Black Comedy: Many, many, many songs sing about murder, rape, violence, STD's, pedophilia, adultery, misogyny, suicide, and drug abuse.Bedroom Adultery Scene: 'Guilty Conscience', where Grady catches his wife in bed with another man.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. The Good Angel, Bad Angel scenario ends with the bad angel (Eminem) getting the good angel ( Dr. The Bad Guy Wins: 'Guilty Conscience'.Her make poo-poo ca-ca? Da-da change your didee Take a night-night? Nan-a-boo, goo-goo ga-ga? I told you it's okay Hai-Hai, wanna ba-ba? Additionally, SSLP won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. In the wake of SSLP's release, Em went from an underground nobody to an overnight mainstream celebrity. The album would go on to be certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA. 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 his real-life struggles with poverty and bullying among other subjects.

Dre, who quickly wanted to contact Em and work on a major-label release with him. Most notably, the EP gained the attention of Dr. His first studio album, Infinite (1996), was a flop, only selling around 1,000 copies and evoking many a complaint of his similarities to Nas and Jay-Z.Īfter an unsuccessful suicide attempt, he released The Slim Shady EP a year later, and things started turning around. The Slim Shady LP (1999) is the second album and major-label debut of Eminem, and it's safe to say it came at a time when he needed it most.

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