Music / The Slim Shady LP

Hi, kids! Do you like violence?

This is a public service announcement brought to you in part by Slim Shady.
The views and events expressed here are totally fucked, and are not necessarily the views of anyone. However, the events and suggestions that appear on this album are not to be taken lightly. Children should not partake in the listening of this album with laces in their shoes.
Slim Shady is not responsible for your actions. Upon purchasing this album, you have agreed not to try this at home.
A-anything else?
Eminem: Yeah. Don't do drugs.

— "Public Service Announcement (Skit)", the first track

The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album by Eminem, released on February 26, 1999.

The album served as Eminem's major-label debut, and became his first work to receive significant public recognition, but is not actually his first-ever release. That title goes to his debut album Infinite (1996), which was a critical and commercial flop upon release, only selling around 1,000 copies and evoking many a complaint of Em's rapping style on the album being overly similar to rappers like Nas and Jay-Z.

Following a suicide attempt and the invention of an angry and violent (yet darkly humorous) alter ego, Em released The Slim Shady EP a year later, and things started turning around. Most notably, the EP gained the attention of Dr. Dre, who quickly got in contact with Em, signed him to his label Aftermath Entertainment, and began work on an album with him, the end result being this. The album takes a look into Em's psyche both through the cartoonish obscenity of his alter ego Slim Shady (introduced in the namesake EP) and his real-life struggles with poverty and bullying among other subjects.

The album debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, won two Grammy Awards (Best Rap Album and Best Rap Solo Performance for "My Name Is") and would go on to be certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA in 2000, elevating Em from underground buzz to mainstream celebrity.

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Tracklist (asterisked tracks are skits):

1. "Public Service Announcement"* (0:33)
2. "My Name Is" (4:28)
3. "Guilty Conscience" (featuring Dr. Dre) (3:19)
4. "Brain Damage" (3:46)
5. "Paul"* (0:15)
6. "If I Had" (4:05)
7. "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" (5:16)^note originally released on Slim Shady EP as "Just the Two of Us"
8. "Bitch"* (0:19)
9. "Role Model" (3:25)
10. "Lounge"* (0:46)
11. "My Fault" (4:01)
12. "Ken Kaniff"* (1:16)
13. "Cum on Everybody" (3:39)
14. "Rock Bottom" (3:34)
15. "Just Don't Give a Fuck" (4:02)
16. "Soap"* (0:34)
17. "As the World Turns" (4:25)
18. "I'm Shady" (3:31)
19. "Bad Meets Evil" (featuring Royce da 5'9") (4:13)
20. "Still Don't Give a Fuck" (4:12)

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I just found out, my mom does more tropes than I do:

• Addled Addict: "Just Don't Give a Fuck" addresses battling with alcoholism, marijuana, and cocaine.
• Album Intro Track: "Public Service Announcement", a skit wherein an announcer played by producer Jeff Bass describes the contents of the album as "totally fucked" and gives a Don't Try This at Home message. He then asks Em if he has anything to add; Em replies, "Yeah. Don't do drugs." Em's next album, The Marshall Mathers LP, would start with another PSA skit featuring him and Bass.
• Alliterative Name: "Slim Shady" and "Ken Kaniff"
• Anaphora: Almost every line in the verses of "If I Had" starts with "I'm tired of..."
• Answer Song:
  • Insane Clown Posse wrote a parody of "My Name Is" called "Slim Anus", being in a rap feud with Eminem at the time.
  • In "Just Don't Give a Fuck", Eminem disses other white rappers like Everlast, Miilkbone and Vanilla Ice, who'd all write diss tracks aimed at Eminem. Everlast had a feud with Eminem, Miilkbone released "Dear Slim" and "Presenting Miilkbone", and Vanilla Ice released "Exhale" and "Hip Hop Rules".
• Anti-Role Model: Shady, as exhibited throughout the album and even highlighted in "Role Model". Em further explained this in a 2009 Rolling Stone interview:
  "My album isn't for younger kids to hear. It has an advisory sticker, and you must be eighteen to get it. That doesn't mean younger kids won't get it, but I'm not responsible for every kid out there. I'm not a role model, and I don't claim to be."
• Baby Talk: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde"
  I told you it's okay Hai-Hai, wanna ba-ba?
  Take a night-night? Nan-a-boo, goo-goo ga-ga?
  Her make poo-poo ca-ca? Da-da change your didee
• The Bad Guy Wins: "Guilty Conscience". The Good Angel, Bad Angel scenario ends with the bad angel (Eminem) getting the good angel (Dr. Dre) to turn to the dark side and let Grady shoot his girlfriend as well as the guy she was having an affair against him with.
• Bedroom Adultery Scene: "Guilty Conscience", where Grady catches his wife in bed with another man.
• Black Comedy: Many, many, many songs sing about murder, rape, violence, STD's, pedophilia, adultery, misogyny, suicide, and drug abuse... in a comedic fashion.
• Bowdlerise:
  • "My Name Is" got quite the cleansing in the non-explicit version, replacing some of the crasser rhymes with more cartoonish and family-friendly stuff ("killing pedestrians, raping lesbians" is replaced with "running over pedestrians in a spaceship"), or stuff that straight-up made no sense (vodka is replaced with Kool-Aid?).
  • Also happened to "Guilty Conscience"; for example, "Cut this bitch's head off!" was replaced with "Cut this chicken's head off!"
• Brick Joke: In the case of "Bad Meets Evil", Em's song with then-friend Royce da 5'9.
  • The end of the song's chorus goes, "See you in Hell for the sequel." Afterwards, the two had a lengthy falling out, but once their mutual friend Proof died, they patched up their issues and released a joint album called Hell: The Sequel in 2011. Besides its name, given how long it took Em and Royce to get around to making it, one can say we saw the sequel in Development Hell.
  • This joke got even more elaborate in the wake of "Cold Wind Blows" (from Recovery), which was released just a year before H:TS, wherein God tells Slim Shady that He will send him to Hell if he does not change his ways. Apparently, he didn't.
• The Bully: "Brain Damage" is about a real-life incident from Eminem's youth where he was beaten into a coma by bullies.
• Buried Alive: From "My Name Is".
  I'm not ready to leave! It's too scary to die!
  I'll have to be carried inside the cemetery and buried alive!
• Call-and-Response Song: Several examples among the songs that he's done with Dr. Dre. "Guilty Conscience" has Slim and Dre as the different sides of someone's conscience (bad angel and good angel, if you will), bickering back and forth over what the person should do.
• Call-Back and Continuity Nod: Eminem would reference Slim Shady and Dr. Dre on all of his next albums. "Kim" on The Marshall Mathers LP is a prequel to "97' Bonnie & Clyde" from this album.
• Capitalism Is Bad: "If I Had"
  Money is the root of all evil.
• Cerebus Rollercoaster: The album veers erratically between slapstick Black Comedy ("My Name Is", "Role Model", "Guilty Conscience"), chilling Horrorcore ("'97 Bonnie and Clyde"), and serious tracks in which Eminem describes his bleak and frustrating working-class existence ("Rock Bottom", "If I Had") or traumatic personal experiences ("Brain Damage").
• Country Matters: Near the end of "Brain Damage". Used as a derogatory insult towards his mom, no less.
• Crapsack World: Arguably the whole album takes place in one due to the dramatization of the hardships Em raps about. "Brain Damage", for instance, takes place in a world where teachers will not only allow bullying to happen, but will assist the bully in beating up their victim.
• Cross-Referenced Titles: "Just Don't Give a Fuck" and "Still Don't Give a Fuck".
• Deliberately Monochrome: The music video of "Just Don't Give a Fuck".
• Depraved Homosexual: "Ken Kaniff", with the title character being a gay man who calls up Eminem with lewd suggestions.
• Despair Event Horizon: "Rock Bottom" depicts Em at essentially the lowest point of his life.
• The Dog Bites Back: "Brain Damage" contains many fantasized scenarios of Em getting back at bullies that have tormented him. For example, after he gets brutally assaulted by a bully near the end of the song (the school principal even comes in only to assist the bully in beating him), Em plays dead to get his assailants to leave. Once they do, he turns the tables by defeating the bully with appliances from the janitor's closet.
• Downer Ending:
  • "My Fault" ends with a girl named Susan overdosing on a bag of mushrooms Em gives her. The song closes on Em bawling and trying to get Susan to wake up.
  • "Guilty Conscience" has a Good Angel, Bad Angel premise, with Em as the bad angel and Dr. Dre as the good angel fighting over control of several people's conscience. The song ends with Em getting Dre to turn to the dark side and tell a man to shoot his wife and the man she was cheating on him with, not to mention that the previous verse ended with Em successfully convincing another man to commit statutory date rape.
• Drowning My Sorrows: "If I Had"
  Tired of always giving in when this bottle of Henny wins
  (...)
  Tired of drowning in my sorrow
• Drugs Are Bad:
  • "Public Service Announcement":
    Jeff Bass: Anything else?
    Eminem: Yeah. Don't do drugs.
  • "My Fault" features a tale about a girl who takes psychedelic mushrooms at a rave and overdoses on them.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma: "Guilty Conscience", where Slim Shady tries to convince a guy named Stan to take advantage of an underage girl who passed out at a party.
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Played to chilling effect in "97 Bonnie and Clyde".
• Establishing Character Moment: The image quote at the top, which is the opening line of the album's first verse (in "My Name Is"), sets the tone for Em's persona pretty well. It has further been interpreted as having been specially made to not only rope in the young audiences that would become big fans of him, but also to make a satirical point about how parents get worked up about him yet let their kids watch desensitized violence in the form of cartoons like Tom and Jerry.
• Extreme Omnisexual: Referenced in "My Name Is".
  I'll fuck anything that walks.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", where the dead body of the child's mother is thrown in a lake.
  Mama said she wants to show you how far she can float
  And don't worry about that little boo-boo on her throat.
• Foreshadowing:
  • One of the last lines of "Bad Meets Evil" is "See you in hell for the sequel." Eleven years later, Em and Royce da 5'9" reunited as Bad Meets Evil for — you guessed it — Hell: The Sequel.
  • The second scenario in "Guilty Conscience" stars someone named Stan. And no, he isn't related to Stanley Mitchell, the main character of "Stan" on The Marshall Mathers LP.
  • In "Brain Damage", Em mentions his palms being sweaty, a line which was slightly tinkered and reused in "Lose Yourself", released three years later.
    Rap Genius annotation: Despite the sweaty palms, he makes no mention of weak knees, heavy arms, or vomit on the sweater, so he can’t be that nervous.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: The clean version of "My Name Is" took the "drank a fifth of vodka" line and replaced "vodka" with "Kool-Aid".
• Gag Penis: One particularly memorable bit in "As the World Turns" has Em whipping out his "go-go-gadget dick" that causes an earthquake and power outage upon hitting the ground.
• Gainax Ending: "Brain Damage" ends with Em's mom beating him upside the head so bad that his brain falls out of his skull. He then proceeds to take his own brain and yell at his mom before putting it back in his head.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: The basis of "Guilty Conscience", with Dr. Dre playing the good angel and Eminem playing the bad angel (reasonably) and quarreling over their attempts to respectively talk people out of and into committing illicit acts. Eminem wins 2 out of the 3 scenarios, and gets Dre to turn to the dark side with his last victory.
• Gross-Up Close-Up: The slobby overweight man and cigarette smoking woman with shabby hair in the music video of "My Name Is".
• Heavy Meta:
  • "My Name Is", from beginning to end, but especially these lyrics:
    99 percent of my life I was lied to
    I just found out my mom does more dope than I do
    I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper
    Make a record about doing drugs and name it after her
  • "Still Don't Give A Fuck"
    I wanted an album so rugged nobody could touch it
• Historical Rap Sheet: Slim takes credit for the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders on "Role Model."
• Hypocrite Has a Point: "Guilty Conscience" revolves around Dr. Dre and Eminem being the respective angel and devil of several men's consciences. Dre spends the song trying to talk the men out of committing crimes, but in the song's final verse, Em calls out Dre for doing so while having a criminal history of his own, bringing up his 1991 assault of TV host Dee Barnes and the violent gangster persona he had when he was in N.W.A. He asks Dre how he can tell others not to be violent, and Dre replies that it's because they "don't need to go the same route that I went". He's on the right side of every argument he gets into in the song (trying to prevent a store robbery, the rape of a minor, and the murder of a woman and the man she cheated on her husband with), but Em pointing this out (and taunting him for it) ultimately makes him give up the struggle and turn to the dark side.
• Horrorcore: A lot of the songs fall into this genre.
• "I Am" Song:
  • "My Name Is" and "I'm Shady".
  • "Rock Bottom" is basically Em bemoaning how much of a wreck he is considering the state of poverty he's in, made even worse since he has a daughter to care for.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction / I Resemble That Remark!: In the last verse of "Guilty Conscience", Dre tries to convince a man not to kill his wife and the man he caught her in bed with. Em then rebuts by pointing out that Dre has his own history of violence, having assaulted TV presenter Dee Barnes in 1991 and presented a gangster image as part of N.W.A. Dre reacts indignantly to this characterization of him...by threatening to kill Em.
• "I Want" Song: "If I Had", which is Eminem fantasizing about what he'd do if he was rich and famous.
• Kids Are Cruel: D'Angelo Bailey, who is referenced in "Brain Damage", beat Marshall up so bad when he was 10 that he was put in a coma-and when he woke up, had to re-learn all his basic functions.
• Least Rhymable Word: Only customary for Em, but there are still some pretty impressive rhyme schemes, the best of which is in "Brain Damage", which has Em setting up a 4-line rhyme scheme out of "orange juice".
  Then I got up and ran to the janitor's storage booth
  Kicked the door hinge loose and ripped out the four inch screws
  Grabbed some sharp objects, brooms and foreign tools
  This is for every time you took my orange juice
• Lemony Narrator: "Bad Meets Evil" has a cowboy narrator telling and concluding the tale.
• List Song: The chorus of "I'm Shady" lists off several different drugs.
  I got mushrooms, I got acid, I got tabs and aspirin tablets
  I'm your brother when you need some new weed to set you free
  You know me, I'm your friend when you need a Mini Thin
• Lyrical Dissonance: "My Fault" has an R&B/dance-like beat you'd hear in a club, but it's about a girl taking too many of the mushrooms Eminem gave her and later dying.
• Major Injury Underreaction: "Brain Damage"
  I went deaf and my left ear started to bleed
  My mother started screaming, "What are you on, drugs?"
  Look at you, you're getting blood all over my rug!" (sorry)
  She beat me over the head with the remote control
  Opened a hole and my whole brain fell out of my skull
  I picked it up and screamed:
  "Look bitch, what have you done?!"
  "Oh, my God, I'm sorry, son!"
  "Shut up, you cunt!"
  I said: "Fuck it!"
  Took it and stuck it back up in my head
  Then I sewed it shut and put a couple of screws in my neck
• Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: In "My Name Is", Em admits this of himself through referencing the old wives' tale that masturbation causes hair to grow on one's palms.
  All my life, I was very deprived
  I ain't had a woman in years, and my palms are too hairy to hide
• Mickey Mousing: All of the songs have sound effects and comedic voices after each line to illustrate what just has been said.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Would you trust a guy named Slim Shady?
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Subverted in the music video of "My Name Is", directed by Philip Atwell, where Eminem dresses up like Johnny Carson, Marilyn Manson, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
• Ode to Intoxication: "My Name Is"
  I just found out my mom does more dope than I do
• One-Man Song: "Paul" and "Ken Kaniff".
• One-Word Title: "Bitch", "Lounge", and "Soap".
• Please Wake Up: The ending of "My Fault".
• Product Placement:
  • "If I Had"
    Tired of always giving in when this bottle of Henny wins
    (...) Tired of not driving a BM
    Tired of not working at GM
    (...) Tired of fucking the same blonde whore after work
    In the back of a Contour
    (...) Tired of wearing the same damn Nike Air hat
  • "Just Don't Give A Fuck"
    Then I went to Jim Beam, that's when my face grayed
  • "No One's Iller"
    Whipping 40-bittles like the fucking Pepsi clubs
    (...) Kidnapped and slapped in a van wrapped in a Saran plastic
  • "Cum On Everybody"
    So I took a hammer and nailed my foot to the floorboard of my Ford
• Pun-Based Title: "Cum On Everybody".
• Rape as Comedy: "Guilty Conscience"
  Dr. Dre: Yo, this girl's only fifteen years old!
  You shouldn't take advantage of her, it's not fair!
  Slim Shady: Yo, look at her bush, does it got hair?
  Fuck this bitch right here on the spot, bare
  'til she passes out and she forgot how she got there!
  Dr. Dre: Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie, Kids?
  Slim Shady: No, but I seen the porno with Sun Doobiest!
  Dr. Dre: Shit, you wanna get hauled off to jail?
  Slim Shady: Man, fuck that, hit that shit raw dog and bail!
• Real Life Writes the Plot: A lot of songs have autobiographical elements, though Eminem often dramatizes things a bit for effect.
  • The line about the Spice Girls in "My Name Is" was inspired by the fact that many radio DJs had asked him which Spice Girl he would date if he had the choice.
  • "Brain Damage" addresses Eminem's childhood experiences with being bullied at school and going into a coma as a result. DeAngelo Bailey, one of the people accused of being a bully in the song, filed a lawsuit, but the judge later dismissed the case. Eminem also blames his teachers and his mother for not helping him. In reality, his mom sued the school for not protecting her child better. The line where the principal joins in beating up Eminem is also fantasy.
  • Eminem wrote "Rock Bottom" after being fired from his cooking job at a restaurant.
  • Eminem attacks his own mother in "My Name Is", rapping that she does more dope than he does and that she couldn't breastfeed him as a child since she had "no tits". His mother directly responded to the latter line in her 2008 autobiography, writing, "This line was horrible and upsetting, because I'd contracted toxemia-blood poisoning when I gave birth to him and hadn't been able to breast-feed."
  • Eminem also attacks his own wife Kim in "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", and even felt the need of letting his then-infant daughter go to the recording studio and make a vocal contribution to the latter song.
  • "Guilty Conscience" has Dr. Dre play the good angel to Slim Shady's bad angel in several men's consciences, but Shady tries to convince one man to listen to him with the line "You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?", in reference to a real-life incident in 1991 where Dre allegedly either beat up or just pushed TV presenter Dee Barnes at a party; he was fined, put on 2 years' probation, given 240 hours of community service, and made to appear in an anti-violence PSA. Eminem was nervous what Dre would think of this line since he had only known him for a few days, but to his delight, Dre "fell out of his chair laughing."
• Really 700 Years Old: Dr. Dre cites this as a reason why Eddie shouldn't go through with a robbery in "Guilty Conscience".
  Look at the store clerk, she's older than George Burns.
• Record Producer: Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mark & Jeff Bass and Mel-Man.
• Refuge in Audacity: All over the place, but most notably in these lines from "I'm Shady".
  You gotta make em fear you 'fore you make em feel you
  So everybody buy my shit or I'mma come and kill you
• Sampling:
  • "My Name Is..." contains a sample from Labi Siffre's "I Got The..." The openly gay singer only allowed use of his song if the misogynistic and homophobic references were removed from the song.
  • "Guilty Conscience" features a sample of "Pigs Go Home", composed by Ronald Stein for the film "Getting Straight". While the album notes mentioned that the song is an "interpolation" of "Pigs Go Home" Stein's widow filed a lawsuit for not being paid royalties. She won her case.
  • "If I Had" has a sample of "Impeach the President " by The Honey Drippers.
  • "Cum On Everybody" relies on a sample of "Gimme What You Got" by Le Pamplemouse.
  • "Bad Meets Evil" has a sample from "Me & My Girlfriend" by Tupac Shakur and "Modaji" by Dave Grusin.
  • "Rock Bottom" samples "Summertime" from Janis Joplin's Cheap Thrills.
  • "I'm Shady" is based on "Pusherman" by Curtis Mayfield and "I'm Your Pusher" by Ice-T.
  • "Just Don't Give A Fuck" samples "Catch The Beat" by T-Sky Valley. In the EP version, it also sampled "Gavotte and 6 Doubles" by Bob James.
• Sexy Nurse: Invoked in "Brain Damage"
  Eminem: Teacher, teacher! Quick, I need a naked nurse!
• Shout-Out: All over the place.
  • "My Name Is" namedrops Nine Inch Nails, The Spice Girls, The Incredible Hulk, Pamela Anderson and Kris Kross. The music video also makes reference to Johnny Carson, The Brady Bunch, Marilyn Manson, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
    • The line preceding the Nine Inch Nails reference ("Hi, kids, do you like violence?") is censored in the clean version to replace "violence" with "Primus" (another rock band), effectively killing two birds with one stone.
  • "Guilty Conscience" has several references.
    • Dr. Dre refers to a store clerk as "older than George Burns".
    • In the second verse of the song, where Dre and Shady are debating over the conscience of a 21-year-old man about to take advantage of a 15-year-old girl, Dre tries dissuading him by bringing up the film Kids, which contains a scene where an unconscious girl is raped, resulting in the rapist contracting AIDS, while Shady brings up the rapper Sun Doobiest, who later made a porn movie.
    • Near the end of the song, Shady references Dr. Dre's earlier album Straight Outta Compton with N.W.A, rapping, "Mr. Dre, Mr. N.W.A, Mr. AK / coming straight outta Compton, y'all better make way".
  • "Role Model"
    Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally
    (...) Cause when I smoke out I hit the trees harder than Sonny Bono
    (...) Hillary Clinton tried to slap me and call me a pervert
    I ripped her fucking tonsils out and fed her sherbet, bitch!
    (...) Grabbed Vanilla Ice and ripped out his blond dreads
    (...) I slapped Garth Brooks out of his rhinestone shirt
    Jumped in a Chickenhawk cartoon with a cape on
    And beat up Foghorn Leghorn with an acorn
    I'm about as normal as Norman Bates
  • "Just Don't Give A Fuck" references Jim Brady, assistant to Ronald Reagan who got paralyzed after being shot during the 1981 assault on his life. He also namedrops American football coach Marty Schottenheimer, boxer Mike Tyson, rapper DeShaun Holton, O. J. Simpson murder victim Ron Goldman, "Fuck the World" by Tupac Shakur, Voltron and Rage Against the Machine.
    Slim Shady, brain dead like Jim Brady
    (...) Cursin' at you players worse than Marty Schottenheimer
    (...) You getting knocked the fuck out like Mike Tyson
    The proof is in the pudding, just ask DeShaun Holton
    I'll slit your motherfucking throat worse than Ron Goldman
    (...) Screaming "fuck the world" like 2Pac
    (...) But I form like Voltron and blast you with my shoulder missiles
    (...) On stage screaming like Rage Against the Machine
  • "As The World Turns" references the character Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati, loss-of-weight book author Jenny Craig and Inspector Gadget.
    Class clown freshman, dressed like Les Nessman
    (...) You walked into Vic Tanny's and stepped on Jenny Craig
    (...) Then I remembered this magic trick
    Den den den den den DEN DEN. Go go gadget dick!
  • "Cum On Everybody" references Kurt Cobain, Lauryn Hill, Beastie Boys, Kid Rock and the Loch Ness Monster.
    My favorite color is red, like the blood shed
    From Kurt Cobain's head when he shot himself dead
    (...) Bought Lauryn Hill's tape so her kids could starve ("I can't stand white people!")
    (...) Got bitches on my jock out in East Detroit
    'Cause they think that I'm a mothafuckin' Beastie Boy
    So I told 'em I was Mike D.
    They was like, "Gee, I don't know, he might be!"
    I told 'em, "Meet me at Kid Rock's next concert
    I'll be standin' by the Loch Ness Monster"
  • "Bad Meets Evil":
    Two of the most wanted individuals in the county
    Made Jesse James and Billy the Kid look like law-abiding citizens
  • "Still Don't Give A Fuck"
    I'm a cross between Manson, Esham and Ozzy
• Smoking Is Not Cool: The woman with shabby hair in the music video of "My Name Is" smokes a cigarette and has a Gross-Up Close-Up where she blows smoke in the camera.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: "'97 Bonnie & Clyde". Which manages at the same time to be unbelievably sweet and unbelievably scary at the same time.
• Special Guest: Dr. Dre raps along during "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", "Guilty Consience" and "My Name Is". The narration during "Guilty Conscience" is done by actor Mark Avery ^note  Best known for his work on the National Geographic Channel , but in the music video this part is performed by actor Robert Culp ^note  Best known as Kelly Robinson in I Spy and Warren Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond . "Bad Meets Evil" features Royce da 5'9", who closes the song by saying: "See you in hell for the sequel", which would become the name of his own debut EP: "Hell, the Sequel". In "Ken Kaniff" rapper Aristotle plays Ken Kaniff. On later albums Eminem played the part as he and Aristotle had a falling out. The woman calling during "Bitch" is Zoe Winkler, daughter of Henry Winkler.
• STD Immunity: Averted in many songs.
  • "Cum On Everybody"
    You thought I was ill, and now I'm even more so
    Shit, I got full-blown AIDS and a sore throat
    (...) I told the doc I need a change in sickness
    And gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis
  • "I'm Shady"
    So fuck it, I've got herpes while we on the subject (uh-huh)
    And if I told you I had AIDS, y'all would play it
    'Cause you stupid motherfuckers think I'm playin' when I say it
    (...) And I don't have herpes, my dick's just itchin'
    It's not syphilis, and as for being AIDS-infested
    I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested
  • "Role Model"
    I've been with ten women who got HIV
    Now don't you want to grow up and be just like me?
    I've got genital warts and it burns when I pee
    Don't you want to grow up to be just like me?
• Step Up to the Microphone: Eminem's daughter Hailie can be heard during "'97 Bonnie & Clyde".
• Take That!: A lot of celebrities and even people within Eminem's own family and vicinity get diss raps targeted at them.
  • "My Name Is"
    But I can't decide which Spice Girl I want to impregnate
    (...) Got pissed off and ripped Pamela Lee's tits off
    And smacked her so hard, I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross
  • "Just Don't Give A Fuck" disses white rappers Prime Minister Pete Nice, MC Serch, Everlast, Miilkbone and Vanilla Ice.
    I'm Nicer than Pete, but I'm on a search to crush a Miilkbone
    I'm everlast-ing, I melt Vanilla Ice like silicone
    I'm ill enough to just straight up diss you for no reason
  • "Role Model" targets Hillary Rodham Clinton and rappers Canibus and Cage. He also claims he was the one to murder O.J. Simpson's wife and lover.
    Killed 'em both then smeared blood on the white Bronco (We did it!)
• Take That, Audience!: "My Name Is"
  This guy at White Castle asked for my autograph
  So I signed it:
  "Dear Dave, thanks for the support... asshole!"
• Time Marches On: The song "97' Bonnie & Clyde" has dated since 1997 passed by.
• Tropaholics Anonymous: "Just Don't Give A Fuck".
  My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm an alcoholic (Hi Marshall!)
• Urban Legend:
  • "Cum On Everybody" makes reference to the urban legend that Lauryn Hill presumably claimed that she didn't want any white people buying her records.
    Bought Lauryn Hill's tape so her kids could starve
    "I can't stand white people"
  • Referenced again during "Role Model".
    So I'm dumb enough to ask for a date with Lauryn Hill
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • "'97 Bonnie & Clyde", where the protagonist kills his wife, her new husband and their four-year-old son too.
  • "No One's Iller"
    Rob this little boy in his fucking paper route
    Trowing bombs at day care centers and yell: "Everybody get out!"
    My girl beat my ass and shot me in the back with a two-piece
    'Cause she found out I was having an affair with her 10-year old niece

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