'97 Bonnie & Clyde

"'97 Bonnie & Clyde"
"'97 Bonnie & Clyde" cover
Song by Eminem from the album Slim Shady EP and The Slim Shady LP
Released	February 12, 1998
Format	CD single
Recorded	1997
Genre	Hip Hop, Horrorcore
Length	4:20 ("Just the Two of Us") 5:16 ("'97 Bonnie & Clyde")
Label	Aftermath, Interscope
Writer	Marshall Mathers, Jeff Bass, Mark Randy Bass
Producer	DJ Head (pre.), Bass Brothers, Eminem (co.)

"'97 Bonnie & Clyde" is a song by American rapper Eminem. The song appears on Slim Shady EP (as "Just the Two of Us") & The Slim Shady LP.

Critical response

AllMusic highlighted and praised the song: "notorious track where he imagines killing his wife and then disposing of the body with his baby daughter in tow" and critic noted that this song is connected with Eminem's life struggles.^[1] Steve 'Flash' Juon called the remix bad and he continued: "the new one (remix version) is lifeless and oddly out of place among an album full of mostly dope cuts."^[2] Rob Sheffield wrote: "the wife-killing jokes of "'97 Bonnie and Clyde" aren't any funnier than Garth Brooks'."^[3] Entertainment Weekly wrote a positive opinion: "In the album's funniest slice of black humor, a smart-ass parody of Will Smith's unctuous Just the Two of Us called 97' Bonnie & Clyde, Eminem and his baby daughter take a pleasant drive to a lake — into which he tosses the dead body of the child's mother. Sending up the gooey sentiments and pop melody of the Smith hit, Eminem raps: Mama said she wants to show you how far she can float/And don't worry about that little boo-boo on her throat."^[4]