Trivia

• Essentially a remix of the Slim Shady EP version, this “LP Version” was released as the album’s first single. It reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart, paving the way for the album’s lead single and Eminem’s breakout hit, “My Name Is.”
• As Eminem’s first music video, it was filmed before he dyed his hair blond.

Words from Eminem

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“Just Don’t Give A Fuck” was a song that I wrote when I was staying at my mother’s house. It was also around the time that Hailie was born. Not being able to provide for my daughter, my living situation, etc., just started building up so much that I had just had it.

[It] was actually the second song where people that knew me were like “What the fuck are you talkin’ about?” See, I didn’t normally talk about stuff like that. It just wasn’t my usual subject matter… My hype-man, Proof, said, “You need to quit talkin’ that drug shit,” because it seemed like it was from out of left field compared to what I usually rapped about.

I soon found myself doing things that I normally didn’t do. Like getting into drugs and drinkin’. Kim and I had Hailie, my producers F.B.T. were just about to give up on me, we weren’t payin’ rent to my moms, and just a whole bunch of other horrible shit was going on …

It was my first real song. It was when I first came up with the whole “Slim Shady” theme. I actually thought of the name and then wrote “Slim Shady / Brain-dead like Jim Brady,” and that’s when I went with the name.