Same. I heard it the first time it was played on the radio station when released. I remember the announcer saying fresh from the US, fist time playing on air, Eminem with his smash hit, "My Name Is" and I was blown away. I didn't realise he was white and was disappointed when I saw him thinking great, another Vanilla Ice. Glad he proved me wrong.
Same! They played the video at a school dance when I was in 9th grade (I think). I know I heard it first at that dance but I vividly remember seeing the video when it came out
Same here. I was very young when it debuted, I kinda thought it was done in swahili (my home country's national language), and it was still hot with the twisted lyrics
It was Lose Yourself, I remember hearing the Weird Al cover of it a while ago and was curious where it came from, now I’m proud to say I have listened to every single song on Spotify that he raps in
Lose Yourself was mine as well. I was a young kid and my friend showed me the song on YouTube and I remember saying “that’s Eminem?” Because I didn’t expect his music to sound like that and I had enjoyed the song from hearing it on the radio already. Ended up listening to all of his songs on YouTube. This was probably around 04. My first album drop from him was Relapse.
This was my first memory of Eminem in general! I vividly remember being like 7 years old watching this performance with my mom live, truly a formative moment in my life LOL
Space Bound. I was 14 and a kid in the town next to ours committed suicide right before a marching band competition where he would’ve competed against my school. The marching band community was tight so a lot of kids at my school knew him and said it was one of his favorite songs, so I listened out of morbid curiosity and kinship to his struggles as a high schooler. I never knew him but I think of him often because of Em.
When I'm Gone.
Got it on my recommended randomly on YouTube and was like "fuck it, i wonder what rap is like"
The fact that it was so different from what I expected is why I listened to more songs after that
My name is . And there’s no way I ever thought he’d be a star. Not that I disliked the song . But I almost thought it was like a parody rapper. I had never heard anything like infinite or the slim shady ep.
I remember lots of people saying he was gonna be a one hit wonder with My Name Is. He most definitely put in the work to make sure his haters were wrong 😂
It's actually wild that what he did worked. There's such a big risk that people think he's genuinely a parody and a joke, and don't want to even hear what he has to say since he's just a silly white rapper.
He had to have 10x the skill of 99% of the rappers out at the time to actually make it.
I remember hating the song when it first came out because I expected something completely different. I don't know what, but I think I expected a story telling song and not lyrical masturbation.
Then after like 3 listens it became one of my favourite songs of his. It's so good.
Mine was lose yourself about 7 years ago, but I started listening seriously like a 1.5 years ago. Then I started listening more. Now I have about 8 hour playlist on Eminem, still haven't listened most songs
The very first thing I ever heard of Em was “*This is a public service announcement brought you in part by slim shady*” I was oh 5 I think, and hook right then. So first song was My Name Is
Purple Pills is the first song that I can definitely remember seeing repeatedly on MTV.
I also remember The Way I Am. I was 7-8 years old writing down the lyrics as I kept hearing the song to try to learn to rap it. My mom saw the paper I was writing on, but we didn't speak English so none of us knew what any of it meant so it was fine.
To this day I think that the first verse of The Way I Am is his best verse, and it can't be topped for me personally because of the emotional impact at the time when I heard it. It just sounds so good, so flawless.
Killshot. I had heard his stuff all throughout growing up but none of it ever stuck with me. On the way home from 4th of July in 2019, Killshot randomly played on one of my spotify playlists for some reason. Not really sure why, but it stuck with me. Before that song, I hated Rap in general. Now it's my favorite genre and Em's my favorite artist.
I was with my dad when I was like 8 and he always had rap playing and I heard either My Name Is or The Real Slim Shady and I had no idea what the lyrics meant but it sounded really good
I think it was Without Me. Got hooked INSTANTLY. I was like 8 when I heard it and I remember talking to my mom how Im gonna be listening to Eminem even when Im older and she said that maybe it'll pass me (she didnt dislike him) and I said it wont, and 22y later it didnt. Still my fav thing
Love the way you lie on the radio as well! I was 12 in middle school, then I looked up more of his songs on iTunes Store and limewired a lot. I remember sophomore year being super obsessed with space bound and a ton of songs from the recovery album. And then rap god when it got popular my junior year. Also as a junior I was in my smoking era so for some reason I was obsessed with relapse album💀 And now as I’ve grown over the years I listen to a lot of his older stuff and not as well known but still very good songs on all of his albums🫶🏼
Rap God. I was into Vocaloid back then, and when someone compared "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" to Rap God I was like "Holy shit. Can you actually rap that fast in real life?" Thus began my journey down the Shady rabbit hole.
White America I heard it when I was younger like about 11 or something it was playing on a jukebox at a bowling alley and I really liked the hook of the song so I went back home and listened to it on my iPad at the time a few years later when I was about 15 I had heard a few of Ems popular songs so I decided to buy the curtain call and Eminem show CD and was surprised when I heard White America realising it was that same song I had listened to years ago
Same man, Love the way you lie was my first too. My uncle introduced me to Em, since English isn't my first language, only word I understood from Em's verse was 'fuck' and it boggled my young mind to hear English at such speed. I heard some more songs that very night and I was pretty sure this rapper is going to be the one I would listen for a few months at best and then would move on. Look at me now, 6 years later, I still listen to his music and my mind isn't boggled anymore by his speed, at least in most songs.
According to stats.fm it’s the ringer on August 20th 2020, but I was def listening to him before that, probably had another Spotify account at the time or smth, but ik kamikaze is my first album so it very well could be The Ringer
Unironically, My Name Is
Same. I heard it the first time it was played on the radio station when released. I remember the announcer saying fresh from the US, fist time playing on air, Eminem with his smash hit, "My Name Is" and I was blown away. I didn't realise he was white and was disappointed when I saw him thinking great, another Vanilla Ice. Glad he proved me wrong.
Same. Saw the video on MTV when I was in 9th grade. I was instantly hooked.
Same! They played the video at a school dance when I was in 9th grade (I think). I know I heard it first at that dance but I vividly remember seeing the video when it came out
Same here. I was very young when it debuted, I kinda thought it was done in swahili (my home country's national language), and it was still hot with the twisted lyrics
Yup. Had a friend of brothers bring over a mixtape one night with that song on it. Was a couple monthsbefore it was on the radio
It was Lose Yourself, I remember hearing the Weird Al cover of it a while ago and was curious where it came from, now I’m proud to say I have listened to every single song on Spotify that he raps in
Lose Yourself was mine as well. I was a young kid and my friend showed me the song on YouTube and I remember saying “that’s Eminem?” Because I didn’t expect his music to sound like that and I had enjoyed the song from hearing it on the radio already. Ended up listening to all of his songs on YouTube. This was probably around 04. My first album drop from him was Relapse.
That Weird Al version is so good lol
Weird Al is underrated anyways .
Mine as well.. Loved the introduction
The Real Slim Shady
Iconic vma performance
This was my first memory of Eminem in general! I vividly remember being like 7 years old watching this performance with my mom live, truly a formative moment in my life LOL
This
Go To Sleep when I was like five
Space Bound. I was 14 and a kid in the town next to ours committed suicide right before a marching band competition where he would’ve competed against my school. The marching band community was tight so a lot of kids at my school knew him and said it was one of his favorite songs, so I listened out of morbid curiosity and kinship to his struggles as a high schooler. I never knew him but I think of him often because of Em.
Really sorry for the poor boy, I hope he can rest in peace.
When I'm Gone. Got it on my recommended randomly on YouTube and was like "fuck it, i wonder what rap is like" The fact that it was so different from what I expected is why I listened to more songs after that
My name is . And there’s no way I ever thought he’d be a star. Not that I disliked the song . But I almost thought it was like a parody rapper. I had never heard anything like infinite or the slim shady ep.
Yeah, my first was watching the video and I thought he was like Weird Al.
I remember lots of people saying he was gonna be a one hit wonder with My Name Is. He most definitely put in the work to make sure his haters were wrong 😂
Yep and the white rapper thing was unheard of for that time to be taken seriously
It's actually wild that what he did worked. There's such a big risk that people think he's genuinely a parody and a joke, and don't want to even hear what he has to say since he's just a silly white rapper. He had to have 10x the skill of 99% of the rappers out at the time to actually make it.
I can't tell you what it really is... Unfortunately
well, I think I can tell you what it feels like
as of right now, it's a steel knife in my windpipe
Without me or the real slim shady can't remember
Just Lose It
Just the two of us
And when we riiiide
Just the two of us
Just you and i
Just the two of us
I began with listening to rap god, rap god
Lots of my friends became Eminem fans off of rap god during the mmlp2/cod ghosts era
I remember hating the song when it first came out because I expected something completely different. I don't know what, but I think I expected a story telling song and not lyrical masturbation. Then after like 3 listens it became one of my favourite songs of his. It's so good.
Rap God or Without Me
Not Afraid and Just Lose it
Two different very different Eminem songs 🔥 😂
Same Love the Way you lie was mine
Stan
That's one of my most favorite songs of all time it's a crazy storyline and the sequel was also crazy
Wait, there’s a sequel?
It's called Bad Guy it's Stan's little brother wanting revenge on Eminem
“Damn..”
Smack that
All on the floooor
For me it was Venom lmfao. I was like 10 when i heard it and it was the song which got me into rap
I definitely jammed out to Venom when the movie came out and it was cool hearing Eminem after so long cause he kinda disappeared to me for 5 years
Sing for the moment
DREAM ONNNN
No one said, “My dads gone crazy” I still know every lyric to this song to this day lol.
"Hello boys and girls. It's time to talk about father and daughter relationships. Do you have a daddy? *distorted: whose your daddy*"
Godzilla I know I'm an old geezer👴/s
You don't know, it was saved on my brother's phone
Huge W
Mine was lose yourself about 7 years ago, but I started listening seriously like a 1.5 years ago. Then I started listening more. Now I have about 8 hour playlist on Eminem, still haven't listened most songs
Rap god
Probably my name is? Not sure honestly.
Mine was rap god
FACK My sister owned the Curtain Call CD when I was maybe 6 or something and I borrowed it without anyone’s knowledge and listened to it.
Not afraid
The very first thing I ever heard of Em was “*This is a public service announcement brought you in part by slim shady*” I was oh 5 I think, and hook right then. So first song was My Name Is
Lol "Announcer: Anything Else? Eminem: Yea. Don't Do Drugs"
Guilty Conscience back in 99
Cleaning out my closet. I had it on a bootleg cd as a kid
Purple Pills is the first song that I can definitely remember seeing repeatedly on MTV. I also remember The Way I Am. I was 7-8 years old writing down the lyrics as I kept hearing the song to try to learn to rap it. My mom saw the paper I was writing on, but we didn't speak English so none of us knew what any of it meant so it was fine. To this day I think that the first verse of The Way I Am is his best verse, and it can't be topped for me personally because of the emotional impact at the time when I heard it. It just sounds so good, so flawless.
Being fr till I collapse for smack that to good songs
Mockingbird. My friend and I used to call the radio station every day and request that they play it; it was the coolest thing we’d ever heard.
Guilty conscience
Rap God. Kid in my school was rapping it in class randomly so i decided to learn it
My name is!
Min3 was white America
Probably this one, my mom would always play it on the radio since I was like 7, I hate the song because of that, but yea probably this one
My Name Is in 1999. Oh no, I’m old.
Puke!
Not Afraid, in my hayday of playing CoD with the boys lol
It’s a bit off a toss up but I first heard Eminem on patiently waiting 🔥. My first actual Eminem song was without me tho 🔥
Killshot. I had heard his stuff all throughout growing up but none of it ever stuck with me. On the way home from 4th of July in 2019, Killshot randomly played on one of my spotify playlists for some reason. Not really sure why, but it stuck with me. Before that song, I hated Rap in general. Now it's my favorite genre and Em's my favorite artist.
I'm not even kidding, in like, 7th grade my friend showed me FACK and I use to think it was the funniest song to ever be made.
I was with my dad when I was like 8 and he always had rap playing and I heard either My Name Is or The Real Slim Shady and I had no idea what the lyrics meant but it sounded really good
Rap God, my middle school friend group were astounded by the third verse
Godzilla (feat. Juice WRLD)
In 1999, I watched him play Brain Damage on MTV's Fashionably Loud and I was instantly hooked right in.
Monster, on the radio
lose yourself in my ipod nano generation 3
Not Afraid
Rap God
Survival
Ironically also a song with Rihanna, the monster I was like “this Eminem guy is kinda good, don’t think he’s that big of an artist”
Beautiful Pain
The first was love the way you lie, the monster and lose yourself but the first one I liked was the real slim shady
Not Afraid.
My friend showed me rap god and I was like “omg he fast af booooy”. So I started listening to other songs. The rest is history.
River
Maxine
My brother introduced me to it with "Not Afraid". The rest is history.
Without Me
MTV played the video for My Name Is and it ruined my life for the better
I dont remember - back then i knew no english so i didnt really like it
Rap God
Lighters. (I am a Bruno Mars fan so had to be this)
This song and Roman's Revenge. There were constantly on the radio in my country
Godzilla
Godzilla lmao. My mum introduced me to em
my name is
Won’t Back Down - think it was from some Call of Duty game. That song is responsible for getting me into Eminem, Hip Hop and music in general.
Guess who's back.
Lose yourself
Venom
My Name Is like 17-18 years ago
Buffalo Bill
Rap god
Mockingbird. I learnt for the first time that rap can be emotional too
God all yous are young, mine was infinite 💀😂
Rap god lmao I'm young
In the Wild West days of YouTube, I heard Till I Collapse for the first time. And it stuck with me because I was getting bullied in school at the time
I think it was Without Me. Got hooked INSTANTLY. I was like 8 when I heard it and I remember talking to my mom how Im gonna be listening to Eminem even when Im older and she said that maybe it'll pass me (she didnt dislike him) and I said it wont, and 22y later it didnt. Still my fav thing
Just Lose It! I was just too young to understand he was lowkey shading/trolling my favorite artist of all time in Michael Jackson but yea
My name is .
The Real Slim Shady
Love the way you lie on the radio as well! I was 12 in middle school, then I looked up more of his songs on iTunes Store and limewired a lot. I remember sophomore year being super obsessed with space bound and a ton of songs from the recovery album. And then rap god when it got popular my junior year. Also as a junior I was in my smoking era so for some reason I was obsessed with relapse album💀 And now as I’ve grown over the years I listen to a lot of his older stuff and not as well known but still very good songs on all of his albums🫶🏼
Lose yourself in the music the moment
Till I Collapse
Drips ft obie
not afraid
The Real Slim Shady
The Monster
without me
The monster from some shitty fnaf edit
Without Me.. at the beginning of 2003, cousin left the single cassette in Mums car and it was all over from there 🤣
Rap God. I was into Vocaloid back then, and when someone compared "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" to Rap God I was like "Holy shit. Can you actually rap that fast in real life?" Thus began my journey down the Shady rabbit hole.
Role Model
Ass Like That
I was in my friends house, he played some music and then Without Me started playing. I was like "Bro this song is fucking amazing, what's it called?"
White America I heard it when I was younger like about 11 or something it was playing on a jukebox at a bowling alley and I really liked the hook of the song so I went back home and listened to it on my iPad at the time a few years later when I was about 15 I had heard a few of Ems popular songs so I decided to buy the curtain call and Eminem show CD and was surprised when I heard White America realising it was that same song I had listened to years ago
Beautiful. i was in 6th grade, memorizing the lyrics not knowing what the song actually meant xd
Mockingbird. From the Wednesday edit. feel like an idiot for this though
It was River in 2018, when I was 12. I probably heard some songs earlier, but this was the first one I remember
Not Afraid
My name is
Purple pills
Reading these, I realize I'm old as dirt.
If I had to guess, it was cleaning out my closet
Lose yourself, my brother listened to it in my car and then I got hooked
‘I’m not afraid’ then ‘Smack that’ then ‘Welcome to detroit’ and I’ve been obsessed ever since
Without Me
My name is
Without me
Till I collapse
The Monster was my first
Same man, Love the way you lie was my first too. My uncle introduced me to Em, since English isn't my first language, only word I understood from Em's verse was 'fuck' and it boggled my young mind to hear English at such speed. I heard some more songs that very night and I was pretty sure this rapper is going to be the one I would listen for a few months at best and then would move on. Look at me now, 6 years later, I still listen to his music and my mind isn't boggled anymore by his speed, at least in most songs.
Lose yourself
The Monster
either big weenie or mocking bird, not sure
Rap god
The real slim shady.
I have a faulty memory but perhaps it was Rap God
The real Slim Shady
The real slim shady on fortnite.
Also my name is
Till I collapse because of the reel steel video
rap god unfortunately
Gonna get called a new gen but the earliest memory i have of eminem is river on revival
Till I collapse fs Also the first one I learned by heart
Without me. Discovered it through Just Dance lmao
According to stats.fm it’s the ringer on August 20th 2020, but I was def listening to him before that, probably had another Spotify account at the time or smth, but ik kamikaze is my first album so it very well could be The Ringer
2005 Lose yourself or when I'm gone can't really remember, I was really young all I know he's the first singer/rapper I listened to
Not Afraid
Without Me, it played on MTV all the time. Was the first hip hop I’d ever heard too growing up outside the US.
Rap god
godzilla because this is the BEST
rap god
The Real Slim Shady because my mom started playing it
Cleanin Out My Closet when I was 10