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19-573: The EP introduces Eminem's alter ego Slim Shady. Since the EP was released before he was signed to Interscope and Aftermath, original copies are now highly valued. His lyrics are a marked departure from those found on Infinite , featuring constant references to drug use, sexual acts, mental instability, and over-the-top violence. Another departure was his exploration of more serious themes of dealing with poverty, his direct and self-deprecating response to criticism, and of marital and family difficulties. His flow

38-404: A Fuck" "If I Had" and "Low Down, Dirty". The disappointment from this experience greatly influenced his lyrical style: "After that record, every rhyme I wrote got angrier and angrier. A lot of it was because of the feedback I got. Motherfuckers was like, 'You're a white boy, what the fuck are you rapping for? Why don't you go into rock & roll?' All that type of shit started pissing me off." After

57-438: A behavior pattern that was distinct from the personality of the individual when he was in the waking state compared with when he was under hypnosis. Another character had developed in the altered state of consciousness but in the same body. Freud throughout his career would appeal to such instances of dual consciousness to support his thesis of the unconscious. He considered that "We may most aptly describe them as cases of

76-425: A key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology , behavior speech, or thoughts, often used to convey the author's thoughts. The term is also sometimes, but less frequently, used to designate a hypothetical "twin" or "best friend" to a character in a story. Similarly, the term alter ego may be applied to

95-485: A splitting of the mental activities into two groups, and say that the same consciousness turns to one or the other of these groups alternately". Freud considered the roots of the phenomenon of the alter ego to be in the narcissistic stage of early childhood. Heinz Kohut would identify a specific need in that early phase for mirroring, by another which resulted later in what he called the "twinship or alter ego transference". The Source (magazine) The Source

114-444: Is also noticeably different from Infinite where critics claimed he sounded too much like Nas and AZ . Eminem also began utilizing story telling on this EP. The production value of the music on the tracks — from previous collaborators DJ Head, The Bass Brothers , and Mr. Porter — was also noticeably higher than on prior album efforts. According to Billboard , at this point in his life Eminem had "realized his musical ambitions were

133-485: Is an American hip hop and entertainment website, and a magazine that publishes annually or semiannually . It is the world's longest-running rap periodical, being founded as a newsletter in 1988 by David Mays . In 1999 the Los Angeles Times reported that, based on data from Alliance for Audited Media , formerly known as Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America) , the print edition of The Source

152-425: Is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality . Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a different personality. Additionally, the altered states of the ego may themselves be referred to as alterations . A distinct meaning of alter ego is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing

171-424: Is heard, alluding once again to the cover. The art also bears a similarity to Black Flag 's 1981 debut album, Damaged . According to an interview with Zane Lowe , Eminem made 500 copies of the EP, but sold only slightly more than 250. Though rare, reviews of the EP were generally mixed to positive. AllMusic gave the EP two and a half out of five stars without a written review. XXL , despite originally giving

190-643: Is rated at four-and-a-half or five mics is considered by The Source to be a superior hip hop album. Over the first ten years or so, the heralded five-mic rating only applied to albums that were universally lauded hip hop albums. A total of 45 albums have been awarded five mics; a complete, chronological list is below. Albums that originally received five mics: Albums that were not rated upon their releases, but were later rated five mics in 2002: Albums that originally received 4.5 mics, and were later re-rated to five: Albums that originally received four mics, and were later re-rated to five: The Source released

209-510: The horrorcore extended play entitled Slim Shady EP simultaneously on cassette , vinyl , and CD . During this time, Eminem and his wife Kim Scott lived in a high-crime neighborhood with their newborn daughter Hailie, where their house was burglarized numerous times. After being evicted from his home, Eminem traveled to Los Angeles to participate in the Rap Olympics , an annual nationwide rap battle competition. He placed second, and

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228-621: The EP three out of five stars "L" rating, listed it on their "100 Most Essential Rap EPs of All Time – The Best of the Short & Sweet" list. Eminem was featured in the March 1998 edition of The Source magazine's (#102), "Unsigned Hype" column. The author of the column highlighted two tracks from Eminem's Slim Shady EP : "Just the Two of Us", and "Murder, Murder". Alter ego An alter ego ( Latin for "other I") means an alternate self , which

247-434: The monthly print magazine was celebrating its 100th issue. Others who were involved as co-owners/editors include Raymond 'Ray Benzino' Leon Scott . Between 2005 and 2010 the magazine did not award any of its '5 mic' awards. The Record Report is a section in the publication in which the magazine's staff rates hip-hop albums. Ratings range from one to five mics , paralleling a typical five-star rating scale . An album that

266-628: The only way to escape his unhappy life". In 1996, his debut album Infinite , which was recorded at the Bassmint, a recording studio owned by the Bass Brothers, was released under their independent label Web Entertainment . Infinite achieved little commercial success and was largely ignored by Detroit radio stations, such as WJLB (97.9 FM in Detroit), and in specific tracks Eminem raps explicitly about this problem, like in "Just Don't Give

285-425: The opening intro as well as the first track, in which Slim Shady awakens Eminem and orders him to look in the mirror to see that he is "nothing without him". Eminem resists and screams in the background while Slim Shady yells back and laughs at Eminem's horror. By the second track, Eminem and Slim Shady become the same person. Eminem is also ordered by "Slim Shady" to look into the mirror, and the sound of glass breaking

304-425: The release of Infinite , Eminem's personal struggles and abuse of drugs and alcohol culminated in a suicide attempt: all these troubles became main themes of Slim Shady EP . The disappointment of Infinite inspired Eminem to create the alter ego Slim Shady: "Boom, the name hit me, and right away I thought of all these words to rhyme with it". Slim Shady served as Eminem's vent for his frustrations, and he released

323-411: The role or persona taken on by an actor or by other types of performers. Cicero coined the term as part of his philosophical construct in 1st-century Rome , but he described it as "a second self, a trusted friend". The existence of "another self" was first fully recognized in the 18th century, when Anton Mesmer and his followers used hypnosis to separate the alter ego. These experiments showed

342-626: The staff at Interscope Records who attended the Rap Olympics sent a copy of the Slim Shady EP to company CEO Jimmy Iovine . Iovine played the tape for record producer Dr. Dre , founder of Aftermath Entertainment . Dr. Dre recalled, "In my entire career in the music industry, I have never found anything from a demo tape or a CD. When Jimmy played this, I said, 'Find him. Now.'" Eminem and Dr. Dre subsequently began work on his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP . The cover depicts

361-596: Was "the No. 1-selling music magazine on newsstands in America." By 2009, they were among those losing readership and advertising income. The 1995 Source Awards were noted for their effect on the hip-hop landscape, particularly in escalating tension between the East and West Coast hip-hop communities, which likely precipitated the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls . The magazine's website began in 1998. At that point

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