Editing Undisputed Attitude (section)

==Recording==
''Undisputed Attitude'' was recorded at [[Capitol Studios]] in [[Los Angeles]] with [[Dave Sardy]] as producer and ''[[Reign in Blood]]'' producer [[Rick Rubin]] as executive producer. Recorded in three to four weeks, the album was largely the brainchild of guitarist [[Kerry King]], who stated that the songs chosen were from highly influential bands who "made Slayer what it is".<ref name="Audio interview with Kerry King">{{cite web |title=Audio interview with Kerry King Part 1 and 2 |work=toazted.com |url=http://www.toazted.com/interview/100/Slayer.html |access-date=2007-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130075233/http://www.toazted.com/interview/100/Slayer.html |archive-date=2008-01-30}}</ref><ref name=MidwestAraya>{{cite web |title=Midwest Metal Magazine interview with Tom Araya |work=Midwestmetalmagazine.com |url=http://www.midwestmetalmagazine.com/interviewslayer.html |access-date=2007-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208043348/http://www.midwestmetalmagazine.com/interviewslayer.html |archive-date=2008-12-08}}</ref> The album was initially to feature material from classic [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] artists such as [[Judas Priest]], [[UFO (band)|UFO]] and [[Deep Purple]].<ref name=MidwestAraya/> However, after several rehearsals "things didn't pan out" according to King, so the band instead elected to cover punk songs.<ref name="Audio interview with Kerry King"/>

Slayer considered covering 1960s [[psychedelic rock]] band [[the Doors]] as they were an influence to vocalist and bassist [[Tom Araya]]. When asked which track they considered recording, Araya responded, "Maybe '[[When the Music's Over]]', '[[Five to One]]', something like that."<ref name=MidwestAraya/> <!-- This reference sources the previous two sentences. --> A cover of [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]]'s "Rise Above" was suggested by Rubin, although was shelved after the band was not sure how to arrange it musically.<ref name="Audio interview with Kerry King"/>

Guitarist [[Jeff Hanneman]] had written four unreleased songs in 1984–1985 while in the side project Pap Smear with Slayer drummer [[Dave Lombardo]] and [[Suicidal Tendencies]] guitarist [[Rocky George]]. The band chose the best two, namely "Ddamm (Drunk Drivers Against Mad Mothers)" and "Can't Stand You".<ref name=AboutSlayer>{{cite web |title=About |work=Slayer.net |url=http://www.slayer.net/site.php#about |access-date=2007-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311094647/http://www.slayer.net/site.php#about |archive-date=2007-03-11}}</ref><ref name=KNACHanneman>{{cite web |title=A Rare Interview with Slayer Shredder Hanneman, Gripping Firmly onto the Reigns of Metal |author=Davis, Brian |work=Knac.com |date=2004-07-26 |url=http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=3153 |access-date=2007-03-17}}</ref> "Gemini" was written by King and Araya several months before entering the recording studio. King asserts it is the only Slayer song on the album.<ref name="Audio interview with Kerry King"/> The song begins as a [[sludge metal|sludge]]/[[doom metal|doom]] number, before becoming a more typical Slayer song.<ref name=AMGReview>{{cite web |title=''Undisputed Attitude'' |author=Kott, Paul |work=[[AllMusic]] |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=undisputed-attitude-mw0000183530|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=2007-03-18}}</ref>

The band's cover of [[Minor Threat]]'s "Guilty of Being White" raised questions about a possible message of [[white supremacy]]. The controversy involved the changing of the refrain "guilty of being white" to "guilty of being right", at the song's ending. This incensed Minor Threat frontman [[Ian MacKaye]], who stated "that is so offensive to me".<ref>[[Steven Blush|Blush, Steven]], ''[[American Hardcore: A Tribal History]]'' (New York: [[Feral House]], 2001), "Guilty of Being White", in an interview with Ian MacKaye, 30–31.</ref> King said the lyric was altered for "[[tongue-in-cheek]]" humor, saying that the band thought racism was "ridiculous" at the time.<ref name="Audio interview with Kerry King"/>