The Slim Shady EP is a debut EP by American rapper Eminem, released on the Detroit-based record label Web Entertainment in 1998. The Slim Shady EP was released on cassette, vinyl, and CD (The vinyl and CD versions were all released at the same time as the cassette.) Unlike Infinite, The Slim Shady EP helped Eminem garner significant underground attention and eventually garnered the interest of famous West Coast hip-hop producer Dr. Dre, who subsequently signed Eminem to his Aftermath label, and executive-produced his breakthrough major-label debut The Slim Shady LP. Eminem sold roughly 250 copies of this EP independently, according to an interview with Zane Lowe. It would not be until Eminem rose to global fame that the album would chart, eventually charting at #27 on the UK Albums Chart in 2001, nearly four years after the album was first released.[4] Eminem desperately tried to contact big producers such as Dr. Dre, (who would later sign Eminem) to do production work on th! e album but with no luck. Instead, he used his friends such as D12, Soul Intent, DanDaMuthaphuckker, and D12 DJ, DJ Head, his mentors the Bass Brothers produced some songs and his friend from D12 Bizzare introduced him to local rapper/producer Hush, DJ Kearney and James Kearney (brothers) would do some production work as well.
