The Slim Shady EP Tracklist
Following Infinite, Em introduces the world to his Slim Shady character.
This is the record that got Eminem signed with Dr. Dre. As Rolling Stone tells it:
A Shady EP given to a few Interscope staffers soon made it into the hands of co-head Jimmy Iovine. While Em was in L.A., Iovine and Dr. Dre took a listen. “In my entire career in the music industry,” Dre says, “I have never found anything from a demo tape or a CD. When Jimmy played this, I said, ‘Find him. Now.’”
The EP was later turned into the LP, a full-length studio album that went multi-platinum and brought Eminem’s breakthrough. Three tracks from the EP were borrowed for the LP, with slight changes: “If I Had”, “97' Bonnie & Clyde” and “Just Don’t Give A Fuck”.
“The Slim Shady EP” Q&A
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Translations
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What were the "slight changes" made to the 3 tracks that made it to the LP?
There weren’t many changes made to “If I Had”, but the other two, “Just Don’t Give a Fuck” and “Just The Two of Us” were remixed to different beats in the SSLP versions and due to a sampling conflict with Interscope, the title of “Just The Two of Us” was changed to “97' Bonnie & Clyde”. However, the lyrics are essentially the same.
