Exactly 24 years ago, Eminem dropped his first album entitled “The Slim Shady LP” in music stores around the world, which is now seen as a cult LP on the rap planet.
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1999: Eminem releases The Slim Shady LP
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It was in Detroit, in the second half of the ’90s, that Shady received an unexpected call from the most popular doctor in the world, Dr. Dre, who wanted to hear him rap in person.
At that time, Em was a dishwasher in a restaurant, he had a stormy relationship with a girl named Kim, with whom he had his daughter Hailie Jade, while taking care of his drug addicted and depressed mother…
Suddenly, that call from the doc changed his life forever.
Dre spun an “instrumental” inEminem‘s ear canal and he instinctively dropped that famous “Hi, my name is…”, becoming one of the signature songs on his debut album. This track has nearly 500 million listens on Spotify alone.
Eminem ‘s first bake has also earned four platinum certifications, no less.
Today, the rapper is recognized as one of the greatest artists in musical history.