Eminem
The Real Slim Shady
| "The Real Slim Shady" |
 |
|
Single by
Eminem |
| from the album
The Marshall Mathers LP |
| Released |
2000 |
| Format |
CD |
|
Genre |
Rap |
| Length |
4
min 44 s |
|
Label |
Aftermath/Interscope |
|
Producer(s) |
Dr. Dre and Mel-Man |
|
Chart
positions |
- #1 (UK)
- #2 (Switzerland)
- #2 (Norway)
- #3 (Sweden)
- #4 (US)
- #4 (Italy)
- #6 (France)
- #6 (Austria)
- #6 (Finland)
- #7 (Germany)
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Eminem
singles chronology |
"Guilty
Conscience"
(1999) |
"The Real Slim Shady"
(2000) |
"The
Way I Am"
(2000) |
"The Real Slim Shady" is a song by the rapper
Eminem,
released in 2000.
It was the first single off his album
The Marshall Mathers LP, also released in that year. The song was a hit
single, becoming Eminem's first chart topper in some countries, and garnering
much attention for insulting various celebrities, including:
- Actress
Pamela Anderson's alleged abuse at the hands of her ex-husband, rocker Tommy
Lee
- Eminem claims in one line to have murdered Dr. Dre,
and that he's locked him in his basement.
- Comedian
Tom Green's humping of a deceased moose on TV
- Pop-rapper
Will
Smith's brand of commercialized and clean rap music
- Eminem also criticizes Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, both
similarly commercially-oriented pop singers; Aguilera was angered by his
claim that she performed oral sex on Carson Daly, an MTV VJ, and Fred Durst,
of the band Limp Bizkit.
The chorus is about the sudden fashion changes caused by Eminem's success:
"I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady/All you other Slim Shadys are just
imitating/So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up, please
stand up?". In the video for the song, a factory can be seen turning young white
men into clones of Eminem, with hair dyed platinum blonde, baggy jeans and a
plain white T-shirt.
"The Real Slim Shady" was later released on Eminem's greatest hits album,
Curtain
Call.
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