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Dr. Dre & Eminem

The Real Slim Shady

1999 · via Tommy Coster, Jr.

Dr. Dre & Eminem’s 1999 recording of “The Real Slim Shady” is the earliest release on file. Dr. Dre and Eminem share the writing credit with Tommy Coster, Jr. and Mike Elizondo. Also recorded by Garrison Keillor, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Tom Keith, The Guy’s All‐Star Shoe Band, VocalEssence (released 2015), Studio 99 (released 2002) and Luca Stricagnoli (released 2019), among 57 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Coster's name sits on that credit right beside Dre and Elizondo, which means a song you could hum in your sleep had a co-writer you never heard of. Follow him and you end up at the voice that made it famous.

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Credited writers: Tommy Coster, Jr., Dr. Dre, Mike Elizondo and Eminem.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1999.

Other recordings on file · first release year

57 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Tommy Coster, Jr. shares the writing credit on "The Real Slim Shady" with Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo. Which artist, also on that credit, put the song out?Eminem
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