The album won a Grammy for Best Rap Album and was ranked number 273 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The Slim Shady LP was a critical and commercial success, launching Eminem from a unknown rapper to a high-profiled celebrity, the album sold 283,000 copies in it's first week, debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 and went on to be certified quadruple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The majority of the lyrical content on the album is written in the prospective of the rapper's alter ego Slim Shady and is noted for its over-the-top deceptions of violence and heavy use of profanity. Dre, The Bass Brothers, Mel-Man and Eminem himself and was recorded during 19 at Studio 8 in Ferndale, Michigan. The Slim Shady LP is the second and first major label studio album by American hip hop artist Eminem that was released on Februunder Interscope Records subsidiary Aftermath Entertainment. Dre (exec.), Eminem, Mark & Jeff Bass (exec.), Mel-Man Eminem Chronology Infinite (1999) Track listing Promotional CD single No.Dr. Nicole Brown Simpson, stated that Eminem is "a priest with the child", and he responds "I love beer with sausages".
The opening of the song, where Eminem announces his attempt to drown himself and that the audience can imitate him, is left out, and transforms himself into a chicken character that resembling Foghorn Leghorn from Looney Tunes.
The video is a darker comedic offering than " My Name Is", directed by Dr. David Browne described this: "In Role Model, he gleefully debunks the idea of rappers as heroes ( So if I said I never do drugs, that would mean I lie and get f -ed more than the President does)." RapReviews highlighted following lyrics: "I get a clean shave, bathe, go to a rave/ Die from an overdose and dig myself up out of my grave/ My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?/ And this is how I'm supposed to teach kids how to behave?" Music video