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1997 EP by Eminem

Slim Shady EPEP by
Eminem
ReleasedDecember 10, 1997Recorded1997StudioStudio 8 (Ferndale, Michigan)Genre
 * Hip hop
 * horrorcore

Length28:33LabelWEB EntertainmentProducer
 * Bass Brothers (exec.)
 * DJ Head
 * DJ Rec
 * Denaun Porter
 * Eminem
 * Kuniva

Eminem chronology

Infinite
(1996) Slim Shady EP
(1997) The Slim Shady LP
(1999)

Singles from Slim Shady EP
 1. "Just Don't Give a Fuck"
    Released: October 13, 1998

Slim Shady EP is the only extended play by American rapper Eminem, released on
December 10, 1997, through Web Entertainment. Unlike his debut album Infinite,
Slim Shady EP helped Eminem gain the interest of CEO Jimmy Iovine (co-founder of
Interscope Records) and West Coast hip-hop rapper and producer Dr. Dre, who
subsequently signed Eminem to his Aftermath Entertainment record label, and
served as executive producer on his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP
(1999).

The EP introduces Eminem's alter ego Slim Shady. Since the EP was released
before he was signed to Interscope and Aftermath, original copies are now highly
valued. His lyrics are a marked departure from those found on Infinite,
featuring constant references to drug use, sexual acts, mental instability, and
over-the-top violence. Another departure was his exploration of more serious
themes of dealing with poverty, his direct and self-deprecating response to
criticism, and of marital and family difficulties. His flow is also noticeably
different from Infinite where critics claimed he sounded too much like Nas and
AZ. Eminem also began utilizing story telling on this EP. The production value
of the music on the tracks — from previous collaborators DJ Head, The Bass
Brothers, and Mr. Porter — was also noticeably higher than on prior album
efforts. According to Billboard, at this point in his life Eminem had "realized
his musical ambitions were the only way to escape his unhappy life".


BACKGROUND AND PRODUCTION[EDIT]

In 1996, his debut album Infinite, which was recorded at the Bassmint, a
recording studio owned by the Bass Brothers, was released under their
independent label Web Entertainment.[1] Infinite achieved little commercial
success and was largely ignored by Detroit radio stations, such as WJLB (97.9 FM
in Detroit), and in specific tracks Eminem raps explicitly about this problem,
like in "Just Don't Give a Fuck" "If I Had" and "Low Down, Dirty". The
disappointment from this experience greatly influenced his lyrical style: "After
that record, every rhyme I wrote got angrier and angrier. A lot of it was
because of the feedback I got. Motherfuckers was like, 'You're a white boy, what
the fuck are you rapping for? Why don't you go into rock & roll?' All that type
of shit started pissing me off."[2] After the release of Infinite, Eminem's
personal struggles and abuse of drugs and alcohol culminated in a suicide
attempt: all these troubles became main themes of Slim Shady EP.[3]

The disappointment of Infinite inspired Eminem to create the alter ego Slim
Shady: "Boom, the name hit me, and right away I thought of all these words to
rhyme with it".[2] Slim Shady served as Eminem's vent for his frustrations, and
he released the horrorcore extended play entitled Slim Shady EP simultaneously
on cassette, vinyl, and CD.[4] During this time, Eminem and his wife Kim Scott
lived in a high-crime neighborhood with their newborn daughter Hailie, where
their house was burglarized numerous times.[2] After being evicted from his
home, Eminem traveled to Los Angeles to participate in the Rap Olympics, an
annual nationwide rap battle competition.[2] He placed second, and the staff at
Interscope Records who attended the Rap Olympics sent a copy of the Slim Shady
EP to company CEO Jimmy Iovine.[2] Iovine played the tape for record producer
Dr. Dre, founder of Aftermath Entertainment. Dr. Dre recalled, "In my entire
career in the music industry, I have never found anything from a demo tape or a
CD. When Jimmy played this, I said, 'Find him. Now.'"[2] Eminem and Dr. Dre
subsequently began work on his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP.


ARTWORK[EDIT]

The cover depicts the opening intro as well as the first track, in which Slim
Shady awakens Eminem and orders him to look in the mirror to see that he is
"nothing without him". Eminem resists and screams in the background while Slim
Shady yells back and laughs at Eminem's horror. By the second track, Eminem and
Slim Shady become the same person. Eminem is also ordered by "Slim Shady" to
look into the mirror, and the sound of glass breaking is heard, alluding once
again to the cover.[4] The art also bears a similarity to Black Flag's 1981
debut album, Damaged.


RELEASE AND RECEPTION[EDIT]

According to an interview with Zane Lowe, Eminem made 500 copies of the EP, but
sold only slightly more than 250.[5] Though rare, reviews of the EP were
generally mixed to positive. AllMusic gave the EP two and a half out of five
stars without a written review.[6] XXL, despite originally giving the EP three
out of five stars "L" rating,[7] listed it on their "100 Most Essential Rap EPs
of All Time – The Best of the Short & Sweet" list. Eminem was featured in the
March 1998 edition of The Source magazine's (#102), "Unsigned Hype" column. The
author of the column highlighted two tracks from Eminem's Slim Shady EP: "Just
the Two of Us", and "Murder, Murder".[1]


TRACK LISTING[EDIT]

No.TitleProducer(s)Length1."Intro (Slim Shady)"Eminem1:052."Low Down, Dirty"
 * Denaun Porter
 * Kuniva

4:443."If I Had..."DJ Rec4:034."Just Don't Give a Fuck"Denaun
Porter4:045."Mommy" (skit) 0:396."Just the Two of Us"DJ Head4:207."No One's
Iller" (featuring Swifty McVay, Bizarre and Fuzz Scoota)DJ Head4:588."Murder,
Murder"DJ Rec4:40Total length:28:33

Bonus tracksNo.TitleProducer(s)Length9."If I Had..." (radio edit)DJ
Rec4:0110."Just Don't Give a Fuck" (radio edit)Denaun Porter4:03Total
length:36:36


REFERENCES[EDIT]

 1. ^ a b Bozza, Anthony (2003). Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of
    Eminem. New York, New York, United States: Crown Publishing Group. p. 15.
    ISBN 1-4000-5059-6.
 2. ^ a b c d e f Bozza, Anthony (November 5, 2009). "Eminem Blows Up". Rolling
    Stone. Retrieved February 16, 2012.
 3. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Eminem – Biography". AllMusic. Rovi
    Corporation. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
 4. ^ a b Harvilla, Rob (2019-02-20). "Eminem Has Been America's Nightmare for
    20 Years". The Ringer. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
 5. ^ "Eminem: 'My life became crazy'". Newsbeat. BBC. October 21, 2008.
    Retrieved January 27, 2019.
 6. ^ "Eminem – Slim Shady EP". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved October
    27, 2012.
 7. ^ XXL (December 2007). "Retrospective: XXL Albums". XXL Magazine.


EXTERNAL LINKS[EDIT]

 * Slim Shady EP at Discogs (list of releases)


 * v
 * t
 * e

Eminem
 * Albums
 * Singles
 * Production
 * D12 discography
 * Bad Meets Evil discography
 * Videography
 * Awards and nominations
 * Records and achievements

Studio albums
 * Infinite (1996)
 * The Slim Shady LP (1999)
 * The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
 * The Eminem Show (2002)
 * Encore (2004)
 * Relapse (2009)
 * Recovery (2010)
 * The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)
 * Revival (2017)
 * Kamikaze (2018)
 * Music to Be Murdered By (2020)
 * The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (2024)

Compilations
 * Curtain Call: The Hits (2005)
 * The Re-Up (2006)
 * Shady XV (2014)
 * Curtain Call 2 (2022)

Soundtrack albums
 * 8 Mile (2002)
 * Southpaw (2015)

EPs
 * Slim Shady EP (1997)

Video albums
 * E
 * All Access Europe
 * The Anger Management Tour
 * Live from New York City

Books
 * Angry Blonde

Concert tours
 * Up in Smoke Tour
 * Anger Management Tour
 * The Recovery Tour
 * The Home & Home Tour
 * Rapture Tour
 * The Monster Tour

Groups
 * Outsidaz
 * D12
 * Bad Meets Evil

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 * Mom's Spaghetti

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