add site
services
publishers
database
health videos
toolbar
stats
live show
health store
more stuff
JOIN/LOGIN
| advertise add site services publishers database health videos
| | about toolbar stats live show health store more stuff JOIN/LOGIN |
Herb Name Cross References, Botanical name - English name jeremyross.com |
"My Name Is" is a song by Eminem, released in 1999. It is the commercial debut but second single overall from his major label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, also released that year. This song was the first to propel him (and his debut album) up the mainstream singles charts, and helped establish his rapping styles, which led to further chart-topping success the following year. Due to the single's widespread exposure, it became the first rap song to grace the top spot on Total Request Live, which was maintained until it was retired after 30 days in a row of it being number one.[citation needed] Producer Dr. Dre wanted to use a sample of Labi Siffre's "I Got The ..." for the rhythm track; however, as revealed in the sleeve notes of the re-mastered CD of the source album, Remember My Song, Siffre (who is openly gay) stated, "attacking two of the usual scapegoats, women and gays, is lazy writing. If you want to do battle, attack the aggressors not the victims." Eminem made lyric changes and Siffre cleared the sample. A few months after the release, The Insane Clown Posse released a parody of this song entitled "Slim Anus" after a feud with Eminem. "My Name Is" was later re-released in 2005, on Eminem's compilation album, Curtain Call: The Hits. There is a viral video speculating that Eminem backmasked the answer to the words "my name is" within the sentence: when played backwards, it sounds close to "[it']s Eminem," while the actual answer, "Slim Shady," when played backwards resembles the words "it is Slim."[1] The song is mixed with Jay-Z's song "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" on the video game DJ Hero.
[edit] Changed lyricsDue to the obscene nature of the original lyrics, the Radio/Video edit version of the song consists of a substantial number of lyrical changes. When the song was released on the Slim Shady LP, the second verse was "reconciled" between the Original and the Radio Edit, removing references that Labi Siffre (whose sample was used in the record) regarded as homophobic. This reconciled version is also the version that was re-released on Curtain Call: The Hits. There are 3 versions of the song, each featuring different lyrics. The original version, the radio/video version and the album version. The most substantial changes are as follows: Original version that was only released on LP:"My English teacher wanted to have sex in junior high / the only problem was, my English teacher was a guy. I smacked him in the face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of paper" and "extra-terrestrial/killing pedestrians/raping lesbians while they're screaming 'Let's just be friends' ". The album-version: "My English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high/thanks a lot, next semester I'll be thirty-five" followed by the chase and the nut-stapling. And "extra-terrestrial/ running over pedestrians/ in a spaceship while they're screaming "Let's just be friends". The clean radio/video version: "My English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high/thanks a lot, next semester I'll be thirty-five, I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler, told him to change the grade on the paper." The clean version also changed plenty of the lyrics to be television friendly. Such as in the edited TV version he says "Hi kids, do you like Primus?" while on the album he says "Hi kids, do you like violence?" no reason was given for this small change, other notable differences are the references of him killing his original self by hanging himself "...since age 12 I felt like I'm someone else, because I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt" and it was completely changed for television, other things such as the Pamela Lee reference, him drinking vodka and driving, him slitting his father's throat, and many other things because they were deemed too vulgar. [edit] Track listing
[edit] Charts
[edit] References
[edit] External links
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ↑ top of page ↑ | about thumbshots |
