Editing The Slim Shady LP (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="AllmusicReview">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-slim-shady-lp-mw0000601851 |title=The Slim Shady LP – Eminem |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=June 15, 2011 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602011728/http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-slim-shady-lp-mw0000601851 |archive-date=June 2, 2012}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4475739.html |title=Eminem, 'The Slim Shady LP' (Aftermath/Interscope) |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |date=March 14, 1999 |access-date=October 17, 2016 |last=Kyles |first=Kyra |url-access=subscription |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913062603/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4475739.html |archive-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
| rev3Score = A−<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=2000|title=[[Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s]]|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]]|isbn=0-312-24560-2|chapter=CG Book '90s: E|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=E&bk=90|access-date=March 30, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4Score = C+<ref name="EWeekly Review">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/article/1999/03/12/slim-shady-lp |title=The Slim Shady LP |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=March 12, 1999 |access-date=February 16, 2012 |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403131814/http://www.ew.com/article/1999/03/12/slim-shady-lp |archive-date=April 3, 2015}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev5Score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="LATimes Review">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-21-ca-10040-story.html |title=Eminem 'Slim Shady LP' Aftermath / Interscope |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=February 21, 1999 |access-date=June 15, 2011 |last=Baker |first=Soren |author-link=Soren Baker |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311111723/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/feb/21/entertainment/ca-10040 |archive-date=March 11, 2011}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Melody Maker]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Eminem: The Slim Shady LP |journal=[[Melody Maker]] |date=May 1, 1999 |page=36}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-881-336287|title=The Slim Shady LP|website=[[NME]] |date=April 13, 1999 |access-date=September 6, 2022|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817211517/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990313132243reviews.html |archive-date=August 17, 2000}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="RSReview">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-slim-shady-lp-19990401 |title=The Slim Shady LP |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=April 1, 1999 |access-date=February 5, 2012 |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331014931/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-slim-shady-lp-19990401 |archive-date=March 31, 2012}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev9Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Eminem |last=Hoard |first=Christian |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |edition=4th |year=2004 |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/276 276–77]}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev10Score = 8/10<ref name="Spinreview">{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ayeEJMF-CZUC&pg=PP1 |title=Eminem: The Slim Shady LP |journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=15 |issue=5 |date=May 1999 |access-date=February 19, 2016 |last=Rubin |first=Mike |page=148 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913062603/https://books.google.com/books?id=ayeEJMF-CZUC&lpg=PP1 |archive-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref>
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Upon its release, the album was met with critical acclaim. Erlewine gave the album five stars out of five, praising the rapper's "expansive vocabulary and vivid imagination", adding that "Years later, as the shock has faded, it's those lyrical skills and the subtle mastery of the music that still resonate, and they're what make ''The Slim Shady LP'' one of the great debuts in both hip-hop and modern pop music".<ref name="AllmusicReview"/> [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' described the album's "unapologetic outrageousness" as a reaction to the "soul positivity" of [[conscious hip-hop]], noting that "''The Slim Shady LP'' marks the return of irreverent, wiseass attitude to the genre, heard throughout the album in its nonstop barrage of crudely funny rhymes&nbsp;... Even pop fans deadened to graphic lyrics are likely to flinch."<ref name="EWeekly Review"/> [[Soren Baker]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' gave the album three and a half stars out of four and stated that "He isn't afraid to say anything; his lyrics are so clever that he makes murder sound as if it's a funny act he may indulge in simply to pass the time" but lamented the "sometimes flat production that takes away from the power of Eminem's verbal mayhem".<ref name="LATimes Review"/>

Many reviewers commented on the album's lyrical content. Gilbert Rodman of ''[[Popular Communications]]'' states, "Eminem's music contains more than its fair share of misogynistic and homophobic lyrics, but simply to reduce it to these (as many critics do) doesn't help to explain Eminem. It merely invokes a platitude or a sound bite to explain him away."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rodman|first=Gilbert|title=And Other Four Letter Words: Eminem And The Cultural Politics Of Authenticity|journal=[[Popular Communications]]|year=2006|pages=100}}</ref> [[Rob Sheffield]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' enjoyed the record's comedic nature, writing "Simply put: Eminem will crack you up", but also felt that the misogynistic lyrics grow tiresome, noting that "the wife-killing jokes of '97 Bonnie and Clyde' aren't any funnier than [[Garth Brooks]]', and 'My Fault' belongs on some sorry-ass [[Bloodhound Gang]] record."<ref name="RSReview"/> [[Nathan Rabin]] of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' felt that although the album is "sophomoric and uninspired" at times, Eminem's "surreal, ultraviolent, trailer-trash/post-gangsta-rap extremism is at least a breath of fresh air in a rap world that's despairingly low on new ideas."<ref name="Rabin">{{cite news|url=https://www.avclub.com/articles/eminem-the-slim-shady-lp,20723/|title=Eminem: The Slim Shady LP - Review|last=Rabin|first=Nathan|newspaper=[[The A.V. Club]]|publisher=The Onion, Inc.|date=February 23, 1999|access-date=March 11, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103160810/http://www.avclub.com/articles/eminem-the-slim-shady-lp,20723/|archive-date=November 3, 2012}}</ref> Mike Rubin of ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' noted that "his scenarios are so far-fetched the songs almost never sound as ugly as they actually are."<ref name="Spinreview"/> Chris Dafoe of ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' opined that "Abused by fellow students and teachers, cheated on by his girlfriend, despised by society, Shady goes over the top now and then - or rather way over the top - but Dre's lean production, full of strange voice and comic interjections, hold things together."<ref name="Theglobereview">{{cite news|title=The Slim Shady LP - Review|last=Dafoe|first=Chris|date=April 16, 1999|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|publisher=Phillip Crawley}}</ref> Reviewing for ''[[The Village Voice]]'' in 1999, [[Robert Christgau]] called the record a "platinum-bound [[cause celebre]]" and, despite succumbing to "dull [[sensationalism]]" toward the end, Eminem shows "more comic genius than any pop musician since", possibly, [[Loudon Wainwright III]]."<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=March 23, 1999|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv399-99.php|title=Consumer Guide|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|access-date=March 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327101113/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv399-99.php|archive-date=March 27, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===Accolades===
{{See also|List of awards and nominations received by Eminem}}
At the [[42nd Grammy Awards]] in 2000, the album won [[Grammy Award for Best Rap Album|Best Rap Album]], while "My Name Is" won [[Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance|Best Rap Solo Performance]].<ref name="RSbio">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/eminem/biography|title=Eminem - Biography|last=Serpick|first=Evan|magazine=Rolling Stone|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429092754/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/eminem/biography|archive-date=April 29, 2012|access-date=March 10, 2012}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone'' ranked ''The Slim Shady LP'' number 275 on its list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] and 33 on its list of the "100 Best Albums of the '90s".<ref name="273rd">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/the-slim-shady-lp-eminem-19691231|title=500 Greatest Albums: The Slim Shady LP - Eminem|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=February 16, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112034347/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/the-slim-shady-lp-eminem-19691231|archive-date=January 12, 2012}}</ref><ref name="33rd">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-nineties-20110427/eminem-the-slim-shady-lp-19691231|title=100 Best Albums of the '90s: Eminem - The Slim Shady LP|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=February 16, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220061705/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-nineties-20110427/eminem-the-slim-shady-lp-19691231|archive-date=February 20, 2012}}</ref> In 2020, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked ''The Slim Shady LP'' as the 352nd greatest album of all time on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. ''[[NME]]'' ranked it number 248 in its list of [[NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-300-201-1426482|title=The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 300-201 {{!}} NME|date=October 24, 2013|website=NME|language=en-GB|access-date=March 9, 2020}}</ref> [[Blender (magazine)|''Blender'']] ranked it number 49 in its list of The 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blender.com/articles/issue5/100_greatest.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020419222457/http://blender.com/articles/issue5/100_greatest.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 19, 2002|title=[BLENDER: Articles]|date=April 19, 2002|access-date=March 9, 2020}}</ref> "Ken Kaniff" was listed as number 15 on ''[[Complex (magazine)|Complex]]''{{'}}s "50 Greatest Hip-Hop Skits" list, while the "Public Service Announcement" introduction to the album, along with the "Public Service Announcement 2000" introduction from ''The Marshall Mathers LP'', was listed as number 50 on the list.<ref name="Bestskit"/><ref name="BestskitKK">{{cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/music/2011/12/the-50-greatest-hip-hop-skits/eminem-ken-kaniff|title=The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Skits - Eminem "Ken Kaniff"|last=Alvarez|first=Gabriel|date=December 6, 2011|access-date=March 11, 2012|work=Complex|publisher=Complex Media|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103160906/http://www.complex.com/music/2011/12/the-50-greatest-hip-hop-skits/eminem-ken-kaniff|archive-date=November 3, 2012}}</ref> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' later included it in their list of "The 300 Best Albums of 1985–2014".<ref name="spin.com">{{cite journal |date=May 11, 2015 |title=The 300 best albums of the past 30 years(1985-2014) |url=https://www.spin.com/2015/05/the-300-best-albums-of-the-past-30-years-1985-2014/3/ |journal=Spin |access-date=March 14, 2021}}</ref> It also won Outstanding National Album at the 2000 [[Detroit Music Awards]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyrock.com/worldbeat/04_2000/041700b.asp |title=Kid Rock, Eminem, Stevie Wonder, and CeCe Winans Among the Winners at the 2000 Detroit Music Awards |publisher=NY Rock |date=April 17, 2000 |access-date=January 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314191800/http://www.nyrock.com/worldbeat/04_2000/041700b.asp |archive-date=March 14, 2012 }}</ref> In 2015, it was ranked at number 76 by ''About.com'' in their list of "100 best hip-hop albums of all time".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Adaso|first1=Henry|title=100 best hip hop albums|url=http://rap.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/100-Best-Hip-Hop-Albums.02.htm|website=About.com|access-date=May 1, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428143742/http://rap.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/100-Best-Hip-Hop-Albums.02.htm|archive-date=April 28, 2016}}</ref> Christgau later named it among his 10 best albums from the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|date=May 19, 2021|url=https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-may-2021|title=Xgau Sez: May, 2021|work=And It Don't Stop|publisher=[[Substack]]|access-date=May 23, 2021}}</ref> In 2022, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked The Slim Shady LP number 85 in their list of "The 200 Greatest Rap Albums of all time".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Weingarten |first1=Charles Aaron, Mankaprr Conteh, Jon Dolan, Will Dukes, Dewayne Gage, Joe Gross, Kory Grow, Christian Hoard, Jeff Ihaza, Julyssa Lopez, Mosi Reeves, Yoh Phillips, Noah Shachtman, Rob Sheffield, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Christopher R. |last2=Aaron |first2=Charles |last3=Conteh |first3=Mankaprr |last4=Dolan |first4=Jon |last5=Dukes |first5=Will |last6=Gage |first6=Dewayne |last7=Gross |first7=Joe |last8=Grow |first8=Kory |last9=Hoard |first9=Christian |date=June 7, 2022 |title=The 200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-hip-hop-albums-1323916/ |access-date=June 8, 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>