Two years later, the project was revamped and released as Eminem’s major label debut via Aftermath/ Interscope.

Slim Shady was officially born on 1997’s Slim Shady EP, which caught the ear of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. “He walked into the studio on Eight Mile, and he said, ‘I’m stealing your name!’ And I’m like, ‘go right ahead! You can have it ’cause I’m not going to do anything with it.’’ “If you go back, I’m a co-producer on the Infinite album, and I’m listed as ‘Slim,’” Kevin Wilder reveals to Rolling Stone. Anyway, when I first heard this album, at first I was kind of surprised by the fact that Em's voice is MUCH different here. Well, if you're one of those people, you're fucking stupid. The origin of the name Slim Shady is equally fascinating. When people think about Eminem's first album, people tend to think about the Slim Shady LP. “So I started coming in with songs that was talking about overdosing on drugs and fuck life.” “The way I was rapping began to get more hostile,” he remembers. 1995 Soul Intent 1996 Infinite 1997 The Slim Shady EP 1999 The Slim Shady LP 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP 2001 Devil's Night ( D12) 2002 The Eminem Show 2002 8. Eminem says it was 'shit happening in life” that triggered his transformation.

“Right, after the Infinite record we took a little bit of time off, and that’s when he came back with this little ‘Slim Shady’ tattoo on his arm,” Mark Bass recalls. But probably the biggest reason for the album’s success is that, whatever your other complaints are about Eminemand most are probably legitimateit’s hard to deny his raw talent. Probably because of the lukewarm response to Infinite, The Slim Shady LP swung hard in the opposite direction and was wildly successful. The best part of the documentary isn’t just the nostalgia-it’s how Eminem was able to take failure on the chin and come back better than ever. By contrast, Infinite was exceptionally tame in an attempt to get radio airplay and was often accused of being a knock-off of rapper AZ.

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