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Jake Bass celebrates 25-year anniversary of Eminem’s “SSLP” with an iconic picture

To celebrate 25 years anniversary of Eminem‘s major label debut album The Slim Shady LP, producer, composer and music engineer, Jake Bass, who is also a son of legendary Jeff Bass from Bass Brothers, dedicated a post to Slim Shady on social media.

Jake Bass shared a picture of Eminem’s “The Slim Shady LP” and “My Name Is” covers displayed on huge billboard which he took in California. In the caption, he wrote: “25 YEARS!!! February 23rd, 1999 was the release of The Slim Shady LP by @eminem and the day I took this photo in Cali!!! It was the craziest feeling seeing the WEB logo on a billboard in Hollywood!!! No one knew what would end up happening, but a week later, after charting at Number 2, our world and THE world was changed forever.”

The Slim Shady LP debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, just below TLC’s FanMail album, and No. 1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It was a critical and commercial success, with critics praising Eminem for his unique lyrical style, dark humor lyrics, and unusual personality. The first single, “My Name Is”, became Eminem’s first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. The album won Best Rap Album at the 2000 Grammy Awards, while “My Name Is” won Best Rap Solo Performance. In 2000, The Slim Shady LP was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It is often mentioned in lists of the greatest albums of all time.

Jake Bass officially joined the “family business” working for FBT Productions in 2004, the caliber of which artists like Eminem and other fine artists made their very beginnings or early successes.

In November 2016, Jake and F.B.T. Productions co-produced and performed the instrumentation on the 20th anniversary remix of Eminem’s 1996 debut single “Infinite”, and produced the mini-documentary Partners In Rhyme: The True Story of Infinite. The single, available for the first time digitally, entered Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart at No. 9 with 28,000 downloads sold in its first week. The remix also entered the Digital Song Sales chart at No. 21, the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No. 37, the Spotify Viral 50 chart at No. 47 and The Hot 100 at No. 97.

In December of 2023, Jake became a touring member of D12, playing guitar with them internationally, opening for Ice Cube, Cypress Hill and De La Soul under the name “Dirty Jake.”

Bass Brothers want to make sequel of “The Slim Shady LP” with Eminem

On this day, (February 23, 1999), Eminem released his major-label debut, critically-acclaimed, chart-topping, multi-platinum and Grammy-winning album “The Slim Shady LP,” mostly produced by legendary producers from Detroit, Mark and Jeff Bass, also know as Bass Brothers.

Jeff Bass is considered as one of the most influential people in Eminem’s incredible career. Although Interscope Records marketed Dr. Dre as Eminem’s major producer, the Bass Brothers have in fact produced more individual tracks for Eminem than Dre. Jeff Bass performed the “Public Service Announcements” that introduce both The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP.

Most of Eminem’s chart-topping hit singles have been either produced by Dre (“My Name Is”, “The Real Slim Shady”, and “Just Lose It”) or Jeff Bass (“Without Me”, “Beautiful”, and “Lose Yourself”). Both have won Grammy Awards for their work with Eminem. Jeff Bass won a Best Original Song Oscar in 2003 for co-writing “Lose Yourself” from the No. 1 box office movie, 8 Mile.

Although the brothers no longer do significant production for Eminem, Slim Shady has stated that they maintain a positive and close relationship as they have attended Eminem’s recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony. As it appears, Bass Brothers are down to the idea of making the sequel of “The Slim Shady LP.” Few hours ago, Jake Bass, who is a son of Jeff Bass, shared the initiative statement on Twitter: “The Basses are still making music and they say they’d love to work with Eminem again. Jeff relishes the idea of Slim Shady LP sequel.” In the caption, he wrote: “It’s time for a sequel @Eminem.” You can check the post below:

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