Because of the competing demographics of music listeners in this era, TRL had a now quite odd-sounding mix of bubblegum pop directed at female teenagers - Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, the Backstreet Boys - and angrier fare directed at South Park-obsessed male teenagers, including Korn, Limp Bizkit and Eminem. By this stage - 1998-1999 - MTV was in the process of transitioning more heavily to non-music programming, but Total Request Live was music focused, and teen-focused, playing the most requested songs of the day. Like Limp Bizkit, the Bloodhound Gang had been prominent for a little while before ‘The Bad Touch’ they had something of an alternative rock hit with ‘Fire Water Burn’ in 1996 while Jimmy Pop’s voice as a rapper is deeper than Eminem’s and characterised by a very deadpan style, there are similarities between their schticks Jimmy Pop’s lyrics brim with skewered pop culture references (‘the drummer from Def Leppard’s only got one arm’ is chanted in one single) from an outsider perspective.īy and large the milieu Eminem is reacting to on ‘The Real Slim Shady’ is the Total Request Live era of MTV (perhaps the last point when MTV had much influence on American pop music). The other white rapper who Eminem may be referring to is Jimmy Pop of the Bloodhound Gang, whose song ‘The Bad Touch’ was released in September 1999 (and the chorus of which Eminem references in ‘The Real Slim Shady’ - ‘of course they gonna know what intercourse is by the time they hit fourth grade, they got the Discovery Channel, don’t they?’). Eminem’s style is more consciously indebted to black rappers than Durst’s is one suspects Durst may well have not known about Dre in the first place. In Fred Durst’s style I do detect a lot of white rappers as influences - there’s a bit of the Beastie Boys in him (there’s occasional group vocals to emphasise the end of a phrase, that group’s hallmark) and there’s a House of Pain/Cypress Hill vibe at times. However, by 1999, Limp Bizkit had already received some airplay for singles off their 1997 album Three Dollar Bill, Y’All - in particular their cover of ‘Faith’ by George Michael - and they were seen as very much in the mould of an emerging ‘nu-metal’ genre, which usually featured a rap-metal hybrid based on the model of Rage Against The Machine and refined by Korn.įred Durst in 1999 was all about a red cap rather than bleached blonde hair, but you can hear a certain resemblance between his voice and Eminem’s they’re both white rappers with quick fire delivery and relatively high pitched, nasal voices (unlike, say, Vanilla Ice, who had a deeper voice and slower delivery). The closest would be Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit ‘Nookie’, Limp Bizkit’s breakthrough single, was released in June 1999. In that time period, as far as I can tell, I don’t think very many white rappers emerged, who one might describe as the ‘fake Slim Shadys’ that Eminem spends much of the song railing against. Wikipedia suggests (and is usually right about this kind of thing) that ‘The Real Slim Shady’ was released in April 2000, barely a year after ‘My Name Is’, Eminem’s breakthrough single (released in January 1999). Thanks for linking that and alerting me to the question! To save a click, here's the text of what I wrote in response to that previous question: Previous AMAs | Previous Roundtables Featuresįeature posts are posted weekly. Please Subscribe to our Google Calendar for Upcoming AMAs and Events To nominate someone else as a Quality Contributor, message the mods. Our flaired users have detailed knowledge of their historical specialty and a proven record of excellent contributions to /r/AskHistorians. Please Read and Understand the Rules Before Contributing. Report Comments That Break Reddiquette or the Subreddit Rules. Serious On-Topic Comments Only: No Jokes, Anecdotes, Clutter, or other Digressions. Provide Primary and Secondary Sources If Asked. Write Original, In-Depth and Comprehensive Answers, Using Good Historical Practices. Questions should be clear and specific in what they ask, and should be able to get detailed answers from historians whose expertise is likely to be in particular times and places. Nothing Less Than 20 Years Old, and Don't Soapbox. Be Nice: No Racism, Bigotry, or Offensive Behavior.
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