The Real Slim Shady

"The Real Slim Shady" is a song by the rapper Eminem, released in 2000. It was the first single off his album The Marshall Mathers LP, also released in that year. The song was a hit single, becoming Eminem's first chart topper in some countries, and garnering much attention for insulting various celebrities, including:

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• Actress Pamela Anderson's abuse at the hands of her ex-husband, rocker Tommy Lee
• Eminem claims in one line to have murdered Dr. Dre, and that he's locked him in his basement.
• Comedian Tom Green's humping of a deceased moose on TV
• Pop-rapper Will Smith's brand of commercialized and clean rap music
• Eminem also criticizes Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, both similarly commercially-oriented pop singers; Aguilera was angered by his claim that she performed oral sex on Carson Daly, an MTV VJ, and Fred Durst, of the band Limp Bizkit. (Christina Aguilera recorded a parody of this song called "Will the Real Slim Shady Please Shut Up.")

The chorus is about the sudden fashion changes caused by Eminem's success: "I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady/All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating/So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?". In the video for the song, a factory can be seen turning young white men into clones of Eminem, with hair dyed platinum blonde, baggy jeans and a plain white T-shirt.

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