History Music / TheSlimShadyLP

* 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''

* 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.]]

* 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.

* PleaseWakeUp: The ending of "My Fault" has what could possibly be the most heartrending examples, considering it comes straight from Em himself.

* 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''

** "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"'''

The album received critical and commercial fanfare, with critics praising Em's novel lyricism. 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.

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

After one [[BungledSuicide unsuccessful suicide attempt]], he released ''The Slim Shady EP'' a year later, and [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel things started turning around]]. Most notably, the EP gained the attention of Music/DrDre, who quickly wanted to contact Em and work on a major-label release with him. The result was this very album -- a look into Em's psyche both through the cartoonish obscenity of his alter ego Slim Shady (introduced in the namesake EP) and [[RealLifeWritesThePlot his real-life struggles with poverty and bullying among other subjects]].

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.

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

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 one [[BungledSuicide unsuccessful suicide attempt]], he released ''The Slim Shady EP'' a year later, and [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel things started turning around]]. Most notably the EP gained the attention of Music/DrDre, 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]].

** "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 and Music/RageAgainstTheMachine.

** "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.

One [[BungledSuicide unsuccessful suicide attempt]] later, he released ''The Slim Shady EP'' a year later, and [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel things started turning around]]. Most notably the EP gained the attention of Music/DrDre, 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]].

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.

* SpecialGuest: Music/DrDre 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]]

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

One [[BungledSuicide unsuccessful suicide attempt]] later, he released ''The Slim Shady EP'' a year later, and [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel things started turning around]]. 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]].

# "Guilty Conscience" (featuring Dr. Dre) (3:19)

* 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.]]

* 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.

* 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.]]]]

* 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]]

--->''(...) Uhh-ahh, temper, temper, Mr. Dre, Mr. Music/{{NWA}}, Mr. AK
Coming Music/StraightOuttaCompton, y'all better make way

--> ''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.''

--> ''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''

-->''I'm not ready to leave! It's too scary to die!''\\
''I'll have to be carried inside the cemetery and buried alive!''

--> ''All my life I was very deprived''
--> ''I ain't had a woman in years''
--> ''And my palms are too hairy to hide''

--> ''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''

--> ''Tired of always giving in when this bottle of Henny wins''
--> (...)
--> ''Tired of drowning in my sorrow''

--> '''Music/DrDre''': ''Anything else?''
--> '''Music/{{Eminem}}''': ''Yeah. Don't do drugs.''

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: "Guilty Conscience", where Slim Shady wants to take advantage of an underage girl who passed out at a party.

--> ''Mama said she wants to show you how far she can float''
--> ''And don't worry about that little boo-boo on her throat.''

-->'''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.

--> ''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''

--> ''I wanted an album so rugged nobody could touch it''

-->''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!''

--> ''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''

--> ''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''

--> ''Then I went to Jim Beam, that's when my face grayed''

--> ''Whipping 40-bittles like the fucking Pepsi clubs''
--> ''(...) Kidnapped and slapped in a van wrapped in a Saran plastic''

--> ''So I took a hammer and nailed my foot to the floorboard of my Ford''

--> ''(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''

--> ''Look at the store clerk, she's older than Creator/GeorgeBurns''.

--> ''Ripped this old lady, hung her neck by a hook''
--> ''Didn't realize it was my grandmother 'til I checked her pocketbook''

-->''You gotta make em fear you 'fore you make em feel you''\\
''So everybody buy my shit or I'mma come and kill you''

--> ''Look at the store clerk, she's older than Creator/GeorgeBurns''

--> ''(...) 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!''

--> ''(...) 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?''

--> ''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 Hillary Clinton]] 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]]''

--> ''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''

--> ''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!]]''

--> ''My favorite color is red, like the blood shed''
--> ''From Music/KurtCobain's head when he shot himself dead''

--> ''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''

--> ''Two of the most wanted individuals in the county''
--> ''Made UsefulNotes/JesseJames and UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid look like law-abiding citizens''

--> ''I'm a cross between [[Music/MarilynManson Manson]], Music/{{Esham}} and [[Music/OzzyOsbourne Ozzy]]''

--> ''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''

--> ''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''

--> ''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?''

--> ''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''

--> ''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''

--> ''Killed 'em both then smeared blood on the white Bronco ([[CrossesTheLineTwice We did it!]]'')

--> ''This guy at White Castle asked for my autograph''
--> ''So I signed it:''
--> ''"Dear Dave, thanks for the support, asshole"''

--> ''My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic (Hi Marshall!)''

--> ''Bought Lauryn Hill's tape so her kids could starve''
--> ''"I can't stand white people"''

--> ''So I'm dumb enough to ask for a date with Lauryn Hill''

--> ''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''

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

# "Guilty Conscience" (feat. Dr. Dre) (3:19)

# "Cum On Everybody" (3:39)

# "Just Don't Give A Fuck" (4:02)

# "Bad Meets Evil" (feat. Royce da 5'9") (4:13)
# "Still Don't Give A Fuck" (4:12)

* AddledAddict: "Just Don't Give A Fuck" addresses battling with alcoholism, marihuana and coke.

** 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".

--> ''I spit when I talk, I'll fuck anything that walks''
* ArcWords: "If I Had"

* BlackComedy: Many, many, many songs sing about murder, rape, violence, STD's, paedophilia, adultery, misogyny, suicide, drug abuse,... in a humoristic fashion.

* 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]]''.

* CrossReferencedTitles: "Just Don't Give A Fuck" and "Still Don't Give A Fuck".
* ADateWithRosiePalms: "My Name Is"

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music video of "Just Don't Give A Fuck".

* DirtyOldMan: Slim Shady in "No One's Iller"

* FrothyMugsOfWater: The clean version of "My Name Is" took the "drank a fifth of vodka" line and replaced "vodka" with..''Kool-Aid''.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: A lot of songs have autobiographical elements, though Eminem often dramatizes things a bit more for effect.
** The line about Music/TheSpiceGirls in "My Name Is" was inspired by the fact that many radio [=DJs=] 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 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."

* 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.

--> ''(...) UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton tried to slap me and call me a pervert''

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Slim Shady.

One unsuccessful suicide attempt later, he released ''The Slim Shady EP'' a few years later, and [[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..." contains a sample from Labi Siffre's "I Got The..." He openly gay singer only allowed use of his song if the misogynistic and homophobic references were removed from the song.

!! ''I just found out, my mom does more tropes than I do'':

--> ''My palms too hairy to hide''

* Really700YearsOld: Slim Shady is not worried about the fact that someone might recognize him during a robbery in "Guilty Conscience".

** "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.

** 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 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.

* 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: