Amityville - I really like the old-school hip-hop beat on this song (fun fact: it samples a classic 70's drum beat by The Power of Zeus) and Eminem's verse is fun, but I feel like the pointless guest verse kinda drags the song down. I really like whenever Eminem shows us this side of him. It's confessional and vulnerable like "The Way I Am", but it's a lot less aggressive, more held-back and philosophical. "Marshall Mathers" is basically the sadder, more atmospheric sequel to "If I Had", with an acoustic guitar featured throughout the song before launching into an unexpected, awesome guitar solo at the end that just kinda brings it all home. Marshall Mathers - Slim Shady LP's "If I Had" was dark and reflective, a weird dip from the usual tone of the LP, but it's one that I respected tremendously.
It's the perfect mix of silly, edgy, and sly, and it's easy to see why this was the biggest hit of the whole LP. The synth beat in the background is silly, simple, and fun, and the hook just makes you wanna rap along. The Real Slim Shady - Please stand up! Everyone knows this song, and when it started recently trending on Tiktok, I was reminded of just how fun and bouncy the song is. You can feel the weight of fame and success start to weigh him down, and it's such a cool glimpse into what he's really like behind all the bravado. It has maybe the best line in the entire record: "Since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse". The Way I Am - This is Em's darkest song yet, and it shows: it's angsty, it's edgy, it's blunt, it feels like he's baring his soul for all of us to see, and the hardcore hip-hop beat in the background highlights this perfectly. Do I really need to describe why Stan works? It's a seven-minute epic and a Hamilton-like testament to rap as an art form, critics be damned. The misogynic attitude against women is kind of uncomfortable, but I can totally respect Eminem for daring to scare the public. Slim's rapping to shock, to scare the masses, and he does so beautifully. "B-tch, imma kill you, you don't wanna f-ck with me! B-itch, imma kill you! You don't wanna f-ck with Shadyyyy!" I can already hear all the terrified moms around the world squealing for little Timmy to turn off the radio. Kill You - Right off the bat, Slim's not messing around. It's one of the most influential records ever made, if not one of the most intelligent.ġ. It took everything that worked about the Slim Shady LP and brought it to new, unforeseen, boundary-breaking heights practically unreached by other rappers. It was daring, it was brave, it was bold, it was witty and clever, and it's everything great about the Marshall Mathers LP, which might be the best followup to a great album in hip-hop history, maybe even in music history. The Slim Shady LP was such a damn good album, so good it thrust Eminem into the public spotlight and never really took him out of it.
"So will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Please stand up, please stand up." And stand up he did. Review Summary: And the whole world watched as the Real Slim Shady stood up.
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