THERE are plenty of conspiracy theories bouncing around the web about subliminal messages in songs and rumours of hearing horrific satanic messages if you play records backwards.

We can’t confirm the veracity of all of those but we can tell you that playing Eminem’s My Name Is backwards will reveal as surprisingly logical message.

1 Eminem's My Name Is has a hidden message, but you'll only have heard it if you played the track backwards

Back in 1999 the peroxide blond rapper released My Name Is, the song that would propel him into the limelight, but most people didn’t know about the secret message that was built in.

The shock comes from the chorus, the famous words of which are: “Hi, my name is, what? My Name is, who? My name is, *chica chica* Slim Shady.”

Disclaimer: the *chica chica* is not part of the vocals, but we all sing it anyway.

But when you play it backwards, what you hear is: “It is Slim. It’s Eminem, it's Eminem, it's Eminem.”

Did he do it on purpose? I would love to think that that was all part of Marshal Mather’s lyrical genius, but it could just be a fun coincidence.

But that's probably not the only thing you didn't know about Eminem. Last September we reported that he was called Mickey because he had big ears as a kid along with 17 other things you never knew about the singer.