History Music / TheSlimShadyLP

After he released ''The Slim Shady EP'' a few years later, [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel things started turning around]], and most notably the EP gained the attention of Dr. Dre, who quickly wanted to contact Em and work on a major-label release with him. The result was this very album - a dark and demented look into Em's warped inner psyche that took all of the nastiness of the EP's introduction of the Slim Shady character and turned it [[UpToEleven up a few notches]].

-->'''My Name Is'''

[[caption-width-right:330:''My favorite color is red / like the blood shed / from Music/KurtCobain's head / when he shot himself dead'']]

->''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment "Hi, kids! Do you like violence?"]]''

It's safe to say that '''''The Slim Shady LP''''' (1999) came at a time when Music/{{Eminem}} needed it most. His first studio album, ''Infinite'' (1996), was a flop, only selling around 1,000 copies and evoking many a complaint of his similarities to Music/{{Nas}} and Music/JayZ.

After he released ''The Slim Shady EP'' a few years later, [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel things started turning around]], and most notably the EP gained the attention of Dr. Dre, who quickly wanted to contact Em and work on a major-label release with him. The result was this very album - a dark and demented look into Em's warped inner psyche that took all of the nastiness of the EP's introduction of the Slim Shady character and turned it [[UpToEleven up a few notches]].

The album received critical and commercial fanfare, with critics praising Em's novel lyrical styles. The album itself would go on to be certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA. In the wake of ''SSLP''[='=]s release, Em went from an underground nobody to an overnight mainstream celebrity. Additionally, ''SSLP'' won the UsefulNotes/GrammyAward for Best Rap Album and was given the #275 spot on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 greatest albums]] list.

However, Em got just as much controversy in the eye of the media as he did acclaim. The flak that accumulated would be the starting bricks to a long road of Em being called misogynistic, homophobic, nihilistic, an advocate for domestic violence, and a gimmick who merely made millions by "exploiting the world's misery", as ''Billboard'' writer Timothy White put it.

And admit it, even your mom knows the chorus to "My Name Is".

# "Public Service Announcement"* (0:33)
# "My Name Is" (4:28)
# "Guilty Conscience" (feat. Dr. Dre) (3:19)
# "Brain Damage" (3:46)
# "Paul"* (0:15)
# "If I Had" (4:05)
# "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" (5:16)[[note]]originally released on ''Slim Shady EP'' as "Just the Two of Us"[[/note]]
# "Bitch"* (0:19)
# "Role Model" (3:25)
# "Lounge"* (0:46)
# "My Fault" (4:01)
# "Ken Kaniff"* (1:16)
# "Cum On Everybody" (3:39)
# "Rock Bottom" (3:34)
# "Just Don't Give A Fuck" (4:02)
# "Soap"* (0:34)
# "As the World Turns" (4:25)
# "I'm Shady" (3:31)
# "Bad Meets Evil" (feat. Royce da 5'9") (4:13)
# "Still Don't Give A Fuck" (4:12)

!! ''I just found out, my mom does more tropes than I do'':
* AddledAddict: "Just Don't Give A Fuck" addresses battling with alcoholism, marihuana and coke.
* AlliterativeName: "'''S'''lim '''S'''hady" and "'''K'''en '''K'''aniff"
* AlterEgo: Eminem's alter ego Slim Shady first appeared on "The Slim Shady EP" (1997), but only became a popculture icon from this record on.

** Music/InsaneClownPosse 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 Music/{{Everlast}}, Music/{{Miilkbone}} and Music/VanillaIce who would all write diss tracks aimed at Eminem. Everlast had feud with Eminem, Miilkbone released "Dear Slim" and "Presenting Miilkbone", while Vanilla Ice released "Exhale" and "Hip Hop Rules".
* AntiRoleModel: Shady, as seen in "Role Model", where he raps: "I get a clean shave, bathe, go to a rave/ Die from an overdose and dig myself up out of my grave/ My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?/ And this is how I'm supposed to teach kids how to behave? He also explained this in a 2009 Magazine/RollingStone interview:
--> ''My album isn't for younger kids to hear. It has an advisory sticker, and you must be eighteen to get it. That doesn't mean younger kids won't get it, but I'm not responsible for every kid out there. I'm not a role model, and I don't claim to be.''
* AnythingThatMoves: Referenced in "My Name Is".
--> ''I spit when I talk, I'll fuck anything that walks''
* ArcWords: "If I Had"
--> ''I'm tired of...''
* BabyTalk: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde"
--> ''I told you it's okay Hai-Hai, wanna ba-ba?''
--> ''Take a night-night? Nan-a-boo, goo-goo ga-ga?''
--> ''Her make poo-poo ca-ca? Da-da change your didee''
* TheBadGuyWins: "Guilty Conscience". [[spoiler:The GoodAngelBadAngel 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.]]
* BedroomAdulteryScene: "Guilty Conscience", where Grady catches his wife in bed with another man.
* BlackComedy: Many, many, many songs sing about murder, rape, violence, STD's, paedophilia, adultery, misogyny, suicide, drug abuse,... in a humoristic fashion.

** "My Name Is" got quite the cleansing in the non-explicit version, replacing some of the crasser rhymes with more cartoonish and family-friendly stuff ("raping lesbians" is replaced with "running over pedestrians in a spaceship"), or stuff that straight-up made ''no sense'' (vodka is replaced with ''[[FrothyMugsOfWater Kool-Aid]]?'').
** Also happened to "Guilty Conscience"; for example, "cut this bitch's head off!" was replaced with "cut this chicken's head off!".
* BrickJoke: In "Bad Meets Evil", his song with then-friend Royce da 5'9, the end of the chorus goes "See you in Hell for the sequel." Afterwards, they had a lengthy falling out. Once their mutual friend Proof died, they patched up their issues. Cue their joint album "Hell: The Sequel" (2011). Given how long it took Em and Royce to get around to making it, one can say we saw the sequel in DevelopmentHell. This joke gets even more elaborate when one remembers that in "Cold Wind Blows" from "Recovery", which was released just a year before this album, there's a few lines where God tells Slim Shady that He will send him to Hell if he does not change his ways. ''[[GodIsEvil Apparently,]] [[FridgeHorror he didn't]]''.
* TheBully: "Brain Damage" is about a real-life incident from Eminem's youth where he was beaten into a coma by bullies.
* BuriedAlive: From "My Name Is".
-->''I'm not ready to leave! It's too scary to die!''\\
''I'll have to be carried inside the cemetery and buried alive!''
* CallAndResponseSong: 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.
* CallBack and ContinuityNod: Eminem would reference Slim Shady and Dr. Dre on all of his next albums. "Kim" on ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' is a prequel to "97' Bonnie & Clyde" from this album.
* CapitalismIsBad: "If I Had"
--> ''Money is the root of all evil.''
* CountryMatters: Near the end of "Brain Damage". Used as a derogatory insult towards his ''mom'', no less.
* CrapsackWorld: "Brain Damage" takes place in a world where teachers will not only allow bullying to happen, but will ''assist'' the bully in beating up their victim.
* CrossReferencedTitles: "Just Don't Give A Fuck" and "Still Don't Give A Fuck".
* ADateWithRosiePalms: "My Name Is"
--> ''All my life I was very deprived''
--> ''I ain't had a woman in years''
--> ''My palms too hairy to hide''
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music video of "Just Don't Give A Fuck".
* DepravedHomosexual: "Ken Kaniff" about a gay man who calls up Eminem with lewd suggestions.
* DirtyOldMan: Slim Shady in "No One's Iller"
--> ''My girl beat my ass and shot me in the back with a two-piece''
--> '' 'Cause she found out I was having an affair with her 10-year old niece''
* TheDogBitesBack: "Brain Damage" has many fantasized scenarios of Em getting back at bullies that have done ill will towards him. For example near the end, after getting brutally assaulted by a bully (the 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.

** "My Fault" ends with [[spoiler:Susan overdosing after Em gives her a bag of shrooms and she ends up eating all of the contents inside it. To make an already bitter ending devastating, we hear Em bawling and trying to get Susan to PleaseWakeUp.]]
** "Guilty Consience" has [[spoiler:a GoodAngelBadAngel scenario that ends with [[TheBadGuyWins Eminem winning as the bad angel]] and getting the good angel (Dre) to turn to the dark side, not to mention how he successfully convinced someone to commit rape on an underage girl.]]
* DrowningMySorrows: "If I Had"
--> ''Tired of drowning in my sorrow''

** "Public Service Announcement"
--> '''Music/DrDre''': ''Anything else?''
--> '''Music/{{Eminem}}''': ''Yeah. Don't do drugs.''
** "My Fault" features a tale about a girl who overdoses on psychedelic mushrooms at a rave.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: "Guilty Conscience", where Slim Shady wants to take advantage of an underage girl who passed out at a party.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Played to chilling effect in "97 Bonnie and Clyde".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The page quote at the top, considering it's specially made to not only rope in the children 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 a la ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", where the dead body of the child's mother is thrown in a lake.
--> ''Mama said she wants to show you how far she can float''
--> ''And don't worry about that little boo-boo on her throat.''

** 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 ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP''.
** In "Brain Damage", Em mentions his palms being sweaty, a line which was slightly tinkered and reused in "Lose Yourself".
-->'''Rap Genius annotation''': Despite the sweaty palms, he makes no mention of weak knees, heavy arms, or vomit on the sweater, so he can’t be that nervous.
* FrothyMugsOfWater: The clean version of "My Name Is" took the "drank a fifth of vodka" line and replaced "vodka" with..''Kool-Aid''.
* GagPenis: One particularly memorable bit in "As the World Turns" has Em whipping out his [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget "go-go-gadget dick"]] that [[UpToEleven causes an earthquake and power outage]] upon hitting the ground.
* GainaxEnding: "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. [[FlatWhat What.]]
* GoodAngelBadAngel: The basis of "Guilty Conscience", with Dr. Dre playing the good angel and Eminem playing the bad angel (reasonably). [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins Eminem wins 2 out of the 3 scenarios, and with his last victory he gets Dre to turn to the dark side.]]]]
* GrossUpCloseUp: The slobby overweight man and cigarette smoking woman with shabby hair in the music video of "My Name Is", as well as Eminem spitting in onion rings of a hamburger as an employee at an hamburger restaurant and looking how an obese woman takes a disgusting bite out of her hamburger afterwards.

** "My Name Is", from beginning to end, but especially these lyrics:
--> ''99 percent of my life I was lied to''
--> ''I just found out my mom does more dope than I do''
--> ''I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper''
--> ''Make a record about doing drugs and name it after her''
** "Still Don't Give A Fuck"
--> ''I wanted an album so rugged nobody could touch it''

* IAmSong: "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.
* IWantSong: "If I Had", which is Eminem fantasizing about what he'd do if he was rich and famous.
* KidsAreCruel: 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.
* LeastRhymableWord: Only customary for Em, but there are still some pretty impressive rhyme schemes, the best of which is in "Brain Damage", which has Em setting up a 4-line rhyme scheme out of ''"orange juice"''.
-->Then I got up and ran to the janitor's '''storage booth'''\\
Kicked the '''door hinge loose''' and ripped out the '''four inch screws'''\\
Grabbed some sharp objects, brooms and '''foreign tools'''\\
This is for every time you took my '''orange juice'''
* LemonyNarrator: "Bad Meets Evil" has a cowboy narrator telling and concluding the tale.
* ListSong: The chorus of "I'm Shady" lists off several different drugs.
-->''I got mushrooms, I got acid, I got tabs and aspirin tablets''\\
''I'm your brother when you need, some new weed to set you free''\\
''You know me, I'm your friend, when you need a Mini Thin''\\
''(I'm Slim Shady...) I'm Shady!''
* LyricalDissonance: "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 [[spoiler:later dying]].
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: "Brain Damage"
--> ''I went deaf and my left ear started to bleed''
--> ''My mother started screaming, "What are you on, drugs?"''
--> ''Look at you, you're getting blood all over my rug!" (sorry)''
--> ''She beat me over the head with the remote control''
--> ''Opened a hole and my whole brain fell out of my skull''
--> ''I picked it up and screamed:''
--> ''"Look bitch, what have you done?!"''
--> ''"Oh my God, I'm sorry son!"''
--> ''"Shut up you cunt!"''
--> ''"I said fuck it!"''
--> ''Took it and stuck it back up in my head''
--> ''Then I sewed it shut and put a couple of screws in my neck''

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Subverted in the music video of "My Name Is", directed by Philip Atwell, where Eminem dresses up like Creator/JohnnyCarson, Music/MarilynManson, UsefulNotes/BillClinton and Monica Lewinsky.
* OdeToIntoxication: "My Name Is"
--> ''I just found out my mom does more dope than I do''
* OneManSong: "Paul" and "Ken Kaniff".
* OneWordTitle: "Bitch", "Lounge", and "Soap".
* PleaseWakeUp: The ending of "My Fault" has what could possibly be the most heartrending examples, considering it comes straight from Em himself.

** "If I Had"
--> ''Tired of always giving in when this bottle of Henny wins''
--> ''(...) Tired of not driving a BM''
--> ''Tired of not working at GM''
--> ''(...) Tired of fucking the same blonde whore after work''
--> ''In the back of a Contour''
--> ''(...) Tired of wearing the same damn Nike Air hat''
** "Just Don't Give A Fuck"
--> ''Then I went to Jim Beam, that's when my face grayed''
** "No One's Iller"
--> ''Whipping 40-bittles like the fucking Pepsi clubs''
--> ''(...) Kidnapped and slapped in a van wrapped in a Saran plastic''
** "Cum On Everybody"
--> ''So I took a hammer and nailed my foot to the floorboard of my Ford''
* PunBasedTitle: "Cum On Everybody".
* RapeAsComedy: "Guilty Conscience"
--> ''(Yo, this girl's only fifteen years old''
--> ''You shouldn't take advantage of her, it's not fair)''
--> ''Yo, look at her bush, does it got hair?''
--> ''Fuck this bitch right here on the spot, bare''
--> '''til she passes out and she forgot how she got there''
--> ''(Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie, Film/{{Kids}}?)''
--> ''No but I seen the porno with Sun Doobiest!''
--> ''(Shit, you wanna get hauled off to jail?)''
--> ''Man, fuck that, hit that shit raw dog and bail''

** The line about Music/TheSpiceGirls in "My Name Is" was inspired by the fact that many radio DJ's asked him which Spice Girl he would date if he had the choice.
** "Brain Damage" adresses 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 mum sued the school for not protecting her child better. The line where the principal too beats 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", by rapping "When I was little I used to get so hungry I would throw fits/How you gonna breastfeed me, Mom?! You ain't got no tits!" She filed a $10,000,000 slander lawsuit for the assumption that she does drugs in that song and claimed in her autobiography: "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." After a two-year-long trial, she was awarded $25,000, of which she received $1,600 after legal fees.
** 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 Music/DrDre play the voice of the conscience, but Shady wonders why he would listen to him with the line: "You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?" , in reference to a real life incident where Dre alledgedly either beat up or just pushed TV presenter Dee Barnes at a party. Dre was fined, put on probation and community service for this. Eminem was nervous what Dre would think of this line, but to his delight he "fell out of his chair laughing."
* Really700YearsOld: Slim Shady is not worried about the fact that someone might recognize him during a robbery in "Guilty Conscience".
--> ''Look at the store clerk, she's older than Creator/GeorgeBurns''.
* RecognitionFailure: "No One's Iller"
--> ''Ripped this old lady, hung her neck by a hook''
--> ''Didn't realize it was my grandmother 'til I checked her pocketbook''

* RefrainFromAssuming: Technically "The Slim Shady '''EP'''" (1997) was the first appearance of his Slim Shady alter ego, but many people assume he debuted on this album. The songs "If I Had" and "Just Don't Give A Fuck" also debuted on this EP first, while the EP track "Just the Two Of Us" was retitled as "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", which was put on the LP. But the EP only started selling when ''The Slim Shady LP'' became an unexpected hit.
* RefugeInAudacity: All over the place, but most notably in these lines from "I'm Shady".
-->''You gotta make em fear you 'fore you make em feel you''\\
''So everybody buy my shit or I'mma come and kill you''

** "My Name Is..." contains a sample from Labi Siffre's "I Got The..." He openly gay singer only allowed use of his song if the misoynic 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 Music/TupacShakur and "Modaji" by Dave Grusin.
** "Rock Bottom" samples "Summertime" from Music/JanisJoplin's ''Music/CheapThrills''.
** "I'm Shady" is based on "Pusherman" by Music/CurtisMayfield and "I'm Your Pusher" by Music/IceT.
** "Just Don't Give A Fuck" samples "Beverly Kills" by Music/InsaneClownPosse and "I Don't Give A Fuck" by Music/TupacShakur.

** "My Name Is" namedrops Music/NineInchNails, Music/TheSpiceGirls, ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, Creator/PamelaAnderson and Music/KrissKross. The music video also makes reference to Creator/JohnnyCarson, Series/TheBradyBunch, Music/MarilynManson, UsefulNotes/BillClinton and Monica Lewinsky.
** "Guilty Conscience" references the age of centerian comedian George Burns.
--> ''Look at the store clerk, she's older than Creator/GeorgeBurns''
** "Guilty Conscience" also namedrops the unconscious rape scene in the film ''Film/{{Kids}}'' as well as rapper Sun Doobiest, who later made a porn movie.
--> ''(...) Fuck this bitch right here on the spot, bare''
--> '' 'til she passes out and she forgot how she got there?''
--> ''(Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie, ''Film/{{Kids}}?)''
--> ''No, but I seen the porno with Sun Doobiest!''
** Lastly "Guilty Conscience" also references Dr. Dre's earlier gangsta rap album ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton'' with Music/{{NWA}}''.
--> ''(...) Uhh-ahh, temper, temper, Mr. Dre, Mr. Music/{{NWA}}, Mr. AK''
--> ''Coming Music/StraightOuttaCompton, y'all better make way''
--> ''How in the fuck you gonna tell this man not to be violent?''
** "Role Model"
--> ''Take you on [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]] and beat your ass legally''
--> ''(...) Cause when I smoke out I hit the trees harder than Sonny Bono''
--> ''(...) UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton tried to slap me and call me a pervert''
--> ''I ripped her fucking tonsils out and fed her sherbet, bitch!''
--> ''(...) Grabbed Music/VanillaIce and ripped out his blond dreads''
--> ''(...) I slapped Music/GarthBrooks out of his rhinestone shirt''
--> ''Jumped in a Chickenhawk cartoon with a cape on''
--> ''And beat up WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn with an acorn''
--> ''I'm about as normal as [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]]''
** "Just Don't Give A Fuck" references Jim Brady, assistant to UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan who got paralyzed after being shot during the 1981 assault on his life. He also namedrops American football coach Marty Schottenheimer, boxer UsefulNotes/MikeTyson, rapper [=DeShaun=] Holton, O.J. Simpson murder victim Ron Goldman, "Fuck the World" by Music/TupacShakur, Voltron from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' and Music/RageAgainstTheMachine.
--> ''Slim shady, brain dead like Jim Brady''
--> ''(...) Cursin' at you players worse than Marty Schottenheimer''
--> ''(...) You getting knocked the fuck out like Mike Tyson''
--> ''The proof is in the pudding, just ask [=DeShaun=] Holton''
--> ''I'll slit your motherfucking throat worse than Ron Goldman''
--> ''(...) Screaming "fuck the world" like 2Pac''
--> ''(...) But I form like Voltron and blast you with my shoulder missiles''
--> ''(...) On stage screaming like Music/RageAgainstTheMachine''
** "As The World Turns" references the character Les Nessman from ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'', loss of weight book author Jenny Craig and ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''
--> ''Class clown freshman, dressed like Les Nessman''
--> ''(...) You walked into Vic Tanny's and stepped on Jenny Craig''
--> ''(...) Then I remembered this magic trick''
--> ''Den den den den den DEN DEN. [[SomethingElseAlsoRises Go go gadget dick!]]''
** "Cum On Everybody"
--> ''My favorite color is red, like the blood shed''
--> ''From Music/KurtCobain's head when he shot himself dead''
** "Cum On Everybody" namedrops Music/TheBeastieBoys, Music/KidRock and the Loch Ness Monster.
--> ''Got bitches on my jock out in East Detroit''
--> ''Cause they think that I'm a mothafuckin' Beastie Boy''
--> ''So I told 'em I was Mike D.''
--> ''They was like: "Gee, I don't know who he might be?''
--> ''I told 'em: "Meet me at Kid Rock's next concert''
--> ''I'll be standin' by the Loch Ness monster''
** "Bad Meets Evil":
--> ''Two of the most wanted individuals in the county''
--> ''Made UsefulNotes/JesseJames and UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid look like law-abiding citizens''
** "Still Don't Give A Fuck"
--> ''I'm a cross between [[Music/MarilynManson Manson]], Music/{{Esham}} and [[Music/OzzyOsbourne Ozzy]]''
* SmokingIsNotCool: The woman with shabby hair in the music video of "My Name Is" smokes a cigarette and has a GrossUpCloseUp where she blows smoke in the camera.
* SoundtrackDissonance: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde". Which manages at the same time to be unbelievably sweet and unbelievably scary at the same time.
* SpecialGuest: 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 [[/note]], but in the music video this part is performed by actor Robert Culp [[note]] Best known as Kelly Robinson in ''Series/ISpy'' and Warren Whelan in ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' [[/note]]. "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 [[note]] The man who played the Fonz in ''Series/HappyDays'' [[/note]]

** "Cum On Everybody"
--> ''You thought I was ill and now I'm even more so''
--> ''Shit, I got full-blown AIDS and a sore throat''
--> ''(...) I told the doc I need a change in sickness''
--> ''And gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis''
** "I'm Shady"
--> ''So fuck it, I've got herpes while we on the subject (uh-huh)''
--> ''And if I told you I had AIDS y'all would play it''
--> '' 'Cause you stupid motherfuckers think I'm playin' when I say it''
--> ''(...) And I don't have herpes, my dick's just itchin' ''
--> ''It's not syphilis, and as for being AIDS infested''
--> ''I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested''
** "Role Model"
--> ''I've been with ten women who got HIV''
--> ''Now don't you want to grow up and be just like me?''
--> ''I've got genital warts and it burns when I pee''
--> ''Don't you want to grow up to be just like me?''
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Eminem's daughter Hailie can be heard during "'97 Bonnie & Clyde".
* TakeThat: A lot of celebrities and even people within Eminem's own family and vicinity get diss raps targeted at them.
** "My Name Is"
--> ''But I can't decide which [[Music/TheSpiceGirls Spice Girl]] I want to impregnate''
--> ''(...) Got pissed off and ripped [[Creator/PamelaAnderson Pamela Lee]]'s tits off''
--> ''And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Music/KrisKross''
** "Just Don't Give A Fuck" disses white rappers Prime Minister Pete Nice, MC Serch, Everlast, Miilkbone and Music/VanillaIce.
--> ''I'm Nicer than Pete, but I'm on a search to crush a Miilkbone''
--> ''I'm everlast-ing, I melt Vanilla Ice like silicone''
--> ''I'm ill enough to just straight up diss you for no reason''
** "Role Model" targets UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton and rappers Music/{{Canibus}} and Music/{{Cage}}. He also claims he was the one to murder O.J. Simpson's wife and lover.
--> ''Killed 'em both then smeared blood on the white Bronco ([[CrossesTheLineTwice We did it!]]'')
* TakeThatAudience: "My Name Is"
--> ''This guy at White Castle asked for my autograph''
--> ''So I signed it:''
--> ''"Dear Dave, thanks for the support, asshole"''
* TimeMarchesOn: The song "97' Bonnie & Clyde" has dated since 1997 passed by.
* TropaholicsAnonymous: "Just Don't Give A Fuck".
--> ''My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic (Hi Marshall!)''

** "Cum On Everybody" makes reference to the urban legend that Music/LaurynHill presumably claimed that she didn't want any white people buying her records.
--> ''Bought Lauryn Hill's tape so her kids could starve''
--> ''"I can't stand white people"''
** Referenced again during "Role Model".
--> ''So I'm dumb enough to ask for a date with Lauryn Hill''

** "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", where the protagonist kills his wife, her new husband and their four-year-old son too.
** "No One's Iller"
--> ''Rob this little boy in his fucking paper route''
--> ''Throwing bombs at day care centers and yell: "Everybody get out!"''
--> ''My girl beat my ass and shot me in the back with a two-piece''
--> '' 'Cause she found out I was having an affair with her 10-year old niece''

* LeastRhymableWord: "Brain Damage" has Em setting up a 4-line rhyme scheme out of ''"orange juice"''.

The album received critical and commercial fanfare, with critics praising Em's novel lyrical styles. The album itself would go on to be certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA. In the wake of ''SSLP''[='=]s release, Em went from an underground nobody to an overnight mainstream celebrity. Additionally, ''SSLP'' won the UsefulNotes/GrammyAward for Best Rap Album and was given the #273 spot on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 greatest albums]] list.

Grabbed some sharp objects, brooms and ''''foreign tools'''\\

Kicked the ''door hinge loose''' and ripped out the '''four inch screws'''\\

* BrickJoke: In "Bad Meets Evil", his song with then-friend Royce da 5'9, the end of the chorus goes "See you in Hell for the sequel." Afterwards, they had a lengthy falling out. Once their mutual friend Proof died, they patched up their issues. Cue their joint album "Hell: The Sequel" (2011). Given how long it took Em and Royce to get around to making it, one can say we saw the sequel in DevelopmentHell. This joke gets even more elaborate when one remembers that in "Cold Wind Blows" from "Recovery", which was released just a year before this album, there's a few lines where God tells Slim Shady that He will send him to Hell if he does not change his ways. ''[[GodIsEvil Apparently, he didn't]]''.

* RefrainFromAssuming: Technically "The Slim Shady '''EP''' (1997) was the first appearance of his Slim Shady alter ego, but many people assume he debuted on "The Slim Shady LP" (1999). The songs "If I Had..." and "Just Don't Give A Fuck" also debuted on this EP first, while "Just the Two Of Us" was retitled as "'97 Bonnie & Clyde". But the EP only started selling when "The Slim Shady EP" became an unexpected hit.

* MickeyMousing: "My Name Is" has sound effects and comedic voices after each line to illustrate what just has been said.

* CallBack and ContinuityNod: Eminem would reference Slim Shady and Dr. Dre on all of his next albums. "Kim" on ''Music/TheMarshallMattersLP'' is a prequel to "97' Bonnie & Clyde" from this album.

** The second scenario in "Guilty Conscience" stars someone named Stan. And no, he isn't related to Stanley Mitchell, the character from "Stan" on ''Music/TheMarshallMattersLP''.

* OneWordTitle: "Bitch" and "Lounge".

--> ''I told you it's okay HaiHai, wanna ba-ba?''

It's safe to say that '''''The Slim Shady LP (1997)''''' came at a time when Music/{{Eminem}} needed it most. His first studio album, ''Infinite (1996)'', was a flop, only selling around 1,000 copies and evoking many a complaint of his similarities to Music/{{Nas}} and Music/JayZ.

* CallBack and ContinuityNod: Eminem would reference Slim Shady and Dr. Dre on all of his next albums. "Kim" on ''Music/TheMarshallMattersLP'' (2000) is a prequel to "97' Bonnie & Clyde" from this album.

** The second scenario in "Guilty Conscience" stars someone named Stan. And no, he isn't related to Stanley Mitchell, the character from "Stan" on ''Music/TheMarshallMattersLP (2000)''.

It's safe to say that '''''The Slim Shady LP''''' came at a time when Music/{{Eminem}} needed it most. His first studio album, ''Infinite'', was a flop, only selling around 1,000 copies and evoking many a complaint of his similarities to Music/{{Nas}} and Music/JayZ.

After he released ''The Slim Shady EP'' a few years later, things started turning around, and most notably the EP gained the attention of Dr. Dre, who quickly wanted to contact Em and work on a major-label release with him. The result was this very album - a dark and demented look into Em's warped inner psyche that took all of the nastiness of the EP's introduction of the Slim Shady character and turned it [[UpToEleven up a few notches]].

The album received critical and commercial fanfare, with critics praising Em's novel lyrical styles. The album itself would go on to be certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA. In the wake of ''SSLP''[='=]s release, Em went from an underground nobody to an overnight mainstream celebrity. Additionally, ''SSLP'' won the GrammyAward for Best Rap Album and was given the #273 spot on ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='=]s [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 greatest albums]] list.

However, Em got just as much controversy in the eye of the media as he did acclaim. The flak that accumulated would be the starting bricks to a long road of Em being called misogynistic, nihilistic, an advocate for domestic violence, and a gimmick who merely made millions by "exploiting the world's misery", as ''Billboard'' writer Timothy White put it.

!!"I just found out, my mom does more tropes than I do":
* AndThisIsFor: As Em is about to get revenge on a bully in "Brain Damage", he proclaims that his victory is for all of the different times that the bully has tormented him.
* AntiRoleModel: Shady, as seen in "Role Model".

-->"I spit when I talk, I'll fuck anything that walks"

** "My Name Is" got quite the cleansing in the non-explicit version, replacing some of the crasser rhymes with more cartoonish and family-friendly stuff (raping lesbians is replaced with running over pedestrians in a spaceship), or stuff that straight-up made ''no sense'' (vodka is replaced with ''[[FrothyMugsOfWater Kool-Aid]]?'').

** The second scenario in "Guilty Conscience" stars someone named Stan. And no, he isn't related to Stanley Mitchell.

* IWantSong:
** "If I Had", which is Eminem fantasizing about what he'd do if he was rich and famous.
** "Rock Bottom", which is Eminem bemoaning his state of poverty.

* {{Pun}}: "Cum On Everybody".
* PunkInTheTrunk: Distinctly female feet stick out from Em's car trunk on the cover, in reference to the lyrics of "97' Bonnie and Clyde".
* ShoutOut: All over the place. There's references to ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'', the Music/SpiceGirls, Kris Kross, Music/BeastieBoys and more.

* ShoutOut: All over the place. There's references to ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'', the Music/SpiceGirls, Kris Kross, and more.

* IWantSong: "If I Had", which is Eminem fantasizing about what he'd do if he was rich and famous.

* TheDogBitesBack: After getting brutally assaulted by a bully in "Brain Damage" (the 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.

** "Guilty Consience" has [[spoiler:a GoodAngelBadAngel scenario that ends with [[TheBadGuy Eminem winning as the bad angel]] and getting the good angel (Dre) to turn to the dark side, not to mention how he successfully convinced someone to commit rape on an underage girl.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: "My Name Is" got quite the cleansing in the non-explicit version, replacing some of the crasser rhymes with more cartoonish and family-friendly stuff (raping lesbians is replaced with running over pedestrians in a spaceship), or stuff that straight-up made ''no sense'' (vodka is replaced with ''[[FrothyMugsOfWater Kool-Aid]]?'').
* DownerEnding: "My Fault" ends with [[spoiler:Susan overdosing after Em gives her a bag of shrooms and she ends up eating all of the contents inside it. To make an already bitter ending devastating, we hear Em bawling and trying to get Susan to PleaseWakeUp.]]

* {{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''.

* IAmSong: "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.

However, Em got just as much controversy in the eye of the media as he did acclaim.