2 on the Billboard 200 and won a Grammy for Best Rap Album, helping. Dre, the Bass Brothers, and more, and channeled his alter-ego, Slim Shady. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, Em recorded the album alongside production from Dr. Verse 2 contains the line 'I tried suicide once and Ill try it again/ thats why I write songs where I die at the end.' Eminem actually did attempt suicide in 1997 (during the recording of Rock Bottom) reportedly due to frustration over Kim leaving him and trying to stop him from seeing their daughter Hailie.

Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the album features production from Dr. EminemвЂ™s major label debut, The Slim Shady LP, was released in February 1999 via Aftermath and Interscope Records. It should have like an arm or a body part showing laying on the ground, but nothing else. EminemвЂ™s official dance song from the Slim Shady LP in 1999. 'Evil Twin' is more or less a direct attack at Shady's persona in 2000, a different character than exists in his own mind now, and contains his most telling lines of the whole album: 'Sometimes I listen and revisit them old albums/Often as I can and skim through all them bitches/To make sure I keep up with my competition/Hoarder of beats, hoarder of rhymes/Borderline genius who's bored of his lines/And that sort of defines where I'm at and the way I feel now. By submitting this form I agree to receive news, tour dates, and special offers from Eminem. The Slim Shady LP is the second studio album by American rapper Eminem.It was released on February 23, 1999, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.Recorded in Ferndale, Michigan following Eminem's recruitment by Dr. But for the most part, the way he addresses his own demons-particularly on 'Bad Guy' and album closer 'Evil Twin,' both of which see him battling alter ego Slim Shady-see Em delving into his intense issue within himself, a dichotomy which only he can articulate with such an uncomfortable clarity. There are still problems with some of his lyrical content: the overt homophobia is still there, even though it's addressed (albeit briefly) on album opener 'Bad Guy,' and at this point it feels pointless to take issue with the violent content in his words.

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