill Em. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Dr. Dre raps along during "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", "Guilty Consience" and "My Name Is". The narration during "Guilty Conscience" is done by actor Mark Avery note Best known for his work on the National Geographic Channel , but in the music video this part is performed by actor Robert Culp note Best known as Kelly Robinson in I Spy and Warren Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond . "Bad Meets Evil" features Royce da 5'9", who closes the song by saying: "See you in hell for the sequel", which would become the name of his own debut EP: "Hell, the Sequel". In "Ken Kaniff" rapper Aristotle plays Ken Kaniff. On later albums Eminem played the part as he and Aristotle had a falling out. The woman calling during "Bitch" is Zoe Winkler, daughter of Henry Winkler. | |
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List Song | |
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List Song: The chorus of "I'm Shady" lists off several different drugs. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: "Guilty Conscience". The Good Angel, Bad Angel scenario ends with the bad angel (Eminem) getting the good angel (Dr. Dre) to turn to the dark side and let Grady shoot his girlfriend as well as the guy she was having an affair against him with. | |
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Ode to Intoxication | |
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Ode to Intoxication: "My Name Is" | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome | |
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Played to chilling effect in "97 Bonnie and Clyde". | |
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Time Marches On | |
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Time Marches On: The song "97' Bonnie & Clyde" has dated since 1997 passed by. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: "My Name Is" | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: "Cum On Everybody". | |
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Call-and-Response Song | |
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Call-and-Response Song: Several examples among the songs that he's done with Dr. Dre. "Guilty Conscience" has Slim and Dre as the different sides of someone's conscience (bad angel and good angel, if you will), bickering back and forth over what the person should do. | |
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RapeAsComedy | |
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Rape as Comedy: "Guilty Conscience" | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", where the protagonist kills his wife, her new husband and their four-year-old son too. "No One's Iller" | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: "My Fault" ends with a girl named Susan overdosing on a bag of mushrooms Em gives her. The song closes on Em bawling and trying to get Susan to wake up. "Guilty Conscience" has a Good Angel, Bad Angel premise, with Em as the bad angel and Dr. Dre as the good angel fighting over control of several people's conscience. The song ends with Em getting Dre to turn to the dark side and tell a man to shoot his wife and the man she was cheating on him with, not to mention that the previous verse ended with Em successfully convincing another man to commit statutory date rape. | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: "My Name Is..." contains a sample from Labi Siffre's "I Got The..." The openly gay singer only allowed use of his song if the misogynistic and homophobic references were removed from the song. "Guilty Conscience" features a sample of "Pigs Go Home", composed by Ronald Stein for the film "Getting Straight". While the album notes mentioned that the song is an "interpolation" of "Pigs Go Home" Stein's widow filed a lawsuit for not being paid royalties. She won her case. "If I Had" has a sample of "Impeach the President " by The Honey Drippers. "Cum On Everybody" relies on a sample of "Gimme What You Got" by Le Pamplemouse. "Bad Meets Evil" has a sample from "Me & My Girlfriend" by Tupac Shakur and "Modaji" by Dave Grusin. "Rock Bottom" samples "Summertime" from Janis Joplin's Cheap Thrills. "I'm Shady" is based on "Pusherman" by Curtis Mayfield and "I'm Your Pusher" by Ice-T. "Just Don't Give A Fuck" samples "Catch The Beat" by T-Sky Valley. In the EP version, it also sampled "Gavotte and 6 Doubles" by Bob James. | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Eminem's daughter Hailie can be heard during "'97 Bonnie & Clyde". | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
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Drowning My Sorrows: "If I Had" | |
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Album Intro Track | |
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Album Intro Track: "Public Service Announcement", a skit wherein an announcer played by producer Jeff Bass describes the contents of the album as "totally fucked" and gives a Don't Try This at Home message. He then asks Em if he has anything to add; Em replies, "Yeah. Don't do drugs." Em's next album, The Marshall Mathers LP, would start with another PSA skit featuring him and Bass. | |
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Please Wake Up | |
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Please Wake Up: The ending of "My Fault". | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: Near the end of "Brain Damage". Used as a derogatory insult towards his mom, no less. | |
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Baby Talk | |
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Baby Talk: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mark & Jeff Bass and Mel-Man. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Would you trust a guy named Slim Shady? | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: D'Angelo Bailey, who is referenced in "Brain Damage", beat Marshall up so bad when he was 10 that he was put in a coma-and when he woke up, had to re-learn all his basic functions. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Violence | |
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Family-Unfriendly Violence: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", where the dead body of the child's mother is thrown in a lake. | |
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Gag Penis | |
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Gag Penis: One particularly memorable bit in "As the World Turns" has Em whipping out his "go-go-gadget dick" that causes an earthquake and power outage upon hitting the ground. | |
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Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration | |
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Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: In "My Name Is", Em admits this of himself through referencing the old wives' tale that masturbation causes hair to grow on one's palms. | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: "Bad Meets Evil" has a cowboy narrator telling and concluding the tale. | |
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God Is Evil | |
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This joke got even more elaborate in the wake of "Cold Wind Blows" (from Recovery), which was released just a year before H:TS, wherein God tells Slim Shady that He will send him to Hell if he does not change his ways. Apparently, he didn't. | |
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STD Immunity | |
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STD Immunity: Averted in many songs. "Cum On Everybody" "I'm Shady" "Role Model" | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: A lot of songs have autobiographical elements, though Eminem often dramatizes things a bit for effect. The line about the Spice Girls in "My Name Is" was inspired by the fact that many radio DJs had asked him which Spice Girl he would date if he had the choice. "Brain Damage" addresses Eminem's childhood experiences with being bullied at school and going into a coma as a result. DeAngelo Bailey, one of the people accused of being a bully in the song, filed a lawsuit, but the judge later dismissed the case. Eminem also blames his teachers and his mother for not helping him. In reality, his mom sued the school for not protecting her child better. The line where the principal joins in beating up Eminem is also fantasy. Eminem wrote "Rock Bottom" after being fired from his cooking job at a restaurant. Eminem attacks his own mother in "My Name Is", rapping that she does more dope than he does and that she couldn't breastfeed him as a child since she had "no tits". His mother directly responded to the latter line in her 2008 autobiography, writing, "This line was horrible and upsetting, because I'd contracted toxemia-blood poisoning when I gave birth to him and hadn't been able to breast-feed." Eminem also attacks his own wife Kim in "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", and even felt the need of letting his then-infant daughter go to the recording studio and make a vocal contribution to the latter song. "Guilty Conscience" has Dr. Dre play the good angel to Slim Shady's bad angel in several men's consciences, but Shady tries to convince one man to listen to him with the line "You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?", in reference to a real-life incident in 1991 where Dre allegedly either beat up or just pushed TV presenter Dee Barnes at a party; he was fined, put on 2 years' probation, given 240 hours of community service, and made to appear in an anti-violence PSA. Eminem was nervous what Dre would think of this line since he had only known him for a few days, but to his delight, Dre "fell out of his chair laughing." | |
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"I Am" Song | |
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"I Am" Song: "My Name Is" and "I'm Shady". "Rock Bottom" is basically Em bemoaning how much of a wreck he is considering the state of poverty he's in, made even worse since he has a daughter to care for. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: The image quote at the top, which is the opening line of the album's first verse (in "My Name Is"), sets the tone for Em's persona pretty well. It has further been interpreted as having been specially made to not only rope in the young audiences that would become big fans of him, but also to make a satirical point about how parents get worked up about him yet let their kids watch desensitized violence in the form of cartoons like Tom and Jerry. | |
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Extreme Omnisexual | |
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Extreme Omnisexual: Referenced in "My Name Is". | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: "Brain Damage" ends with Em's mom beating him upside the head so bad that his brain falls out of his skull. He then proceeds to take his own brain and yell at his mom before putting it back in his head. | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "If I Had", which is Eminem fantasizing about what he'd do if he was rich and famous. | |
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Horrorcore | |
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Horrorcore: A lot of the songs fall into this genre. | |
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Capitalism Is Bad | |
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Capitalism Is Bad: "If I Had" | |
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Good Angel, Bad Angel | |
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Good Angel, Bad Angel: The basis of "Guilty Conscience", with Dr. Dre playing the good angel and Eminem playing the bad angel (reasonably) and quarreling over their attempts to respectively talk people out of and into committing illicit acts. Eminem wins 2 out of the 3 scenarios, and gets Dre to turn to the dark side with his last victory. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
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Major Injury Underreaction: "Brain Damage" | |
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Cerebus Rollercoaster | |
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Cerebus Rollercoaster: The album veers erratically between slapstick Black Comedy ("My Name Is", "Role Model", "Guilty Conscience"), chilling Horrorcore ("'97 Bonnie and Clyde"), and serious tracks in which Eminem describes his bleak and frustrating working-class existence ("Rock Bottom", "If I Had") or traumatic personal experiences ("Brain Damage"). | |
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Addled Addict | |
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Addled Addict: "Just Don't Give a Fuck" addresses battling with alcoholism, marijuana, and cocaine. | |
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Depraved Homosexual | |
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Depraved Homosexual: "Ken Kaniff", with the title character being a gay man who calls up Eminem with lewd suggestions. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: One of the last lines of "Bad Meets Evil" is "See you in hell for the sequel." Eleven years later, Em and Royce da 5'9" reunited as Bad Meets Evil for - you guessed it - Hell: The Sequel. The second scenario in "Guilty Conscience" stars someone named Stan. And no, he isn't related to Stanley Mitchell, the character from "Stan" on The Marshall Mathers LP. In "Brain Damage", Em mentions his palms being sweaty, a line which was slightly tinkered and reused in "Lose Yourself", released three years later. | |
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One-Man Song | |
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One-Man Song: "Paul" and "Ken Kaniff". | |
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Anaphora | |
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Anaphora: Almost every line in the verses of "If I Had" starts with "I'm tired of..." | |
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Answer Song | |
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Answer Song: Insane Clown Posse wrote a parody of "My Name Is" called "Slim Anus", being in a rap feud with Eminem at the time. In "Just Don't Give a Fuck", Eminem disses other white rappers like Everlast, Miilkbone and Vanilla Ice, who'd all write diss tracks aimed at Eminem. Everlast had a feud with Eminem, Miilkbone released "Dear Slim" and "Presenting Miilkbone", and Vanilla Ice released "Exhale" and "Hip Hop Rules". | |
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Really700YearsOld | |
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Really 700 Years Old: Dr. Dre cites this as a reason why Eddie shouldn't go through with a robbery in "Guilty Conscience". | |
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Development Hell | |
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The end of the song's chorus goes, "See you in Hell for the sequel." Afterwards, the two had a lengthy falling out, but once their mutual friend Proof died, they patched up their issues and released a joint album called Hell: The Sequel in 2011. Besides its name, given how long it took Em and Royce to get around to making it, one can say we saw the sequel in Development Hell. | |
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Heavy Meta | |
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Heavy Meta: "My Name Is", from beginning to end, but especially these lyrics: "Still Don't Give A Fuck" | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| The Slim Shady LP (Music) / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde". Which manages at the same time to be unbelievably sweet and unbelievably scary at the same time. | |
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Mickey Mousing | |
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Mickey Mousing: All of the songs have sound effects and comedic voices after each line to illustrate what just has been said. | |
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Historical Rap Sheet | |
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Historical Rap Sheet: Slim takes credit for the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders on "Role Model." | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: A lot of celebrities and even people within Eminem's own family and vicinity get diss raps targeted at them. "My Name Is" "Just Don't Give A Fuck" disses white rappers Prime Minister Pete Nice, MC Serch, Everlast, Miilkbone and Vanilla Ice. "Role Model" targets Hillary Rodham Clinton and rappers Canibus and Cage. He also claims he was the one to murder O.J. Simpson's wife and lover. | |
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Bedroom Adultery Scene | |
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Bedroom Adultery Scene: "Guilty Conscience", where Grady catches his wife in bed with another man. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: "Slim Shady" and "Ken Kaniff" | |
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Shout-Out | |
| The Slim Shady LP (Music) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: All over the place. "My Name Is" namedrops Nine Inch Nails, The Spice Girls, The Incredible Hulk, Pamela Anderson and Kris Kross. The music video also makes reference to Johnny Carson, The Brady Bunch, Marilyn Manson, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. The line preceding the Nine Inch Nails reference ("Hi, kids, do you like violence?") is censored in the clean version to replace "violence" with "Primus" (another rock band), effectively killing two birds with one stone. "Guilty Conscience" has several references. Dr. Dre refers to a store clerk as "older than George Burns". In the second verse of the song, where Dre and Shady are debating over the conscience of a 21-year-old man about to take advantage of a 15-year-old girl, Dre tries dissuading him by bringing up the film Kids, which contains a scene where an unconscious girl is raped, resulting in the rapist contracting AIDS, while Shady brings up the rapper Sun Doobiest, who later made a porn movie. Near the end of the song, Shady references Dr. Dre's earlier album Straight Outta Compton with N.W.A, rapping, "Mr. Dre, Mr. N.W.A, Mr. AK / coming straight outta Compton, y'all better make way". "Role Model" "Just Don't Give A Fuck" references Jim Brady, assistant to Ronald Reagan who got paralyzed after being shot during the 1981 assault on his life. He also namedrops American football coach Marty Schottenheimer, boxer Mike Tyson, rapper DeShaun Holton, O. J. Simpson murder victim Ron Goldman, "Fuck the World" by Tupac Shakur, Voltron and Rage Against the Machine. "As The World Turns" references the character Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati, loss-of-weight book author Jenny Craig and Inspector Gadget. "Cum On Everybody" references Kurt Cobain, Lauryn Hill, Beastie Boys, Kid Rock and the Loch Ness Monster. "Bad Meets Evil": "Still Don't Give A Fuck" | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The music video of "Just Don't Give a Fuck". | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Bitch", "Lounge", and "Soap". | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: All over the place, but most notably in these lines from "I'm Shady". | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "My Fault" has an R&B/dance-like beat you'd hear in a club, but it's about a girl taking too many of the mushrooms Eminem gave her and later dying. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: "Rock Bottom" depicts Em at essentially the lowest point of his life. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: "Public Service Announcement": "My Fault" features a tale about a girl who takes psychedelic mushrooms at a rave and overdoses on them. | |
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Anti-Role Model | |
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Anti-Role Model: Shady, as exhibited throughout the album and even highlighted in "Role Model". Em further explained this in a 2009 Rolling Stone interview: | |
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Smoking Is Not Cool | |
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Smoking Is Not Cool: The woman with shabby hair in the music video of "My Name Is" smokes a cigarette and has a Gross-Up Close-Up where she blows smoke in the camera. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: "If I Had" "Just Don't Give A Fuck" "No One's Iller" "Cum On Everybody" | |
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Dude, She's Like in a Coma | |
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Dude, She's Like in a Coma: "Guilty Conscience", where Slim Shady tries to convince a guy named Stan to take advantage of an underage girl who passed out at a party. | |
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Buried Alive | |
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Buried Alive: From "My Name Is". | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: "Brain Damage" contains many fantasized scenarios of Em getting back at bullies that have tormented him. For example, after he gets brutally assaulted by a bully near the end of the song (the school principal even comes in only to assist the bully in beating him), Em plays dead to get his assailants to leave. Once they do, he turns the tables by defeating the bully with appliances from the janitor's closet. | |
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Gross-Up Close-Up | |
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Gross-Up Close-Up: The slobby overweight man and cigarette smoking woman with shabby hair in the music video of "My Name Is". | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In the case of "Bad Meets Evil", Em's song with then-friend Royce da 5'9. The end of the song's chorus goes, "See you in Hell for the sequel." Afterwards, the two had a lengthy falling out, but once their mutual friend Proof died, they patched up their issues and released a joint album called Hell: The Sequel in 2011. Besides its name, given how long it took Em and Royce to get around to making it, one can say we saw the sequel in Development Hell. This joke got even more elaborate in the wake of "Cold Wind Blows" (from Recovery), which was released just a year before H:TS, wherein God tells Slim Shady that He will send him to Hell if he does not change his ways. Apparently, he didn't. | |
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Cross-Referenced Titles | |
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Cross-Referenced Titles: "Just Don't Give a Fuck" and "Still Don't Give a Fuck". | |
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