For all the alienation on Slim Shady, Eminem earns his buzz as a bona fide rap star one tasteless insult at a time, battling the world with a mouthful of adjectives and a boxful of laxatives. Eminem is clever enough to make a running gag out of his cultural alienation, but that doesnвЂ™t mean itвЂ™s not real. Dre, the Bass Brothers, and Eminem himself. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the album features production from Dr. Recorded in Ferndale, Michigan, following Eminems recruitment by Dr. It was released on Februby Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Eminem doesnвЂ™t have many peeps to shout out to, not even his old hood, and thereвЂ™s something lonely about the sound of one voice rapping for nearly a whole album - he has hardly any homeys making cameos. The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album and the major-label debut by American rapper Eminem. But the sicko giggles keep coming whenever Eminem rips into his favorite target: himself.ДЄ hip-hop disciple inheriting a twisted American racial history he didnвЂ™t create, Eminem probably speaks for a lot of his fans when he asks, вЂњHow the fuck can I be white?/I donвЂ™t even exist.вЂќ Other white people are incomprehensible to him cowboys, hippies, ravers, frat boys and British twits all appear on Slim Shady as cartoon stereotypes, barely worth the trouble of laughing at. The bitch bashing gets tired fast the wife-killing jokes of вЂњвЂ™97 Bonnie and ClydeвЂќ arenвЂ™t any funnier than Garth BrooksвЂ™, and вЂњMy FaultвЂќ belongs on some sorry-ass Bloodhound Gang record. He doesnвЂ™t rap about the hustling high life, just minimum-wage jobs, high school beat-downs and decidedly ill drug dementia, while tossing curves like, вЂњI bought Lauryn HillвЂ™s tape so her kids could starve.вЂќ EminemвЂ™s Zen-like pursuit of the ultimate gross-out joke leads him down roads you may not care to travel, but on such an avowedly offensive album, thatвЂ™s the name of the game. Eminem has skills - heвЂ™s a warp-speed human rhyming dictionary with LL Cool JвЂ™s gift for the killer dis. But the steady midtempo grooves wonвЂ™t distract anyone from the voice. The beats on Slim Shady are low-affect West Coast funk in the Dre style, with the Doctor producing or co-producing three cuts.

ItвЂ™s a good joke, and Eminem milks it - he reminds you how much Eighties hip-hop heads loved Pee-wee Herman. If Eminem has a white-rap precedent, itвЂ™s Rodney Dangerfield in his strictly-for-tha-hardcore 1983 hit, вЂњRappinвЂ™ Rodney,вЂќ in which R-Boogie busted rhymes like, вЂњSteak and sex, my favorite pair/I have them both the same way: very rare.вЂќ Eminem is on some serious Dangerfield shit in loser anthems like вЂњMy Name Is,вЂќ вЂњBrain DamageвЂќ and вЂњIвЂ™m Shady.вЂќ He plays the race card for laughs, goofing on his role as the ultimate white geek, the вЂњclass-clown freshman/ Dressed like Les Nessman.вЂќ The whine in his upper register recalls other hip-hop comics, like the BeastiesвЂ™ Ad-Rock, Public EnemyвЂ™s Flavor Flav and Cypress HillвЂ™s B-Real, but Eminem has his own flat Midwestern twang to help him parody the white cornball in a black world, kind of like that cop on Sanford and Son or Bentley on The Jeffersons. How True Is 'Respect'? Fact-Checking the Aretha Franklin Biopic Flashback: Tina Turner Covers Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson on Debut Solo Album

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