It's May 11, 2024, 07:00:03 AM
I was ten in 2003, along with everyone who I grew up with & every fuck & their mother knew about Eminem. It's pretty hard to not hear about him. Which is why this doesn't make sense to me. It's the common human way. It's just like if you were ten-eleven-twelve & Recovery was the first album you heard, you have heads just like you who will tell them "Well, this is whatever, but the MMLP was the best album of all-time". Then naturally they listen to it. However, I know kids younger than me who think the current Eminem is better than the old Eminem. It's also human nature. It's similar to your boy NIK. He missed Jordan play & Kobe was the guy to watch, therefore he thinks Kobe is the best ever. Then you have some guy who watched Bird play & he'll tell you Bird is undeniably the best. People just want to believe that they are witnessing the best & that people who didn't see what they saw are inferior.& I can't even lie, 2003 is when I first really started to get into Rap & by the end of the year, I had everything he put out, including Infinite lol. But when I heard 50 for the first time, I thought he was incredible. Then people like you said, listen to Tupac & Nas & I understood the difference. Point being, it's not like people my age just went from '03-'10 not hearing about Eminem until Recovery. & what about Encore, Curtain Call (which would had led them to his older shit) & Relapse?
kids who spend a lot of time on a hip-hop forum.
Everyone knows about Em, regardless if your a hip hop fan or not.