OLD: Eminem - "My Name Is"
Hi kids! Do you like violence? Wanna see me stick Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids? Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? Try 'cid and get fucked up worse that my life is? My brain's dead weight, I'm trying to get my head straight But I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate
What a way to introduce yourself to the world. Well I guess from the opening line we should have know exactly what was to come from Eminem aka Slim Shady aka Marshall Matthers.
Eminem has had a traumatic childhood which is very apparent in EVERY song he has recorded; if you don't know about the Dr Dre Protege you need to lift that rock of your head asap and get to know. Sometimes when you have so much talent penned-up its hard to get it out of your head if you don't have the right medium, it sometimes manifest and could drives you crazy, I feel like that is exactly what happened to Eminem. there's so much that can be said about Marshall but I'll let you take it all in below.
Eminem - "My Name Is"
A Few things you never know about Eminem:
1 // He thought of the "Slim Shady" character on the toilet, then got up and "called everyone he knew." 2 // He was still making payments on his trailer home when The Slim Shady LP dropped. 3 // In order to record Hailie's part for the song "'97 Bonnie & Clyde," he lied to Kim and said they were going to Chuck E. Cheese. 4 // The only book he's read in full is LL Cool J's I Make My Own Rules. 5 // He failed ninth grade three times before dropping out.
Wiki Facts "My Name Is": The song was ranked at #26 on "VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's". "My Name Is" also was ranked #6 on Q Magazine's "1001 Best Songs Ever".