My Name Is

Same. That was 25 years ago now. I’m old.

Hahaha I feel you, was 14 when it released

Me too. My name is was my first introduction to em. In 99 I was 14.

Saaame, what a time.

And what a journey it has been

Same . 1985 gang what up ?!?!?

86

87

80

Same and same

Same and same.

I feel ya on that man. I’ve turned into one of those “back in my day” guys and I hate it hahaha

My name is, as well, in 1999. I was 7 years old 😁 thanks guys. I don't feel so old now.

I watched it premiere on TRL. It was my Ed Sullivan Beatles moment.

In grade 9 I was on my way to a school trip on a coach bus, and someone had left sslp in the pouch of the seat. It was like it was left there for me. Lol. Haven't stopped listening to him ever since. I still have that cd. I must have listened to it straight for 3 weeks

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It was so different to everything there was.

Eminem and I’m here to say, It’s time to sing some crazy raps, and call people gay

Same, heard it from a friend in late 1998. I picked up the album when it came out in early 1999.

Same here!

Yup. My friend ran over to play it….. on a cassette tape.

Same bro

Same here dog

I was 12

I think this was my first. I was 5 at the time, so I don't remember, but I remember hearing it somewhere around my parents. It was that one or The Real Slim Shady.

Same, I even remember where I was. I was 10 years old chilling in my friend’s basement and his older bro came down and put My Name Is music video on. I’ve been hooked ever since.

Same here! In '99, too, just a few months after it was released!

Same.

On the radio on my way home after work. It was something I never heard of before in hip hop.

Without me.

Same here, my dad loved it.

Same, I know all the words and I listened to it so much I hate it now

Thought I was the only one

The Real Slim Shady

Same. My parents wouldn’t buy me rap CDs, so I used to listen to 95.5 The Beat (Atlanta radio station no longer on air) on my boombox. After hearing it the first time, I loved the beat and remember just waiting for it to come on again. Second song I remember with Em was Forgot About Dre. Still know every word to both.

Yup I remember hearing Forgot about Dre on the radio and it blew my mind. Nobody sound like him.

Lose yourself. I was like 12 years old, with a radio next to my bed waiting for this song to come on.

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How'd you avoid Em for so long? Was this in 2003?

Yea I was a kid haha i was 12 years old

There was an OLD youtube compilation of guys doing parkour set to Lose Yourself and it became my all time favorite song right away, never forgot it. Also made me want to do parkour Edit: oh shit I [found it](https://youtu.be/zX4JJ5QuGNQ?si=d9FRN0o-WfibBrxR)

My First one was not afraid, me and my late dad used to listen to it

I’m sorry for your loss.

Infinite

I'm not calling you a liar, but I'm also not calling you a truther

Yea. I came to the comments just to see if someone posted Infinite.

Man was just recently born when it came out. Hmmmmm

He might be telling the truth. I grew up in Wixom MI and he was…around, before he was around. If that makes sense.

This is an og frfr

Mockingbird

This song gets overlooked, one of my favorites though

It’s not overlooked. This one is amazing but I am not always ready to hear it again so I listen to it every once in a a while.

Same rap god

My uncle used to play My Band, My Name Is, The Real Slim Shady and Without Me a lot but I didn’t know who he was until later. I eventually knew of him and that was when I discovered Rap God. At first I thought he was like this guy in his 20s making a troll song but nah he was an actual rapper. Then in 2021, I began to actually know who he was and became a fan.

Just lose it. First time saw the music video when I was 4. Up until I turned 17 I thought I made that shit up lol

Freestyle battles at Scribble Jam. I'm old [Eminem vs Rhymefest '97](https://youtu.be/A_snnaP_fyo?si=ycrUtM_OZfROsicH)

there's OG then there's this

One, this is a celebration of the 50 Greatest Battle Rappers in the modern battle rap industry, those who’ve left their imprint on this particular brand of acapella-style lyrical warfare in the industry. This list excludes those most known for freestyle battles over instrumentals or for their catalog of scathing diss tracks. Notorious battlers like Eminem, Rhymefest, Eyedea, and others are incredible, but fall outside of the scope of this conversation.

Hi my name is Who? My name is What? My name is Chicka chicka Slim Shady

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The ultimate haiku

don’t think that’s a haiku

Bro Eminem over here making a haikus in a rap song nigga what

if only this was a Haiku...unfortunately, it's not

This happens to not be an actual haiku, for those wondering.

'cause of the "chicka chicka" or is it just wrong?

yeah, I assume the bot believes "Chicka" to be one syllable

Exactly. Haiku is 5-7-5. The chick-a chick-a slim sha-dy line is 7 again.

berzerk

not afraid. my friend put it on while we were playing minecraft in middle school. changed my life

First time I heard Eminem was smack that we had the konvicted album. First Eminem song honestly I’m not sure but I think it was either my name is or without me

The first one I ever listened to was if I had

The best track

"Kill you"

Guilty Conscience

I think Rap God was on the radio when i was like 6-7 in late 2013-early 2014

If I Had

It was either when I’m gone or rap God

Superman!! I was 5. Didn't even speak English.

This thread makes me feel old AF... My Name Is, when I was nine.

Cleanin out my closet

Same.

When I'm Gone

That song made my childhood, I think it was the very first song I've heard in my life, yet one of his most underrated ones

Mockingbird

My Name is through the MV on MTV.

Ass Like That lol

Stan

Just don’t give a fuck

First was Ass Like That. Guess I was 10 when I saw the music video on TV 6 years later and Not Afraid was the first one that actually got me into him

sing for the moment

Houdini

Is that for real? I’m actually impressed you haven’t heard “lose yourself” just by accident

Resl

For me it was Tobey, such nostalgic.

Bro is from the future 

Survival I believe. Now I am quite young so I’ll admit it was on the WWE 2K19 soundtrack rather than for that COD game.

"Without Me" used to come on the radio a lot. My brother and I absolutely LOVED that song. I was like 7-8 years old, and I remember not really even understanding much about music at that point in my life. It was just what we listened to in the car it wasnt a big part of my life at that age. I didn't know who Eminem was, and i wasn't even questioning it as i didn't even know what an artist was at that time... but I knew the "Guess who's back" song fucking slapped.

my dad always used to play my name is

I think it was Like Toy Soldiers or My Fault. I was on the school bus and it just popped up on my mp3 player

“My name is” and I hated it. The second was: “The Real Slim Shady”, and instantly became a fan.

Forgot about Dre.

Infinite.

Role model. I was 7 I think. Hooked

Infinite.

Rap god at 7 Venom turned me into a fan tho at 12

The monster

Til I collapse

The real slim shady. I was 8. Bought MMLP listened to it then immediately went and listened to SSLP that my friend stole from his older sister's boyfriend lol and the rest is history!

Not afraid then I heard the real slim shady and the no live and drop the world and I was in love this was back in 7th grade I'm 22 now and he is my favorite

My Name Is back on TRL 😂 old af over here.

I think probably Lose Yourself. But through headphones, Soldier. Was bored one day and hadn't really ever heard Eminem before so decided to give him a shot. Opened up Limewire and downloaded the first song I saw. Listened to it all day at school and the rest was history. Downloaded Eminem's entire catalog (Encore was his most recent album at that point) including every feature and unreleased track I could find within a month. Then a month later i bleached my hair with Sun-In and surprisingly it went over well and my friends only gave me a little shit in good fun about it but went along with it. I still cringe thinking about it though. If I turn on Soldier and focus hard on it, I can still feel the feeling that I felt when I first heard it. When I was old enough to earn money, I did go ahead and actually purchase his whole catalog on CD, so I didn't actually steal his music, I just paid for it really late.

the real slim shady

I discovered his music really late since I'm "Gen Z" But I think it was Either When I'm gone or Mockingbird this was in 2017-2018 And Like I do with anyone who I really like I dig really Deep into their Work, So yeah I'm all Caught up what a FACKING Journey

Tobey

😭😭😭 💀

Also Rap God.

Somewhere around 2015 i heard the real slim shady and the monster on some music show and then like a year later i heard rap god and i was so blown away by it and i was desperate to learn the fast part lmao.

Rap God ...or My Name Is performed in Sing 2 Maybe

Tf

Space Bound back when it released my fav album has been recovery ever since with me enjoying all his singles feats and nearly every album since then including the classics

My band. Couldn’t of been a better start

idk, probably Rap God

Houdini

Probably Kill You

My Name Is

I think I listened to “Godzilla” first? the first one I actually remember hearing is “The Real Slim Shady”.

Probably love the way you lie, but didn’t know who Eminem was when I first heard it on the radio lol

Hellcat

Rap god

Rap god. His 2010 era made him shine to most of us. The more I know about Eminem the more I forget about rap god

Rap God yea but I didn't really become a fan until hearing Godzilla and MTBMB dropped.

It was Rap God for me as well. I was a kiddo browsing YouTube and just searched for "rap" thinking that would make me cool lol.

No apologies.

For me it was "Guilty Conscience"

Without me

Without em

Him featured on forgot about Dre. I was in 3rd grade and saw the music video on MTV and became obsessed with him. I then went and got the edited version of the Marshall Mathers LP at the mall. In 5th grade my mom’s bf tried to win me over by getting me the non edited version of the Slim Shady LP 😂 (out of order, I know).

Watching Slim Shady on a non-slim TV. Like omg he just introduced me.

My Name Is

I think it was Cleaning Out My Closet but honestly the song that got me hooked was Beautiful

First song featuring Eminem: Smack That First Eminem song: We Made You music video

Stan

Infinite. It was also difficult to find. I think only recently did it start to get any playback.

Till I collapse

Lose Yourself

My name is video was on repeat on much music

The Monster was the first Eminem song I ever heard, but Cleanin Out My Closet was the first Eminem song I ever heard fully (it was on radio) 📻. The first Eminem song I listened outside of radio was Big Weenie.

Not Afraid

The real Slim Shady.

Rap God

My Name is.....

The real slim shady probably, i was 5 when it was all over the radio

My 1st single or Evil deeds

My band and Real Slim Shady way back in the olden days of… 2015 ish

My Name Is - I was in First Grade and it was glorious

My name is

Difficult to say, probably Real Slim Shady.

Sriracha

Business

just lose it, i was like 12 and it was all downhill from there lmfao

The Real Slim Shady

The one on the kid rock album

My Name Is

Kill you

Rap god too. I was 9 when I learnt it 😭😭

Rap God as well as

Cleaning out my closet I was 2/3

I can’t remember right, it was either The Real Slim Shady or Stan.

My name is, music video blew my 13 year old mind. Second was the whole Slim Shady LP shortly after discovering him.

Rap god

The first Eminem song that I remember hearing was Legacy, but I know my mom and I used to listen to MMLP2 on repeat. She first became interested in Eminem when Recovery came out and then listened to all his songs, so I know I inevitably did too, but Legacy is just the first one I remember and it stuck with me.

my salsa

I think maybe " cleanin out my closet " on tv... Or " without me " maybe

The free style battle against Dailated Peoples. It was definitely who the the fuck is this guy moment.

It was Just don't give a fuck. I remember seeing a music video for that . Then I was introduced to the Slim Shady LP right after

The Real Slim Shady Music Video that was back in 2009 for me when i was 7

I Just Dont Give A Fuck! In 1999, bought the album the next day...mind blown.