For example near the end, after getting brutally assaulted by a bully (the principal even comes in only to assist the bully in beating him), Em plays dead to get his assailants to leave.

The Dog Bites Back: 'Brain Damage' has many fantasized scenarios of Em getting back at bullies that have done ill will towards him.Despair Event Horizon: 'Rock Bottom' is essentially Em at the lowest point of his life.Depraved Homosexual: 'Ken Kaniff' about a gay man who calls up Eminem with lewd suggestions.Deliberately Monochrome: The music video of 'Just Don't Give a Fuck'.The Bully: 'Brain Damage' is about a real-life incident from Eminem's youth where he was beaten into a coma by bullies.This joke gets even more elaborate when in 'Cold Wind Blows' (from Recovery), which was released just a year before H:TS, there's a few lines where God tells Slim Shady that He will send him to Hell if he does not change his ways.Given how long it took Em and Royce to get around to making it, one can say we saw the sequel in Development Hell. Once their mutual friend Proof died, they patched up their issues and released their joint album Hell: The Sequel in 2011. Brick Joke: In 'Bad Meets Evil', his song with then-friend Royce da 5'9, the end of the chorus goes 'See you in Hell for the sequel.' Afterwards, they had a lengthy falling out.Also happened to 'Guilty Conscience' for example, 'cut this bitch's head off!' was replaced with 'cut this chicken's head off!'.'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 ('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?).Black Comedy: Many, many, many songs sing about murder, rape, violence, STD's, pedophilia, adultery, misogyny, suicide, and drug abuse.Bedroom Adultery Scene: 'Guilty Conscience', where Grady catches his wife in bed with another man.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. The Good Angel, Bad Angel scenario ends with the bad angel (Eminem) getting the good angel ( Dr. The Bad Guy Wins: 'Guilty Conscience'.Her make poo-poo ca-ca? Da-da change your didee Take a night-night? Nan-a-boo, goo-goo ga-ga? I told you it's okay Hai-Hai, wanna ba-ba? Additionally, SSLP won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.

In the wake of SSLP's release, Em went from an underground nobody to an overnight mainstream celebrity. The album would go on to be certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA. The result was this very album - 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. Dre, who quickly wanted to contact Em and work on a major-label release with him. Most notably, the EP gained the attention of Dr. His first studio album, Infinite (1996), was a flop, only selling around 1,000 copies and evoking many a complaint of his similarities to Nas and Jay-Z.ДЄfter an unsuccessful suicide attempt, he released The Slim Shady EP a year later, and things started turning around. The Slim Shady LP (1999) is the second album and major-label debut of Eminem, and it's safe to say it came at a time when he needed it most.

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