Slim Shady LP Sampling

[Sikotic™]

I know he copied the drum beat from Curtis Mayfirld's "Pusher Man" for the song "I'm Shady"

He even borrowed some of his lines for that same song.

[Tanjential]

Due to the heavy Curtis Mayfield sampling on Doggystyle i bet it was dre's idea to sample him on that..i know dre didn't produce the track but still that's not a far-fetched assumption,just sayin',peace-Tanjint

[Sikotic™]

listen to both songs and you'll see what I mean.

[Tanjential]

I heard that Pusher Man song,it's tight but where does Em steal drums? He just used an interpolation for the chorus really..peace-Tanjint

[Don Jacob]

i'm pretty sure em made that song before he met dre

[Murrow]

I doubt it because I don't think it was on "The Slim Shady EP".  Was it??

[Sikotic™]

yeah it was on sslp

[Murrow]

Okay, cool.  Peace.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

It wasn't on teh EP though...

[Sikotic™]

Nah...I doubt it was on the SSEP and it wasn't produced by Dre.

[Tanjential]

I know it wans't produced by Dre, i said that dammit LOL it never fails..whatever,peace-Tanjint

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

He made tha song before he met Dre!!!

[bodyrott]

This is what he said in his book 'Angry Blonde' about "I'm Shady":

"This is a song I wrote in Kim's upstair's apartment.  Oh, the memories. I originally wrote this to one of Sade's tracks. I thought of the bass line and we made the song. I already had the rhyme written, so we did the track to the rhyme. Then I kind of fucked with Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman". It's funny 'cause I didn't get the idea from Mayfield's song. I got it from Ice-T's "Power" record. I didn't know Ice got it from "Pusherman". I used the melody, but I changed the words."