Eminem has been making music for nearly two decades. Among his collection of radio hits, the songs “Love The Way You Lie” and “Not Afraid” made him the first artist to be twice-certified digital diamond.
Rolling Stone lists tracks that the casual Eminem listener probably doesn’t know in its “20 Insanely Great Tracks Only Hardcore Fans Know.”
Eminem released his first album, Infinite, in 1996. The project was not released commercially, but the title track is listed by the magazine as a standout cut from the Detroit rapper’s catalogue.
“Virtually no one heard it at the time – it reportedly sold about a thousand copies,” the publication says. “But his one-in-a-million lyrical skills were already there, as heard on the acrobatic title track: ‘Yo, my pen and paper cause a chain reaction/To get your brain relaxin’/The zany-actin’ maniac in action…'”
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Rolling Stone also selects “Any Man” as one of the tracks.
“This fiendish tune, recorded for underground mainstay Rawkus Records’ Soundbombing II compilation, features some of Em’s most provocative rhymes ever (‘I hope God forgives me for my sins/It probably all depends on if I keep killing my girlfriends’),” the article says. “Depending on how you feel about over-the-top fictional violence, it’s either wickedly clever or incredibly offensive.”
The list also includes “Scary Movies,” a song that Eminem did with Royce Da 5’9″ as part of their Bad Meets Evil duo.
“Thanks to ‘Nuttin’ To Do”s release just as Eminem’s stock was soaring with TheSlim Shady LP, the Bad Meets Evil 12-inch was popular enough to breach the Billboard Rap charts,” Rolling Stone writes. “However, the B-side was the real winner. Eminem delivers an absolute blackout verse as ‘The one man that will drive off of the Grand Canyon/And hop out of a Grand Am and land in a hand-standing.'”
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To read the entire list, visit Rolling Stone.
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