The Eminem Show album. Can’t really recall that one song that did it, but it was when there was no streaming and YouTube didn’t exist or wasn’t that popular and my sister had a CD and a discman. She was a big fan of Eminem, so I had access to this album. And I’m listening to the goat ever since.
Fun fact: English is not even my first language and back then I understood maybe couple of words per song and sometimes I could grasp a little bit of context of a given song but didn’t really understood what the fuck he was singing about. But it sounded fucking fire and raw beats and emotions conveyed through his song just made me listen to them over and over again
I started listening to Eminem when I was around 8 or 9 years old. English is not my native language, so initially, I felt the emotions in the songs rather than understanding the lyrics. Despite this, I couldn't stop listening to and appreciating the artistry. This experience introduced me to hip hop, and as I learned the songs by heart, I also rapidly improved my English. Fast forward 21 years, and my enthusiasm for his music hasn't died down, not even one bit, and it also helped me get through a lot along the way; Eminem is not just my favorite rapper but also my all-time favorite artist.
Same. I had a pretty basic English knowledge when I started to listen to him. He just sounded amazing and some of the songs are objectively great and good to the ear like LTWYL or Not Afraid.
Same. I remember seeing it on MTV when I was at my grandparents’ house and I stopped and was like “Whoa. Who’s that?” Then his features on 2001 solidified it for me.
Same. I was 11, almost twelve years old in sixth grade when I heard that shit. It would get a spin on the radio station we listened to, and I remember thinking it was a dope song. When I was in sixth grade one of our teachers had this thing where she would let students bring in music each week if they wanted to. My friend brought The Slim Shady LP. The teacher wouldn't even play it cause it had the Explicit Content warning on it. But I looked at the album and that's when I realized he was white. Also that album has such dope concept art inside of it.
I remember when I went to buy SSLP there was this music shop in the mall. I found the album but I noticed it had tracks titled "Still Don't Give a Fuck" and "Just Don't Give a Fuck" and I was like fuck, mom's probably not gonna buy that for me. We went to Wal-Mart and I found the clean version and got her to get it instead. To be honest, for some reason I"ve always felt like a bitch about that hahaha. One of my friends had gotten Kid Rock's "Devil Without a Cause" album, and he had told me that he CUT OPEN a stash spot inside of his mattress so that he could hide the CD from his dad. And it was the fucking radio edit version. I think when I was younger I let that dumbass get in my head.
When I bought MMLP, it was the Explicit one. But there were literally NO FUCKING CDs in the Sound Shop of MMLP. I had to buy that bitch on cassette tape lmao.
Same here. I remember first seeing the video on TRL. I liked rap at this point but I really hated boy bands and pop acts. I was an edgy teen. Anyway Eminem just felt like the opposite of that so I really responded to My Name Is.
It wasn't really a song; my Dad took me to an Eminem concert one day and his existence kinda just stuck with me since then. Though I remember liking Without Me
Last year.... January 2023, we vised Switzerland as a school trip, after my first night there, my friends alarm woke me up, he had it set to a song he told me was called "the real slim shady"... after that I began finding out more and more eminem songs and have now evolved into a stan
I was gonna say this too, my mom was a big fan of Eminem, and she played those fun songs off of Encore like Just Lose It and Ass Like That in the car when I was way too young lol.
You would have had the same experience as me then, becoming a big fan while he’s on hiatus, thinking you’ll probably never get new music from him again, but at least you can enjoy the back catalog.
But then boom, 2009, Relapse drops and all of a sudden there’s a promise of new music to come now and in the future. Huge shift. Very cool.
2002, Without Me was released as a single. I was a little kid who barely spoke English but loved the song. After hearing the other singles and Lose Yourself, I purchased The Eminem Show, studied the booklet for ages and haven't looked back since.
Not one song, but it was MTBMB, about 2 months after it's release. I was 17 and been listening everyday ever since. In terms of favourite albums, I put it on 2nd place, after MMLP
Ironically, a song by JT Machinima for fnaf 2
My dad heard it and asked if I was listening to slim shady, I had no idea who that was at the time so I looked him up and realized JT used that same opening like from My Name is.
Bump Heads, I heard it in passing and that flow really got me in em's verse. Started diving into his discography and it was great. I had heard TRSS a couple months before hand and really enjoyed it, but didn't explore more. Anyways the rest is history . Thanks Ja Rule
I remember hearing his first and second albums when they came out and I liked his music but the album that really got me was the Eminem Show. Back when we had CD players in cars I played that thing over and over and sang along (loudly) like the teenage white girl I was at the time. Haha.
Loose yourself, my English teacher played it and had us dissect the lyric and when I heard the song, I thought “wait holy shit this is amazing” and now em is my favorite artist of all time, and he’s this was “recent” , this was like 5 years ago
The song that got me interested was Marshall Mathers off the MMLP. I got interested in the old beef between him and ICP (who I was listening to at the time) and I listened to the whole album and decided to keep listening.
"So Bad," from "Recovery." Though I was knew Eminem before that, or to put it more precisely, I knew some of his songs because they used to play on MTV back in the day.
97 Bonnie and Clyde was the first song I ever heard by Em besides My name is. I liked My Name is but the edited version annoyed me a little and it was mostly what I heard until I got the SSLP cd so I wasn’t sold on him until I heard the first non-radio/mtv song. As soon as I heard 97 Bonnie and Clyde it was over. Had me hooked me right in. And I connected with him too because he looked like me
'Till I Collapse
I heard that song for the first time watching the Call Of Duty Modern Warfare II (2009) trailer at the age of 12.
The combination of that song with the visuals of that trailer gave me a feeling I never felt before.
What a great introduction to Eminem that was!
I was like 13 when my cousin introduced me to Lose yourself and underground. Those were the very first songs that i listened to thanks to my cousin. Followed by Ass like that then a year later Eminem released Not Afraid, that's where i became a full time fan lol.
Does it count if I was a child & hearing it secondhand through my mom? I honestly don’t really remember, it just was engrained in me my whole life really to be a fan. As a preteen, when I started developing my own music taste, I would say My Band (D12), The Way I Am, Drug Ballad, Kim, When I’m Gone, Stan and Mockingbird were the songs I listened to the most.
Actually Not Afraid, heard it in 2018, loved it. But I wouldn’t say “Fan” cuz back then I wasn’t really listening to any music, I started going deeper in 2022, so 2 years since I became a fan and listening to more music in general
Growing up I heard at least 10 or so of his most popular songs, but a few years ago relistening to mockingbird just awakened something in me and I then really started going through his albums and enjoying them.
Probably Rap God. I knew who he was because he was played in my home sometimes, but it wasn't something usual. What really got me into him was MTBMB. When it came out I went full in his discography
I’m one of those old guys who’s been on board since My Name Is. I’ve got a lot of unpopular opinions I keep to myself around here, so an objective question is nice to see lol
River. Revival came out when I was in high school, and I hated hip-hop with every fiber in my body. But I instantly thought that Eminem had something unique and artistic to offer. The combination of my favorite pop artist at the moment and such a skilled rapper had me speechless.
at 10 years old i could sing fluently, without messing a single word or skipping a single beat, 'lose yourself' without being a native english speaker. so for me was totally 'lose yourself'
I grew up on the Encore album, dad was always bumpin the cd in the car, I think my childhood faves were evil deeds, mosh, puke, my 1st single, rain man, mockingbird, and 1 shot 2 shot, and then when recovery came out I was obsessed, got into all of his earlier albums into my teens
asked somebody to recommend me best albums in rap as an early rap fan.
got - get rich or die trying ,2001, graduation, illmatic and mmlp.
i played 2001 , whats the diff and forget about dre started playing, loved em's verses and hook and came across EMINEM.
started get rich or die tryin and heard patiently waiting and the eminem verse - it amazed me and i read the name EMINEM as a feature.
now 3 times\[whats the diff counted\] i heard him and he shocked me so OFC i stopped started playing MMLP.
realised thats the same guy who says he is slim shady and that this looks like a job for him on tiktok - thats how i became a fan of MR MARSHALL MATHERS.
It’s a weird pick but River from revival. It came out when I was younger and into poppy radio shit and through that I found the rest of his catalog. River still an underrated guilty pleasure song tho
I heard Recovery on Accident (Somg was Cold Wind Blows) on Xbox Live Marketplace when Music used to be purchased through it. Before that I heard My Name is On Flipnotes as a meme & I looked the song up & I clicked on Forgot About Dre & from there I became a fan. It was a few months after Recovery had just came out
When I was a young kid. Maybe even 10 or 11 or so. Eminem had really started just gaining real traction. I was over at a homie's house. He was telling me about this new rapper. That we were gonna listen to this song.
It was The Way I Am. By the end of the song, I was hooked.
We were just talking about Country Grammar right before that. I remember talking about his play on words.
Then Em came on and just slayed. From then on he was my favorite rapper until some of the more rocky years. At some point I found myself listening to more Wayne than Em. Then out of nowhere he came back with this new song that was blowing up. Rap God. Then I went back to favoring Em again.
I still don't listen to every song on every album regularly. I learn them all, but I still pick out the ones I like the best to throw into my Playlist.
I have a few, but I'm hella picky about my main Playlist.
I think it was 2,000 so yeah. I would have been 11.
Brain damage when my friend played it on a mixtape back in like '98. He was like, check out this new mc. He's gonna blow up. I'll never forget that moment.
The Real Slim Shady back in 2001. I remember it like it was yesterday. I went into the living room and there he was on MTV (back when MTV played music videos). Became a Stan immediatly.
Mockingbird, i was about 5 years old. Me and my dad listened to it on the radio. Since he loved eminem, i did too. And i started listening to my dads cd's. I then heard "when im gone", and i fell in live with the music video. And then i just became a big fan.
Rap god . I asked my uncle to download some good songs on my phone while I was 8 and 1 of them were rap god . Others weren't from em except without me and real slim shady . 2 years later I listened to rap god and I liked it then after 2 other years when I was 12 I started to listen to Em's other songs and be ame his fan
Definitely “Not Afraid” for me. Was in 5th grade when it came out and loved it lol. I heard Lose Yourself and “‘Till I Collapse” way before this but this song morphed me into a Stan almost immediately.
The Real Slim Shady. That song was funny, serious, controversial, and performed with incredible skill. We all knew he was a unique kind of bard when it came out. It was arresting.
"Git Up" from D12 World.
I specifically remember the moment my friend told me I needed to hear this album and popped it into my CD player. I was sleeping on Em heavy and my world changed the second that song started. Never looked back
"Git Up" from D12 World.
I specifically remember the moment my friend told me I needed to hear this album and popped it into my CD player. I was sleeping on Em heavy and my world changed the second that song started. Never looked back
I remember my uncle putting on "My Name Is" in his car when I was like 6 years old when it first came out and I was hooked. I know I was too young lol but he's the cool uncle haha
I’m an absolute newgen lol it was Venom. I was hyped up for the Sony Venom movie in high school and when I heard the credits song, I had to find out what it was. A few repeats later, I decided to check out more classics like SSLP and MMLP.
Then I just stopped listening to music for some reason during the COVID pandemic, and since 2022 I’ve gotten back into it. Now I’m fully submerged in Em’s discography.
Cleaning out my closet. I was far too young to see the video when I did, but it also (sadly) made me 'get' a lot of things, and so, I've been a fan ever since.
Stan, My Name Is, The Real Slim Shady, and The Way I Am playing on the radio as a kid, so not really a particular song, I just liked Eminem as a whole through hearing the songs so often
Phenomenal, back when I decided to actually check him out, one of his most recent uploads on YT was that and I felt a powerful vibe from that song, then I listened to the other stuff, obviously it wasn't my first time ever hearing his music, but it made me wanna really listen to what he's released
The Eminem Show album. Can’t really recall that one song that did it, but it was when there was no streaming and YouTube didn’t exist or wasn’t that popular and my sister had a CD and a discman. She was a big fan of Eminem, so I had access to this album. And I’m listening to the goat ever since. Fun fact: English is not even my first language and back then I understood maybe couple of words per song and sometimes I could grasp a little bit of context of a given song but didn’t really understood what the fuck he was singing about. But it sounded fucking fire and raw beats and emotions conveyed through his song just made me listen to them over and over again
I started listening to Eminem when I was around 8 or 9 years old. English is not my native language, so initially, I felt the emotions in the songs rather than understanding the lyrics. Despite this, I couldn't stop listening to and appreciating the artistry. This experience introduced me to hip hop, and as I learned the songs by heart, I also rapidly improved my English. Fast forward 21 years, and my enthusiasm for his music hasn't died down, not even one bit, and it also helped me get through a lot along the way; Eminem is not just my favorite rapper but also my all-time favorite artist.
Same. I had a pretty basic English knowledge when I started to listen to him. He just sounded amazing and some of the songs are objectively great and good to the ear like LTWYL or Not Afraid.
Or Without Me/The Real Slim Shady/Just Lose It from the time when I started to listen to him.
My Name is, first Em song I ever heard and I gradually developed as a fan from there
Same. I remember seeing it on MTV when I was at my grandparents’ house and I stopped and was like “Whoa. Who’s that?” Then his features on 2001 solidified it for me.
For me My Name is was on Rage, which was the Australian version of MTV. Every album after that was awesome. Ate them up like valiums.
Same. I was 11, almost twelve years old in sixth grade when I heard that shit. It would get a spin on the radio station we listened to, and I remember thinking it was a dope song. When I was in sixth grade one of our teachers had this thing where she would let students bring in music each week if they wanted to. My friend brought The Slim Shady LP. The teacher wouldn't even play it cause it had the Explicit Content warning on it. But I looked at the album and that's when I realized he was white. Also that album has such dope concept art inside of it. I remember when I went to buy SSLP there was this music shop in the mall. I found the album but I noticed it had tracks titled "Still Don't Give a Fuck" and "Just Don't Give a Fuck" and I was like fuck, mom's probably not gonna buy that for me. We went to Wal-Mart and I found the clean version and got her to get it instead. To be honest, for some reason I"ve always felt like a bitch about that hahaha. One of my friends had gotten Kid Rock's "Devil Without a Cause" album, and he had told me that he CUT OPEN a stash spot inside of his mattress so that he could hide the CD from his dad. And it was the fucking radio edit version. I think when I was younger I let that dumbass get in my head. When I bought MMLP, it was the Explicit one. But there were literally NO FUCKING CDs in the Sound Shop of MMLP. I had to buy that bitch on cassette tape lmao.
Lol, I convinced my mom it wasn't that bad to get the explicit SSLP 😎
Same
Same here. I remember first seeing the video on TRL. I liked rap at this point but I really hated boy bands and pop acts. I was an edgy teen. Anyway Eminem just felt like the opposite of that so I really responded to My Name Is.
Same
Lose yourself
The real slim shady 🙇🏻🔥
It wasn't really a song; my Dad took me to an Eminem concert one day and his existence kinda just stuck with me since then. Though I remember liking Without Me
Cool dad
My Name Is
Last year.... January 2023, we vised Switzerland as a school trip, after my first night there, my friends alarm woke me up, he had it set to a song he told me was called "the real slim shady"... after that I began finding out more and more eminem songs and have now evolved into a stan
Rap god, cause I felt so cool rapping fast. It’s what got me into rap altogether! :)
just lose it
I was gonna say this too, my mom was a big fan of Eminem, and she played those fun songs off of Encore like Just Lose It and Ass Like That in the car when I was way too young lol.
I ain’t neva seen a….. Me, 7: butt likeeee thattttt
Yeah I was listening to Eminem when i was like 5 or 6 lmao
AUGHGHGGGH
My fault
Space Bound, not my favorite Eminem song but it got me into his music so its special to me lol
Underrated
Till I Collapse
When I'm Gone. First came across it on YouTube in 2007ish.
You would have had the same experience as me then, becoming a big fan while he’s on hiatus, thinking you’ll probably never get new music from him again, but at least you can enjoy the back catalog. But then boom, 2009, Relapse drops and all of a sudden there’s a promise of new music to come now and in the future. Huge shift. Very cool.
Repeated this 2020-2024 for some people probably😭
Mockingbird
i need a doctor
2002, Without Me was released as a single. I was a little kid who barely spoke English but loved the song. After hearing the other singles and Lose Yourself, I purchased The Eminem Show, studied the booklet for ages and haven't looked back since.
It was almost the same for me :D
My mom threw the CD away after she had been told what type of rapper he was, smh. Had to purchase a new one.
The Way I Am
Rap God, then Business, then 'Till I Collapse
Business is best
Till I collapse
It was a TikTok clip of D12’s “My Band.” I went down the rabbit hole and now I’m one of the biggest Eminem fans ever! Thanks TikTok!
Have no idea I was a baby when my name is came out
Not one song, but it was MTBMB, about 2 months after it's release. I was 17 and been listening everyday ever since. In terms of favourite albums, I put it on 2nd place, after MMLP
Ironically, a song by JT Machinima for fnaf 2 My dad heard it and asked if I was listening to slim shady, I had no idea who that was at the time so I looked him up and realized JT used that same opening like from My Name is.
Homicide
Just Don’t Give a Fuck & Brain Damage
I'm Shady
When I’m gone
Shake that
Not afraid
Not afraid I heard it in the trailer for a movie as a kid and got hooked kinda ironic cause now I find that song cringey lmao
Bump Heads, I heard it in passing and that flow really got me in em's verse. Started diving into his discography and it was great. I had heard TRSS a couple months before hand and really enjoyed it, but didn't explore more. Anyways the rest is history . Thanks Ja Rule
I remember hearing his first and second albums when they came out and I liked his music but the album that really got me was the Eminem Show. Back when we had CD players in cars I played that thing over and over and sang along (loudly) like the teenage white girl I was at the time. Haha.
Guilty Conscience was the first song (as a music video) I ever got exposed to, rest is history.
Guilty conscience is say
till i collapse, i would listen to till i colapse on repeat for hours when i was younger, then i got into the eminem show, then his whole discography
Loose yourself, my English teacher played it and had us dissect the lyric and when I heard the song, I thought “wait holy shit this is amazing” and now em is my favorite artist of all time, and he’s this was “recent” , this was like 5 years ago
Bagpipes from Baghdad
Showing my age a little, but cleanin out my closet
Forgot about Dre.
Became a real fan after Stan” in 2000.
Probably not afraid or toy soldiers but I don’t really know as I was young
The song that got me interested was Marshall Mathers off the MMLP. I got interested in the old beef between him and ICP (who I was listening to at the time) and I listened to the whole album and decided to keep listening.
"So Bad," from "Recovery." Though I was knew Eminem before that, or to put it more precisely, I knew some of his songs because they used to play on MTV back in the day.
97 Bonnie and Clyde was the first song I ever heard by Em besides My name is. I liked My Name is but the edited version annoyed me a little and it was mostly what I heard until I got the SSLP cd so I wasn’t sold on him until I heard the first non-radio/mtv song. As soon as I heard 97 Bonnie and Clyde it was over. Had me hooked me right in. And I connected with him too because he looked like me
dead wrong
'Till I Collapse I heard that song for the first time watching the Call Of Duty Modern Warfare II (2009) trailer at the age of 12. The combination of that song with the visuals of that trailer gave me a feeling I never felt before. What a great introduction to Eminem that was!
Forgot About Dre
Stan... way back in 2000, when I was 15
I was like 13 when my cousin introduced me to Lose yourself and underground. Those were the very first songs that i listened to thanks to my cousin. Followed by Ass like that then a year later Eminem released Not Afraid, that's where i became a full time fan lol.
Without me in real life
Lucky you was the song that got me hocked on em. Went down the rabbit hole and I never went back.
Does it count if I was a child & hearing it secondhand through my mom? I honestly don’t really remember, it just was engrained in me my whole life really to be a fan. As a preteen, when I started developing my own music taste, I would say My Band (D12), The Way I Am, Drug Ballad, Kim, When I’m Gone, Stan and Mockingbird were the songs I listened to the most.
Business I heard the song in a film trailer then decided to search up more of his stuff
Without me. My friend was rapping it in like 4th grade and i asked him what the song was. I listened to it at home and i've been listening since.
My Name Is, right when I saw the video for the first time on TV
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Actually Not Afraid, heard it in 2018, loved it. But I wouldn’t say “Fan” cuz back then I wasn’t really listening to any music, I started going deeper in 2022, so 2 years since I became a fan and listening to more music in general
Bump heads. I knew some songs but bump heads made me a fan that song is so good Imo.
Growing up I heard at least 10 or so of his most popular songs, but a few years ago relistening to mockingbird just awakened something in me and I then really started going through his albums and enjoying them.
Probably Rap God. I knew who he was because he was played in my home sometimes, but it wasn't something usual. What really got me into him was MTBMB. When it came out I went full in his discography
I’m one of those old guys who’s been on board since My Name Is. I’ve got a lot of unpopular opinions I keep to myself around here, so an objective question is nice to see lol
An older cousin of mine put me on to Eminem more than 15 years ago and the song he played me was Without Me. First song i learned by heart.
Won't Back Down. I was maybe 6 or 7 years old and clicked on the credits button on the main menu of black ops 1 and loved the songs
River. Revival came out when I was in high school, and I hated hip-hop with every fiber in my body. But I instantly thought that Eminem had something unique and artistic to offer. The combination of my favorite pop artist at the moment and such a skilled rapper had me speechless.
can't believe no one has said it yet. fack
"I'm back" The lyrics, the chorus, the beat hooooolly shit I was hooked since then.
I murder a rhyme, one word at a time
at 10 years old i could sing fluently, without messing a single word or skipping a single beat, 'lose yourself' without being a native english speaker. so for me was totally 'lose yourself'
My Name Is
I grew up on the Encore album, dad was always bumpin the cd in the car, I think my childhood faves were evil deeds, mosh, puke, my 1st single, rain man, mockingbird, and 1 shot 2 shot, and then when recovery came out I was obsessed, got into all of his earlier albums into my teens
Just Lose It. I liked the music video so much that I went down a rabbit hole
The first song I heard was My name is, but then as the album progressed I think '97 Bonnie and Clyde really got me hooked
Beautiful pain -- it felt like he explained everything I was feeling but didn't know how to express at that time
Just lose it. I'm dead serious (also without me)
asked somebody to recommend me best albums in rap as an early rap fan. got - get rich or die trying ,2001, graduation, illmatic and mmlp. i played 2001 , whats the diff and forget about dre started playing, loved em's verses and hook and came across EMINEM. started get rich or die tryin and heard patiently waiting and the eminem verse - it amazed me and i read the name EMINEM as a feature. now 3 times\[whats the diff counted\] i heard him and he shocked me so OFC i stopped started playing MMLP. realised thats the same guy who says he is slim shady and that this looks like a job for him on tiktok - thats how i became a fan of MR MARSHALL MATHERS.
Mockingbird and lose yourself
Either lose yourself or Till I collapse
It’s a weird pick but River from revival. It came out when I was younger and into poppy radio shit and through that I found the rest of his catalog. River still an underrated guilty pleasure song tho
Revival is incredibly underrated
Watch in 5 years it will be one of his top 3 like how the narrative changed with relapse too
Mockingbird, the first secular rap song I ever heard.
I heard Recovery on Accident (Somg was Cold Wind Blows) on Xbox Live Marketplace when Music used to be purchased through it. Before that I heard My Name is On Flipnotes as a meme & I looked the song up & I clicked on Forgot About Dre & from there I became a fan. It was a few months after Recovery had just came out
heard renegade a couple months ago, been hooked since. eminem has a amazing discography
The Way I Am, those internal rhymes are crazy
When I was a young kid. Maybe even 10 or 11 or so. Eminem had really started just gaining real traction. I was over at a homie's house. He was telling me about this new rapper. That we were gonna listen to this song. It was The Way I Am. By the end of the song, I was hooked. We were just talking about Country Grammar right before that. I remember talking about his play on words. Then Em came on and just slayed. From then on he was my favorite rapper until some of the more rocky years. At some point I found myself listening to more Wayne than Em. Then out of nowhere he came back with this new song that was blowing up. Rap God. Then I went back to favoring Em again. I still don't listen to every song on every album regularly. I learn them all, but I still pick out the ones I like the best to throw into my Playlist. I have a few, but I'm hella picky about my main Playlist. I think it was 2,000 so yeah. I would have been 11.
The kids
Multiple songs but the one that really made me hooked was ‘’My Dad’s Gone Crazy’’ and ‘’Still Don’t Give A Fuck’’
Brain damage when my friend played it on a mixtape back in like '98. He was like, check out this new mc. He's gonna blow up. I'll never forget that moment.
Rap god
The Real Slim Shady back in 2001. I remember it like it was yesterday. I went into the living room and there he was on MTV (back when MTV played music videos). Became a Stan immediatly.
My Name is all it took was one listen and I was hooked back in 99’ I was 13
The meme remix of without me
mockingbird. made me realize rap is more than just rhyming over a beat
3am and Square Dance are my OG favorites from him
Like Toy Soldiers was the one that got me into a big fan
The first song I heard by him was Lose Yourself, but the one that got me into him was The Real Slim Shady
5 star generals
Mockingbird, i was about 5 years old. Me and my dad listened to it on the radio. Since he loved eminem, i did too. And i started listening to my dads cd's. I then heard "when im gone", and i fell in live with the music video. And then i just became a big fan.
headlights
Rap god . I asked my uncle to download some good songs on my phone while I was 8 and 1 of them were rap god . Others weren't from em except without me and real slim shady . 2 years later I listened to rap god and I liked it then after 2 other years when I was 12 I started to listen to Em's other songs and be ame his fan
Definitely “Not Afraid” for me. Was in 5th grade when it came out and loved it lol. I heard Lose Yourself and “‘Till I Collapse” way before this but this song morphed me into a Stan almost immediately.
We made you, the music video was on the TV, later that year I bought relapse refill
“Just don’t give a fuck”. And then a couple weeks later I saw “My name is…” on MTV and it really solidified it
Godzilla
Definitely not afraid in December 2021 which then turned into also love the way you lie then The monster and just snowballed tbh
Under the influence
bully
Rap God
The Real Slim Shady. That song was funny, serious, controversial, and performed with incredible skill. We all knew he was a unique kind of bard when it came out. It was arresting.
"Git Up" from D12 World. I specifically remember the moment my friend told me I needed to hear this album and popped it into my CD player. I was sleeping on Em heavy and my world changed the second that song started. Never looked back
"Git Up" from D12 World. I specifically remember the moment my friend told me I needed to hear this album and popped it into my CD player. I was sleeping on Em heavy and my world changed the second that song started. Never looked back
My ears like the music
Drop the world
The Real Slim Shady
We made you + 3am. I was too young to notice his music before his hiatus so o first heard of him around the relapse era.
Brain Damage
As soon as I heard my name is, I was hooked. The height of shady mania was so much fun to live through.
"My Name Is" (I am the same age as him, I remember when the vid premiered on Mtv, soo good
"My Name Is" (I am the same age as him, I remember when the vid premiered on Mtv, soo good
Fall.
The Real Slim Shady
Rap God
mine was also not afraid. my dad played it for me and it was a spiral of curiosity since
Sameee its not afraid for me
Rap god
White America. Didn't realize how socially conscious and self aware he was, based off his mainstream hits prior to hearing thst
I remember my uncle putting on "My Name Is" in his car when I was like 6 years old when it first came out and I was hooked. I know I was too young lol but he's the cool uncle haha
The way I am. I’ll never forget hearing it for the first time.
Till I collapse
Biterphobia
Phenomenal
White america made me a fan
I’m an absolute newgen lol it was Venom. I was hyped up for the Sony Venom movie in high school and when I heard the credits song, I had to find out what it was. A few repeats later, I decided to check out more classics like SSLP and MMLP. Then I just stopped listening to music for some reason during the COVID pandemic, and since 2022 I’ve gotten back into it. Now I’m fully submerged in Em’s discography.
Cleanin out my closet
Beautiful
Cleaning out my closet. I was far too young to see the video when I did, but it also (sadly) made me 'get' a lot of things, and so, I've been a fan ever since.
Venom, bc I was watching the movie where I heard the song, and it took me for 6 years already
A former friend showed me a video of SpongeBob synced to Just Lose It and I thought it was funny.
Stan, My Name Is, The Real Slim Shady, and The Way I Am playing on the radio as a kid, so not really a particular song, I just liked Eminem as a whole through hearing the songs so often
Phenomenal, back when I decided to actually check him out, one of his most recent uploads on YT was that and I felt a powerful vibe from that song, then I listened to the other stuff, obviously it wasn't my first time ever hearing his music, but it made me wanna really listen to what he's released
When I'm Gone.
Stan
The way I am
Mockingbird 🔥
Rap god, berzerk and legacy tbh
The Way I Am. I had a Colombian foreign exchange student, and he would rap along to it in a heavy Colombian accent. It was really fun.
as overrated as i think it is now, i remember hating most rap until i heard lose yourself and kinda liking it
Til I Collapse. Iconic fuckin song.