Grip heard “The Slim Shady LP” the year it was released and he fell under the Slim Shady spell. The charm was served with a side dish of parental panic.
Atlanta studio Rap Portraits released another snippet from Grip’s interview where he talks about listening to Eminem for the first time. He remembers the summer and the fascination he and his friend shared. His friend’s mother was shocked by the content of the album songs, especially “’97 Bonnie & Clyde”. Yet Grip was not interested in gore, as many adults thought back then. He was mesmerised by Slim’s rhymes. He is still able to rap “Brain Damage” from the top of his head:
I used to go visit my mom’s best friend. She had a daughter around my age. Her school was mixed, she had a lot of white friends. We were young. There was a shit called The Box where you could order videos. I remember we were ordering fucking Slim Shady shit, over, over and over. And her mom saw it on a cable bill, as we ordered the video hell of a time. I guess she dabbed into the album, and she was tripping about that shit. Like, he’s talking about murder! And that motherfucking baby mama tying shit! That was the summer when his first album, Slim Shady LP, dropped. That was crazy. Everybody was like, that white boy going in! With Dr. Dre sound… I got the CD. I was bumping it. Studying wordplay. Had not heard a song like that. “These are the results of a thousand electric volts / A neck with bolts / Nurse, we’re losin’ him, check the pulse!”
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