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"My Name Is" is a song by Eminem, released in 1999. It was the first single from his major label debut album, The Slim Shady LP
, which was also released that year. This song was the one which first propelled him up the mainstream singles charts (and indeed it also helped the album), and helped establish his rapping styles before achieving much further chart-topping success the following year. This song was so widely known that it was not only the first rap song to grace the TRL number one spot, but was retired after 30 number one days in a row.

The song contains an interpolation of the Labi Siffre song "I Got The" (1975). Siffre, who is openly gay, considered certain lines in the song's original version to be hurtful toward gays and lesbians, and Eminem had to change the lyrics to get the sample cleared.

"My Name Is" was later released on Eminem's greatest hits album, Curtain Call, in 2005.

Changed lyrics

Both edited parts are from the second verse. Original: "My English teacher wanted to have sex in junior high/The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy."
Album: "My English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high/Thanks a lot, next semester I'll be thirty-five."

Original: "Extraterrestrial, killin' pedestrians/Rapin' lesbians, while they're screamin', "LET'S JUST BE FRIENDS!"
Album: "Extraterrestrial, runnin' over pedestrians/In a spaceship, while they're screamin' at me, "LET'S JUST BE FRIENDS!"

On the radio/video version, and the one on the clean version of the Slim Shady LP and Curtain Call, even further changes were made.

Tracks

#"My Name Is" (Slim Shady Radio Edit) #"My Name Is" (Explicit Version) #"My Name Is" (Instrumental)

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