Just Don't Give A Fuck Co-producer – Eminem Drum Programming – Denine Porter* Engineer – Aaron Lepley Mixed By – Mr. Dre Producer – Jeff Bass, Marky Bass* Written-By – J. Rock Bottom Engineer – Richard "Segal" Huredia Mixed By – Dr. B Producer – Jeff Bass, Marky Bass* Vocals – Dina Rae Written-By – J. Ken Kaniff Music By – Jeff Bass Voice – Aristotle, Eminem, Marky Bass*Ĭum On Everybody Co-producer – Eminem Engineer – Alan Mason Mixed By – Mr. B Producer – Eminem, Jeff Bass, Mark Bass Written-By – J. My Fault Engineer – Alan Mason Mixed By – Mr. Lounge Music By – Jeff Bass Voice – Eminem, Jeff Bass, Marky Bass* Role Model Engineer – Richard "Segal" Huredia Mixed By – Dr. B Producer – Jeff Bass, Marky Bass* Producer – DJ Head Scratches – DJ Len Swann Written-By – J. Mathers*ĩ7' Bonnie & Clyde Co-producer – Eminem Drum Programming – DJ Head Engineer – Slim Mixed By – Mr. B Producer – Jeff Bass, Marky Bass* Producer – DJ Rec Vocals – Kristie Abete' Swift* Written-By – J. If I Had Co-producer – Eminem Drum Programming – DJ Head Engineer – Alan Mason Mixed By – Mr. B Producer – Jeff Bass, Marky Bass* Written-By – J. Mathers*īrain Damage Co-producer – Eminem Drum Programming – Mel-Man Engineer – Alan Mason Mixed By – Mr. Dre Narrator – Richard "Segal" Huredia Producer – Dr. Guilty Conscience Engineer – Mark Avery Mixed By – Dr. My Name Is Engineer – Richard "Segal" Huredia Mixed By – Dr. Album reviewPublic Service Announcement Voice – Eminem, Jeff Bass See more Your browser does not support the audio element. © Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo More info 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. 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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