Rindain wrote:slimshadystalker wrote:Rindain wrote:It's crazy to think of all the 14 year olds now who were 6 when Eminem Show came out.
Now they're hearing him for the first time and many will scoop up his past catalogue. So now he has a new generation of fans, plus all the fans who were teens when he first came out, and even the fans who were in their twenties/thirties when he came out.
So he has 4 decades worth of people who are fans...this is absolutely crazy. I don't know what else to compare it to.
I'm in the 15 year old category... but by no-means a "new" Em fan.
Just curious...when did you first get into Eminem?
I remember starting to like music when I was 7 or 8, but I didn't buy my first CD until I was 9 or 10. Even then it was Michael Jackson, Guns N Roses and Nirvana, which is so much more innocuous than Em's early stuff.
I'd like to share my story. I was never a fan of rap music for a long time. I liked alternative rock music mostly, I didn't really begin liking music 'til I was 12, which is really late. My friend, though, liked Eminem a lot and his dad bought him the 8 Mile soundtrack. I listened to it with him, and it was good for rap music, so he let me borrow the sample cd that comes with 8 Mile. I listened to "Stimulate" and I really really liked it. But, I still didn't fuck with his music, because I still didn't like rap music a lot. When I was 17 (in 2007) and riding in the car with my friends, "Without Me" comes on the radio. They all knew the lyrics and I didn't, and I found myself really liking it. I asked who it was and one of them said "Eminem, duh, only one of the greatest rappers of this generation". So, I went home that night and downloaded The Eminem Show and listened to the whole thing. "White America" starts and I'm instantly hooked. I go out and buy TES and it quick becomes my favorite cd ever. Next, I bought Curtain Call, and I liked that. I ended up downloading all this cds and I liked every one of them, so I bought all of his cds one day. I heard he was coming out with a new album, Relapse, so I was excited. Ever since then, I've been following Em, and I've opened myself up to more rap music, which has quickly become my favorite genre. Em opened up a lot of doors for rap fans, got a lot of people into rap. And now, I bump Recovery daily and haven't gotten bored, I'm 20 now. No artist ever got me excited for new music as much as Eminem does
So yeah, I came in really late to the game. I missed all the Eminem hype of the early 2000's, and it's good to see him getting that hype back