Dre creating a beat and Eminem free-styling, sometimes Eminem would be under the influence of ecstasy during recording. I'm just a little white boy from Detroit. Dre, he said " I didn't want to be starstruck or kiss his ass too much. Recording for the album began in 1997, at first, Eminem felt nervous working with Dr. Eminem was signed to Aftermath and began working on this album. The rapper created the alter ego, Slim Shady, which was much angrier and violent, which he introduced on The Slim Shady EP.Įminem flew to Los Angeles to be apart of a rap competition named Rap Olympics in which he placed second, a staff of Interscope Records CEO Jimmy Lovine was in the audience and was given a copy of The Slim Shady EP and played it for Aftermath Entertainment founder Dr. Prior to Eminem signing to Aftermath Entertainment, the rapper released his debut album, Infinite, in 1996 to very poor sales. The Slim Shady LP is called a classic rap album around the world. The album won a Grammy for Best Rap Album and was ranked number 273 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album sold 283,000 copies in it's first week, debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 and went on to be certified quadruple-platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The Slim Shady LP was a critical and commercial success, launching Eminem from a underground rapper into a high-profiled celebrity. The majority of the lyrical content on the album is written in the prospective of the rapper's alter ego Slim Shady and is noted for its over-the-top deceptions of violence and heavy use of profanity. Dre, The Bass Brothers, and Eminem himself and was recorded during 19 at Studio 8 in Ferndale, Michigan. It was released on Februby Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album and the major-label debut by American rapper Eminem. allmusic.The cover for the special edition CD/DVD that was included with the special edition of the album. It may be a world that is as infuriating as it is intriguing, but it is without question his own, which is far more than most of his peers are able to accomplish at the dawn of a new millennium. As an artist, he's supposed to create his own world, and with this terrific second effort, he certainly has. But, once you're in, Eminem doesn't care if you understand exactly where he's at, and he doesn't offer any apologies if you can't sort the fact from the fiction. There may not be overpowering hooks on every track, but the album works as a whole, always drawing the listener in. The production is nearly as evocative as the raps, with liquid basslines, stuttering rhythms, slight sound effects, and spacious soundscapes. It's both funnier and darker than his debut, and Eminem's writing is so sharp and clever that the jokes cut as deeply as the explorations of his ruptured psyche. It is, however, a fairly brilliant expansion of his debut, turning his spare, menacing hip-hop into a hyper-surreal, wittily disturbing thrill ride. Eminem is all about blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, humor and horror, satire and documentary, so it makes perfect sense that The Marshall Mathers LP is no more or no less "real" than The Slim Shady LP. To Eminem's credit, he decided to exploit that confusion on his masterful second record, The Marshall Mathers LP.
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Many dismissed his considerable skills as a rapper and social satirist because the vulgarity and gross-out humor on The Slim Shady LP were too detailed for some to believe that it was anything but real. It's hard to know what to make of Eminem, even if you know that half of what he says is sincere and half is a put-on the trick is realizing that there's truth in the joke, and vice versa. Photography By, Art Direction – Joe Mama-Nitzberg Photography By – Jonathan "Xtra Gangsta" Mannion* Expanding upon his debut, Eminem's follow-up is both funnier and darker than his debut and the production is nearly as evocative as the raps, with liquid basslines, stuttering rhythms, slight sound effects and spacious soundscapes The Marshall Mathers LP won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, "The Real Slim Shady" won the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance and the record was also nominated for the Grammy for Album Of The Year. Release date: 20-08-2016(Originaly released in 2000)Ģ016 EU represse on 180g 2LP+download- Eminem's masterful second record has the chops and the credentials to go along with it.