Album: The Slim Shady LP
Artist: Eminem
Title: My Name Is
Track: Track 2
Writers: Dr. Dre, Labi Siffre & Eminem
Produced by: Dr. Dre
Release date: January 25, 1999
My Name Is Lyrics
[Chorus: Eminem]
Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, what?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, what? (Excuse me) My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
(Can I have the attention of the class for one second?)
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, what?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
[Verse 1: Eminem & Dr. Dre]
Hi, kids, do you like violence? (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Wanna see me stick nine-inch nails through each one of my eyelids? (Uh-huh)
Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? (Yeah, yeah)
Try ‘cid and get fucked up worse than my life is? (Huh?)
My brain’s dead weight, I’m tryna get my head straight
But I can’t figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate (Oh)
And Dr. Dre said, “Slim Shady, you a basehead” (Uh-uh)
“Then why’s your face red? Man, you wasted”
Well, since age 12, I felt like I’m someone else
‘Cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt
Got pissed off and ripped Pamela Lee’s tits off
And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross
I smoke a fat pound of grass, and fall on my ass
Faster than a fat bitch who sat down too fast
Come here, slut; “Shady, wait a minute, that’s my girl, dawg”
I don’t give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off
[Chorus: Eminem]
Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, what?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, what?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
[Verse 2: Eminem]
My English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high (Shh)
Thanks a lot, next semester I’ll be 35
I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler
And stapled his nuts to a stack of paper (Ow)
Walked in the strip club, had my jacket zipped up
Flashed the bartender, then stuck my dick in the tip cup
Extraterrestrial, running over pedestrians in a spaceship While they’re screaming at me, “Let’s just be friends”
99 percent of my life, I was lied to
I just found out my mom does more dope than I do (Damn)
I told her I’d grow up to be a famous rapper
Make a record about doin’ drugs and name it after her
(Oh, thank you)
You know you blew up when the women rush your stands
And try to touch your hands like some screamin’ Usher fans
(Ahh, ahh, ahh)
This guy at White Castle asked for my autograph (Dude, can I get your autograph?)
So I signed it, “Dear Dave, thanks for the support, asshole”
[Chorus: Eminem]
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
[Verse 3: Eminem]
Stop the tape, this kid needs to be locked away (Get him)
Dr. Dre, don’t just stand there, operate
I’m not ready to leave, it’s too scary to die (Fuck that)
I’ll have to be carried inside the cemetery and buried alive
(Huh, yup)
Am I comin’ or goin’? I can barely decide
I just drank a fifth of vodka, dare me to drive? (Go ahead)
All my life I was very deprived
I ain’t had a woman in years and my palms are too hairy to hide (Whoops)
Clothes ripped like the Incredible Hulk
I spit when I talk, I’ll fuck anything that walks (Come here)
When I was little, I used to get so hungry I would throw fits
How you gonna breastfeed me, Mom? You ain’t got no tits
I lay awake and strap myself in the bed
With a bulletproof vest on and shoot myself in the head (Bang)
‘Cause I’m steamin’ mad (Grr)
And by the way, when you see my dad (Yeah?)
Tell him that I slit his throat in this dream I had
[Chorus: Eminem]
Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, what?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, who? My name is, huh?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady
About the “My Name Is” song:
The song that catapulted Eminem onto the international stage. This was the second single from Eminem’s major label debut The Slim Shady LP (the first was “Just Don’t Give a Fuck,” which also appeared on his minor-label release The Slim Shady EP).
While Marshall was awarded a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance at the 42nd Grammy Awards in 2000, the song wasn’t without controversy. Lyrics such as: “99 percent of my life I was lied to / I just found out my mom does more dope than I do,” were the reason Debbie Mathers (Eminem’s mother) sued him, but the controversy does not end here.
“My Name Is” samples the 1975 song “I Got The…” by British musician Labi Siffre:
Siffre (an openly gay man) was reluctant to let his song be sampled in a song as homophobic as “My Name Is.” He eventually let Dr. Dre and Eminem sample the song on the condition that they get rid of the lines about raping lesbians and Eminem’s gay junior high teacher. Both of those lyrics can still be found on the extra explicit version of the song. When Labi Siffre’s album “Remember My Song” was re-released, Labi Siffre mentioned Eminem and My Name Is lyrics in his liner notes:
Attacking two of the usual scapegoats, women and gays, is lazy writing. If you want to be radical, if you want to do battle, attack the aggressors not the victims.
— Labi Siffre referring to Eminem in the liner notes of the re-release of his album “Remember My Song”