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"The Real Slim Shady" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his third album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000). It was released as the lead single a month before the album's release. The song peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him his biggest hit up to that point. [2]
Over a beat with piano, [1] the song revolves around Eminem battling the negative influence of his alter ego Slim Shady, referring to his impulses to treat dark and serious matters with humor in his lyrical content. [1] [2] It starts with a conversation between Eminem and Shady, in which the latter forces the former to take half of an Ativan. [2]
The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) is, so far, the fastest selling rap album of 2024, [3] and has the second-highest digital sales week behind Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department. [42] It would also unseat The Tortured Poets Department , which had held the chart's top spot for 12 weeks. [ 43 ]
Eminem has revealed the real reason he invented his notorious alter ego, Slim Shady.. The rapper released his new album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) on 12 July, after a gory trailer ...
The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), is due for release this summer and will follow Eminem’s last record, 2020’s Music to Be Murdered By. Show comments Advertisement
The album, named The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), was formally announced on April 26 after the 2024 NFL draft through a trailer depicting a news story about the death of Eminem's alter ego, Slim Shady. [1] The album was released on July 12, 2024; "Somebody Save Me" is the nineteenth and final song on the standard track list.
The song revolves around two characters attempting to take control of Eminem's conscience: Eminem himself and his alter ego Slim Shady. [1] Over an instrumental of moody bass and piano keys, [2] Eminem raps in a slightly distorted voice to represent Shady and his normal voice to represent himself. [3]
In moments like this, The Death Of Slim Shady feels like an LP-length Weird Al parody of Eminem, only even Weird Al wouldn’t stoop so low to a beat so uninspired as that on “Houdini”, which ...