Talk:Slim Shady EP

"Just Don't Give a Fuck" single
There are two different "Just Don't Give a Fuck" singles: one for the Slim Shady EP, and one for The Slim Shady LP.

The first single was released as a 12" by Web on December 10, 1997. This features the original version of "Just Don't Give a Fuck" and includes "Low Down, Dirty" and "Just The Two of Us" as b-sides. This is the only single from the Slim Shady EP.

The second single was released as a cassette, CD maxi, and 12" by Aftermath and Interscope on October 13, 1998. This features an updated version of "Just Don't Give a Fuck" (with a different instrumental and the word "raped" censored) and includes "Brain Damage" as a b-side. This is the first single from The Slim Shady LP.

Jericho735 (talk) 22:08, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

EP vs.LP
The EP was 10 tracks long of which Dr. Dre then redid 3 songs and released them on the LP

Cage VS Eminem
Cage supposedly heard the Slim Shady EP from a freind in New York where he was recording and thought it was to similiar to his style to be authentic. Cage then made some dergoatory statments about the album on a radio station and said eminem was copying his style, lyrics, and genre. Eminem then dissed cage on a few occasions and most notably in the song Role Model off the Slim Shady LP."I bought cages tape opend it and dubed over it".The beef is now over but has never been resolved. To Eminems credit I think he was more influenced by Kid Rock, Esham,ICP, Bizarre and other local artist in Detroit at the time, and proably not New York based Cage. Also the group D12 was based significantly on horrocore themes.

~Side note - Necro is another well established New York Horrocore artist who is similiar to Cage although Cage made no accusations against Necro about stealing his style.


 * The 'beef' with Cage was never resolved, but Eminem is clearly more famous than Cage nowadays, and probably doesn't even have time for him. Sure, there was a short lyrical rivalry, but it never elevated to anything more than what it was. Eminem was not influenced by ICP, Kid Rock, or Esham. Eminem is not really a horrorcore artist because it's not his primary genre in music. He works with Bizarre, so he wasn't influenced by him in the sense he was by his actual influences. As for Necro, he wouldn't be worth mentioning in a section for a feud.  Tom  US  A   18:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:24, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Cage Rapping Style?
on the song "I Just Don't Give a Fuck" Eminem says "I'll bite your mother fucking style just to make it fresher". perhaps he's talking about cage here?


 * Perhaps. But Eminem's style is so different from Cage. There was a feud, but it has since died.  Tom  US  A   18:49, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

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This doesn't make any sense it says the albulm was released in 97 but some of the songs were recorded in 98 and 99.

BTW this is an underground albulm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.82.187.246 (talk) 01:35, 8 April 2012 (UTC)