Where did "Slim Shady" come from?

[FreeSpeech]

OK, yes I know why he's called Slim Shady. He was skinny and shady, it's pretty obvious. But do we have a concrete source of where the name came from? Did he just pull it out of his ass one day? Did Dre make it up? WHat?

[BigBangBazinga]

He made it up on the toilet one day because it rhymed with a lot of things.

And I'm being honest.

This is Stan fact 101.

[One Mic]

He made it up on the toilet one day because it rhymed with a lot of things.

And I'm being honest.

I thought of this just as I was opening the thread.

Remember it from 'The Way I Am' (book)

[FreeSpeech]

He made it up on the toilet one day because it rhymed with a lot of things.

And I'm being honest.

Makes sense, I never read the book...

twin babies
M80's
men ladies
mid 80's
been crazy
can save me
them Hailie
Kim lady

What else has he rhymed it with?

[IrishShady]

Yep, says it in his book, The Way I Am, he was sittin' on the toilet and the name just came to him.

[IrishShady]

He made it up on the toilet one day because it rhymed with a lot of things.

And I'm being honest.

Makes sense, I never read the book...

twin babies
M80's
men ladies
mid 80's
been crazy
can save me
them Hailie
Kim lady

What else has he rhymed it with?

Slim Shady, Brain-dead like Jim Brady

[BigBangBazinga]

I don't know if I'm a super Stan or something but I knew about the sitting on the toilet and taking a shit thing waaay before the The Way I Am book dropped.

[SlimShadyX313X]

He made it up on the toilet one day because it rhymed with a lot of things.

And I'm being honest.

I thought of this just as I was opening the thread.

Remember it from 'The Way I Am' (book)

Yup, "The Way I am Book"

[xxTrigger1989xx]

He made it up on the shitter?

[buffalo bill]

He made it up on the shitter?

Yep, that's what he says.

From the book:

I was taking a shit and the name just hit me. You know, you do a lot of thinking when you're shitting. Whenever I sit down on the toilet, I have my pen and paper ready.

lol

[Evan C.]

He was trying to think of an alias because the concept of D-12 (it was decided that 12 members would be too many) was that all 6 members would have one, you know, hence the name 'D-12'.

[BigBangBazinga]

He was trying to think of an alias because the concept of D-12 (it was decided that 12 members would be too many) was that all 6 members would have one, you know, hence the name 'D-12'.

lol no

[Evan C.]

He was trying to think of an alias because the concept of D-12 (it was decided that 12 members would be too many) was that all 6 members would have one, you know, hence the name 'D-12'.

lol no

Do research, idiot.

[kylenthat]

He was trying to think of an alias because the concept of D-12 (it was decided that 12 members would be too many) was that all 6 members would have one, you know, hence the name 'D-12'.

lol no

Lol yes, it was the concept for the group. 6 members each with an alias = 12

Proof - Derty Harry
Bizarre - Peter S. Bizarre
Eminem - Slim Shady
Kon Artis - Mr. Porter
Swift - Swifty McVay
Kuniva - Rondell Beene

[NicoleEM]

He was trying to think of an alias because the concept of D-12 (it was decided that 12 members would be too many) was that all 6 members would have one, you know, hence the name 'D-12'.

lol no

Lol yes, it was the concept for the group. 6 members each with an alias = 12

Proof - Derty Harry
Bizarre - Peter S. Bizarre
Eminem - Slim Shady
Kon Artis - Mr. Porter
Swift - Swifty McVay
Kuniva - Rondell Beene

Yes but people were talking about how the alias name came to him.Apparently lots of thinking at the toilet.
This reminds me of what Xzibit said on twitter the other day"Just used a public restroom. Read a lot of graffiti, it made me think...damn, a lot of people take shits with writing utensils."