| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/interscope | | UPC: 00606949028725 | | Release Date: 2/23/1999 | | Buy.com Sku: 60125264 | | Item#: MVNNTR | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 26182 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 1999 Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records
(C) 1998 Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Eminem, Kristie Abete Swift, Dina Rae (vocals); Richard "Segal" Huredia (spoken vocals); Jeff Bass (various instruments); Mel-Man, DJ Head, Denine Porter (drum programming); Paul "Bunyan" Rosenberg, Zoe Winkler, Marky Bass, Aristotle, Royce Da 5'9". | | Producers include: Dr. Dre, M. Mathers, Marky Bass, Jeff Bass, Mel Man. | | Engineers include: Blumpy, Aaron Lepley, Alan Mason. | | THE SLIM SHADY LP won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. "My Name Is" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Personnel: Dina Rae (vocals); Mel-Man (drum programming). | | Audio Mixers: Dr. Dre; Aaron Lepley; Michael Tuller; Jeff Bass; Richard Huredia; Alan Mason. | | Recording information: Dr. Dre's House; Mix Room. | | Photographer: Christopher McCants. | | You'll need a well-developed sense of humor to fully appreciate the debut of Eminem aka Slim Shady. Produced by hip-hop super-producer Dr. Dre and released on Dre's Aftermath Records, the album features an infectious lead single, "My Name Is," a winning mixture of alternative rock and rap. One listen will have you hooked on the chorus, but future plays will reveal the lyrical gymnastics that Eminem kicks out so effortlessly. | | Obsessed with fantasies of sex, violence, drugs, and a general depraved indifference to life itself, Eminem's alter ego, Slim Shady, is constantly involved in a battle of good vs. evil leavened by a high degree of irony. Dre even drops in on an mind-blowing cameo playing the shoulder angel on "Guilty Conscience" to Eminem's devil. You'll need a few listens to absorb everything that Eminem is about lyrically. SLIM SHADY might offend the faint-hearted, but that's probably Eminem's intention. |
Musical Guests | | Royce Da 5'9" |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/23/1999 | | Original Release Date : 1999 | | Catalog ID : 90287 | | Label : Interscope Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00606949028725 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (4/1/99, pp.93-94)
- 3 1/2 Stars (out of 5)
"...Eminem earns his buzz as a bona fide rap star one tasteless insult at a time, battling the world with a mouthful of adjectives and a boxful of laxatives."Spin (5/99, p.148)
- 8 (out of 10)
- "...Eminem [aka Marshall Mathers] is humorous enough to be an honorary Beastie goy, and his scenarios are so far-fetched the songs almost never sound as ugly as they actually are. Mathers's hard-knock raps translate hip-hop for folks with Wu-Tang decoder rings, articulating suburban anger and violent apathy through the lens of white kids' experience..." Q (1/00, p.84)
- Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999." Mixmag (5/99, p.146)
- 5 out of 5 - "...Perversion, paranoia and slapstick humour meet in Eminem's gob and get spat out 19 to the dozen....makes great voyeuristic entertainment..." Muzik (1/00, p.69)
- Ranked #8 in Muzik's "Albums Of The Year '99" Muzik (5/99, p.82)
- 3 Stars (out of 5)
- "...It's dazzlingly funny and gloriously offensive..." CMJ (2/8/99, p.30)
- "...Pairing Redman's gutter humor and metaphorical dexterity with Canibus' raging themes, the Detroit native has matched the high expectations surrounding his brilliant new album..." The Source (2/00, p.95)
- Included in The Source's "Top 10 Albums of the Year [1999]." Melody Maker (5/1/99, p.36)
- 4 stars (out of 5)
- "...By far the most distressing thing about THE SLIM SHADY LP is how seductive it is - largely due to Dr Dre's production work, it captivates and thrills, and this is an unavoidably amazing body of work..." |
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