The Real Slim Shady (Song)

"The Real Slim Shady" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his third album *The Marshall Mathers LP* (2000). It was released as the lead single a month before the album's release.

"The Real Slim Shady" was Eminem's first song to reach number one in the UK and it also peaked at number four on the *Billboard* Hot 100, giving him his biggest hit up to that point. The song was the 14th best selling of 2000 in the UK. It won multiple awards, including MTV Video Music Awards for Best Video and Best Male Video, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. In October 2011, *NME* placed it at number 80 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". It was listed at number 396 on *NME*'s 500 greatest songs of all time.

## Lyrics

* May I have your attention, please?
* May I have your attention, please?
* Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
* I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
* We're gonna have a problem here?
* Y'all act like you never seen a white person before
* Jaws all on the floor like Pam, like Tommy just burst in the door
* And started whoopin' her ass worse than before
* They first were divorced, throwin' her over furniture (ah!)
* It's the return of the-, oh, wait, no way, you're kidding
* He didn't just say what I think he did, did he?
* And Dr. Dre said-, nothing you idiots
* Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement (haha)
* Feminist women love Eminem
* Chicka-chicka-chicka Slim Shady, I'm sick of him
* Look at him, walkin' around, grabbin' his you-know-what
* Flippin' the you-know-who, yeah, but he's so cute though
* Yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
* But no worse, than what's goin' on in your parents bedrooms
* Sometimes I wanna get on TV and just let loose, but can't
* But it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose
* My bum is on your lips, my bum is on your lips
* And if I'm lucky you might just give it a little kiss
* And that's the message that we deliver to little kids
* And expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is
* Of course, they're gonna know what intercourse is
* By the time they hit fourth grade
* They got the Discovery Channel, don't they?
* We ain't nothin' but mammals
* Well, some of us are cannibals
* Who cut other people open like cantaloupes
* But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
* Then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope
* But if you feel like I feel, I got the antidote
* Women wave your pantyhose, sing the chorus and it goes...
* I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
* All you other Slim Shadys, are just imitating
* So won't the real Slim Shady, please stand up?
* Please stand up, please stand up
* 'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
* All you other Slim Shadys, are just imitating
* So won't the real Slim Shady, please stand up?
* Please stand up, please stand up
* Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records
* Well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too
* You think I give a damn about a Grammy
* Half of you critics can't even stomach me
* Let alone stand me
* But Slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird?
* Why, so you guys can just lie to get me here
* So you can sit me here next to Britney Spears?
* Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs
* So I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst
* And hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first
* Little bitch put me on blast on MTV
* Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hehe!
* I should download her audio on mp3
* And show the whole world, how you gave Eminem VD (ahh!)
* I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups, all you do is annoy me
* So I have been sent here to destroy you
* And there's a million of us just like me
* Who cuss like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
* Who dress like me, walk talk and act like me
* And just might be, the next best thing, but not quite me
* 'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
* All you other Slim Shadys, are just imitating
* So won't the real Slim Shady, please stand up?
* Please stand up, please stand up
* 'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
* All you other Slim Shadys, are just imitating
* So won't the real Slim Shady, please stand up?
* Please stand up, please stand up
* I'm like a head trip to listen to, 'cause I'm only givin' you
* Things you joke about with your friends inside your livin' room
* The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all
* And I don't gotta be false or sugar-coat it at all
* I just get on the mic and spit it
* And whether you like to admit it, I just shit it
* Better than ninety percent of you rappers out can
* Then you wonder, how can kids eat up these albums like Valiums?
* It's funny 'cause at the rate I'm goin' when I'm thirty
* I'll be the only person in the nursin' home flirting
* Pinchin' nurses asses while I'm jackin' off with Jergens
* And I'm jerkin' but this whole bag of Viagra isn't workin'
* In every single person there's a Slim Shady lurkin'
* He could be workin' at Burger King, spittin' on your onion rings
* Or in the parkin' lot circling, screamin' I don't give a fuck
* With his windows down and his system up
* So will the real Shady, please stand up?
* And put one of those fingers, on each hand up
* And be proud to be outta your mind and outta control
* And one more time loud as you can, how does it go?
* I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
* All you other Slim Shadys, are just imitating
* So won't the real Slim Shady, please stand up?
* Please stand up, please stand up
* 'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
* All you other Slim Shadys, are just imitating
* So won't the real Slim Shady, please stand up?
* Please stand up, please stand up
* 'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
* All you other Slim Shadys, are just imitating
* So won't the real Slim Shady, please stand up?
* Please stand up, please stand up
* 'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
* All you other Slim Shadys, are just imitating
* So won't the real Slim Shady, please stand up?
* Please stand up, please stand up
* Haha, guess there's a Slim Shady in all of us
* Fuck it, let's all stand up