Eminem’s “Stan” has become a Hip Hop classic. The word “stan” has become a noun to describe Eminem‘s hardcore fans and a verb to detail any act of extreme fandom towards any artist.
Slim Shady himself took to Genius today (May 27) to annotate the song and he reveals that the original third verse was deleted and is lost in space forever.
“When we recorded Stan I worked with a couple different engineers but this particular engineer I had never worked with before,” he says. “While we were recording the third verse of Stan, he started rolling a joint and asked me if I minded if he smoked while we cut. What was I gonna do? Say no? He was already rolling it so I told him ‘no problem’. Everything was cool and I had gotten all the way to the last 3 lines and I screwed up so all he had to do was punch in my vocals at the end so I could re-do that line and the verse was finished. Back then we were recording on 2 inch tape, so once you recorded over something it’s gone forever. So I’m in the booth waiting and he backs the tape up all the way to the beginning of the verse and punches me in. I realize he’s in the wrong spot and I can’t hear any of my vocals so I start waving my arms and yelling in the mic to try to get his attention. He doesn’t notice so I run into the control room through a cloud of smoke and yell ‘Yo, I wanted to keep those vocals’ he just looked at me and said ‘My bad man…you wanna hit this?’ The first half of the verse was GONE. I re-recorded it but you should have heard the original take that shit was WAY better…oh well!”
The Marshall Mathers LP cut still went on to become one of Eminem’s marquee tracks and reshaped Hip Hop fan culture. The LP is being rereleased as a cassette tape and is being sold with bricks from Eminem’s childhood home that was torn down.
To read all of Eminem’s annotations, visit Genius.
eeew.. talk about a bad pic eh.. he looks nasty and old
*walks passed you and has ZERO clue who you are*
lol Thats what drugs do. But i cant blame him. Live your life. If u gon drink til you f**k up your liver and die..do so. If u gon smoke weed til u loose every brain cell while f***ing up your lungs..so be it. If u gon pop pills til you get a hole in your head..who am i to judge. If u gon do hard drugs til u look like slim shady..go ahead. We’re all gonna die one day and as long as you’re happy..im all for it. I dont mind after a hard days of work..smoking/drinking or doing drugs as long as u handle your business during the day then enjoy yourself at night. Everybody deserves to unwind after a long day.
lol Thats what drugs do. But i cant blame him. Live your life. If u gon drink til you f**k up your liver and die..do so. If u gon smoke weed til u loose every brain cell while f***ing up your lungs..so be it. If u gon pop pills til you get a hole in your head..who am i to judge. If u gon do hard drugs til u look like slim shady..go ahead. We’re all gonna die one day and as long as you’re happy..im all for it. I dont mind after a hard days of work..smoking/drinking or doing drugs as long as u handle your business during the day then enjoy yourself at night. Everybody deserves to unwind after a long day.
lol Thats what drugs do. But i cant blame him. Live your life. If u gon drink til you f**k up your liver and die..do so. If u gon smoke weed til u loose every brain cell while f***ing up your lungs..so be it. If u gon pop pills til you get a hole in your head..who am i to judge. If u gon do hard drugs til u look like slim shady..go ahead. We’re all gonna die one day and as long as you’re happy..im all for it. I dont mind after a hard days of work..smoking/drinking or doing drugs as long as u handle your business during the day then enjoy yourself at night. Everybody deserves to unwind after a long day.
Slim really likes LL COOL J. L.L is legendary but damm..he’s a genuine fan of L.L. thats not a bad thing.
See! Nas didn’t popularize the term “stan” as a noun to diss Jay Z. Nas just used it wrong, it means your a hardcore Eminem fan. Fucking Nas fans never get anything right, that’s why hov won and Nas lost. His dumb fans just don’t know their hip hop history.
I don’t know weather to laugh or cry. Not only does the author not point out the fact, that Nas and Ether were the reason that Stan became a negative noun in hip hop but we have this idiot calling Nas fans stupid because neither of them know their history
I don’t know weather to laugh or cry. Not only does the author not point out the fact, that Nas and Ether were the reason that Stan became a negative noun in hip hop but we have this idiot calling Nas fans stupid because neither of them know their history
The Mighty Mighty Slim Shady
Moral of the story: drugs are bad, m’kay?
Pretty sure he’s joking about the whole thing.
eminem was molested by afreaka bambuutaa.
I hate when I hear hip-hop tragedy’s like this. Its up there with when DJ Muggs half-heartedly made Cypress Hill’s Black Sunday because the record label “needed it now” or when RZA made ghost’s Ironman. RZA had a special vocal setting set on his analog equipment for each member of the Wu but his basement got flooded and killed all his tech. Thats why ghost sounded so so much better on Wu-tang’s first album. The good news is even though all these were meant to be better, nobody knew about it so they enjoyed it the way it is and everything I’ve mentioned here became a classic anyway. #HipHopHistory #TheMoreYouKnow
No. Nas didn’t use it wrong at all. Read what’s written above, really pay attention. Then, go listen to ether . He uses it correctly .
Also Jay z got roasted by nas. Once ether dropped it was a wrap. Moron.
Damn my nigga with the bud fuckin up lol. but my nigga Marshall act like he don’t remember a thing he said on that last verse. maybe the drugs erased it from his memory.