damn myke getting the grey in his beard. And even feefo being a freshman in high school when this dropped? Beezy over there looking like he drinks the blood of underground albums to stay young
Nobody took a sec to point out his actual delivery? The dude was a performer! All those voices and inflections while keeping up those flows deserves immense credit.
Eminem officially blew up with black people(I'm Black) when Forgot about Dre came out. I don't know about ya'll but Em killed it and all the kids in my school were rapping his verse all the damn time.
It’s interesting how back then the underground rap fans were crazy about Eminem and his style and the mainstream rap fans weren’t really accepting of him and now 20 years later underground rap fans hate Em while he’s huge and accepted in the mainstream
@@joemckeown7064 you can't be a serious fan of hiphop...flows & bars, and tell me that Eminem has fallen off. You must not be looking deep enough into it. The music or the hate.
I wonder if the Slim Shady persona would have worked in any other decade from a mainstream perspective. It seems that the 90's was the perfect time for Em to show up.
the beauty of being from NYC is we heard all of the underground artists that you prolly didnt know existed... plus 50 cent was popping and putting out hood classics way before signing with shady
@@dwillwilliams1240 yes, eminem is from midwest... that was just a dumb statement .. and dumber to assume, ppl in other regions dont listen to music from other regions
Some underrated classics from 1999: Prince Among Thieves - Prince Paul Internal Affairs - Pharoahe Monch The Art of Storytelling - Slick Rick Beneath the Surface - GZA Uncontrolled Substance - Inspectah Deck Ampflified - Q-Tip In our Lifetime - 8ball & MJG The Master - Rakim Let there be Eve - Eve Focused Daily - Defari Heroz4Hire - Jeru The Damaja
People forget that the Chronic 2001 dropped the same year. Forgot About Dre was huge and Em did shine one that. As much as Dre helped Em in the begging Em returned the favor and it was pretty much the Aftermath era from than on.
I'm so glad I found this it upsets me to realize how old I am... but I'm glad I can say I witnessed Eminem's climb to the top - I loved the discussion on the album
I remember first seeing Em in unsigned hype in the source. A week later my name dropped on the radio. I played it back a few times. I remember it being weird but catchy. Can’t believe it’s been 20years. Definitely interesting and dope times in Rap music
This was a brilliant retrospective on "The Slim Shady LP". You guys really did justice to the topic. When Eminem first came out with "My Name Is", I, too, thought he was a "Weird Al" parody rapper, so, I didn't take him seriously. It was only after hearing his memorable verse on "Forgot About Dre" did I decide to give the album a chance and became a huge fan. As for future 20 year album anniversary reviews, I would be interested in your opinion's on Dr Dre's "2001" and Method Man & Redman's "Blackout!".
@TAE Streams I am Eminem. Marshall Mathers the third did vocal. My poster boy, and friend. I haven't seen him in ages. My Em albulms are actually far older than put out. One. P.S. Get back at me. I'll try and remember when, where and why I became Eminem. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I do have one story I remember. Dell
I wish y'all would go a little more in depth with the content of the album. Y'all only brought up like half the songs, most of the convo was about what was going on at the time and y'alls original personal experience instead of the album itself. But, at the end of the day it's a 30 minute DEHH release, so I'm not mad. Much love y'all.
and that's what they usually do with classic album reviews too. Instead of talking about the album they just spend half the video debating whether it's actually a classic or not.
I agree! They just speak on the time of their lives when the album dropped. Which is cool but I felt Myke really spoked good about this album than the others. Which is why Myke’s my favorite out of all of them 💯! I can listen to his thoughts about albums all day
Slim Shady Ep came out in 97 it had bonnie and clyde on there with a few other bars or verses on other songs with different beats and that, before adjusting it for the lp which is also why the song is called 97' Bonnie and Clyde on the actual album
You can hear how his voice and delivery changes if you hear the original EP songs then listen to only the LP tracks. He was influenced by Redman and it's interesting they both changed their delivery from kind of controlled and strained to more free form and animated. I know Dr. Dre was involved in helping him throw his voice better.
Just straight up zany, random and dark as hell with its violence, but mixed with a hefty amount of comedy and paired with some of the best flows of the time. When I was first introduced to Eminem, it was his relapse/recovery days, and I always respected his technical skill and not much else. When I got into high school, and started getting into hip hop and the classics, I listened to it (and the other ones after) and finally understood why he was so *highly* praised. Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time, just based solely on the amount of his personality is in it and how he holds no punches. He didn't hold back like he did with MMLP and TES, he was a straight psychopath with a humorous edge in this one. MMLP is the better project overall, but SSLP is my favorite. I prefer the playful em than the serious, angry em in MMLP.
My intro was the sslp. Heard all his albums since but none are touching this album. He fell off after it tbh. Slim shady era Em is hands down the best em Best flow, most comical, everything
European white boys confirm: Em's WAAY bigger than Drake here. Drake is for young hwite biccez strictly. Everyone else, regardless of age and genre preference, likes Em. Hehe
Myke didn't seem to understand that the fact that Em specifically not being in the conversation wasn't the issue the fact that it involved strictly HOV and Drake is what made the video drag on and seem uninteresting after a while when theres guys like not just Em but also Wayne in his prime is definitely in the conversation the Hip Hop genre doesn't just revolve around HOV and Drake and this is coming from a big Drake fan
What changed Em on the second album was the success n all the eyes that were on him. He talks about it in the way I am. He was also being put in a box with the boy bands n pop artists so he just went ahead n started dissing them to distant himself from them.
Great vid, I felt more people hopped on bumping Eminem like you guys said before MMLP mainly because after SSLPr he was on the Chronic 2001 and had some great verses etc. MMLP came out 6 months after
I distinctly remember hearing about Em for the first time back in late 98/early 99. My Name Is was a few months away but a couple friends of mind had some tapes of his earlier stuff and was speak highly of how dope he was. For a few years, I was definitely on that Em phase with everything he dropped, including finding some deep cuts on Napster.
This is cool. It takes me back to my first Eminem experiences. Em got a lot of MTV play and some radio play. I liked My Name Is when I first saw the video, the Spice Girl line killed me. Then Guilty Conscious video blew my mind. Then when his second album came out I liked Real Slim Shady, and heard Drug Song on the radio and was like "this sounds like Eminem. At every point, I was impressed but eventually bought those albums at once and binged them. The rest is history. I finally realized his genius (he rhymed orange several times). There was a magazine that described him as paraphrasing "goes effortlessly from wild hyperbole to brutal honesty". You can see his life evolve on the albums.
@@mistanderson Yes. You don't have to like the album, but denying its impact is just something that a person knowledgeable about Hip-Hop would never do.
I feel like Redman gets forgotten in this discussion. He definitely inspired this whole style. Let's give the man some credit. "What ? The Album" under rated in it's influence
The Slim Shady LP is one of the few albums in hip hop that felt very underground and raw with its lyrical content and overall production but thanks to just 2 singles it becomes a mainstream hit. The Chronic and Ready to Die are really the only other 2 albums I can think of that made a impact like that. Illmatic and Enter the Wu-Tang came before Ready to Die but they felt underground and raw but lacked the singles to get the mainstream. Doggystyle and All Eyez on Me came after The Chronic so they had the mainstream and singles but didn't sound raw. I love all those albums but when an album can do all of that it makes it even more special and unique to me.
That’s probably why I enjoy listening to it from beginning to end! Cause it’s actually one of the first Em’s album I can listen to from start to finish. Any other Em album I couldn’t listen to from start to finish sadly
Eminem is not just the best selling rapper of all time, he's literally the best selling artist of 21st century across all genres. He's also the only rapper to have two solo diamond albums.
I remember saying they should review this since it would be the 20th anniversary when they looked back at so far so gone couple weeks ago. J Cole's The warmup should be next also man on the moon by kid Cudi
@@beinerthchitivamachado874 Em is in my top 5 personal favorites, but imo Greatness overall is about who you think are the most influential, most important artists, so we have to give it up to the pioneers from the 80's and early 90s, before guys like Em came out. 1. Nas 2. Rakim 3. KRS-ONE 4. Kool G Rap 5. Slick Rick 6. Ice Cube 7. Scarface 8. Jay-Z 9. Tupac 10. Notorious BIG 11. Chuck D 12. Q-Tip 13. Andre 3000 14. Eminem 15. Kanye West Em wouldn't exist without most of the guys I listed, plus some others as he often credits: th-cam.com/video/h_y2F8KjMTg/w-d-xo.html
@@user-fm3xr9yz3i Yep he did hehe you could check it out on "the way i am" biography or any Dre and Jimmy lovine interview about it, Dre said he sounded black XD
The reason he signed him is because he is white and he knew he could make a lot of money out of that. Listen to White America, they all knew what was going on
Jay Anderson you don’t think this album is a classic? I think even if you don’t like it you’d still have to admit that it’s a classic because of how different this album was and it was our introduction to slim shady and it’s the style everyone always wants Eminem to go back to.
Interview on MTV Italy (talking about Guilty Conscious): “I remember going in and doing a couple lines, he would lay a couple lines and I laid a couple of lines, and after I laid mine I just remember him tipping back in his chair, you know, like, almost fell over laughing so hard, I think it was the “Mr. Dre, Dr. Dre, Me. N.W.A”.
Hi kids do you like violence.... This was an impactful album that I shouldna been listening to at 8 yrs old. But Marshall Mathers I was definitely sold till this day. That era is my favorite Eminem lol.
I remember the first time I heard the song when I was like 12, and it was the censored one where he says "hey kids, do you like primus?" and for months it tripped me up because I couldn't find it again, only the uncensored one and I was like "what is this violence bullshit I wanna hear about primus, I loves me some primus"
@@Minority119 I remember first hearing about Em when I was probably in 5th grade when hearing other kids sing out “Hi! My name is”. Of course I had no musical preference back then and plus my parents shielded me from any rap music and MTV. But I started listening to him more when I was starting to hit my teens around year 2000
Em did write Dre verses on Guilty Conscious...it was Dre’s concept for the song he told em we should do a song called night and day where they are basically saying the opposite things of each other and em came up with the song
One misconception that I hate is the one about how his music is hard for blacks to connect to. Passed the playfulness, he talked about being poor, food stamps, raising a daughter that he can barely get shoes for, working a dead end job, etc. These are all trials that are experienced in the black community heavy. I can relate to him more than your typical rapper who raps about shooting and killing.
Slim Shady Lp came out my senior year of high school. I remember having a Walkman with the cassette tape on replay and most of my homies not understanding why I like dude. 🤣🤣🤣they caught on!!!
I remember hearing "My name is" and I thought it was cool but didn't go out and get the album . Then a month later Soundbombing 2 came out and had "Any man" on it. I was blown away, this is the "My name is" dude? I should get his album to see if he has any other songs like this. And I'm glad I did.
The truth about all that old Cash Money music is that rapping/lyrical content is quite bad honestly. Mannie Fresh made it all hot. Think about it for real. When you listened to that old Cash Money, it gave you a feeling. No one cared what they were really saying.
DMX - And then there was X Nas - I Am The Roots - Things Fall Apart MF Doom - Operation Doomsday Missy Elliott - Da Real World GZA - Beneath the Surface Dr. Dre - 2001
The Slim Shady Lp felt special because of how different it was from everything out in the mainstream at the time. Is it relatable? To an extent, I think Rock Bottom and If I Had are massively relatable songs for most people, and Just don't give a Fuck, I still Don't give a fuck, Even As the world turns, Guilty Conscience, and 97 Bonnie & Clyde are cartoonishly relatable in the topics of like being bullied, having a shitty relationship, crappy baby mom, cheating wife, stuff like that and although he takes it cartoonishly far you can still feel it. His lyricism was unquestionable the dude had bars, the beats were dope, and it felt like something I had never heard before.
Eminem didn't talk about killing his mom on "The Slim Shady LP" and only mentioned it a few times, I don't know why people always act like all he talked about was killing his mom and wife! 💯
Eminem brought some crazy lyrical skills in his heyday. "My Name is" he made a pc version that was just as good if not better than the regular version. It's crazy
(The FIRST Time I Ever Heard Eminem) I thought "My Name Is" was a Joke. I thought HE was a Joke. Until I heard the song "Scary Movie" he did with Royce a few days later and His verse was soooo Nasty! "Any Man Planning to battle will get snatched out of his clothes so Fast? It'll look like an Invisible Man Standing....." 🔥 I couldn't believe it was the same dude! And Then I found out that he was white and I was blown away! NOBODY Saw him coming. I damn sure didnt.
He said after hearing "My Name Is" several times he thought it was corny. He felt the same with "The Real Slim Shady" so he decided maybe that was the formula for a lead single 😆
You combine Em rhyming style and idgaf content and creativity on this album with the vintage Detroit sound on Infinite, you get the perfect Em album. There's glimpses of it on SSLP and the EP (more so on the EP) but not enough to really drive it home.
I lived in Houston when 'My Name Is' came out and that got HEAVY airplay on 97.9 The Box. I was a little kid at the time too and the kids loved Eminem, but the adults around me didn't like Eminem that much. Black females DEFINITELY didn't mess with Eminem.
I as a European white guy started listening rap because of Pac who was a genius, but since Em came to this day he is on the top when you look at the craft.
damn myke getting the grey in his beard. And even feefo being a freshman in high school when this dropped? Beezy over there looking like he drinks the blood of underground albums to stay young
This comment was overlooked lmao
Man I’m dead lol
Bezzy doesn’t bump in the whip. That is all.
@@adamdanielgibsonBeezy look like the little brother of the deadendhip hop crew 😂
Nobody took a sec to point out his actual delivery? The dude was a performer! All those voices and inflections while keeping up those flows deserves immense credit.
honestly, he sounded like cage
Empire Lifts Back he bought cage's tape, opened it and dubbed over it
@@kbscheme lol, i love that song
lololol for real?
@sf2explus you must not listen to hip hop
Eminem officially blew up with black people(I'm Black) when Forgot about Dre came out.
I don't know about ya'll but Em killed it and all the kids in my school were rapping his verse all the damn time.
Von Henry I agree
You know em wrote all of forgot about dre?
@@AnnihilationXable obviously lol
@@balle733 lol ems the most streamed American artist in Africa you clown. Take that L and sit down
@@balle733 Lord Jamar is that you
It’s interesting how back then the underground rap fans were crazy about Eminem and his style and the mainstream rap fans weren’t really accepting of him and now 20 years later underground rap fans hate Em while he’s huge and accepted in the mainstream
Which just shows you he has massively declined
@@joemckeown7064 yes it’s not because people hate success
@@phettywappharmaceuticalsll8842 exactly underground fans of 20 years ago would not accept the trash he is putting out today.
@@joemckeown7064 you can't be a serious fan of hiphop...flows & bars, and tell me that Eminem has fallen off. You must not be looking deep enough into it. The music or the hate.
@@MC_HorseChoker you wouldnt know hip hop if it slapped you in the face just stop
I wonder if the Slim Shady persona would have worked in any other decade from a mainstream perspective. It seems that the 90's was the perfect time for Em to show up.
Dexenation Gracey Definitely not, the late 90s seemed like the only time it would’ve blown up.
David Eitle hell no
The beauty of being from the Midwest is we listen to everything, all regions.....Eminem included
the beauty of being from NYC is we heard all of the underground artists that you prolly didnt know existed... plus 50 cent was popping and putting out hood classics way before signing with shady
Empire Lifts Back what does that have to do with my statement.....my point has nothing to do with what u stated 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
@@dwillwilliams1240 yes, eminem is from midwest... that was just a dumb statement .. and dumber to assume, ppl in other regions dont listen to music from other regions
Empire Lifts Back bitch u can’t read, my statement isn’t even about Eminem being from the Midwest, it’s about what we listen to.....
There's so much character to this album, and creative songs.
that's why it's my favorite rap album
Some underrated classics from 1999:
Prince Among Thieves - Prince Paul
Internal Affairs - Pharoahe Monch
The Art of Storytelling - Slick Rick
Beneath the Surface - GZA
Uncontrolled Substance - Inspectah Deck
Ampflified - Q-Tip
In our Lifetime - 8ball & MJG
The Master - Rakim
Let there be Eve - Eve
Focused Daily - Defari
Heroz4Hire - Jeru The Damaja
Slick Rick's Storytelling album is incredible
The Roots - When Things Fall Apart
Internal Affairs, damn good call on that one.
That GZA album and that Inspectah Deck album, those are not classics.
Agreed. Let’s say personal classics for me.
I'm pretty sure Em wrote everything on Guilty Conscience
Hahaha foreal we all know that
did eminem wrote all the dre part verse on relapse?
@@1036911242 Yes!
Has dre ever written lyrics?
1036911242....yea I’m pretty sure go back and listen to hell breaks loose or old times sake....Em more than likely wrote those verses for drey
People forget that the Chronic 2001 dropped the same year. Forgot About Dre was huge and Em did shine one that. As much as Dre helped Em in the begging Em returned the favor and it was pretty much the Aftermath era from than on.
Didn’t mention the hottest song “Role Model”
Hottest beat on the album.
Suck A dope beat
That's really whats sold me when that came out.......
Indeed
And what’s crazy is that Jean Grae rhymed over this on Bootleg of a Bootleg EP 💯🔥
25 Year Anniversary of Illmatic on 4/19
5/5 every song. Who needs to review perfection?
They already reviewed Illmatic
Illmatic vs MMLP ?
@@wacko37 Illmatic and it's not even close
قوڵپەی ئـاگرین Illmatic for sure. No contest, really.
Nas I am 20th anniversary
Illmatic 25 anniversary
Mobb deep murda muzik 20th
Dr dre 2001 20th anniversary
MF DOOM operation DOOMSDAY 20th anniversary
I'm so glad I found this it upsets me to realize how old I am... but I'm glad I can say I witnessed Eminem's climb to the top - I loved the discussion on the album
I'm cancerous so when I diss you wouldn't wanna answer this if you responded back with the battle rap you wrote for Canibus.
I remember first seeing Em in unsigned hype in the source. A week later my name dropped on the radio. I played it back a few times. I remember it being weird but catchy. Can’t believe it’s been 20years. Definitely interesting and dope times in Rap music
*Man, I thought y'all would mention If I had & Rock Bottom. Classic em songs.Anyways I'd love if you guys would review Shabazz Palaces - Black Up.*
Forgot about Dre made me pay attention to Em, Renegade with Jay-Z made me a fan
So it took about a decade to become a fan? Lol.
Have u heard the original version of Renegade with em and Royce. Eminem verse is same but Royce is dope
@@roknkawk heard it later on, but yeah it is dope
that joint that em did with redman, of the wall*i think) was dope too
@@shadcovert1160 forgot about dre came out 1999, renegade with jayz 2001, so 2 years dummy
This was a brilliant retrospective on "The Slim Shady LP". You guys really did justice to the topic. When Eminem first came out with "My Name Is", I, too, thought he was a "Weird Al" parody rapper, so, I didn't take him seriously. It was only after hearing his memorable verse on "Forgot About Dre" did I decide to give the album a chance and became a huge fan. As for future 20 year album anniversary reviews, I would be interested in your opinion's on Dr Dre's "2001" and Method Man & Redman's "Blackout!".
This was the first album my grandmother ever bought me.
It was a bootleg CD.
I played this shit all day, everyday.
I'm glad you enjoy my album. Much love, happy to please and bring my flow. And to be recognized as great at it and creativity.
@TAE Streams I am Eminem. Marshall Mathers the third did vocal. My poster boy, and friend. I haven't seen him in ages. My Em albulms are actually far older than put out.
One.
P.S.
Get back at me. I'll try and remember when, where and why I became Eminem. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I do have one story I remember.
Dell
I wish y'all would go a little more in depth with the content of the album. Y'all only brought up like half the songs, most of the convo was about what was going on at the time and y'alls original personal experience instead of the album itself. But, at the end of the day it's a 30 minute DEHH release, so I'm not mad. Much love y'all.
and that's what they usually do with classic album reviews too. Instead of talking about the album they just spend half the video debating whether it's actually a classic or not.
I agree! They just speak on the time of their lives when the album dropped. Which is cool but I felt Myke really spoked good about this album than the others. Which is why Myke’s my favorite out of all of them 💯! I can listen to his thoughts about albums all day
Slim Shady Ep came out in 97 it had bonnie and clyde on there with a few other bars or verses on other songs with different beats and that, before adjusting it for the lp which is also why the song is called 97' Bonnie and Clyde on the actual album
@Phil Ill And Just The Two of Us also samples the Bill Withers song by the same name.
No it didn't. It came out in 1999
@@mrboss20ten slim shady ep came out in 1997
Dre did not write his own verses on guilty conscience. Em wrote the entire thing.
Sounds like it but it dont
yep. Usually whoever's featured with him on a track writes it, with some exceptions like Hov writing Still Dre
@@aperson7303 Em has written every single word outta dres mouth on every single collab they have except dres verse on medicine man.
@@EpickaNESSiskool Em wrote The Watcher too. Royce wrote The Message.
No, Dre wrote his own verses.
You can hear how his voice and delivery changes if you hear the original EP songs then listen to only the LP tracks. He was influenced by Redman and it's interesting they both changed their delivery from kind of controlled and strained to more free form and animated. I know Dr. Dre was involved in helping him throw his voice better.
Just straight up zany, random and dark as hell with its violence, but mixed with a hefty amount of comedy and paired with some of the best flows of the time.
When I was first introduced to Eminem, it was his relapse/recovery days, and I always respected his technical skill and not much else. When I got into high school, and started getting into hip hop and the classics, I listened to it (and the other ones after) and finally understood why he was so *highly* praised. Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time, just based solely on the amount of his personality is in it and how he holds no punches. He didn't hold back like he did with MMLP and TES, he was a straight psychopath with a humorous edge in this one.
MMLP is the better project overall, but SSLP is my favorite. I prefer the playful em than the serious, angry em in MMLP.
Man i wish you younger cats who appreciate music were around to live it as well. Much respect
My introduction to em was nearly same as yours!
All the way from India!
My intro was the sslp. Heard all his albums since but none are touching this album. He fell off after it tbh. Slim shady era Em is hands down the best em Best flow, most comical, everything
He held back on MMLP?
European white boys confirm: Em's WAAY bigger than Drake here. Drake is for young hwite biccez strictly. Everyone else, regardless of age and genre preference, likes Em. Hehe
Whats Hwite Biccez mean?
Saul Cifuentes it’s Ebonics for “them white folk”
Myke didn't seem to understand that the fact that Em specifically not being in the conversation wasn't the issue the fact that it involved strictly HOV and Drake is what made the video drag on and seem uninteresting after a while when theres guys like not just Em but also Wayne in his prime is definitely in the conversation the Hip Hop genre doesn't just revolve around HOV and Drake and this is coming from a big Drake fan
Sabih Faraz Drake isn’t even on the conversation for top 5 dead or alive and never will be.
Johnson Taylor how? Who ever said that?
Love Eminem, huge fan of this album in my top 5 favorite albums, still cracks me up to this day
THANK YOU for bringing up the lyric changes of I just don’t give a fuck and My name is! I’ve always felt like I have been the only one to known that!
What changed Em on the second album was the success n all the eyes that were on him. He talks about it in the way I am. He was also being put in a box with the boy bands n pop artists so he just went ahead n started dissing them to distant himself from them.
This was awesome, thank you guys
Should do the Eminem show classic review next !!
eminem show was doo doo
@@floggyWM1 Try harder bruh smh
@@rivalsoul9853
It was poo poo
TES sucked. They should do a classic review on Relapse
@@IvefoundthetruthonMay
Facts
Great vid, I felt more people hopped on bumping Eminem like you guys said before MMLP mainly because after SSLPr he was on the Chronic 2001 and had some great verses etc. MMLP came out 6 months after
I find it interesting how underground rap fans gravitated too him and his sound but he also became sooo mainstream with this sound
I distinctly remember hearing about Em for the first time back in late 98/early 99. My Name Is was a few months away but a couple friends of mind had some tapes of his earlier stuff and was speak highly of how dope he was. For a few years, I was definitely on that Em phase with everything he dropped, including finding some deep cuts on Napster.
As an hardcore Eminem stan, started listening to him when I was 12, i'm 25 now. SSLP is his greatest album ever.
One of the greatest albums of all time
Thanks. One of my favorite albums also.
Hell yeah, Mike rockin a Morbid Angel shirt 🤘🏽
This is cool. It takes me back to my first Eminem experiences. Em got a lot of MTV play and some radio play. I liked My Name Is when I first saw the video, the Spice Girl line killed me. Then Guilty Conscious video blew my mind. Then when his second album came out I liked Real Slim Shady, and heard Drug Song on the radio and was like "this sounds like Eminem. At every point, I was impressed but eventually bought those albums at once and binged them. The rest is history. I finally realized his genius (he rhymed orange several times). There was a magazine that described him as paraphrasing "goes effortlessly from wild hyperbole to brutal honesty". You can see his life evolve on the albums.
An absolute classic! May very well be my favorite Hip-Hop album of all time.
Classic? Lol
This has to be the whitiest shit i heard this month
@@nickruiz6025 k buddy. And I'm not white by the way.
@@mistanderson Yes. You don't have to like the album, but denying its impact is just something that a person knowledgeable about Hip-Hop would never do.
Jay Anderson if this isn’t a classic I don’t know what the fuck is, literally... it’s the best Eminem hands down.
This album has such a special place in my heart. It leaves you wanting more.
I feel like Redman gets forgotten in this discussion. He definitely inspired this whole style. Let's give the man some credit. "What ? The Album" under rated in it's influence
Right! I see they never done a album review of any Redman projects! I find it disrespectful
Little wonder Redman did a tribute/cover of "Just Don't Give a Fuck" then. And collabed with him.
That and masta ace
Facts
For sure. Em has shouted Reggie out a bunch of times
This whole album was like listening to a audio comic book. Nobody else has done it
The Slim Shady LP is one of the few albums in hip hop that felt very underground and raw with its lyrical content and overall production but thanks to just 2 singles it becomes a mainstream hit. The Chronic and Ready to Die are really the only other 2 albums I can think of that made a impact like that. Illmatic and Enter the Wu-Tang came before Ready to Die but they felt underground and raw but lacked the singles to get the mainstream. Doggystyle and All Eyez on Me came after The Chronic so they had the mainstream and singles but didn't sound raw. I love all those albums but when an album can do all of that it makes it even more special and unique to me.
That’s probably why I enjoy listening to it from beginning to end! Cause it’s actually one of the first Em’s album I can listen to from start to finish. Any other Em album I couldn’t listen to from start to finish sadly
favorite em album.
Eminem is not just the best selling rapper of all time, he's literally the best selling artist of 21st century across all genres. He's also the only rapper to have two solo diamond albums.
I remember saying they should review this since it would be the 20th anniversary when they looked back at so far so gone couple weeks ago. J Cole's The warmup should be next also man on the moon by kid Cudi
I love watching you guys talk about the GOAT.
This video isn't about Nas
@@PrimeraEspadaStark Hahaha, one of the GOATS, then.
@@beinerthchitivamachado874 Lol better. Em is definitely One of the Goats. Top 15 on my GOAT list.
@@PrimeraEspadaStark DAMN! TOP 15? What's your Top 5?
@@beinerthchitivamachado874 Em is in my top 5 personal favorites, but imo Greatness overall is about who you think are the most influential, most important artists, so we have to give it up to the pioneers from the 80's and early 90s, before guys like Em came out.
1. Nas
2. Rakim
3. KRS-ONE
4. Kool G Rap
5. Slick Rick
6. Ice Cube
7. Scarface
8. Jay-Z
9. Tupac
10. Notorious BIG
11. Chuck D
12. Q-Tip
13. Andre 3000
14. Eminem
15. Kanye West
Em wouldn't exist without most of the guys I listed, plus some others as he often credits: th-cam.com/video/h_y2F8KjMTg/w-d-xo.html
This is definitely my favorite rap album of all time
22:12 Dre had decided to sign him up even before knowing he was white, in fact, he thought he was black xD
😂 No he didnt
@@user-fm3xr9yz3i Yep he did hehe you could check it out on "the way i am" biography or any Dre and Jimmy lovine interview about it, Dre said he sounded black XD
@@user-fm3xr9yz3i yes he did
Kal El lmao don’t talk out of your ass bud
The reason he signed him is because he is white and he knew he could make a lot of money out of that. Listen to White America, they all knew what was going on
I don't remember this album coming out the same year as DrDre 2001
it did in November 1999
@Ahmad Robertson i was talkin bout Dre's album
TJofPS4fame probably bc TSSLP came out in the beginning & 2001 came at the end
Great video! I hope Trunk Muzik 3 is next! :D
Glad ya'll reviewed this album, SSLP is a classic!!
Classic album, so happy you guys chose to review this one 🐐
Classic? .....
Fr! A classic!!🔥
Jay Anderson you don’t think this album is a classic? I think even if you don’t like it you’d still have to admit that it’s a classic because of how different this album was and it was our introduction to slim shady and it’s the style everyone always wants Eminem to go back to.
@@Shaolinmike1994 It's hands down a classic
loved hearing u guys discuss this album, heaven for a hip-hop head
Interview on MTV Italy (talking about Guilty Conscious):
“I remember going in and doing a couple lines, he would lay a couple lines and I laid a couple of lines, and after I laid mine I just remember him tipping back in his chair, you know, like, almost fell over laughing so hard, I think it was the “Mr. Dre, Dr. Dre, Me. N.W.A”.
Thank you guys !
This album for me was like a audio visual comic book, with his ad libs playing as onamonapias.
Hi kids do you like violence.... This was an impactful album that I shouldna been listening to at 8 yrs old. But Marshall Mathers I was definitely sold till this day. That era is my favorite Eminem lol.
I remember the first time I heard the song when I was like 12, and it was the censored one where he says "hey kids, do you like primus?" and for months it tripped me up because I couldn't find it again, only the uncensored one
and I was like "what is this violence bullshit I wanna hear about primus, I loves me some primus"
@@Minority119 I remember first hearing about Em when I was probably in 5th grade when hearing other kids sing out “Hi! My name is”. Of course I had no musical preference back then and plus my parents shielded me from any rap music and MTV. But I started listening to him more when I was starting to hit my teens around year 2000
Roots- Things Fall Apart 25th anniversary
Man that album is so incredible. As a matter of fact I'm going to look it up again.
the reason why SSLP was very successful... The Beats were incredible and different. That drew me to the album.
Em did write Dre verses on Guilty Conscious...it was Dre’s concept for the song he told em we should do a song called night and day where they are basically saying the opposite things of each other and em came up with the song
Rock Bottom is the best song on the album.
I'm between that and Still Don't Give a Fuck... But the first verse of Rock Bottom is one of the best of all time
Role model is the best song on the album
Brain damage is the most slept on song in this album
Rock bottom, Ive got problems, now every body on my blocks got em
One misconception that I hate is the one about how his music is hard for blacks to connect to. Passed the playfulness, he talked about being poor, food stamps, raising a daughter that he can barely get shoes for, working a dead end job, etc. These are all trials that are experienced in the black community heavy. I can relate to him more than your typical rapper who raps about shooting and killing.
Damn I just started listening to this recently! This is right on time
Slim Shady Lp came out my senior year of high school. I remember having a Walkman with the cassette tape on replay and most of my homies not understanding why I like dude. 🤣🤣🤣they caught on!!!
So keen for this!
Saw the notification and had to watch
Eminem is one of the biggest artists of all time in every genre
Eminem made me listening to hip hop where I'm from was mostly Caribbean music and hip hop wasn't played a lot
Great classic review everyones getting into it and of course not one phone!
And no debating if it's a classic or not smh lol, this should be what the classic reviews are
#EMINEM
Delivery and flows multiple was flawless
I remember hearing "My name is" and I thought it was cool but didn't go out and get the album . Then a month later Soundbombing 2 came out and had "Any man" on it. I was blown away, this is the "My name is" dude? I should get his album to see if he has any other songs like this. And I'm glad I did.
Still his best album , Everything Myke said was bang on point
Eminem Show is a good album I've been on it quite a bit lately but there is a few weak cheesy songs on there, @Daniel Hill
@@hartburn6301 Which ones?
This is my fave TH-cam channel! And I’ve been waiting for this video !!
Chopper City In The Ghetto needs a review
Sanford Lanham 100%..Easily one of the best albums Cash Money has ever released. BG was straight heat
The truth about all that old Cash Money music is that rapping/lyrical content is quite bad honestly. Mannie Fresh made it all hot. Think about it for real. When you listened to that old Cash Money, it gave you a feeling. No one cared what they were really saying.
If Juve didn't have 400° it would have been the best thing Cash Money had dropped back in the day.
No!! I used to love B.G. then I relisten to him and he is garbage.
I don't know abt north America...but globally...worldwide....there is nobody bigger than EMINEM.....Stan from Nepal
Nice review. You guys going to review Yelawolf TM3?
I hope they do, because they didn't review his previous album, "Trial By Fire", late the year before last.
As the World Turns is my all time favorite off the album
DMX - And then there was X
Nas - I Am
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday
Missy Elliott - Da Real World
GZA - Beneath the Surface
Dr. Dre - 2001
The Slim Shady Lp felt special because of how different it was from everything out in the mainstream at the time. Is it relatable? To an extent, I think Rock Bottom and If I Had are massively relatable songs for most people, and Just don't give a Fuck, I still Don't give a fuck, Even As the world turns, Guilty Conscience, and 97 Bonnie & Clyde are cartoonishly relatable in the topics of like being bullied, having a shitty relationship, crappy baby mom, cheating wife, stuff like that and although he takes it cartoonishly far you can still feel it. His lyricism was unquestionable the dude had bars, the beats were dope, and it felt like something I had never heard before.
Hard to Earn had its 25th anniversary this year ! Y'all could do that.
When The World Turns is one of my favorite storytelling tracks ;)
Eminem didn't talk about killing his mom on "The Slim Shady LP" and only mentioned it a few times, I don't know why people always act like all he talked about was killing his mom and wife! 💯
He had a line about killin her on just dont give a fuck...
@@blissz4 oh, my bad! 😂😂
Eminem brought some crazy lyrical skills in his heyday. "My Name is" he made a pc version that was just as good if not better than the regular version. It's crazy
The proof is in the pudding just ask Deshaun holton
@@deebogaillard So when you see me on yo block with two blocks screaming fuck the world like Tupac
@@FidoeFTW talking shit behind my back, "Dirty mack" and telling your boys that I'm on crack
I love these types of videos, great video y’all
Damn, I wanted to go to bed so bad lol
Now it’s a trend in today’s generation to hate on Eminem... but dude back in day in his prime was hard.
just like eminem said "I'll probably never get the props I feel I ever deserve"
love you guys ❤️❤️❤️
(The FIRST Time I Ever Heard Eminem) I thought "My Name Is" was a Joke. I thought HE was a Joke.
Until I heard the song "Scary Movie" he did with Royce a few days later and His verse was soooo Nasty! "Any Man Planning to battle will get snatched out of his clothes so Fast? It'll look like an Invisible Man Standing....." 🔥
I couldn't believe it was the same dude! And Then I found out that he was white and I was blown away! NOBODY Saw him coming. I damn sure didnt.
My dude the man's been all over the map peep these tracks:
The Sauce
Rabbit Run
Mockingbird
He said after hearing "My Name Is" several times he thought it was corny. He felt the same with "The Real Slim Shady" so he decided maybe that was the formula for a lead single 😆
The Slim Shady EP was released in '97, and most of the songs from that made it onto the LP which was then released in '99.
Only 2 songs. The rest was so new. Eminem recorded also more songs, check SSLP extended versión.
This one is more of a 25th anniversary, but I would love to hear you guys review E. 1999 Eternal by Bone thugs-n-harmony.
Good review. MMLP hit 20 years, I love all Eminems album for me hes still GOAT2020...
His rhymes was simple 90s flow but his cadence made it pop.
You combine Em rhyming style and idgaf content and creativity on this album with the vintage Detroit sound on Infinite, you get the perfect Em album. There's glimpses of it on SSLP and the EP (more so on the EP) but not enough to really drive it home.
I lived in Houston when 'My Name Is' came out and that got HEAVY airplay on 97.9 The Box. I was a little kid at the time too and the kids loved Eminem, but the adults around me didn't like Eminem that much. Black females DEFINITELY didn't mess with Eminem.
H-Town!
I as a European white guy started listening rap because of Pac who was a genius, but since Em came to this day he is on the top when you look at the craft.
Problem with these special reviews is that they dont talk enough about the actual tracks like in normal reviews imo.
Yeah that would be more enjoyable imo
Dre 2001 for sure. Would love to here your thoughts on it. The sounds, the features.....I can listen to it forever.