This album showed off more of an underground style, created some kind of element that nobody have ever heard of before then. Dre, after the release of the Slim Shady EP and his high spot in the 1997 Rap Olympics. He used the Slim Shady persona he created during time in his rap group, D12, and recorded an album after getting noticed by Dr. As I had mentioned before, Eminem began to incorporate storytelling elements in his songs. Setting the tone in the album, above all others, is the dark humor. Marshall Mathers aka "Slim Shady" - The Slim Shady LPĪftermath Records, February 1999, Hip Hop (Though Infinite could be considered a debut, though that alone was bootleg enough) It went triple platinum in the first few months alone, and charted incredibly high at the Billboard Top LPs and Tapes, naturally impressive for a debut. He didn't just rhyme words, he rhymed entire sentences. There was a lot of story-telling in the songs, and it was different from mainstream rap at the time. Even if the MM LP was never released, Marshall would have been big just with the Slim Shady LP. But at the time, it spit lyrical fire more aggressively than anything else, to some.Įven nowadays, people consider The Marshall Mathers LP to be notorious for pushing the rapper from a big name to a massive one, becoming universally hailed as one of the best solo artists of our decade. With the release of Slim Shady LP, it turned Eminem from an average MC to a respected solo artist.
He had gone through struggles during childhood, like abuse, welfare, and so on, not to mention being incredibly poor.
However, the rapper was ambitious enough to escape a naturally unhappy life in his music. Gone was the Nas and AZ impersonator from Infinite, or the struggling rapper from his older group, Soul Intent. More than a decade after its release, the Slim Shady LP showed off a new face in the media a crude, hilarious, and controversial one. Or this is what many Eminem followers choose to believe. When Marshall Mathers released The Slim Shady LP on the cold day of February 23, 1999, something happened. Review Summary: I just don't give a fuck.
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