I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups, all you do is annoy me "Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee!"Īnd show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD You little bitch, put me on blast on M.T.V So I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred DurstĪnd hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs So you can, sit me here next to Britney Spears? Why? So you guys could just lie to get me here? "But slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird?" Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records 'Coz I'm slim shady, yes I'm the real shady So won't The Real Slim Shady please stand up Women wave your pantyhose, sing the chorus and it goesĪll you other slim shadys are just imitating Then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elopeīut if you feel like I feel, I got the antidote Who cut other people open like cantaloupesīut if we can hump dead animals and antelopes "We ain't nothing but mammals", well, some of us cannibals They got the discovery channel don't they? Of course they gonna know what intercourse is "My bum is on your lips, my bum is on your lipsĪnd if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss"Īnd that's the message that we deliver to little kidsĪnd expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is and just let loose, but can'tīut it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose Yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head looseīut no worse, than what's goin' on in your parents' bedrooms Look at him, walkin' around grabbin' his you-know-whatįlippin' the you-know-who, yeah, but he's so cute though!" Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement!Ĭhigga chigga chigga, "Slim shady, I'm sick of him He didn't just say what I think he did, did he?"ĭr. It's the return of the, "Ah, wait, no way, you're kidding They first were divorce, throwin' her over furniture Jaws all on the floor like Pam, like Tommy just burst in the doorĪnd started whoopin' her ass worse than before Y'all act like you never seen a white person before I repeat will, The Real Slim Shady please stand up? Years later, as the shock has faded, it's those lyrical skills and the subtle mastery of the music that still resonate, and they're what make The Slim Shady LP one of the great debuts in both hip-hop and modern pop music.Will, The Real Slim Shady please stand up? At a time when many rappers were stuck in the stultifying swamp of gangsta clichés, Eminem broke through the hardcore murk by abandoning the genre's familiar themes and flaunting a style with more verbal muscle and imagination than any of his contemporaries. As well they should be - there are few rappers as wildly gifted verbally as Eminem. Dre but also helmed in large doses by Marky and Jeff Bass, along with Marshall himself - mirrors his rhymes, with their spare, intricately layered arrangements enhancing his narratives, which are always at the forefront. Eminem's supreme gifts are an expansive vocabulary and vivid imagination, which he unleashes with wicked humor and unsparing anger in equal measure. There have been more violent songs in rap, but few more disturbing, and it's not because of what it describes, it's how he describes it - how the perfectly modulated phrasing enhances the horror and black humor of his words. Of course, nowhere is this more true than on "97 Bonnie and Clyde," a notorious track where he imagines killing his wife and then disposing of the body with his baby daughter in tow. This was unsettling in 1999, when nobody knew his back-story, and years later, when his personal turmoil is public knowledge, it still can be unsettling, because his words and delivery are that powerful. The Slim Shady LP bristles with this tension, since it's never always clear when Marshall Mathers is joking and when he's dead serious. Then, it wasn't clear to every listener that Eminem was, as they say, an unreliable narrator, somebody who slung satire, lies, uncomfortable truths, and lacerating insights with vigor and venom, blurring the line between reality and parody, all seemingly without effort. Given his subsequent superstardom, culminating in no less than an Academy Award, it may be easy to overlook exactly how demonized Eminem was once his mainstream debut album, The Slim Shady LP, grabbed the attention of pop music upon its release in 1999.
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