Slim Shady is credited with popularizing hip hop in middle America and is critically acclaimed as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
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Slim Shady is credited with popularizing hip hop in middle America and is critically acclaimed as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
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Slim Shady returned to the music industry four years later with the release of Relapse and Recovery was released the following year.
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Slim Shady has developed other ventures, including Shady Records, a joint venture with manager Paul Rosenberg, which helped launch the careers of artists such as 50 Cent, D12 and Obie Trice, among others.
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Slim Shady has established his own channel, Shade 45, on Sirius XM Radio.
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Slim Shady was the best-selling music artist in the United States of the 2000s and the best-selling male music artist in the United States of the 2010s, third overall.
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Slim Shady has had ten number-one albums on the Billboard 200—which all consecutively debuted at number one on the chart, making him the first artist to achieve this—and five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Slim Shady has won numerous awards, including 15 Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and an MTV Europe Music Global Icon Award.
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Slim Shady is of English, Scottish, German, German Swiss, Polish and Luxembourgish ancestry.
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Slim Shady's uncle was close to the boy and later became a musical mentor to him.
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Slim Shady later said she often threw him out of the house anyway, often after taking most of his paycheck.
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Slim Shady placed second and an Interscope Records intern in attendance called Dean Geistlinger asked Eminem for a copy of the Slim Shady EP, which was then sent to company CEO Jimmy Iovine.
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The first single from the album, "The Real Slim Shady", was a success despite controversies about Eminem's insults and dubious claims about celebrities.
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Slim Shady would follow this up the next year by producing 12 of the 16 tracks on Tupac's Loyal to the Game album.
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Slim Shady appeared at the 2010 BET Awards, performing "Not Afraid" and "Airplanes, Part II" with B o B and Keyshia Cole.
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Slim Shady appeared at the 2011 Grammy Awards on February 13, performing "Love the Way You Lie " with Rihanna and Adam Levine and "I Need a Doctor" with Dr Dre and Skylar Grey.
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Slim Shady was the first artist since the Beatles to have four singles in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.
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Slim Shady Records released a cypher to promote the album, in which Eminem did a seven-minute freestyle.
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On February 23,2019, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Eminem released a re-issue of The Slim Shady LP, including acapellas, instrumentals and radio edited versions of tracks from the album.
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Slim Shady announced on September 28,2021, on his social media that he would be featured in a song with Polo G and Mozzy called "Last One Standing" by Skylar Grey for the soundtrack of the film, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, released on September 30,2021.
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Slim Shady produced the UK number-one single "Ghetto Gospel", featuring Elton John; "The Cross", from the Nas album God's Son; and eight tracks on Obie Trice's 2006 album Second Round's on Me.
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Slim Shady said it was a representation of growing up in Detroit rather than an account of his life.
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Slim Shady recorded several new songs for the soundtrack, including "Lose Yourself".
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Eminem voiced an aging, corrupt, Ebonics-speaking police officer in the video game 50 Cent: Bulletproof and guested on the Comedy Central television show Crank Yankers and a Web cartoon, The Slim Shady Show He was signed to star in an unmade film version of Have Gun – Will Travel, and was considered for the role of David Rice in the 2008 film Jumper.
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Slim Shady played himself in the Entourage season-seven finale "Lose Yourself" with Christina Aguilera.
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Slim Shady was twice married to Kimberly Anne Scott; he met Scott in high school while he stood on a table with his shirt off rapping LL Cool J's "I'm Bad".
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Slim Shady had legal custody of his younger half-brother Nathan.
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Slim Shady had first bought from a dealer who had told him it was "just like Vicodin, and easier on [your] liver".
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Slim Shady continued to buy more until he collapsed in his bathroom one night and was rushed to the hospital.
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Slim Shady tore the meniscus in his knee after falling asleep on his sofa, requiring surgery; after he returned home, he had a seizure.
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Slim Shady titled the track "U Didn't Care" and it continued to take shots at Eminem.
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Slim Shady has been greatly influential for artists of various genres.
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Slim Shady tells stories in such a powerful and distinctive way.
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Slim Shady has had thirteen number-one albums on the Billboard 200: nine solo, two with D12 and one with Bad Meets Evil.
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Slim Shady was the best-selling music artist from 2000 to 2009 in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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Slim Shady was the best-selling male music artist in the United States of the 2010s.
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