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Hi!
My name is
What?
My name is
Who?
My name is
Chika-chika
Slim Shady
Hi!
My name is
Huh?
My name is
What?
My name is
Chika-chika
Slim Shady
Hi!
My name is
What?
Excuse me
Can I have the attention of the class
For one second
Hi kids!
Do you like violence?
Wanna see me stick Nine inch Nails, through each one of my eyelids?
Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did?
Try acid and get fucked up worse that my life is?
My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight
But I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate
And Dr. Dre said
"Slim Shady you a base-head!"
Uh-uh!
"So why's your face red? Man you wasted!"
Well since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else
'Cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt
Got pissed off and ripped Pamela Lee's tits off
And smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross
I smoke a fat pound of grass and fall on my ass, faster than a fat bitch
Who sat down too fast
Come here, slut!
"Shady, wait a minute, that's my girl, dawg!"
I don't give a fuck, God sent me to piss the world off!
Hi!
My name is
What?
My name is
Who?
My name is
Chika-chika
Slim Shady
Hi!
My name is
Huh?
My name is
What?
My name is
Chika-chika
Slim Shady
Hi!
My name is
What?
My name is
Who?
My name is
Chika-chika
Slim Shady
Hi!
My name is
Huh?
My name is
What?
My name is
Chika-chika
Slim Shady
My English teacher wanted to flunk me in Junior High
Thanks a lot, next semester I'll be thirty five
I smacked him in his face with an eraser
Chased him with a stapler
Stapled his nuts to a stack of papers
Walked in the strip club, had my jacket zipped up
Flashed the bartender, then stuck my dick in the tip cup
Extraterrestrial, running over pedestrians in a space ship
While they screamin' at me
"Let's just be friends!"
Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to
I just found out my mom does more dope than I do
I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper
Make a record about doin' drugs and name it after her
You know you blew up when the women rush your stands
Try to touch your hands like some screamin' Usher fans
This guy at White Castle asked for my autograph
So I signed it
"Dear Dave, thanks for the support, asshole!"
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"He dissed his own mother???!!!"
guys? Who's gonna tell him about that song?
Eh not me sir
Not me. 😉😂
Nope, ain't going there
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🤣🤣🤣
This song is actually pretty mild comparatively to some of his other songs, but in my opinion the reason he did so well is because it was Fresh & New compared to 99.99% of other rap, and you can never go wrong with a Dr.Dre beat. Also back then it resonated with a lot of the suburban raised kids, which was a new fan base brought to the Rap Scene. It was relevant and shocking/funny in a dark way. Eminem was like the Gateway Drug to Rap for people who didn't like rap.
Yeah, and this isn't even the most explicit version of the song.
This is the OG version I remember.
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I agree. I would not react on RUclips to the song Kim but you need to hear it.
Yeah as someone from a different country who’s a fan of hip-hop, slim shady was literally what got me into rap at the time and Akon. Damn it was so long ago it makes feel so nostalgic
This came out when I was in high school. It was a time when people didn’t take life so seriously. This entire album played everywhere. Of course there was a small group all up in arms about it but that group was up in arms about everything. Unlike today, they were not offered safe spaces and were just ignored. Eminem wasn’t the only one doing this. A lot of music at the time was of the don’t take this too seriously vibe.
Remember when you could laugh and vibe without dissecting and being made to feel guilty about every word.
we had a different sense of humor when this song came out, and we didnt take everything people said so literally, and as others have said he spoke for a generation of kids who felt they had no voice. you should check out White America and Mosh by Em as well.
Generations of boys still have no voice. They're told they don't matter, that women/girls do not need them, they're more important to society if they wear a dress or come out as LGBTQ, etc. Schools tell them they are mentally ill and put them on SSRI's from Big Pharma and then wonder why we have mass shootings.
Different sense of humor? Nah gen z and millennial humor is identical except there’s more complex levels of irony to gen z humor. This kid in the video is playing it up so much for the camera “his mothers tits!? He slit
His dads throat!? He hates his English teacher!??!! This guys a menace!”
Welcome to the world of music reaction channels, where people exaggerate extremely because it pulls more.
I had a messed up childhood and Em was one of the first artists to capture some of the craziness that surrounded me and to express the anger that I felt. He could speak the truth that I couldn’t. Also, it was new and shocking.
😂 I love watching your shock at this.
Man, the Slim Shady version of Eminem was the shit back in my high school days. LOL. Listening to it now…if this stuff had been released today, he never would have made it due to the I’m-offended-by-everything-you-hurt-my-feelings-you-must-be-cancelled culture. It’s actually pretty remarkable that he made it through those days, because political correctness was definitely on the rise. Em/Slim was such a troll back in the day, but he did it with so much humor and bravado that you just couldn’t help but love it.
Here’s a recent revelation that shocked me… Growing up, I always thought my mom (generally a conservative/proper person and Southern Baptist) just barely tolerated me listening to Eminem on the radio or seeing his videos when I watched TRL. I was talking to her a few months ago about how excited I was for Eminem to be in the Super Bowl Halftime Show, and she said, “I actually really liked him back in the day.” 😂
When this stuff first came out no one ever heard of rap like this and it drew people in and it blew him up
and it pissed off a lot of mainstream rap because he's white. they thought he was going to be the next Vanilla Ice. and then when he blew up, he hurt a lot of egos and there was a lot of gatekeeping in rap.
Yeahhh.. The good old days. I was 12 when this song came out. Here in the Netherlands all my friends were listening to Eminem. We loved it. Just like Offspring, R. Kelly, 2pac, TLC, Will Smith, Linkin Park.
Damn, the good old days!
Your reactions are so funny because I grew up listening to Eminem & I’m 25 now. This is literally the epitome of Slim Shady & my little 10yo self knew every word 🤣🤣 in secret from my mom lol
Same lmao except I’m 26
My mom thought he was hilarious.
lol, i'm 47 and started listening to him when this came out (i was 24). though in my case i had to buy it twice, because my mom stole my first copy 😂 she loved him.
@@sometimessnarky1642 u got a cool mom I’ll be that mom one day 😼
Gotta listen to Leaving Heaven. You will c how he really feeling about his dad. Gr8 reaction bruh. Got u a new sub. Love how u the new generation is willing to give Em a chance
I'm a few years older than Eminem but I always loved his music because he was so different than anything else out. Some people didn't take him too well. But Eminem struggled to get signed because nobody wanted to give him a chance. But he kept grinding until Dre finally found him
The look on your face, frequent jaw-dropping is hysterical. Thanks for bringing humor to my day.
This was minimally censored where I lived when this came out. It was an instant hit.
Eminem spoke to the millennial mindset where we realized that our future had already been bought and sold and we would never be as successful as the generations before us because they had already borrowed against our future and we were the ones who had to pay the bill.
"Nine Inch Nails" is also a band. Maybe you might like some of their tunes, as well. I loved your expression when he said his "more dope than I do".... PRICELESS!
I remember first hearing his first album on the bus from someone's cd player and never heard anything exactly like it. Got a burned cd of it a few days later and everyone just loved it. At least the kids. Parents were pretty upset and I remember my grandma talking about congress or something trying to ban Eminem off the airwaves/tv. That was just a crazy thing to hear. To know everyone around you who was not a teen or kid hated this guy. It made you more interested that's for sure. So I would just listen to his albums while playing n64 and later Xbox. There just was nothing like it in my life. I think he became such a big deal because rap was ignored by a large portion of the population at the time because rap was at the time largely seen as an inner city ghetto kind of thing. Gangster rap was still the really popular form of rap but as soon as Eminem came out he was everywhere and in turn rap was everywhere. Slowly People started to learn Eminem was white and that just blew off the whole idea it was only young black kids into rap. Suddenly it was kids from all over. I grew up in a small town of less than 5000 people and every kid had his album or a copy of it that they hid from their parents. Before all this I was mainly listening to grunge from the 90s and metal from the 70s upward. After Eminem I took notice of rap and a lot of kids like me did. So yeah, parents started hearting it coming from our bedrooms. Knowing the lyrics its not surprising the reaction it got but my mom didn't mind. She saw Eminem as similar to when early metal music started and all the outcry it got so I was free to listen as normal but a lot of my friends parents really hated Eminem.
Im from Argentina, and i was a kid when this came out. I loved Mtv as any kid at the time, and our parents most of them didndt understand english so it was very easy to access this type of music. I still love this song
Did you know: if you play the chorus backwards, it’ll say “It’s Eminem” and “it is slim” in the song!
This song takes me back. I wore this shit out......
I miss my old cds hahaha
When I heard it first, I didn't speak English yet and just thought the beat and way he sounded was funny. Later when I was able to understand, I had enough disdain for the world and my own traumas to perfectly understand what he wanted to convey. So, it was even funnier and downright satisfying to hear somebody say what you think.
He sings in alter egos Slim, Marsh, and Em shock and awe in all and always flexing how he spits bars with words no other can put into their raps just how I have always seen it. I have always appreciated Em’s abilities from his start I’m 53 so I’ve heard it all from day 1
"How was this played on the radio?" Man, it wasn't lol. None of his early stuff ever hit radio, because his public persona as Slim Shady, he was supposed to be the bad guy. In the song "the way I am" he even says "Radio won't even play my jam". The whole point is that you had to buy his CDs in order to hear them, because he was so controversial. Glad you like him though, he's one of my favorite rappers of all time and I enjoy watching you experience him for the first time. Keep up the good videos!
It was played but the very clean version
Yeah I first heard this on the radio lol js
Our station also played "the way I am".
This was all over the radio, just the clean version.
We all just smiled, laughed, and sang along. Just good fun music
I can’t tell if you get the vibe of Gen X with Shady; he’s being intentionally rebellious. For that generation (my parents btw) they were stifled, neglected and pissed off by the outwardly straightlaced but frequently hypocritical attitude of their parents (the Baby Boomer generation). I don’t know how widespread or anything that is, but my parents and grandparents actually followed that pattern, and definitely a lot of people saw it the way I described. This is also the same generation that produced ICP, who even signed with Disney for a while
This song introduced the mainstream to Eminem....I was in 7th grade when this dropped damn I'm old
I was 19 when he first came out, and was running with the delinquent crowd in Town so everyone had his CD, and we LOVED it!! Shocking truth hasn't been better since.
I was 19 when this came out. I remember thinking 🤯🤯 this guy is nuts! And I wanted to buy the album but hesitated because every other white rapper was so-so at best. But when I did, wow! It was amazing and I played it over and over... This song played all the time in LA, you couldn't go away without hearing this blasted on the airwaves... Sensored of course.
"God sent me to piss the world off" pretty much sums up Eminem's vibe. Always liked that line. He lost me at rapping about chopping up his child's mother, though.
As for how it was received at the time it came out--he was briefly embraced as "alternative," played on the radio alongside Beck, Weezer, and Pearl Jam. That didn't last, probably because his stuff was so radio-unfriendly the silences or bleeps were 90% of the song. I come from the punk/goth/alterna world, and at first we thought he was like the Beastie Boys, kind of? (Beasties were punk when they started out) But I think alternakids realised he belonged to hip-hop, not to us.
Very well said.
I'm 35. My Dad not only bought me this record, he put me on to it. It was in rotation at Rock stations before it blew on MTV
When this came out we LOVED it! It was new, it was different, and he was doing exactly what he says. He was saying what we were all thinking!
Please bro react to "Dr.Dre Tell How He Discovered Eminem In 'The Defiant Ones" it's a short video where Dr. Dre talks how 'My name is' was made
Slim Shady is the embodiment of "God let me live another day, now I'm gonna make it everybody's problem!" 🤣
Nine Inch Nails is a band, they were massive in the 1990s. That's why he says that line "Wanna see me stick nine-inch nails to each one of my eyelids?"
"How did this get on radio?" They censored it, of course. In addition to omitting words they also changed lyrics, which you probably noticed with the video for Without Me.
I remember when I first heard this around 2005 when I was a kid and got my first Eminem CD…. The stuff he was saying was so hilarious and mind blowing that someone would say that on a song it was pure shock. Now nothing anyone says in rap is shocking
When I first heard this song, it was the radio version back in the day. About a week later, I spent the night at a cousin's house because my parents wanted to party one night. My cousin's had cable so we were watching MTV and that's when I saw the music video. A year later, I got to buy the uncensored CD and it blew my mind
This feels like 8th grade. My mom listened to everything. She had Eminem in her 500 CD carousal. I wanna go back and restart life right around all this stuff was happening.
I was 22 when this came out. Still love it. It was nice for someone to be able to say what most of us would think but would never say. Not everything Em says but generally speaking, just nice to be able to say fuck it and not care
You should react to cleaning out my closet by Eminem, it’s gonna be………eh even more….
Like so that he can see
Duuudde!!! You have got to watch the movie “8 mile” starring Eminem!! It is about him, his mom & his little sister. I can’t remember his little sisters name but he constantly fought to protect her, from EVERYTHING & especially their mom’s craziness. If I dealt with all he did, I’d be just as angry & disrespected my mom too. Seriously!! I lived like 40 mins from 8 mile & it was nowhere I’d ever want to grow up at, especially being a little white skinny dude wanting to be a rapper. The rap battles in the movie, to me, are the best parts. Eminem throws down 🤯😱😳🤣!! And when you do watch it, cause I REALLY hope you do, a little side note is, when they all are cheering “313”, that’s the area code in Detroit MI.
Her name was Lily! 😁
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I was about to ask how you never heard this on the radio, then I remembered it's twenty three years old.
I was 26 when this came out and I was still living in New Zealand (I’ve lived in London for the last 19 years), and as a lover of all things English and literary this song floored me. His vocabulary was beyond extensive, which in itself was impressive, but his ability to weave a story while simultaneously ‘taking the piss’, exposing his pain and regret, while making you laugh through his mad use of wit and sarcasm…all in the genre of rap was extraordinary. I am now 49 years old and I am still blown away whenever I hear his laid down tracks, but mostly his free styling. He is a lyrical genius in my opinion and one of a kind.
when i first heard this record, i was happy someone had the balls to stand up and say what they felt. a lot of us have damage and shit parents and baggage. it was refreshing to have an artist confirm that shit. it's not pretty, but it's real life. and i respect the hell out of it. i was 19 when this record dropped. and it's still a favorite. that's a rare thing. and it deserves respect.
Fun fact- even at this point eminem was crazy tallented and smart. Don't believe me? My name is -(flip it)> si eman ym (re group it)-> si Emanym (adjust it ever so slightly)-> it's Eminem... Completely went over my head as a kid
This song has I believe about 4 versions or more, the one you listened to is probably the lest edited one. In the original track the English teacher Did n want to flunk him, he wanted to fuck him lol
The music video is fun, the words for it have 2 or 3 different versions too.
And to answer your question, when Em first dropped his first album we loved it and instantly feel in love with him.
😁
Us OG Em fans loved him because he never took himself too seriously. He was hilarious, videos are comedic and included well known celebs. We got to witness each persona. Slim Shady was a class-clown. He got more offensive, belligerent and straight nasty because they said he was too offensive to be aired from the start. The more they tried to block him, the more popular he became. Marshall Mathers got deeper into personal life and emotional stuff....good and bad. Now we got the Eminem persona, straight rapper. I love them all. But each is a different mood.🔥
Thanks for Reacting MAN, been long time since I've heard this, I am 35 now, COOL!
i laughed my ass off the first time i heard this track in 1999
just an fyi: Em never made it past 9th grade. he dropped out after flunking it twice.
He wasn't a bad influence on us, he was an outlet who helped us to process and vent all the shit we were going through. like Em we were cynical, disaffected Gen Xers who dgaf about anything 🤷🏼♀️ we grew up latchkey kids during the crack and AIDS epidemics who listened to punk rock and original NY and gangsta rap. this was like our therapy 😁
Dude we loved it. Remember authority were all boomers at the time. They had it coming. We sat around and had album release parties for his first three albums listening like it was a comedy cd
Imagine if you can, what the radio edits of all these songs were. My favorite part of his popularity back then was how much of his actual lyrics made it to air. This culture would never allow an Eminem to form. Nut up new gen.
My mom was one of those parents that were up in arms over Eminem. My dad bought me my first explicit cd....it was The Eminem Show.
There is a interview on you tube. Dre meets Eminem first time. Dre said you want to hear some beats? Dre put this on and em started
This song was so wildly famous, Emimem was straight up the Marilyn Manson of rap at the time
His mom mostly sued him for cleaning out my closet but I’m sure the random bars in his songs made her wanna do it more
He actually did Cleaning Out My Closet after he settled his lawsuit with his mom. She sued him for defamation based on lyrics and various magazine interviews. The lawsuit went on after the SSLP and during the MMLP. Cleaning out my closet came out on The Eminem Show, his 3rd Interscope album.
Hey, my oldest has been a straight up stan since she was 4ish (She had aunts that started at only 4 years older than her so they kinda forgot she was a niece, not a little sister). She always said she was going to grow up & marry him back then. She is now 22 & still loves the guy, although now she has an age gap deal-breaker that he's just way outside of so it's more of an "I'll love you from afar" kinda thing.
its funny you say that, when Eminems "my name is" came out, Eminem himself and his music was very popular in Australia, i was in my mid teens and loving every minute of him. We were rebellious and felt validated that someone finally called out parents as being human too not these perfect parents that they tried to project to the world........10 years later, our parents were jamming and loving Eminem!! Go figure. but mind you i was very respectful to my parents, this was just the voice that made me not feel so alone in feeling the way they made me feel if you feel me. A song that expressed what people are really like but as kids either didnt have the balls or respected our elders enough not to say it outloud to them, especially if we didnt want the butt whooping lolol
I'm actually old enough to see Hip Hop becoming big in the eighties. And seeing it going from Run DMC and Happy Hip Hop such as The Fat Boys and Digital Underground into "Listen up y'all, we got something to say." with Public Enemy. Until Puff Daddy and the likes came along and changed it into "Street life is tough, let me get into my Lamborghini supercar and we'll drive up to my million dollar mansion while I'm gonna tell you all about it!"
Public Enemy's Chuck D. Said about Gangsta Rap "Them Motherfuckers ain't got nothing to say." and those expensive, boisterous music videos prove his point. So when Eminem showed up, he was a total breath of Fresh air, nothing of that bragging that Gangsta Rap artists did.
And when Enimem showed up, everybody went to the obvious, comparing him to Vanilla Ice as he was the quintessential white rapper. But, as Eminem's flow and the use of funny voices in the background very clearly shows, he was actually very much influenced by a very different white version of Hip Hop. THE BEASTIE BOYS.
What Enimem does is the call and response that King Adrock, Mike D. and MCA were doing on their records since the mid-eighties, but he does it on his own using funny little voices. These days, Enimem is very vocal about the Beastie Boys, urging people to go check them out. Heck, even Biggie Smalls said that the whole East Coast- West coast beef would be forgotten about when the Beastie Boys would drop an album, because all the rappers would hang out and listen to the Beastie Boys together since they bridged all of that. AND had the dopest beats ever.
Your reaction made me laugh lol but yeah he has changed a lot in a good way
This is the super clean version. They have 3 versions of this song and if you can find the original unedited unedited version check it out
I’ve been listening to Eminem since I was 6 because of my dad! I’m happy he introduced me to him at a younger age because if I never did I wouldn’t know what great rap is! Em is simply just a rap god and the biggest MC on this Earth!
Oh you have nooo idea how dark its gonna get if you think this diss of his mum is bad.
React to «cleaning out my closet» and you’ll see haha, that’s the song she sued him for.
To answer your question, back then when this came out - it was different times, the more controversial the better.
Today people are way to offended by everything.
So back then it was just straight up a banger! 😁
And Eminem said himself «if you take my lyrics too literal thats on you».
I was 17, my friends and I would drive out to the beach to smoke weed in a small town so we could listen to the album loud without our parents hearing us. Greatest times ever.
Slim Shady is obviously a character. But also a demonstration that it's impossible to do a dis track on Marshall Mathers, because from day one he was going harder against himself than anyone else can.
This is actually the “clean” version lol
You’re hearing it now. I was hearing it, first release. This album, Eminem, help shaped my entire life, growing up. Everything he rapped about was true to how we were growing up in high school, not just in the USA but fucking worldwide. I dare you to step to anyone, who grew up like me, with Eminem as their background. Do you even know who Kriss Kross is? Doubt it.
The difference is really the social context. Eminem spoke to a generation young people who were living in shit situations, but had been told that they didn't really have any options. There wasn't any of this "when you grow up you can be whatever you want to be" it was "shut up we're poor/we're stuck here so just deal with it". Parents and the government were the enemy. Then Eminem comes along and starts saying everything that would piss "the system" off, disrespecting everybody, because he just didn't give a shit. He was talented, hungry and gave the middle finger to "the man". So yeah, kids gravitated to that.
His alter ego is definitely dope. I love Slim Shady!
This was Eminem’s very first single. It’s how he introduced himself to the world. And as a white kid in Canada - this was my first real introduction to rap. How did we react when this came out? Man it was pure shock value. This song got passed around school SO much! White rappers before him were punchlines, so the fact that he was this damn good and produced by the already at the time legendary Dr Dre….man, people were running to get that album. It was a MUST HAVE.
It's funny reading the comments, it's true back then we was not so easily offended, and was happily singing this and all other of his songs without thinking OMG 😄
Eminem diss himself too 😂
People who keep themselves in a box don't understand his lyrics. He is the emptomime of the word misunderstood. The lyrics that sound 'direct and violent' are simply metaphors for emotions. Back in these days (and still now) the media constantly came after him saying he's a horrible person, so he is playing on that and acting how they say he is to piss them off more because they were wrong about him
We loved it! The majority of us were angry ourselves so we could relate a little. But those of us with common sense knew to take it as ironic. Great reaction!
How did I feel when this song came out......well I heard this when I was in like Jr. High school if I'm not mistaken....yeah around 7th or 8th grade......I thought that it was the coolest thing that I had ever heard and at the time no one else had heard of him but then 2 or 3 days later EVERY damn body was listening to him and everybody had something to say about him. From parents to the people that he worked with. He was always a really cool lyricist and even as an adult there are still things in songs that I heard as a kid that I didn't quite catch that I'm just now getting. If you listen to Em's music it's like listening to a story damn near every time at least to me anyway lol
Do not forget there are 3 different versions of this man!!!!! This is the insane belligerent one!!!!
When this album came out I was in grade 7. The subversive tone was what made us go crazy for it. Remember that this was right before music was available on the internet.
I will say though to the people in the comments saying that we were less sensitive back then and saying this couldn’t survive the “woke mob” and “cancel culture”. It was the conservatives who tried to end Eminem.
How did I react when this came out? I loved it! A big hit even in the UK.
It attracted some negative press but you could get away with much more twenty years ago than you can now. Plus it's funny.
Em has always mocked others in the music world, even people he likes aren't completely safe. Ask Nicki Minaj.
Speaking of which throw Bad Meets Evil - Fast Lane with Em and Royce onto your reaction list.
welcome to the millennial experience my dude lol i think we loved anything that was boundary-pushing and over the top aggressively rude. it was a staple of growing up at the time to see how far you could push it, so it was great to hear someone on the radio putting it all out there where everyone can hear it. a lot of us were in pain and the absurdity of the mainstream being so … weak, soft, beige …. made it very appealing when eminem’s first hits broke through. felt like the absurd silliness and grooviness of the beat and his intonations was balancing the absolute carnage of the lyrics. lots of ppl didn’t read the lyrics they just heard it on the radio and bopped along not fully able to hear what em was saying, and that was very entertaining!
This was Slim Shady. Em hit the mainstream as this character. In my opinion this helped him blow up. If he would've just had bars, I don't think he would have appealed to as broad of an audience as he did. He still would've been nice but being abrasive and seemingly anti-literally everything authority, along with being comedic, made him appeal to that wider base.
yep. back in the day there were 3 distinct styles and personalities to his music. you had Slim Shady, the Clown; Eminem, the dark and twisted; and Marshal, the deep and philosophical
I just remember thinking “this is funny as fuck” first time I heard it
9 inch nails was a reference to a band. And as far as Em - we also listened to 2 Live Crew. This was tame haha
Bro I laugh so hard 😂
I remember when this album came out. I was in Secondary School (British - So highschool for you). One half of the school yard, during lunch break, played Eminem's out loud on CD players with mini speakers. The other side of the yard belted out Limp Bizkit. Teachers hated it.,
Parents lost their MINDS! I remember exactly where I was when I first heard him..
This was his first video, when I first heard it I actually thought he was gonna be a 'one hit wonder'😆 He blew up quick after this! LOVE Eminem
I was in 5th grade when this came out and I remember all of us just standing around going Hi my name is…..
Me and my buddies would play this song all the time at school, we were the rebel type just trying to piss people off from the lyrics lmao
Remember buying this cd they wouldn’t let me get it, my mum came in and said give him the god damn cd, we both listened to every song on the way home, her face was whiter then ever she wanted to throw the cd out,went to my pops as in my mums dad, he got the same cd blasting, not a joke, I would of been 8?
9 inch nails is a band .. he’s making a play on words referring to other people who are bad influences instead of him being the bad influence
There are so many pop cultural references of the time in this 😂 TRL anyone? 😅
"like a round house kick to the face" best description ever
he was so out there they even played his first few singles on the rock stations lol he was Raps Maralyn manson at the time
Back in the day people weren't as overly sensitive as they are now, we grow up in the era of Jackass and eminem, where where insulting each other and pulling dangerous pranks that could get someone seriously injured or could cause a lot of damage to one of your friends houses was just how close friends operated, man I miss those days 😂
First hit and he came hard whit this song, do "my name is" back word... he's a genius
The song was, when it came out, quite an introduction to the music scene. :-) Everyone knew who slim shady was even if they never heard of eminem.
Beat is a Dre-Beat using Labi Siffre - I got the ... from 1975.
Ah the good old days. His infinite song is so good the whole album is good it's his early early stuff
Eminem dissed his own mother because she abused him from the day he was born. Letting out his pain and anger is therapeutic for him.
We liked him because he was funny, crazy, frustrated. Many people related to him because they were like him, frustrtating on life, having a lot of issuses and Eminem said: F#ck the World and F#ck You! And many peopls felt the same way.
I remember thinking this guy is ridiculous and I hate to admit, brilliant. I knew in my bones He would be hit bc he was what rap was missing, and really you should just take what he says with a grain of salt bc he knew it would set people off and get them talking about him, and that in turn made him famous.
We had ALL OF THE GRUNGE AND AGRO SONGS and artists/groups