Track Listing

1. Public Service Announcement
2. My Name Is
3. Guilty Conscience
4. Brain Damage
5. Paul
6. If I Had
7. '97 Bonnie & Clyde
8. Bitch
9. Role Model
10. Lounge
11. My Fault
12. Ken Kaniff
13. Cum On Everybody
14. Rock Bottom
15. Just Don't Give A Fuck
16. Soap
17. As The World Turns
18. I'm Shady
19. Bad Meets Evil
20. Still Don't Give A Fuck

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2350 in Music
• Released on: 1999-02-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.com
On The Slim Shady LP, Eminem wants it all. He's conflicted, you see; the world has treated him badly, and he wants to respond in kind. But he isn't a straight-up gangsta--this is, after all, the first release on Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records, his post-Death Row-era venture--and Eminem (born Marshall Mathers) doesn't really want anyone to follow in his footsteps, which leads to some interesting contradictions on this album. In the first single, "My Name Is," he's self-deprecating, rapping about his poor upbringing and his hairy palms. But on the very next song, "Guilty Conscience," he plays the devil to Dr. Dre's angel--that is, until Eminem brings up an incident from Dre's devilish past, rapping, "You gonna take advice from someone who slapped Dee Barnes?" Later, on "'97 Bonnie & Clyde," he turns Will Smith's "Just the Two of Us" on its ear, making it a tale of murder; but on "My Fault," he actually feels bad--though whether it's for the girl he overdosed or for himself is tough to figure out. With his nasal Midwestern tone, Mathers has a clean, clear flow, and the production--by Dr. Dre, Marky, and Jeff Bass--is crisp but consistently fun. With his outlook, it's tough to take Eminem too seriously, but he's made an album you don't have to take seriously to enjoy. --Randy Silver

Spin
With references to raves and dead-end jobs at Builder's Square instead of back-in-the-day block parties and street-corner drug-running, Mathers's hard-knock raps translate hip-hop for folks without Wu-Tang decoder rings, articulating suburban anger and violent apathy through the lens of white kids' experience.

USA Today
[Eminem] won't have any problem offending you. In the process, though, he might also make you laugh, shake your behind or scratch your head.

Customer Reviews

Pathetic
More stupid rap with a rapper using pouty lips trying to act black. The music sucks.

eminem
Eminem and d 12 these dudes is lame white boys shouldnt rap
its just a corny concept slim shady what a corny idea

First Album, Major Hysteria
The album that drove not just his ex wife, but the entire media off the cliff.

And what a great start it turned out to be! Until 2003, Eminem could not be stopped and this album paved the way. Compared to some of the beats later on, this album isn't as bangable now as others. When you play it, it really doesn't hold up to other old classics, but it still is one of the greatest rap albums in my opinion. I would rate this 4 and a half stars if I could only because of the fact that you can REALLY tell it's old production wise, but it definately holds up higher than 4 so a 5 will do for now.

Like "The Marshall Mathers LP" and "The Eminem Show", all songs are great. I have to say a few songs such as "My Fault" and "As the World Turns" weren't as great as some of the others on this album, but they eventually too grew on me until I liked them just the same.

This was the album that gave the young Detroit kid a chance. Real creative and different, nothing coming out at this time had a sound like this. I also semi-miss that old squeakier voice he had, he hadn't developed the profound voice most people know him from.

Still a great album. True to hip hop by all means necessary.