It’s more introspective, but in no way less sober or violent. The sound is easily distinguishable from Slim Shady LP, representing Eminen’s other side. The Marshall Mathers LP came out the next year.
To no one’s surprise, Eminem attracted a lot of controversy over his violent and misogynistic lyrics.
Dre’s odd production and Slim Shady’s excellent lyricism brings to life his depressing world. If I Had, 97 Bonnie & Clyde, Rock Bottom, Just Don’t Give a Fuck and Role Model are all dark, uncomfortable tracks boiling with frustration. Eminem introduces even more alter egos in the skits interspersed between tracks. Dre’s backing, Eminem created an album that is probably the most recent rap classic. No one was expecting a white rapper from Detroit to curbstomp the whole scene, but that’s exactly what happened. The Slim Shady LP was the first one to come out in 1999. Eminem’s duality trend goes back to his EPs Infinite and Slim Shady EP. The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP were released a year apart, but they are like two sides on the same coin, yin and yang, Batman and Joker, Jekkyl and Hyde…you get the picture. Dre, Eminem, Mark & Jeff Bass, Mel-Man, The 45 King, Bass Brothers Years later, as the shock has faded, it's those lyrical skills and the subtle mastery of the music that still resonate, and they're what make The Slim Shady LP one of the great debuts in both hip-hop and modern pop music.Producers: Dr. At a time when many rappers were stuck in the stultifying swamp of gangsta clichés, Eminem broke through the hardcore murk by abandoning the genre's familiar themes and flaunting a style with more verbal muscle and imagination than any of his contemporaries. As well they should be - there are few rappers as wildly gifted verbally as Eminem. Dre but also helmed in large doses by Marky and Jeff Bass, along with Marshall himself - mirrors his rhymes, with their spare, intricately layered arrangements enhancing his narratives, which are always at the forefront. Eminem's supreme gifts are an expansive vocabulary and vivid imagination, which he unleashes with wicked humor and unsparing anger in equal measure. There have been more violent songs in rap, but few more disturbing, and it's not because of what it describes, it's how he describes it - how the perfectly modulated phrasing enhances the horror and black humor of his words. Of course, nowhere is this more true than on "97 Bonnie and Clyde," a notorious track where he imagines killing his wife and then disposing of the body with his baby daughter in tow.
This was unsettling in 1999, when nobody knew his back-story, and years later, when his personal turmoil is public knowledge, it still can be unsettling, because his words and delivery are that powerful. The Slim Shady LP bristles with this tension, since it's never always clear when Marshall Mathers is joking and when he's dead serious. Then, it wasn't clear to every listener that Eminem was, as they say, an unreliable narrator, somebody who slung satire, lies, uncomfortable truths, and lacerating insights with vigor and venom, blurring the line between reality and parody, all seemingly without effort. Given his subsequent superstardom, culminating in no less than an Academy Award, it may be easy to overlook exactly how demonized Eminem was once his mainstream debut album, The Slim Shady LP, grabbed the attention of pop music upon its release in 1999.
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