Without Marshall Slim tried his best at continuously making music, with mediocre results. After Marshall, was brought up on charges for his shooting, Eminem was officially ended by their record label who refused, to resign Marshall to the label. At one point Big Naz even reveals, that he had to lend money to Shady multiple times, and never received reimbursement, as well as providing Shady with chauffeur services.
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Big Naz describes his experiences as like baby sitting a child, who just had a handful full of candy.
First being assigned his own bodyguard, Big Naz, Shady continued to go ahead with purchasing illegal weapons, drugs and many other dumb investments. Although Marshall was modest with his earnings, Slim was the complete opposite. With the proper talent and budget put behind them the two released The Slim Shady LP to critical and commercial success. after hearing their album Infinite and The Slim Shady EP, the new talent put behind them put Marshall and Slim in an excellent position. Things began to look up for the duo however as, during a tour with Outsiderz, Marshall entered a rap battle which caught the attention of record label. Although the group were making some leeway, there was a small rift in the group with Marshall wanting to focus more on rap battles and Shady wanting to focus more on producing. During this time, in Shady's criminal spree he ran into what would later become his close friend and partner in crime, the equally as volatile, Royce da 5'9", who soon collaborated with Eminem and their music. One of which, ended with Shady showing up with Kim and her sister Dawn needing to stay with Marshall and his mom for safety.īefore long Shady and Marshall started a rap duo, dubbed Eminem, with help from Proof, fellow rapper Chaos Kid and music producers Jeff & Mark Bass. Slim's teenage years also marked the beginning of his criminal record, although not organized, Slim's instinctual and spontaneous personality, led to many run ins with the police. During this time him, Marshall and Proof soon began to start freestyle battling each other with the ambitions to one day become famous rappers. The two meeting when Slim was seen performing LL Cool J’s “I’m Bad” standing on a table shirtless. In his teenage years, Slim had few friends other than Marshall, Proof and Marshall's future wife Kim Scott. Becoming friends since they were kids, the two bonded due to being in similar situations. Years later, as the shock has faded, it's those lyrical skills and the subtle mastery of the music that still resonate, and they're what make The Slim Shady LP one of the great debuts in both hip-hop and modern pop music.Although much is unknown about Shady's childhood, it's known that Slim had a troubled family life, very similar to Marshall's. At a time when many rappers were stuck in the stultifying swamp of gangsta clichés, Eminem broke through the hardcore murk by abandoning the genre's familiar themes and flaunting a style with more verbal muscle and imagination than any of his contemporaries. As well they should be - there are few rappers as wildly gifted verbally as Eminem. Dre but also helmed in large doses by Marky and Jeff Bass, along with Marshall himself - mirrors his rhymes, with their spare, intricately layered arrangements enhancing his narratives, which are always at the forefront. Eminem's supreme gifts are an expansive vocabulary and vivid imagination, which he unleashes with wicked humor and unsparing anger in equal measure. There have been more violent songs in rap, but few more disturbing, and it's not because of what it describes, it's how he describes it - how the perfectly modulated phrasing enhances the horror and black humor of his words. Of course, nowhere is this more true than on "97 Bonnie and Clyde," a notorious track where he imagines killing his wife and then disposing of the body with his baby daughter in tow.
This was unsettling in 1999, when nobody knew his back-story, and years later, when his personal turmoil is public knowledge, it still can be unsettling, because his words and delivery are that powerful.
The Slim Shady LP bristles with this tension, since it's never always clear when Marshall Mathers is joking and when he's dead serious. Then, it wasn't clear to every listener that Eminem was, as they say, an unreliable narrator, somebody who slung satire, lies, uncomfortable truths, and lacerating insights with vigor and venom, blurring the line between reality and parody, all seemingly without effort. Given his subsequent superstardom, culminating in no less than an Academy Award, it may be easy to overlook exactly how demonized Eminem was once his mainstream debut album, The Slim Shady LP, grabbed the attention of pop music upon its release in 1999.
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