The major-label debut as controlled demolition: SSLP introduces the Slim Shady persona — cartoon violence, trailer-park despair, technical rapping nobody could match — over Dre's springy funk. "My Name Is" made him a star; "Rock Bottom" showed the poverty underneath the shock. A quarter century later, still hip-hop's most disruptive arrival.
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