A Look Back At Eminem’s Slim Shady LP

With Eminem’s Slim Shady LP turning 13 last week, our fam over at Complex take a look back.

What made TSSLP so special was the way Marshall flipped both sides of the coin. He seamlessly mixed cartoonish violence with autobiographical detail, pop culture with drug culture, story-telling songs with battle raps. But this lead to a problem when the album first came out: Listeners had no way of knowing when Em was joking and when he wasn’t.

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