From there it moved its way up to the desk of Jimmy Iovine and eventually Dr. He was devastated but luckily for him, somebody in his crew managed to get a copy of his Shady EP into the hands of Paul Rosenberg and a few Interscope staffers in attendance. It was at those Rap Olympics that Eminem was robbed of first place. I slept on the floor, woke up, went to L.A. There was no heat, no water, no electricity.
"Then we got evicted, because my friends and me were paying rent to the guy on the lease, and he screwed us over.” The night before he headed to the Rap Olympics, an annual nationwide MC battle in L.A., he came home to a locked door and an eviction notice. Motherfuckers was like, ‘You’re a white boy, what the fuck are you rapping for? Why don’t you go into rock ’n’ roll?’ All that type of shit started pissing me off.” “A lot of it was because of the feedback I got. In it he described the origin of the name "Slim Shady" (He came up with it while sitting on the toilet), and what motivated him to adopt the "pissed off, chip on the shoulder, fuck the world" attitude so prevalent on the album and which resonated with millions and millions of fans. Infinite was released 3 years earlier in 1996 and according to Eminem, "it sold 70 copies".Ībout 10 years ago 50 Cent posted a free download of it online which is still available -Īfter releasing The Slim Shady LP Eminem gave one of his first, and most memorable, interviews to Rolling Stone. People think The Slim Shady LP was Eminem's debut album and first the world heard of him.Ĭhances are the latter was correct, but the former is not.
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