Dec 27, 2015 Not total trash...i hope for a comeback after AITA and Raw... we're getting off topic...
Dec 27, 2015 For the people who have been noticing that this section of the forum was getting lousy and was just a bunch of whiners and people who trash eminem, this thread sure looks good! Way to go OP!
Dec 27, 2015 Late '98 / Early '99 *I saw "Just Dont Give A F***" CD "single" at my local record store late '98 ("Brain Damage" as the back-side). I didn't actually buy said CD single til early '99. *"My Name Is" video debuted January '99; I realized he grew up like half an hour from where I grew up but didn't think much of it. The bleached-blonde hair initially made me think he was a local gimmick piggybacking off Backstreet Boy or N-Sync. Then I saw "Guilty Conscience" video and realized he was very creative and talented. By the time "Role Model" video came out I realized he was truly fresh AF and overall great and acknowledged SSLP as great work. Still, my inner stan had yet to rear its ugly head. Spring 2000, people on Na****r posted MMLP leaks (individual tracks) they'd gotten off M**c 10 days prior to it releasing.. It's poetic justice my own Stan was born the instant I initially heard the second song on that album ('Stan' derrrhfp) tl;dr cheah #InTheThunderAndRain
Dec 28, 2015 1. It was in 2008 probably, i was 13-14 years old, at that time i was really into Rock, for example Red Hot Chili Peppers, in my opinion Rock doesn't have lots of rhymes verse after verse, and i found out my passion for them with RHCP, their songs have lots of rhymes everywhere and do have some kind of Story Telling. So i think that was the point when i started listening to some RAP. At that time i also had a friend that listened to 2pac, biggie, nas,...., and Eminem (he was a kind of a Stan, but not a savage Stan) so the first time I listened to him was because of this friend. Unfortunately he passed away in 2013, before MMLP2 (Thats why i love You're Never Over and sometimes feel the urgency to listen to it). 2. I have to say that my first song was The Real Slim Shady or My name is, but i do recall listening Crack a Bottle a lot before i even started listening to Eminem's full repertoire. I started listening to Relapse, then MMLP, then SSLP, Recovery, TES. At that point i was a f---ing Stan, the type of Stan that everyone hates. 3. Lose Yourself, that song is amazing and have a special meaning for me, i even have a Tattoo with one phrase of it. 4. And I think that Rock bottom was THE song that made me listen to him every f---ing day. I wasn't suffering the same things that he was suffering in that song, but i was in a deep depression and i was able to relate to what he was feeling in that moment. Just dont give a f--- also helped me in that depression, i think that both of them are the main reasons why im a fan And I think that what makes Eminem different of most of the rappers is this connection with people, they can actually relate to Em, not because he's a white dude from a black neighborhood and bullied at school, but because people think "Look, this guy suffered like a mother f---er and now is up there with the giants, I'm suffering so I could be up there too"
Dec 28, 2015 1. Which year was it & how old were you when you first heard Em ? 1999 - and I was 8 2. What was your first song ? My Name Is 3. Which song turned you into a fan ? I liked "My Name Is" a lot, but i think "The Real Slim Shady" and "The Way I Am" flashed me a lot TWIA is one of my fav tracks of Em and this is also the answer for question 3 and 4. PS: loved that performance so much as a kid
Dec 28, 2015 I became a fan in 2010, i was 12. The first song i heard was Not Afraid (technically it was Smack That(2006) but back then i didnt know who eminem/slim shady was) second song i heard was love the way you lie, I didn't become a stan until i heard his older songs like The Way I Am, My Name Is, etc
Dec 28, 2015 I heard of Eminem in 2010, i was 12. The first song i heard was Not Afraid and soon after i heard Love The Way You Lie. I became a stan after i heard his older songs like My Name Is, The Way I Am, Brain Damage, etc. technically the first time i heard Eminem was around 2006 when he did that song with Akon "Smack That" but back then i didnt know who Eminem/shady was
Dec 28, 2015 it was 2001 i was 5 years old i listened to ,cleaning out my closet, i didn't understand a word because i still cant understand english [i'm arabic] but i did like the sound it was making and in 2005 i listened to ,when im gone, and searched for his other songs that's when i turned into a huge eminem fan!
Dec 28, 2015 1. It was 2001. I was 8. Saw a music video to one of the MMLP singles on TV . 2. First track I heard was The Real Slim Shady, but I wasn't a huge fan of it. Not long after that I heard The Way I Am and Stan. 3. I really f----- with The Way I Am, even as a kid. Even though I didn't speak English fluently back then, I really liked the beat and the energy of the track. 4. Most of The Eminem Show turned me into a Stan. Songs like Sing for the Moment and Cleanin' Out My Closet really got to me. But to this day I think Till I Collapse is my favorite Eminem track of all times.
Dec 29, 2015 2006, i was 6 years old when i heard actually 50 Cent - In Da Club then i liked 50 Cent then on a 50 track which I don't remember Em was on, i kinda liked Eminem (like Dre, didn't know he's white) then i stopped listening to rap cause i was underage, then i was going to school with my brother he had Not Afraid and Lose Yourself on a USB, he turned them on I didn't like Not Afraid, but when i came back from school that day i opened my brother's laptop and searched for Eminem on YouTube and knew he's white and actually got The Way I Am at the top (i always play the first video in YouTube) i was like, that s--- is dope, then i downloaded it and played it over 1000000000000000 times, and then got the whole MMLP (2014) and now I'm a HUGE FAN, Oh, MMLP2 the only song that got my attention is Groundhog Day, g.d. I. LOVE. EMINEM (BTW, I got punished for taking the laptop)
Dec 30, 2015 I first heard em back in early 2000s cant remember exactly which year. It was a bad time for me i was badly depressed and had ended up overdosing. I heard when in gone and it all meant something to me, if that makes sense. Em writes from the heart and bears his soul in his lyrics, its all meaningful and i think he's just so special. He's unique and very misunderstood. A lot of older people don't get him at all, and that's a shame because if they really listened to what he was saying they may be pleasantly surprised. Ems a legend..
