Eminem's incredible chart success began in 1999 with the release of The Slim Shady LP, which contained the huge smash hit My Name Is.

Debbie Mathers-Briggs filed the $10 million lawsuit against her son in September 1999, claiming that on his debut album, The Slim Shady LP, Eminem portrayed his mother as an unstable drug user ...

His song "I'm Shady" on "The Slim Shady" LP, released in 1999, includes the line: "Well, I do take pills, don't do speed/don't do crack, don't do coke/I do smoke weed/don't do smack/I do do ...