I'm just a little white boy from Detroit. Dre since listening to his group N.W.A as a teenager, was nervous to work with him on the album: 'I didn't want to be starstruck or kiss his ass too much . The Slim Shady LP was recorded at Studio 8 at 430 8 Mile Road in Ferndale, Michigan. Dre ( pictured in 2008) since he was a teenager. Dre subsequently began work on Eminem's major-label debut album.Įminem had idolized The Slim Shady LP co-producer Dr. If you can kick it, I'm working with you.' Eminem and Dr. Dre responded, 'I don't give a fuck if you're purple. Dre not to take a chance on Eminem because he was white. When Jimmy played this, I said, 'Find him. Dre recalled, 'In my entire career in the music industry, I have never found anything from a demo tape or a CD. Iovine played the tape for hip hop producer Dr. He placed second, and the staff at Interscope Records who attended the Rap Olympics sent a copy of the Slim Shady EP to company CEO Jimmy Iovine. After being evicted from his home, Eminem traveled to Los Angeles to participate in the Rap Olympics, an annual nationwide rap battle competition. During this time, Eminem and his girlfriend Kim Scott lived in a high-crime neighborhood with their newborn daughter Hailie, where their house was burglarized numerous times. In the spring of 1997, he recorded the eight-song extended play Slim Shady EP. The disappointment of Infinite inspired Eminem to create the alter ego Slim Shady: 'Boom, the name hit me, and right away I thought of all these words to rhyme with it.' Slim Shady served as Eminem's vent for his frustration, and rage to the world. Motherfuckers was like, 'You're a white boy, what the fuck are you rapping for? Why don't you go into rock & roll?' All that type of shit started pissing me off.' After the release of Infinite, Eminem's personal struggles and abuse of methadone and alcohol culminated in a suicide attempt. A lot of it was because of the feedback I got. The disappointment from this experience greatly influenced his lyrical style: 'After that record, every rhyme I wrote got angrier and angrier. Infinite achieved very little commercial success and was largely ignored by Detroit radio stations. In 1996, his debut album Infinite, which was recorded at the Bassmint, a recording studio owned by the Bass Brothers, was released under their independent record label Web Entertainment. Įminem, born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, began rapping at age fourteen. Spin later included it in their list of 'The 300 Best Albums of 1985–2014'. Despite this, the album has since been included in several publications' lists of the greatest albums of all time.

While The Slim Shady LP's success turned Eminem from an underground rapper into a high-profile celebrity, he became a highly controversial figure due to his lyrical content, which some perceived to be misogynistic and a negative influence on U.S. In 2000, The Slim Shady LP was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album won Best Rap Album at the 2000 Grammy Awards, while 'My Name Is' won Best Rap Solo Performance. The first single, ' My Name Is', became Eminem's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. It received commercial and critical success, with critics praising Eminem for his unique lyrical style, dark humor lyrics, and eccentric personality. The Slim Shady LP debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, just below TLC's FanMail, and number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Although many of the lyrics on the album are considered to be satirical, Eminem also depicts his frustrations of living in poverty. The Slim Shady LP contains cartoonish depictions of violence and heavy use of profanity, which Eminem described as horror film-esque, in that it is solely for entertainment value. Dre, Bass Brothers, and Eminem himself.įeaturing West Coast hip hop, G-funk and horrorcore musical styles, the majority of The Slim Shady LP 's lyrical content is written from the perspective of Eminem's alter ego, named Slim Shady, whom he created on the Slim Shady EP (1997). Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the album features production from Dr. Recorded in Ferndale, Michigan following Eminem's recruitment by Dr. It was released on February 23, 1999, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album by American rapper Eminem.

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