42 Facts About Slim Shady

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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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8.

Slim Shady is of English, Scottish, German, German Swiss, Polish and Luxembourgish ancestry.

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9.

Slim Shady's uncle was close to the boy and later became a musical mentor to him.

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10.

Slim Shady later said she often threw him out of the house anyway, often after taking most of his paycheck.

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11.

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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12.

The Slim Shady LP has been certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA.

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13.

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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14.

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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15.

Slim Shady landed buttocks-first on Eminem, who stormed out of the ceremony; three days later, Eminem said that the stunt had been staged.

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16.

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 opened the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, performing "Not Afraid" and "Love the Way You Lie" with Rihanna singing the choruses.

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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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20.

Slim Shady Records released a cypher to promote the album, in which Eminem did a seven-minute freestyle.

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21.

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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22.

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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25.

Slim Shady recorded several new songs for the soundtrack, including "Lose Yourself".

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26.

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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27.

Slim Shady played himself in the Entourage season-seven finale "Lose Yourself" with Christina Aguilera.

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28.

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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29.

Slim Shady had legal custody of his younger half-brother Nathan.

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30.

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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31.

Slim Shady continued to buy more until he collapsed in his bathroom one night and was rushed to the hospital.

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32.

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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33.

Slim Shady gave Joseph Bruce a flyer which stated "Featuring appearances by Esham, Kid Rock, and ICP ".

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34.

Slim Shady titled the track "U Didn't Care" and it continued to take shots at Eminem.

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35.

Slim Shady has been greatly influential for artists of various genres.

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36.

Slim Shady tells stories in such a powerful and distinctive way.

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37.

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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38.

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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40.

Slim Shady was ranked 9th on MTV's Greatest MCs of All Time list.

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Slim Shady was ranked 13th on MTV's 22 Greatest Voices in Music list and 79th on the VH1 100 Greatest Artists of All Time lists.

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42.

Slim Shady was ranked 82nd on Rolling Stones "The Immortals" list.

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