Eminem the slim shady lp kanyetothe full#

The beat is super laidback and the monologue at the beginning is really sad and thought-provoking - I've thought some of the very same things he's saying in the intro. 'If I had a million bucks, it wouldn't be enough, because I'd still be out robbing armored trucks!' is a super-cool line, it says so much about the psychology of Marshall at the time, how he was still a go-getter young hustler trying to make it big. It feels like Slim Shady takes a step back and lets the Eminem persona just rap about how harsh the world can be sometimes, that he'd tell 'em all to go sit and spin if he could. If I Had - I really like this song, it's more moody and somber than pretty much everything else on this record. Brain Damage - This track's really silly, funny, and tongue-in-cheek, opening with a skit about a doctor and a nurse before it dives into a long, multisyllabic rap about a white kid prone to go crazy at any moment (remind you of anyone?) The second verse has some of Em's best rhyming schemes yet: 'An eighth grader who acted obnoxious, cause his father boxes, so everyday he'd shove me in the lockers.' Like, who thinks of that? 4.5/5.Р”Тђ. This song actually references 'Stan' years before that song even happened, so Guilty Conscience contains some cool foreshadowing. Guilty Conscience - This is a cool, subversive song about people about to commit various crimes, who's torn between his shoulder angel (cleverly played by Dre) and his shoulder devil (Slim, natch) - the devil, of course, usually wins out in the end. Dre's made in his songs, and he really adds to how funny this song is. This also contains the first of many cameos that Dr. Slim sets himself up as an absolute thug, rapping about Nine Inch Nails and a ton of tongue-in-cheek violence and sex and drugs. My Name Is - this song slaps! This song's such a banger. It's a little short, though, so it could have been taken out entirely. Slim's 'yeah, don't do drugs' comment at the end is super ironic, given that he definitely does drugs. It's pretty funny, it makes you think that Jeff's being held at gunpoint by Slim and made to say a bunch of stuff that he doesn't really want to say. Public Service Announcement - this is a skit performed by Em and Jeff Bass. Instead, Eminem donned a brand-new persona, one that would change the face of hip-hop forever. Well luckily for all of us, that's not what happened.

He was getting a lot of unfair feedback about how he was a white guy trying to make it big in the rap game, told he should go into rock and roll or something ridiculous like that. An unfair thing to say, but it was kind of true, so Eminem had to change gears. Marshall was a guy with something to prove, but he was regrettably slammed by the critics for sounding too much like Nas and AZ.

Eminem the slim shady lp kanyetothe full#

See, Eminem's first debut, Infinite, was a pretty good album all told, full of clever wordplay, engaging beats, and hard-hitting rhymes. but, plot twist: Slim Shady is *actually* Eminem himself. 'Hi! My name is- what?! My name is- who?! My name is- CHIKKA CHIKKA- Slim Shady!'Р”В¬an you name a more iconic opener in the history of hip-hop? Right out the gate, Slim Shady, this out-of-nowhere, wacky, multisyllabic force of nature, marks himself a tour de force of rap and hip-hop. Review Summary: An amazing debut from a rising, hustling star that, even twenty years after the fact, lives on in the annels of pop culture.