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Eminem

Low Down, Dirty

Release date: 6th December 1997

From Slim Shady EP
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About This Track

'Low Down, Dirty' opens the Slim Shady EP as Eminem's introduction to the character that would define his early work. The track sits on a sample loop and features a chorus built around Redman and The Notorious B.I.G., establishing the posture Eminem would inhabit throughout: a figure unashamed of transgression, operating in the margins of taste and decency. The production is sparse and propulsive, letting the vocals sit front and centre. Eminem's verse is a catalogue of provocations and boasts, layered with the fractured logic of someone claiming multiple identities at once. He positions himself as both victim and perpetrator, adopting the voice of someone whose mind is fragmenting under pressure, and the rhyme schemes snap and twist to match that instability. The song functions as a warning label and a mission statement in one: crude, hostile, and designed to provoke precisely the kind of moral panic that would follow his rise.

"Low Down, Dirty" is a track by Eminem, from the album Slim Shady EP, released 6th December 1997. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Eminem.

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Lyrics

Low Down, Dirty

[Chorus: Redman, The Notorious B.I.G. & Eminem]

I'm low down and dirty, but not ashamed!

Low down dirty, even, I'm low down and I'm shifty!

And if you hear a man that sounds like me, smack him

Then ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from!

I'm low down and dirty, but not ashamed!

Low down dirty, even, I'm low down and I'm shifty! (Ahh)

And if you hear a man that sounds like me, smack him

Then ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from!

[Verse 1: Eminem]

Warnin', this shit's gon' be rated R: restricted

You see this bullet hole in my neck? It's self-inflicted

Doctor slapped my mama, "Bitch, you got a sick kid"

Arrested, molested myself, and got convicted

Wearin' visors, sunglasses, and disguises

'Cause my split personality is havin' an identity crisis

I'm Dr. Hyde and Mr. Jekyll, disrespectful

Hearin' voices in my head while these whispers echo

"Murder-murder, redrum!", brain size of a bread crumb

Which drug will I end up dead from?

Inebriated 'til my stress is alleviated

"How in the fuck can Eminem and Shady be related?"

Illiterate, illegitimate shit spitter

Bitch getter, hid in the bush like Margot Kidder

Jumped out (Rah!), killed the bitch and did her

Used to let the babysitter suck my dick when I was littler

Smoke a blunt while I'm titty fucking Bette Midler (Ah! Ah!)

Sniper, waiting on your roof like the Fiddler

Y'all thought I was gonna rhyme with Riddler, didn't ya?

Bring yo bitch, I wanna see if this dick gon' fit in her

[Chorus: Redman, The Notorious B.I.G. & Eminem]

I'm low down and dirty, but not ashamed!

Low down dirty, even, I'm low down and I'm shifty!

And if you hear a man that sounds like me, smack him

Then ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from!

I'm low down and dirty, but not ashamed!

Low down dirty, even, I'm low down and I'm shifty!

And if you hear a man that sounds like me, smack him

Then ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from!

[Verse 2: Eminem]

I lace tunes, that's out this world like space moons

With a bunch of crazed loons dismissin' brains like graze wounds

Nothing but idiots and misfits, dipshits

Doin' whippets, passed out like sampler snippets (Hi)

Where's the weed? I wanna tamper with it

I'ma let your grandpa hit it

Lace it up with cocaine, so he can't forget it

Fuck it, maybe I'm a bum

But I was put on this earth to make your baby mama cum

So what I'm on is way beyond the rum

Or any alcoholic beverage, losing all of my leverage

Went up inside the First National Bank broke and left rich

Walking biohazard causing wreckage, smoked out like Eckrich

Dandruff's making my neck itch, what the fuck? Give me the check, bitch!

You just lost your tip, there's a pubic hair in my breakfast (The fuck is this?)

Got shit popping off like bottle cap tips (Pew)

Get your cap peeled like the dead skin of your mama's chapped lips

Slap dips, support domestic violence

Beat your bitch's ass while your kids stare in silence (Hahahaha)

I'm just joking, is Dirty Dozen really dust smoking?

If all your shit's missing, then probably one of us broke in

[Chorus: Redman, The Notorious B.I.G. & Eminem]

I'm low down and dirty, but not ashamed!

Low down dirty, even, I'm low down and I'm shifty!

And if you hear a man that sounds like me, smack him

Then ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from!

I'm low down and dirty, but not ashamed!

Low down dirty, even, I'm low down and I'm shifty!

And if you hear a man that sounds like me, smack him

Then ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from!

[Verse 3: Eminem]

My head's ringing, like it was Spider-Sense tingling

Blitzin' like Green Bay did when they shitted on New England

I'm out the game, put the second string in

This Brandy got me swinging, bobbing back and forth like a penguin (Ah-de-la, ah-de-la)

Delinquent, chokin' microphones with broken English

Make your mama be like, "Ooh, this is good! Who sings this?"

"Slim Shady, his tape is dope, I dug it

It's rugged, but he needs to quit talking all that drug shit" (Drug shit)

It was predicted by a medic, I'd grow

To be an addicted diabetic, livin' on liquid Triaminic

Pathetic, but I don't think this headache's ever vanishin'

Panicking, I think I might have just took too much Anacin

Frozen mannequin, posin' stiffer than a statue

I think I'm dying; God, is that you? (God, is that you?)

Somebody help me, before I OD on an LP

Take me to ER ASAP for an IV

Motherfuck JLB, they don't support no hip-hop

They say that's where it lives, the closest they gon' come is 2Pac

It's politics, it's all a fix

Set up for these white blue-collared hicks

It's to make a dollar off of black music

With a subliminal ball of tricks (Pssh)

For those who kiss ass and swallow dicks

[Chorus: Redman, The Notorious B.I.G. & Eminem]

I'm low down and dirty, but not ashamed!

Low down dirty, even, I'm low down and I'm shifty!

And if you hear a man that sounds like me, smack him

Then ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from!

I'm low down and dirty, but not ashamed!

Low down dirty, even, I'm low down and I'm shifty! (Ahh)

And if you hear a man that sounds like me, smack him

Then ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from!

[Produced by Da Brigade]

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Slim Shady EP

1997
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Album
Slim Shady EP
Slim Shady EP
Eminem
Release year
1997
  1. —Low Down, Dirty
  2. —Mommy (Skit)
  3. —Slim Shady (Intro)
  4. —Just Don't Give A Fuck (EP Version)
  5. —Just The Two Of Us (’97 Bonnie And Clyde Original)
  6. —If I Had (Radio Edit)
  7. —Just Don’t Give a Fuck (Radio Edit)
  8. —No One’s Iller
  9. —Murder, Murder

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