May I have your attention, please May I have your attention, please. The first single was intended to be Who Knew. Eminem wrote The Real Slim Shady just hours before the final copy of the album was due. Interscope Records's Jimmy Iovine wanted Eminem to have a song to introduce the album, similar to the way My Name Is was the first single on The Slim Shady LP. The Real Slim Shady was not included on the original copy of The Marshall Mathers LP before its release. The Real Slim Shady is one of the songs on Eminem's third album, The Marshall Mathers LP. Current track: The Real Slim ShadyThe Real Slim Shady. Boom, the name hit me, and right away I thought of all these words to rhyme with it, he recalled. The genesis of this transformation came on a trip to the toilet, when Mathers concocted his Slim Shady alter-ego. However, it boasts a raft of complex rhymes and the verbal erudition of a man who had spent much of his youth absorbed in a dictionary.
Recorded in 1996, it found the nascent star still developing a distinctive style. The real Slim Shady Many overlook Eminems little-known debut album, Infinite. It won multiple awards, including MTV Video Music Awards for Best. The song was the 14th best selling of 2000 in the United Kingdom. The Real Slim Shady was Eminem's first song to reach number one in the United Kingdom and it also peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him his biggest hit up to that point. It was released as the lead single a month before the album's release. The Real Slim Shady is a song by American rapper Eminem from his third album The Marshall Mathers LP 2000.