The chorus famously asks for the real Slim Shady:

I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady

All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating

So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up

Please stand up, please stand up?

This was accompanied by his music video that featured dozens of Eminem lookalikes.

But was this just bravado or was there really, in Eminem’s words

a million of us just like me

Who cuss like me, who just don't give a fuck like me

Who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me

And just might be the next best thing, but not quite me

Having grown up during that era I don’t remember any other White Rappers hitting the scene, and I don’t know enough about rap of that era to know if artists began to copy Eminem’s style.

And apologies on this one small part, as it is just shy of the 20 year rule, but in 2002 Eminem would write

a million other white rappers emerge

How much truth is there to this?