5. Guilty Conscience
The Slim Shady LP introduced the world to a monster. Slim Shady was rotten to the core, a danger to society and fantastically funny with it. You wouldn't want to meet him, but you would certainly be advised to listen to him-start with this Dr Dre assisted track, which is probably the highpoint of Eminem's second album for me. The premise of the song revolves around a narrator introducing various white trash characters and their moral conundrums, letting a slow beat dovetail with a piano figure in the background as Dre and Slim act as an angel and devil respectively on their shoulders. Dre sends up his mentor image fantastically, offering world-weary rebuttals to Slim Shady's incitements to rape a minor, commit armed robbery and murder with glee. Who wins? You do.