Trivia

• “I’m Shady” was released as the album’s second promotional single, following “Role Model.” Some copies were issued as a double release on the same vinyl as “Guilty Conscience.”
• On a leaked demo version of The Slim Shady LP, the song appears as track 2, following “Public Service Announcement,” with “My Name Is” placed later on the album.

Words from Eminem

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This is a song I wrote in Kim’s upstairs 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.