“They just put it on there like that, I had nothing to do with my own credit,” he says, holding his head in his hands.
The one credit Denaun did get on ‘The Slim Shady LP’ was as pre-producer and drum programmer on ‘Just Don’t Give A Fuck’, but even then his name was spelt incorrectly within the album’s inlay – it read ‘Denine Porter’. And this is something I don’t even think Marshall was aware of but I know he was getting jerked around by them too so it doesn’t matter now.” I kinda got left in the wind when it came down to that because I wasn’t there and Mark and Jeff were in control. I heard a lot of nuances that resembled things I’d sent over, so I was like, ‘Wait a minute!’ So I just stopped sending shit. “So I was sending them the music and I was listening to what they were making and I felt like the things that I heard Jeff playing was influenced by my shit. I was like, ‘You go do your thing and I’ma be there and I’ll make it too’ – this was before we did the group thing. I wasn’t one to run up on him like, ‘Since you made it, I made it.’ Nah. When Em got the deal I was sending music over to Mark and Jeff Bass hoping they were just gonna give it to Em like normal because that was the regular thing. “So this is the first time I’ve ever told this story because I never felt comfortable telling it before. So why did Denaun not work on the album if he was so instrumental in getting Em signed? So while I didn’t directly work on ‘The Slim Shady LP’, because of that moment it felt like I did.”
So he turns to me and he says, ‘Well you’re the reason we’re here.’ And I couldn’t believe it. He did ‘Just Don’t Give A Fuck’ and he did ‘Low Down, Dirty’.’ So this person was name checking all the shit that Dre had heard that made him wanna sign Em. “Somebody introduced me to him and was like, ‘Yo, this is Denaun. “When I met Dre for the first time I was nervous,” he admits. “I just remember he was knocking them down, like he was killing the songs as they were coming to him.”Īnd if it wasn’t for Denaun and his work on the ‘Slim Shady EP’ we might never have heard of Eminem, or so Dr. With his outlook, it's tough to take Eminem too seriously, but he's made an album you don't have to take seriously to enjoy.“I wasn’t there when they were picking the tracks for the album,” Denaun explains to NME. Dre, Marky, and Jeff Bass-is crisp but consistently fun. With his nasal Midwestern tone, Mathers has a clean, clear flow, and the production-by Dr. Dre's angel-that is, until Eminem brings up an incident from Dre's devilish past, rapping, "You gonna take advice from someone who slapped Dee Barnes?" Later, on "' 97 Bonnie & Clyde," he turns Will Smith's " Just the Two of Us" on its ear, making it a tale of murder but on "My Fault," he actually feels bad-though whether it's for the girl he overdosed or for himself is tough to figure out. But on the very next song, " Guilty Conscience," he plays the devil to Dr. In the first single, "My Name Is," he's self-deprecating, rapping about his poor upbringing and his hairy palms. Dre's Aftermath Records, his post-Death Row-era venture-and Eminem (born Marshall Mathers) doesn't really want anyone to follow in his footsteps, which leads to some interesting contradictions on this album. But he isn't a straight-up gangsta-this is, after all, the first release on Dr. He's conflicted, you see the world has treated him badly, and he wants to respond in kind. On The Slim Shady LP, Eminem wants it all. Dre), The Slim Shady LP won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album the following year. Featuring the hit singles “My Name Is,” “Role Model,” "Just Don't Give a F*ck," and “Guilty Conscience” (featuring Dr. Released date: 06-12-2013 (Originally released in 1999)Ģ013 reissue on stanard 2xLP = One of the best hip hop records in 1999. The Detroit rapper’s breakthrough album was originally released by Aftermath Entertainment through Interscope Records and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 in 1999.
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