My name is (explicit version) — Eminem Lyrics
Album: The Slim Shady
"My Name Is" is a rowdy and threatening introduction for Eminem's alter ego, Slim Shady. Equally wickedly funny, self-loathing, and containing touchstones of controversy, "My Name Is" was the first time many had seen the 1999 Eminem. It was produced by Dr. Dre, sampling Labi Siffre's "I Got The," with this hit single making Eminem mainstream and announcing to the world just what kind of artist he was: an irreverent provocateur.
Throughout the track, there are thoughts of fame, checkered past, and societal critique by Eminem while all the while introducing Slim Shady as some sort of sick way to cope with his real-life adversities. Through shocking, often grotesque, lyrics, he touches on sensitive subjects like drug abuse, violence, and family issues, making his music a platform for social commentary on the culture of celebrity and the public links with contentious personalities.
The role of the chorus within the song "My Name Is" is ample in setting the character of what will become Slim Shady: in stark contrast to Eminem's actual identity of Marshall Mathers. He is able to pull together a pastiche of — once again — infectious hooks and disturbing content, which has a transfixing draw on an audience into Eminem's tumultuous world. Impressions of the song are enforced with a music video of the masterpiece that won the 1999 MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video, passing him on to another chain in popular culture.
Despite its greatness and influence, Eminem himself has had very ambivalent feelings toward "My Name Is," chiefly because of the latter's subsuming nature with his comic persona, which threatens to diminish his more serious work. Regardless, it very much stands as an essential part of his repertoire, charting his complex relationship to fame and personal identification. It not only landed a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance in 2000 but also in a $10 million slander lawsuit by Mathers' mother, Debbie, who had been tormented by the sometime crass, blunt lyrics to his songs involving his family members, which was settled the following year in 2001 with Debbie taking only a small percentage of the settlement afterward the lawyer fees.
"My Name Is" is an archetypal example of how Eminem has been able to come up with numbers that are deeply personal with mass appeal, for being just so good with his lyrics in the way he tries to curb identity, fame, and the human experience.
My name is (explicit version) by Eminem
My name is (what?)
My name is (who?)
My name is (chika-chika) Slim Shady
Hi!
My name is (ha?)
My name is (what?)
My name is (chika-chika) Slim Shady
[Clears throat] Excuse me?
Can I have the attention of the class, for one second?
Hi kids, do you like violence? (yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Wanna see me stick nine-inch nails through each one of
my eyelids? (uh-huh!)
Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? (yeah, yeah!)
Try 'cid and get f**ked up worse than my life is? (huh?)
My brain's dead weight.
I'm tryin'a get my head straight, but I can't figure out
which Spice Girl I wanna impregnate.
And Dr. Dre said "Slim Shady, you a base-head." (uh-uh!)
"Then why's your face red? Man, you wasted."
Well since age twelve I felt like I'm someone else
Cuz I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.
Got p**sed off and ripped Pamela Lee's tits off
And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes
backwards like Kris Kross.
I smoke a fat pound of grass and fall on my ass
Faster than a fat b**ch who sat down too fast.
Come here sl*t
("Shady, wait a minute, that's my girl dawg.")
I don't give a f**k, God sent me to p**s the world off.
Chorus x2
My english teacher wanted to have sex in junior high.
The only problem was, my english teacher was a guy.
so i slapped him in the face with an eraser
Chased him with a stapler.
And stapled his nuts to a stack of paper ("Oww!").
Walked in the strip club
Had my jacket zipped up.
Flashed the bartender
And stuck my dick in her tip cup.
Extra-terrestrials killin pedestrians
rapin' lesbians while they screamin Let's just be friends!!!
Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to.
I just found out my mom does more dope than I do.
I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper.
Make a record about doin' drugs, and name it after her
("Oh, thank you!").
You know you blew up when the women rush the stands
And try to touch your hands like some screamin Usher fans.
This guy at White Castle asked me for my autograph "dude can i have your auto graph?!
So I signed it: 'Dear Dave, thanks for the support..a**hole!'
Chorus x2
Stop the tape!
This kid needs to be locked away! ("Get Him!")
Dr. Dre don't just stand there, opperate!
I'm not ready to leave.
It's too scary to die.
I'll have to be carried inside the cemetery and buried alive.
Am I comin' or goin'? I can barely decide.
I just drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive? ("Go 'head")
All my life I was very deprived.
I ain't had a woman in years.
My palms are too hairy to hide ("Whoops").
Clothes rip like the Incredible Hulk.
I spit when I talk ("Eck-poo!")
I f**k anything that walks ("Come here").
When I was little I used to get so hungry I would throw fits.
How you gonna breast feed me mom?? You ain't got no tits!!
I lay awake and strap myself in the bed.
put a bulletproof vest on, and shoot myself in the head ("BANG!").
blow steamin' mad ("GRRR!").
And by the way, when you see my dad ("yeah")
Tell him I slit his throat in a dream I had.
Chorus X2
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