![]() ![]() The album is pretty grungy in places tooc - Rock Bottom and If I Had bearing the most pronounced influence. Throughout the album, he namedrops Cobain, the Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, and Vanilla Ice (directing adressing the unflattering comparisons he knew he would face). Whether Eminem is also left-handed is a question I can't answer. ![]() ![]() 3 LP also includes a poster with an illustration from. This 20th Anniversary Edition features bonus tracks, rarities, acapellas, freestyles, and instrumentals. Of course, he comes from the same state as two of those acts. Eminem's classic Interscope/Aftermath debut album, The Slim Shady LP, transformed him from an unknown rapper into a high-profile celebrity and earned him a GRAMMY for Best Rap Album. Eminem himself confesses a debt to rock bands that he listened to while growing up - Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Nirvana are three he specifically names. 'Hey kids.do you like Primus?' This almost constitutes a theme to the album. Hell, why else do you think the second line you hear on this album was 'You wanna see me put Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids?' If you've got the uncensored version, you get there even earlier. A lot of the white youth Eminem was talking to, though, buried their dreams and frustrations in rock music - a genre about as explicity 'white' as rap was explicity 'black'.
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