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Eminem shares rare facts about “My Name Is” music video

In a new episode of Vevo Footnotes Eminem added context to the recording of his iconic “My Name Is” single and shared some details about its visual supplement. In addition to reflecting on “the learning curve of being on the set of such a large-scale production for the first time,” Eminem took a moment to address some chatter surrounding the project. Check out all the facts told by Slim Shady himself below.

— This was the second song we did during my first session with Dr. Dre. He had a turntable in the studio, dropped the needle on the record and I just started saying “Hi, my name is” over that little snippet.

— Once we hit on that section of Labi Siffre’s song, Dre had the idea to make it into a beat. Dre and his musicians actually recreated Labi Siffer’s record…The interpolation made it more hip-hop.

—I went back to the apartments in Los Angeles where I was living at the time and wrote some dummy verses that night. We both thought it would be a good way to introduce me to the world.

— We shot this video a few months after recording the song – a big moment. It was only second video I had ever done and the first was real low budget.

— Gheorghe Mureșan is 7 foot 7. He was the tallest guy we could think of that could play the ventriloquist so that I could sit on his lap and look like I’m the size of a dummy. I’m glad he had a sense of humor and was down to shoot it with us.

— This video was the first big budget thing I had ever done. It was such a big deal to experience a soundstage, a full crew, and all the things that come with shooting something at that scale. It was such a huge learning curve to see what a big Hollywood production looked like.

— Dre had a working relationship with with the director Phil Atwell (who also directed “The Real Slim Shady,” “Stan,” “Lose Yourself,” “Just Lose It”) They created the vision. It’s hard to imagine the song existing without that video. They perfectly complement each other.

— If you look closely at my eyes during the scene where I was dressed like Bill Clinton, it may look like I was high on ecstasy during that part of the shoot…But that’s just a rumor.

— Looking back this seems like the perfect introduction to the world, a a perfect first single for my major label debut. I don’t think I would have done it any differently, but I certainly had no idea how big it was going to become.

— I don’t think I could write an update in 2024, but maybe I’ll have them write “Bye, My Name Was” on my tombstone.

Eminem premiered “My Name Is” music video on MTV Total Request Live on January 21, 1999. It was ranked No. 71 in NME‘s 100 Greatest Music Videos list. It received three nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards and won in “Best New Artist in a Video” category.

Watch Eminem’s “My Name Is” scene from “Sing 2” movie

Back in 2016, the studio behind the “Despicable Me” franchise and “The Secret Life of Pets” released “Sing,” a movie about a koala named Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), who hosts a singing competition to save his floundering theater.

The trailer of the movie featured Eminem’s “Sing For The Moment,” from his 2002 album, The Eminem Show.

Today, Sing 2 hit the theaters in the United States, the new part of the movie is focused on Buster Moon and his friends who must persuade reclusive rock star Clay Calloway to join them for the opening of a new show.

Eminem’s “My Name Is” from his 1999 album, The Slim Shady LP, is now a part of the movie as ducklings are singing Slim Shady’s mega-hit song for the audition.

You can watch the scene below:

Pete Davidson spoofs Eminem’s “My Name Is” on his latest SNL Christmas episode

It’s 2054, and Pete Davidson has to prove that he’s still got it.

It was a very strange night for Saturday Night Live. The big Christmas episode was set to induct Paul Rudd into the Five Timers Club but a reported COVID-19 outbreak among the cast forced the show to piece together an episode with only two of the current cast, Kenan Thompson and Michael Che.

Shot in black and white, “An Evening With Pete” imagines a sad, washed-up Pete Davidson 33 years in the future. Like a lounge singer working a dingy club decades past his prime, old Pete does a faux Weekend Update with a robot Colin Jost. A bored patron heckles him to “Do Chad!” his most well-known recurring character.

Pete does a Warren Beatty-themed parody of Eminem’s 1999 hit song “My Name Is,” from The Slim Shady LP album while cast member Chloe Fineman asks what exactly type of audience is this for.

Later in the sketch, Pete says he’d like to do a song with his friend, Machine Gun Kelly and brings out chalice with MGK’s dust in it and 1990-2054 written on it.

“Sing 2” trailer has ducklings singing Eminem’s “My Name Is”

“Sing 2,” the sequel to the 2016 animated movie, where Hollywood superstar Matthew McConaughey played a koala who is hosting a singing competition to save his struggling theater is coming out on Christmas.

Real-life pop mega-stars Halsey, Bono and Pharrell Williams have also joined the cast, which also includes Scarlett Johansson as a rocker porcupine, Reese Witherspoon and Nick Kroll as pigs, and Tori Kelly as a shy elephant.

The plot revolves around the gang convincing a reclusive rock star lion — that’s Bono — to star in a new stage show, and the new trailer features anthropomorphic animals singing Billie Eilish’s “Bury A Friend,” Eminem’s 1999 hit song “My Name Is,” Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” System Of A Down’s “Chop Suey,” and many more.

You can watch the trailer below:

“Sing 1” trailer, which came out in 2016, features Eminem’s “Sing For The Moment.” Watch it below:

BECK remembers losing Labi Siffre sample to Eminem

This Friday marks the 25th anniversary of Beck’s landmark album Odelay. Beck went on Matt Wilkinson’s Apple Radio show today to discuss the Odelay era and other career tidbits.

At one point the interview drifted ahead a couple years to the moment when Beck was preparing to release 1999’s Midnite Vultures.

“I went in my first meeting with Jimmy Iovine and I had Midnite Vultures and I was going to play it for him. He said, “Before we do anything, I just signed this kid. It’s going to be massive. It’s going to change everything. We just got the video. They just sent it to us today. Sit down and watch this.” Me and my manager sat down and we’re looking at each other like, “Ah.” So he puts on the record and the video comes on and it’s like, “Hi, my name is.” And it’s this blonde kid rapping. And the song is funny. And then my jaw’s on the floor, because the loop, the sample is a Wurlitzer keyboard, just like on “Where It’s At.” It’s the sample that the Dust Brothers were saving for me to be the follow-up for “Where It’s At.” It’s the exact sample. “I Got The Blues.” Which we were saving for the follow-up to Midnite Vultures. And then Dr. Dre got to it first and he used it for Eminem’s first single.”

For the full interview, visit Stereogum here.

AI creates 2021 version of Eminem’s “My Name Is” & it sounds scarily real

Have you guys ever wondered what Eminem’s 1999 hit song “My Name Is” from The Slim Shady LP would sound like if Em had written it in 2021? Well, 40 Hertz has recreated it with the help of Artificial Intelligence technology, and it actually sounds like it could be Eminem.

The clever remake includes different lyrics that make references to Billie Eilish, K Pop stars, Drake, Rick Ross and Donald Trump – all which would be very likely targets for Eminem in real life.

His voice sounds just like the real thing, and is created using vocal synthesizers – all very complicated. And it looks like deep fake music could well present an issue for the music industry.

Listen to the song below and tell us your opinions in the comments on our social media accounts.

22 years ago today, Eminem released “My Name Is”

Exactly 22 years ago today, January 26, 1999, Eminem released “My Name Is” single, produced by Dr. Dre, off The Slim Shady LP.

The song earned Eminem his first ever Grammy award and made him international artists as it reached Top 10 charts in numerous countries, including United Kingdom, New Zealand and Norway. Since then, “My Name Is” went double platinum in the United States and platinum in UK.

The music video of the song also earned Eminem MTV Video Music Awards and booked his spot in several magazines’ greatest songs lists, including Q Magazine, VH1 and Rolling Stone.

“My Name Is” samples the 1975 song “I Got The…” by British musician – openly gay man – Labi Siffre. He was reluctant to have his song be sampled in a song as homophobic as “My Name Is.” He let Dr. Dre and Eminem sample the song on the condition that they get rid of lines about raping lesbians and Eminem’s gay junior high teacher. When Labi Siffre’s album “Remember My Song” was re-released Labi Siffre wrote notes about Eminem:

“Attacking two of the usual scapegoats, women and gays, is lazy writing. If you want to be radical, if you want to do battle, attack the aggressors not the victims.”

In the song “The Way I Am” Eminem raps: “Let’s stop with the fables I’m not gonna be able to top a “My Name Is”” but he eventually made “The Real Slim Shady” and somehow topped “My Name Is.”

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