"The Real Slim Shady" on the radio when I was 8. I was hooked. I knew how controversial Eminem was and I knew Wal-Mart censored music, so I had like $20 in my pocket at Target. I bought the explicit ablum, tucked it in my shirt, and told my mom I lost the money. She was kinda pissed and I felt bad for lying, and I wasn't allowed to hold my own money for months after that, but I went home, listened to The MMLP on my Playstation (PSone model) with my headphones in the old Magnavox TV and had my world changed. Eminem literally expanded my mind quite a bit. I hated "Kill You", "I'm Back", and "Kim" at first, but I thought the rest of it was cool. I asked my mom what "faggot" meant and she asked where I heard it. I said school (which was definitely not a lie. Every suburban white kid was secretly bumping Em back then, and others just knew the word. Plus, I had actually heard it from my "father"). A couple months later, TES came out and I took some piggy bank money and bought it at school. Dude went and bought me one for $13 new, and I gave him $20. Still got it. About to put it in my CD player now and drift away -- loudly! (Except for "Drips". "Drips" is still a no-Mom song.
I also started sneaking around watching South Park at about this time, maybe even a year or so earlier.