HIP HOP `CRAPPER:' THE ORIGIN OF `SLIM SHADY'

HIP HOP `CRAPPER:' THE ORIGIN OF `SLIM SHADY'

NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- There's a real "can"-did story behind rapper Eminem's alter ego, Slim Shady. The rapper whose hit, "My Name Is," is the No. 1 video on MTV, tells the upcoming "Rolling Stone" that he was inspired to create the Slim Shady persona while sitting on the toilet. He says the name came to him in a flash and he started thinking of all sorts of rhymes right there on the pot. It's been a continuous "potty" since then, but fame and fortune hasn't made Eminem forget his low-rent roots. In fact, the chart-topping rapper still lives in a double- wide mobile home in a Detroit trailer park when he's not on the road.

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