I’m Shady Lyrics

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Eminem raps about his life as a white trash drug dealer and helps introduce the Slim Shady character to the masses. Off The Slim Shady LP, which came out when Slim Shady was not yet widely known.

Melodically and thematically similar to Curtis Mayfield’s “Pusherman”:

On this topic, in Angry Blonde Em wrote:

It’s funny cause I didn’t get the idea from Mayfield’s song. I got it from Ice-T’s “Power” record. I didn’t know Ice got it from “Pusherman.” I used the melody but changed the words.

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What did Eminem say about "I’m Shady"?
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In his 2000 book Angry Blonde Eminem revealed:

This is a song I wrote in Kim’s upstairs apartment. Oh, the memories. I originally wrote this to one of Sade’s tracks [“Turn My Back on You”]. I thought of the bass line and we made the song. I already had the rhyme written, so we did the track to the rhyme. Then I kind of fucked with Curtis Mayfield’s “Pusherman”. It’s funny ‘cause I didn’t get the idea from Mayfield’s song. I got it from Ice-T’s “Power” record. I didn’t know Ice got it from “Pusherman”. I used the melody, but I changed the words.

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