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The Real Slim Shady

1999 · via Eminem

Eminem’s 1999 recording of “The Real Slim Shady” is the earliest release on file. Eminem shares the writing credit with Tommy Coster, Jr., Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo. Also recorded by Dr. Dre & Eminem (released 2010), Garrison Keillor, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Tom Keith, The Guy’s All‐Star Shoe Band, VocalEssence (released 2015) and Studio 99 (released 2002), among 57 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000).

Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
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Credited writers: Tommy Coster, Jr., Dr. Dre, Mike Elizondo and Eminem.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1999.

Also filed under Eminem & Dr. Dre.

On the album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000).

Other recordings on file · first release year

57 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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