Eminem

The Real Slim Shady

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"The Real Slim Shady"

Single by Eminem
from the album The Marshall Mathers LP
Released	2000
Format	CD
Genre	Rap
Length	4 min 44 s
Label	Aftermath/Interscope
Producer(s)	Dr. Dre and Mel-Man
Chart positions
#1 (UK) #2 (Switzerland) #2 (Norway) #3 (Sweden) #4 (US) #4 (Italy) #6 (France) #6 (Austria) #6 (Finland) #7 (Germany)
Eminem singles chronology
"Guilty Conscience" (1999)	"The Real Slim Shady" (2000)	"The Way I Am" (2000)

"The Real Slim Shady" is a song by the rapper Eminem, released in 2000. It was the first single off his album The Marshall Mathers LP, also released in that year. The song was a hit single, becoming Eminem's first chart topper in some countries, and garnering much attention for insulting various celebrities, including:

Actress Pamela Anderson's alleged abuse at the hands of her ex-husband, rocker Tommy Lee
Eminem claims in one line to have murdered Dr. Dre, and that he's locked him in his basement.
Comedian Tom Green's humping of a deceased moose on TV
Pop-rapper Will Smith's brand of commercialized and clean rap music
Eminem also criticizes Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, both similarly commercially-oriented pop singers; Aguilera was angered by his claim that she performed oral sex on Carson Daly, an MTV VJ, and Fred Durst, of the band Limp Bizkit.

The chorus is about the sudden fashion changes caused by Eminem's success: "I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady/All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating/So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?". In the video for the song, a factory can be seen turning young white men into clones of Eminem, with hair dyed platinum blonde, baggy jeans and a plain white T-shirt.

"The Real Slim Shady" was later released on Eminem's greatest hits album, Curtain Call.

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