Eminem made 42 annotations on Genius today (April 2).
The Detroit rapper says that he didn’t think that his song “Stan” would resonate the way that it did.
“I didn’t know it was going to be so big,” Eminem writes of his song from his 2000 album, The Marshall Mathers LP. “When I was writing it, I just thought, ‘Whoa, people are going to get sick of this because it goes on for so long.’”
Elsewhere, Eminem says that he first saw the video for “My Name Is” on MTV.
“It came on really late at night,” he writes. “I was sleeping on the couch when Paul [Rosenberg, my manager] saw it for the first time. That’s when it was like, ‘Okay, this isn’t a joke anymore.’”
One thing Eminem doesn’t recall, however, is recording the original version of his smash single “Lose Yourself.”
“This is going to sound stupid, but I have no recollection of the demo version on Shady XV,” Eminem writes. “Paul remembers me doing that but I don’t know where I recorded it, I don’t even know when I recorded it. I did a lot of drugs, so my memory is all over the place.”
To read all of Eminem’s annotations, visit Genius.
Eminem’s tweet about his annotations is as follows:
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This is actually pretty cool. Wish more rappers would do this. Thanks Em
This dude has a catalog of garbage music. Yes catchy for the radio and white fans but stupid and corny. I will admit, Em is ONE of the greatest battle rappers of all time no doubt, but one of the worst at creating dope hip-hop music.
lmao…one of the greatest battle rappers of all time? do you watch battle rap currently? you come off as just a hater. FOH
Lord Jamar, is that you?
seedub, battle rap nowadays sucks ass, my boy. its wack as fuck! they basically just talking to each other in slow motion with no beat playing in the background. i can’t stand the way they battle now. its hard to watch.
E. Jacobs, Lord Jamar stated that he likes Eminem, so that’s a fail on your part.
I think someones jealous because a white rapper took over “black music” and can rhyme better than any black artist ever could.
Em is a pop artist, so don’t get it twisted folks.
yeah another legend who turned pop rapper along with jayz. sad days.
lol rapping a song and having a pop artist on the chorus is pop now
no but when thats all you do for full albums and make no attempt at a hot hiphop hook. yes it is no longer hiphop
I don’t know if I would call him “pop.” I guess he is cause he’s popular, but he’s very much hiphop. On Recovery he rapped his ass off on poppy beats, kind of pushing the envelope and showing that you don’t have to sound like a dumbass
rapped his ass off on recovery? no he cried his ass off and pretty much complained the entire album about shit rich ppl cry about.
Another hipster that is against Em,i can wipe my ass with your stupid opinion. And im pretty sure that u listen only the songs that pass on the radio for promotion, which are however very good song
goat of rhyming