1999, the year rap's craziest, sharpest-tongued maniac exploded the genre to pieces with a very original, hilarious debut album, 'The Slim Shady LP'. I'm 21 years old and I've been listening to Em since he first came out. I first heard him with "My Name Is" but it wasn't until "The Way I Am", and his next album ('The Marshall Mathers LP') that I truly got into him. I was only ten years old, but I still got his tongue-in-cheek brilliance. It was glaringly obvious and hilarious, even to a ten year old. Which speaks volumes of how moronic his detractors were. Because I didn't truly begin listening to Em properly until his second ...  Read the complete review

The Slim Shady LP is Eminem's first studio album, and was released in 1999 to a wide critical acclaim and created a rap sensation that would follow with numerous other successful albums. This, for my money, isn't as stunning as The Marshall Mathers LP that followed it, but it's still a fantastic album that set the building blocks for his future success. What's so fascinating is how he works as a satirist, but obviously, people judge him on the profane content of his songs without actually listening to them - Eminem is a very smart guy and here he scathingly skewers various cultural elements of the world that he deems silly, from lampooning rubbish celebrities, ...  Read the complete review

On Eminem's Slim Shady LP, his talent is greatly overshadowed buy the disturbing nature of his lyrics. You cannot walk away from this album without being affected by the graphic and gory imagery that Eminem spits more frequently than any rap artist in history. At first it is kind of funny, but his obsession with his demented imagination gets a little old as he raps about nothing other than drugs, and his own inner turmoil. Still I applaud Eminem for his bold surreal approach and for simply keeping it real. This Album is very unique. You might never hear so much gore on a single cd as you will on this one. The stories of his wife's murder, the fact that ...  Read the complete review

Clichéd, I know. Actually, it's even worse than that. And, besides the thought of writing another 'Eminem in general' opinion, writing an opinion on the album that gave him the fame that was actually credible to get, is as bad as it gets. Probably. Eminem. The Slim Shady LP. 1999. That's it. Kinda maybe better than earlier release 'Infinite', probably also better than the commercial, if not, at times, questionable pop-rap hybrid that was all too frequently obvious on follow-up album The Marshall Mathers LP, too. You'd be lying if you said to me you haven't heard of Eminem, ever. Simply you have, and you know it. And, if ...  Read the complete review

This was the first of Eminem's two hit albums, 'The Slim Shady LP' and 'The Marshall Mathers LP'. I personally feel this is the better of the two albums. Nearly all of the songs on both albums have explicit lyrics (they both display well deserved 'Parental Guidance' stickers) and strong feelings of anger and contain his sick fantasies ('97 Bonnie and Clyde for example) fuelled by his lyrical temper. I think they should be taken as humorous. The reason I feel 'The Slim Shady LP' is better is because I can relate to the tracks more as I think Eminem is expressing his feelings rather than trying to come up ...  Read the complete review