Line #102 Music/TheSlimShadyLP


1	[[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a0ae5641479f8dcc4576165f4ed07032.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:330:''Hi, kids! Do you like violence?'']]
3
4	->''This is a [[PublicServiceAnnouncement public service announcement]] brought to you in part by Slim Shady.\
5	The views and events expressed here are totally fucked, and are not necessarily the views of anyone. However, the events and suggestions that appear on this album are not to be taken lightly. Children should not partake in the listening of this album with laces in their shoes.\
6	Slim Shady is not responsible for your actions. Upon purchasing this album, [[DontTryThisAtHome you have agreed not to try this at home]].''\
7	''[-A-anything else?-]''\
8	'''Eminem:''' Yeah. Don't do drugs.
9	-->-- "Public Service Announcement ([[SpokenWordInMusic Skit]])", the [[AlbumIntroTrack first track]]
10
11	''The Slim Shady LP'' is the second studio album by Music/{{Eminem}}, released on February 26, 1999.
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13	The album served as Eminem's major-label debut, and became his first work to receive significant public recognition, [[SequelDisplacement but is not actually his first-ever release]]. That title goes to his debut album ''Infinite'' (1996), which was a critical and commercial flop upon release, only selling around 1,000 copies and evoking many a complaint of Em's rapping style on the album being overly similar to rappers like Music/{{Nas}} and Music/JayZ.
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15	Following a suicide attempt and the invention of an angry and violent (yet darkly humorous) alter ego, Em 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 got in contact with Em, signed him to his label Aftermath Entertainment, and began work on an album with him, the end result being this. The album takes a look into Em's psyche both through the cartoonish obscenity of his alter ego Slim Shady (introduced in the namesake EP) and [[CreatorBreakdown his real-life struggles with poverty and bullying among other subjects]].
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17	The album debuted at #2 on the ''Billboard'' 200, won two MediaNotes/{{Grammy Award}}s (Best Rap Album and Best Rap Solo Performance for "My Name Is") and would go on to be certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA in 2000, elevating Em from underground buzz to mainstream celebrity.
18	----
19	!!Tracklist (asterisked tracks are skits):
20	# "Public Service Announcement"* (0:33)
21	# "My Name Is" (4:28)
22	# "Guilty Conscience" (featuring Music/DrDre) (3:19)
23	# "Brain Damage" (3:46)
24	# "Paul"* (0:15)
25	# "If I Had" (4:05)
26	# "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" (5:16)[[note]]originally released on ''Slim Shady EP'' as "Just the Two of Us"[[/note]]
27	# "Bitch"* (0:19)
28	# "Role Model" (3:25)
29	# "Lounge"* (0:46)
30	# "My Fault" (4:01)
31	# "Ken Kaniff"* (1:16)
32	# "Cum on Everybody" (3:39)
33	# "Rock Bottom" (3:34)
34	# "Just Don't Give a Fuck" (4:02)
35	# "Soap"* (0:34)
36	# "As the World Turns" (4:25)
37	# "I'm Shady" (3:31)
38	# "Bad Meets Evil" (featuring Royce da 5'9") (4:13)
39	# "Still Don't Give a Fuck" (4:12)
40
41	----
42	!! ''I just found out, my mom does more tropes than I do'':
43	* AddledAddict: "Just Don't Give a Fuck" addresses battling with alcoholism, marijuana, and cocaine.
44	* AlbumIntroTrack: "Public Service Announcement", a skit wherein an announcer played by producer Jeff Bass describes the contents of the album as "totally fucked" and gives a DontTryThisAtHome message. He then asks Em if he has anything to add; Em replies, "Yeah. Don't do drugs." Em's next album, ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'', would start with another PSA skit featuring him and Bass.
45	* AlliterativeName: "'''S'''lim '''S'''hady" and "'''K'''en '''K'''aniff"
46	* {{Anaphora}}: Almost every line in the verses of "If I Had" starts with "I'm tired of..."
47	* AnswerSong:
48	** Music/InsaneClownPosse wrote a parody of "My Name Is" called "Slim Anus", being in a rap feud with Eminem at the time.
49	** In "Just Don't Give a Fuck", Eminem disses other white rappers like [[Music/HouseOfPain Everlast]], Music/{{Miilkbone}} and Music/VanillaIce, who'd all write diss tracks aimed at Eminem. Everlast had a feud with Eminem, Miilkbone released "Dear Slim" and "Presenting Miilkbone", and Vanilla Ice released "Exhale" and "Hip Hop Rules".
50	* AntiRoleModel: Shady, as exhibited throughout the album and even highlighted in "Role Model". Em further explained this in a 2009 ''Magazine/RollingStone'' interview:
51	-->''"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."''
52	* BabyTalk: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde"
53	-->''I told you it's okay Hai-Hai, wanna ba-ba?\
54	Take a night-night? Nan-a-boo, goo-goo ga-ga?\
55	Her make poo-poo ca-ca? Da-da change your didee''
56	* TheBadGuyWins: "Guilty Conscience". [[spoiler:The GoodAngelBadAngel scenario ends with the bad angel (Eminem) getting the good angel (Music/DrDre) 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.]]
57	* BedroomAdulteryScene: "Guilty Conscience", where Grady catches his wife in bed with another man.
58	* BlackComedy: Many, many, many songs sing about murder, rape, violence, STD's, pedophilia, adultery, misogyny, suicide, and drug abuse... in a comedic fashion.
59	* {{Bowdlerise}}:
60	** "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 ("killing pedestrians, 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]]?'').
61	** Also happened to "Guilty Conscience"; for example, "Cut this bitch's head off!" was replaced with "Cut this chicken's head off!"
62	* BrickJoke: In the case of "Bad Meets Evil", Em's song with then-friend Royce da 5'9.
63	** The end of the song's chorus goes, "See you in Hell for the sequel." Afterwards, the two had a lengthy falling out, but once their mutual friend Proof died, they patched up their issues and released a joint album called ''Hell: The Sequel'' in 2011. Besides its name, given how long it took Em and Royce to get around to making it, one can say we saw the sequel in DevelopmentHell.
64	** This joke got even more elaborate in the wake of "Cold Wind Blows" (from ''Recovery''), which was released just a year before ''H:TS'', wherein God tells Slim Shady that He will send him to Hell if he does not change his ways. ''[[GodIsEvil Apparently,]] [[FridgeHorror he didn't]]''.
65	* TheBully: "Brain Damage" is about a real-life incident from Eminem's youth where he was beaten into a coma by bullies.
66	* BuriedAlive: From "My Name Is".
67	-->''I'm not ready to leave! It's too scary to die!\
68	I'll have to be carried inside the cemetery and buried alive!''
69	* CallAndResponseSong: Several examples among the songs that he's done with Music/DrDre. "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.
70	* 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.
71	* CapitalismIsBad: "If I Had"
72	--> ''Money is the root of all evil.''
73	* CerebusRollercoaster: The album veers erratically between slapstick BlackComedy ("My Name Is", "Role Model", "Guilty Conscience"), chilling {{Horrorcore}} ("'97 Bonnie and Clyde"), and serious tracks in which Eminem describes his bleak and frustrating working-class existence ("Rock Bottom", "If I Had") or traumatic personal experiences ("Brain Damage").
74	* CountryMatters: Near the end of "Brain Damage". Used as a derogatory insult towards his ''mom'', no less.
75	* CrapsackWorld: Arguably the whole album takes place in one due to the dramatization of the hardships Em raps about. "Brain Damage", for instance, takes place in a world where teachers will not only allow bullying to happen, but will ''assist'' the bully in beating up their victim.
76	* CrossReferencedTitles: "Just Don't Give a Fuck" and "Still Don't Give a Fuck".
77	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music video of "Just Don't Give a Fuck".
78	* DepravedHomosexual: "Ken Kaniff", with the title character being a gay man who calls up Eminem with lewd suggestions.
79	* DespairEventHorizon: "Rock Bottom" depicts Em at essentially the lowest point of his life.
80	* TheDogBitesBack: "Brain Damage" contains many fantasized scenarios of Em getting back at bullies that have tormented him. For example, after he gets brutally assaulted by a bully near the end of the song (the school 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.
81	* DownerEnding:
82	** "My Fault" ends with [[spoiler:a girl named Susan overdosing on a bag of mushrooms Em gives her. The song closes on Em bawling and trying to get Susan to [[PleaseWakeUp wake up]].]]
83	** "Guilty Conscience" has a GoodAngelBadAngel premise, with Em as the bad angel and Dr. Dre as the good angel fighting over control of several people's conscience. The song ends with [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins Em getting Dre to turn to the dark side]] and tell a man to shoot his wife and the man she was cheating on him with, not to mention that the previous verse ended with Em successfully convincing another man to commit statutory date rape.]]
84	* DrowningMySorrows: "If I Had"
85	--> ''Tired of always giving in when this bottle of Henny wins''\
86	(...)\
87	''Tired of drowning in my sorrow''
88	* DrugsAreBad:
89	** "Public Service Announcement":
90	--->'''Jeff Bass''': ''Anything else?''\
91	'''Music/{{Eminem}}''': ''Yeah. Don't do drugs.''
92	** "My Fault" features a tale about a girl who takes psychedelic mushrooms at a rave [[spoiler:and overdoses on them]].
93	* DudeShesLikeInAComa: "Guilty Conscience", where Slim Shady tries to convince a guy named Stan to take advantage of an underage girl who passed out at a party.
94	* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Played to chilling effect in "97 Bonnie and Clyde".
95	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The image quote at the top, which is the opening line of the album's first verse (in "My Name Is"), sets the tone for Em's persona pretty well. It has further been interpreted as having been specially made to not only rope in the young audiences 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 like ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''.
96	* ExtremeOmnisexual: Referenced in "My Name Is".
97	--> ''I'll fuck anything that walks.''
98	* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", where the dead body of the child's mother is thrown in a lake.
99	-->''Mama said she wants to show you how far she can float\
100	And don't worry about that little boo-boo on her throat.''
101	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
102	** 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''.
103	** The second scenario in "Guilty Conscience" stars someone named Stan. And no, he isn't related to Stanley Mitchell, the main character of "Stan" on ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP''.
104	** In "Brain Damage", Em mentions his palms being sweaty, a line which was slightly tinkered and reused in "Lose Yourself", released three years later.
105	--->'''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.
106	* FrothyMugsOfWater: The clean version of "My Name Is" took the "drank a fifth of vodka" line and replaced "vodka" with "Kool-Aid".
107	* GagPenis: One particularly memorable bit in "As the World Turns" has Em whipping out his [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget "go-go-gadget dick"]] that causes an earthquake and power outage upon hitting the ground.
108	* 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.
109	* GoodAngelBadAngel: The basis of "Guilty Conscience", with Music/DrDre playing the good angel and Eminem playing the bad angel (reasonably) and quarreling over their attempts to respectively talk people out of and into committing illicit acts. [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins Eminem wins 2 out of the 3 scenarios, and gets Dre to turn to the dark side with his last victory.]]]]
110	* GrossUpCloseUp: The slobby overweight man and cigarette smoking woman with shabby hair in the music video of "My Name Is".
111	* HeavyMeta:
112	** "My Name Is", from beginning to end, but especially these lyrics:
113	--->''99 percent of my life I was lied to\
114	I just found out my mom does more dope than I do\
115	I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper\
116	Make a record about doing drugs and name it after her''
117	** "Still Don't Give A Fuck"
118	--->''I wanted an album so rugged nobody could touch it''
119	* HistoricalRapSheet: Slim takes credit for the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders on "Role Model."
120	* HypocriteHasAPoint: "Guilty Conscience" revolves around Dr. Dre and Eminem being the respective [[GoodAngelBadAngel angel and devil]] of several men's consciences. Dre spends the song trying to talk the men out of committing crimes, but in the song's final verse, Em calls out Dre for doing so while having a criminal history of his own, bringing up his 1991 assault of TV host Dee Barnes and the violent gangster persona he had when he was in Music/{{NWA}}. He asks Dre how he can tell others not to be violent, and Dre replies that it's because they "don't need to go the same route that I went". He's on the right side of every argument he gets into in the song (trying to prevent a store robbery, the rape of a minor, and the murder of a woman and the man she cheated on her husband with), but Em pointing this out (and taunting him for it) [[spoiler:ultimately [[DownerEnding makes him give up the struggle]] [[TheBadGuyWins and turn to the dark side]]]].
121	* {{Horrorcore}}: A lot of the songs fall into this genre.
122	* IAmSong:
123	** "My Name Is" and "I'm Shady".
124	** "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.
125	* ImmediateSelfContradiction [=/=] IResembleThatRemark: In the last verse of "Guilty Conscience", Dre tries to convince a man not to kill his wife and the man he caught her in bed with. Em then rebuts by pointing out that Dre has his own history of violence, having assaulted TV presenter Dee Barnes in 1991 and presented a gangster image as part of Music/{{NWA}}. Dre reacts indignantly to this characterization of him...by threatening to kill Em.
126	* IWantSong: "If I Had", which is Eminem fantasizing about what he'd do if he was rich and famous.
127	* 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.
128	* 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"''.
129	-->Then I got up and ran to the janitor's '''storage booth'''\
130	Kicked the '''door hinge loose''' and ripped out the '''four inch screws'''\
131	Grabbed some sharp objects, brooms and '''foreign tools'''\
132	This is for every time you took my '''orange juice'''
133	* LemonyNarrator: "Bad Meets Evil" has a cowboy narrator telling and concluding the tale.
134	* ListSong: The chorus of "I'm Shady" lists off several different drugs.
135	-->''I got mushrooms, I got acid, I got tabs and aspirin tablets\
136	I'm your brother when you need some new weed to set you free\
137	You know me, I'm your friend when you need a Mini Thin''
138	* 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]].
139	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: "Brain Damage"
140	-->''I went deaf and my left ear started to bleed\
141	My mother started screaming, "What are you on, drugs?"\
142	Look at you, you're getting blood all over my rug!" (sorry)\
143	She beat me over the head with the remote control\
144	Opened a hole and my whole brain fell out of my skull\
145	I picked it up and screamed:\
146	"Look bitch, what have you done?!"\
147	"Oh, my God, I'm sorry, son!"\
148	"Shut up, you cunt!"\
149	I said: "Fuck it!"\
150	Took it and stuck it back up in my head\
151	Then I sewed it shut and put a couple of screws in my neck''
152	* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: In "My Name Is", Em admits this of himself through referencing the old wives' tale that masturbation causes hair to grow on one's palms.
153	-->''All my life, I was very deprived\
154	I ain't had a woman in years, and my palms are too hairy to hide''
155	* MickeyMousing: All of the songs have sound effects and comedic voices after each line to illustrate what just has been said.
156	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Would you trust a guy named Slim Shady?
157	* 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.
158	* OdeToIntoxication: "My Name Is"
159	--> ''I just found out my mom does more dope than I do''
160	* OneManSong: "Paul" and "Ken Kaniff".
161	* OneWordTitle: "Bitch", "Lounge", and "Soap".
162	* PleaseWakeUp: The ending of "My Fault".
163	* ProductPlacement:
164	** "If I Had"
165	--->''Tired of always giving in when this bottle of Henny wins\
166	(...) Tired of not driving a BM\
167	Tired of not working at GM\
168	(...) Tired of fucking the same blonde whore after work\
169	In the back of a Contour\
170	(...) Tired of wearing the same damn Nike Air hat''
171	** "Just Don't Give A Fuck"
172	--->''Then I went to Jim Beam, that's when my face grayed''
173	** "No One's Iller"
174	--->''Whipping 40-bittles like the fucking Pepsi clubs\
175	(...) Kidnapped and slapped in a van wrapped in a Saran plastic''
176	** "Cum On Everybody"
177	--->''So I took a hammer and nailed my foot to the floorboard of my Ford''
178	* PunBasedTitle: "Cum On Everybody".
179	* RapeAsComedy: "Guilty Conscience"
180	-->'''Dr. Dre:''' ''Yo, this girl's only fifteen years old!\
181	You shouldn't take advantage of her, it's not fair!''\
182	'''Slim Shady:''' ''Yo, look at her bush, does it got hair?\
183	Fuck this bitch right here on the spot, bare\
184	'til she passes out and she forgot how she got there!''\
185	'''Dr. Dre:''' ''Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie, ''Film/{{Kids}}''?''\
186	'''Slim Shady:''' ''No, but I seen the porno with Sun Doobiest!''\
187	'''Dr. Dre:''' ''Shit, you wanna get hauled off to jail?''\
188	'''Slim Shady:''' ''Man, fuck that, hit that shit raw dog and bail!''
189	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: A lot of songs have autobiographical elements, though Eminem often dramatizes things a bit for effect.
190	** The line about the Music/SpiceGirls in "My Name Is" was inspired by the fact that many radio [=DJs=] had asked him which Spice Girl he would date if he had the choice.
191	** "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 mom sued the school for not protecting her child better. The line where the principal joins in beating up Eminem is also fantasy.
192	** Eminem wrote "Rock Bottom" after being fired from his cooking job at a restaurant.
193	** Eminem attacks his own mother in "My Name Is", rapping that she does more dope than he does and that she couldn't breastfeed him as a child since she had "no tits". His mother directly responded to the latter line in her 2008 autobiography, writing, "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."
194	** 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.
195	** "Guilty Conscience" has Music/DrDre play the good angel to Slim Shady's bad angel in several men's consciences, but Shady tries to convince one man to listen to him with the line "You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?", in reference to a real-life incident in 1991 where Dre allegedly either beat up or just pushed TV presenter Dee Barnes at a party; he was fined, put on 2 years' probation, given 240 hours of community service, and made to appear in an anti-violence PSA. Eminem was nervous what Dre would think of this line since he had only known him for a few days, but to his delight, Dre "fell out of his chair laughing."
196	* Really700YearsOld: Dr. Dre cites this as a reason why Eddie shouldn't go through with a robbery in "Guilty Conscience".
197	-->''Look at the store clerk, she's older than Creator/GeorgeBurns.''
198	* RecordProducer: Music/DrDre, Eminem, Mark & Jeff Bass and Mel-Man.
199	* RefugeInAudacity: All over the place, but most notably in these lines from "I'm Shady".
200	-->''You gotta make em fear you 'fore you make em feel you\
201	So everybody buy my shit or I'mma come and kill you''
202	* {{Sampling}}:
203	** "My Name Is..." contains a sample from Labi Siffre's "I Got The..." The openly gay singer only allowed use of his song if the misogynistic and homophobic references were removed from the song.
204	** "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.
205	** "If I Had" has a sample of "Impeach the President " by The Honey Drippers.
206	** "Cum On Everybody" relies on a sample of "Gimme What You Got" by Le Pamplemouse.
207	** "Bad Meets Evil" has a sample from "Me & My Girlfriend" by Music/TupacShakur and "Modaji" by Dave Grusin.
208	** "Rock Bottom" samples "Summertime" from Music/JanisJoplin's ''Music/CheapThrills''.
209	** "I'm Shady" is based on "Pusherman" by Music/CurtisMayfield and "I'm Your Pusher" by Music/IceT.
210	** "Just Don't Give A Fuck" samples "Catch The Beat" by T-Sky Valley. In the ''EP'' version, it also sampled "Gavotte and 6 Doubles" by Bob James.
211	* SexyNurse: Invoked in "Brain Damage"
212	-->'''Eminem:''' Teacher, teacher! Quick, I need a naked nurse!
213	* ShoutOut: All over the place.
214	** "My Name Is" namedrops Music/NineInchNails, Music/TheSpiceGirls, ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, Creator/PamelaAnderson and Kris Kross. The music video also makes reference to Creator/JohnnyCarson, Series/TheBradyBunch, Music/MarilynManson, UsefulNotes/BillClinton and Monica Lewinsky.
215	*** The line preceding the Nine Inch Nails reference ("Hi, kids, do you like violence?") is censored in the clean version to replace "violence" with "Music/{{Primus}}" (another rock band), effectively killing two birds with one stone.
216	** "Guilty Conscience" has several references.
217	*** Dr. Dre refers to a store clerk as "older than Creator/GeorgeBurns".
218	*** In the second verse of the song, where Dre and Shady are debating over the conscience of a 21-year-old man about to take advantage of a 15-year-old girl, Dre tries dissuading him by bringing up the film ''Film/{{Kids}}'', which contains [[spoiler:a scene where an unconscious girl is raped, resulting in the rapist contracting AIDS]], while Shady brings up the rapper Sun Doobiest, who later made a porn movie.
219	*** Near the end of the song, Shady references Dr. Dre's earlier album ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton'' with Music/{{NWA}}, rapping, "Mr. Dre, Mr. N.W.A, Mr. AK / coming straight outta Compton, y'all better make way".
220	** "Role Model"
221	--->''Take you on [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]] and beat your ass legally\
222	(...) Cause when I smoke out I hit the trees harder than Sonny Bono\
223	(...) [[UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton Hillary Clinton]] tried to slap me and call me a pervert\
224	I ripped her fucking tonsils out and fed her sherbet, bitch!\
225	(...) Grabbed Music/VanillaIce and ripped out his blond dreads\
226	(...) I slapped Music/GarthBrooks out of his rhinestone shirt\
227	Jumped in a Chickenhawk cartoon with a cape on\
228	And beat up WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn with an acorn\
229	I'm about as normal as [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]]''
230	** "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 Creator/MikeTyson, rapper [=DeShaun=] Holton, UsefulNotes/OJSimpson murder victim Ron Goldman, "Fuck the World" by Music/TupacShakur, Anime/{{Voltron}} and Music/RageAgainstTheMachine.
231	--->''Slim Shady, brain dead like Jim Brady\
232	(...) Cursin' at you players worse than Marty Schottenheimer\
233	(...) You getting knocked the fuck out like Mike Tyson\
234	The proof is in the pudding, just ask [=DeShaun=] Holton\
235	I'll slit your motherfucking throat worse than Ron Goldman\
236	(...) Screaming "fuck the world" like 2Pac\
237	(...) But I form like Voltron and blast you with my shoulder missiles\
238	(...) On stage screaming like Music/RageAgainstTheMachine''
239	** "As The World Turns" references the character Les Nessman from ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'', loss-of-weight book author Jenny Craig and ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''.
240	--->''Class clown freshman, dressed like Les Nessman\
241	(...) You walked into Vic Tanny's and stepped on Jenny Craig\
242	(...) Then I remembered this magic trick\
243	Den den den den den DEN DEN. [[SomethingElseAlsoRises Go go gadget dick!]]''
244	** "Cum On Everybody" references Music/KurtCobain, Music/LaurynHill, Music/BeastieBoys, Music/KidRock and the Loch Ness Monster.
245	--->''My favorite color is red, like the blood shed\
246	From Kurt Cobain's head when he shot himself dead\
247	(...) Bought Lauryn Hill's tape so her kids could starve ("I can't stand white people!")\
248	(...) Got bitches on my jock out in East Detroit\
249	'Cause they think that I'm a mothafuckin' Beastie Boy\
250	So I told 'em I was Mike D.\
251	They was like, "Gee, I don't know, he might be!"\
252	I told 'em, "Meet me at Kid Rock's next concert\
253	I'll be standin' by the Loch Ness Monster"''
254	** "Bad Meets Evil":
255	--->''Two of the most wanted individuals in the county\
256	Made UsefulNotes/JesseJames and UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid look like law-abiding citizens''
257	** "Still Don't Give A Fuck"
258	--->''I'm a cross between [[Music/MarilynManson Manson]], Music/{{Esham}} and [[Music/OzzyOsbourne Ozzy]]''
259	* 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.
260	* SoundtrackDissonance: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde". Which manages at the same time to be unbelievably sweet and unbelievably scary at the same time.
261	* 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 Creator/HenryWinkler.
262	* STDImmunity: Averted in many songs.
263	** "Cum On Everybody"
264	--->''You thought I was ill, and now I'm even more so\
265	Shit, I got full-blown AIDS and a sore throat\
266	(...) I told the doc I need a change in sickness\
267	And gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis''
268	** "I'm Shady"
269	--->''So fuck it, I've got herpes while we on the subject (uh-huh)\
270	And if I told you I had AIDS, y'all would play it\
271	'Cause you stupid motherfuckers think I'm playin' when I say it\
272	(...) And I don't have herpes, my dick's just itchin'\
273	It's not syphilis, and as for being AIDS-infested\
274	I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested''
275	** "Role Model"
276	--->''I've been with ten women who got HIV\
277	Now don't you want to grow up and be just like me?\
278	I've got genital warts and it burns when I pee\
279	Don't you want to grow up to be just like me?''
280	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Eminem's daughter Hailie can be heard during "'97 Bonnie & Clyde".
281	* TakeThat: A lot of celebrities and even people within Eminem's own family and vicinity get diss raps targeted at them.
282	** "My Name Is"
283	--->''But I can't decide which [[Music/TheSpiceGirls Spice Girl]] I want to impregnate\
284	(...) Got pissed off and ripped [[Creator/PamelaAnderson Pamela Lee]]'s tits off\
285	And smacked her so hard, I knocked her clothes backwards like Music/KrisKross''
286	** "Just Don't Give A Fuck" disses white rappers Prime Minister Pete Nice, MC Serch, Everlast, Miilkbone and Music/VanillaIce.
287	--->''I'm Nicer than Pete, but I'm on a search to crush a Miilkbone\
288	I'm everlast-ing, I melt Vanilla Ice like silicone\
289	I'm ill enough to just straight up diss you for no reason''
290	** "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.
291	--->''Killed 'em both then smeared blood on the white Bronco ([[CrossesTheLineTwice We did it!]]'')
292	* TakeThatAudience: "My Name Is"
293	-->''This guy at White Castle asked for my autograph\
294	So I signed it:\
295	"Dear Dave, thanks for the support... asshole!"''
296	* TimeMarchesOn: The song "97' Bonnie & Clyde" has dated since 1997 passed by.
297	* TropaholicsAnonymous: "Just Don't Give A Fuck".
298	-->''My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic (Hi Marshall!)''
299	* UrbanLegend:
300	** "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.
301	--->''Bought Lauryn Hill's tape so her kids could starve\
302	"I can't stand white people"''
303	** Referenced again during "Role Model".
304	--->''So I'm dumb enough to ask for a date with Lauryn Hill''
305	* WouldHurtAChild:
306	** "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", where the protagonist kills his wife, her new husband and their four-year-old son too.
307	** "No One's Iller"
308	--->''Rob this little boy in his fucking paper route\
309	Trowing bombs at day care centers and yell: "Everybody get out!"\
310	My girl beat my ass and shot me in the back with a two-piece\
311	'Cause she found out I was having an affair with her 10-year old niece''

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