Favorite Song: "I had the pleasure of going to an Eminem concert when I was in London performing with Em at a festival. You forget how many goddamn hits he has. When 'The Way I Am' went on, I went crazy. That's my favorite one. That song right there is a serious song."
Favorite Album: "The Slim Shady LP is definitely my favorite. I was listening to Eminem back in the day, before he was even popular, his freestyles and shit. The one he does with Thirstin Howl III was crazy."
Favorite Moment: "There's a lot of moments, I grew up on Em. I remember watching all those videos, watching MTV, seeing news about him. It was just a mania. I guess you can compare it to The Beatles when they took over America back in the day. It was next level.
"One thing that sticks out of my mind is when TRL was popping, me and my friend Laura took the train to the city and we tried to go over there to see him. We wanted to be in the crowd but there were just too many people in the street. We were just chilling on 42nd Street because we didn't make it. But TRL was popping at that point. And oh my God, he came and shut fucking Time Square down."
B.o.B
Favorite Song: "'Criminal' jumps out in my head. That motherfucker was crazy. The part when he was like, 'Windows tinted on my ride/So when I rob a bank, run out and just dive in it/So I'll be disguised in it, and if anybody identifies the guy in it/I'll hide for five minutes.' He just really paints the whole picture man. That definitely has to be it."
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP. That album is so dope that he's coming back around with that. It's like a brand."
Favorite Moment: "Man, it's a lot. His lyrics compete with each other and the moments he had. I know it's a picture of him flicking somebody off at this award show. That's my favorite. [Laughs.] He's flipping the band No Doubt off at an awards show. He just didn't like them. Paul Rosenberg has the picture in his office. He's walking on stage, receiving an award, and he's flipping the dude off. [Laughs.]"
Ab-Soul
Favorite Song: "My favorite song is 'Infinite.' I had the privilege to meet him and I asked him if I could snatch that sample from him and he said he would look for it for me. That was one of those records where he discovered what he was doing with words, that's the song where he becomes Eminem. If I am not mistaken, I think that's the tape that Dr. Dre heard to find him."
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP. I don't wanna be cliché, but 'Stan' blew my socks off. 'Stan' and 'Kim'—those records kinda changed me, those records changed a lot of people. Especially as a young kid trying to be an artist, he kinda really showed you how far you can take it on this mic, how visual you can get. Not to say that nothing was done like that in the past—I don't wanna crown him for being the first to create such great theatrics and imagery—but for me that was just amazing. The whole album itself was just crazy."
Favorite Moment: "My favorite Eminem moment was when he got into it with Canibus. Canibus is one of my favorite artists but Em really showed and proved. He was really ready for that. To me that was crazy because he was making hit records as well, but Em showed that he was ready for that. That was kinda a rare thing. They asked him what was the biggest mistake he ever made, he said saying Canibus was ill, that was just amazing to me."
Funkmaster Flex
Favorite Song: "I have to say 'Stan' is my favorite because I still listen to 'Stan' and wonder if there's going to be a different ending, I don't know. I swear, I catch something different in the song every time."
Favorite Album: "The first or second album. I really got favorite songs. But 'Stan,' that was the second album, right? Yeah."
Favorite Moment: "To be honest, I really enjoyed the movie 8 Mile. You know why? Because he was OK with not being the cool kid. How many rappers or people you see in movies that would be OK with that? He was like 'OK, I'm going to get punched in my face here.' He was OK with that. How many rappers have you seen in movies who just play the image that they are? Maybe Will Smith, no disrespect to him but he was always an entertaining, non-hardcore rapper.
"For me, when I watched that movie for the first time, I'm sure some of it was true, some of it wasn't, but to be OK with all that [was dope]. Remember, that was before the Internet was crazy popping. He was OK with showing that. I thought it was cool. It's cooler to me now than when I was watching it because now I go, 'Damn a lot of other rappers didn't do that.' You remember 50 Cent's movie right? You know and I love 50, but I don't think 50 would've put himself in that type of a position. Would he? I think Em's movie would've been just as successful either way, but I like that he did that. I look at it now in 2014, I like it even more now because a lot of artists didn't do that."
Danny Brown
Favorite Song: "'Rain Man.' I just remember hearing it for the first time and I was completely blown away. I never thought somebody could take it that far-the impersonations-he was just doing too much man. Anybody could just pick up a pen and write a rap but he was just doing too much and that's what I like. You know that was like his overtime-Eminem is somebody we obviously know who puts overkill into what he is doing so I couldn't imagine how long... I would actually like to know the story to that song-I'm pretty sure it took a long time to write. It's very uncomfortable, that's what I'm saying. Maybe just me and my dark sense of humor that I'm able to it. I learned a lot from it actually."
Favorite Album: "It would be easy for me to say The Marshall Mathers LP because I listened to that one the most, but I would say the one that hit home to me the most was Encore. I was in New York at the time when I heard it and I was doing my whole New York grind going to studios. I don't know, something about that album made me feel close to home. Every time I heard it—because he had that 'Yellow Brick Road' and stuff like that. It was inspiring in some sense too."
Favorite Moment: "When I met him to be honest. We were actually in Belgium playing a festival—we are signed to the same management, so his manager Paul Rosenberg was out there. Paul was helping me do stuff and helping him do stuff. There came a time when Paul was like sit down and meet Em. Eminem to me is like a bigger than life kind of dude. At this point I was already like hammered drunk so I probably embarrassed myself and said too much shit.
"But he just seemed like the coolest guy I ever met. I've met a lot of rappers and I've met a lot of people and I don't know—he just felt normal to me. Maybe cause he's from Detroit too and there was a connection there—and that's all we pretty much talked about was Detroit. I felt like, 'Damn this guy is fucking normal.' I feel like I'm like that in some sense too, I rap but don't look at me like a rapper—I'm still a human being. I might have looked at him like he was this larger than life figure, but when I sat down and talked to him—I felt like I just got to know Marshall. He was a regular cool dude to me."
Bun B
Favorite Song: "Welcome 2 Hell."
Favorite Album: "I'm a big fan of Bad Meets Evil. I always felt like Eminem with Royce 5'9'' are probably the roughest two man team in hip-hop. My guy [Pimp C] ain't here no more-so I can't count that. I'm talking about now. I wouldn't want to put him up against me and Pimp-you know? I'm not going to put that kind of pressure on those kids. But when they got back together, I was really really pumped to see that."
Favorite Moment: "Eminem at the BET Hip Hop Awards. It was for Busta's performance of the 'Touch It (Remix).' He went on stage with Busta Rhymes, and it ain't easy to take the stage away from Busta Rhymes. That was the one cameo that I don't think anybody saw coming. He went up there and he tore that bitch apart. I was at that actual award show. I remember him coming up out of nowhere. He had been gone for awhile. I think this might have been one of his first public appearance since he had went to rehab and everything. He had been very low-key for a long time and I think that was the venue he chose to pop up that night. Like I said-nobody saw that coming-and he killed it."
Tajai of Souls Of Mischief
Favorite Song: "I would say 'Stan.' I know it's cliché but the way he put it together, the structure and concept, it reminded me of 'One Love' and the whole letter thing. He definitely took a Nas concept and built it a little bit bigger."
Favorite Album: "The Slim Shady LP because he was new and fresh. This dude is rapping in plain English but he has complex rhymes and he's wacky. 'Just The Two of Us' is another crazy song. He brought the elements together really well. He gave us his demo so I heard a couple of the demo songs on there, so it's kinda of cool to see him go from that."
Favorite Moment: "Eminem's first big show, he opened for us. This is in '96 or something in Detroit. The promoter is like 'We got this kid and he's a big fan. Is it cool if he hops on?' and he gave us his demo. He was super humble and super cool. He was about to move to Cali and go to this battle and shit. To see him go from there to Eminem—you know what I'm saying? That's why I say The Slim Shady LP. I heard it in the rough, I saw the raw form, and then to see it go to where it went—I mean he exploded immediately.
"He was definitely hella humble and hella skilled—you could tell even at the show. Then the next time I see him-he's signed to Aftermath. Like 'Oh that's that guy!' He's a big Hieroglyphics fan, like if you watch 8 Mile he's got a Hiero sticker in his studio. Em and Proof were big fans of us, Proof's little brother said they used to sit, take our patterns, and go back and forth. All of D12 is good people."
Hopsin
Favorite Song: "'Role Model.' just because it's just dope as hell. I love it. The beat is just such a simple beat and you want to rap over-just an MC beat. The beat kind of went 50 percent and he went the extra 50 percent to make the song 100. It's not one of those beats that's produced by Timbaland and all crazy, and you're like 'Aw hell yeah.' He was able to bring beats to life by putting his voice over it. He came with it and made me love the beat and when you think of that, you think of one of those sick-ass Eminem flows.
"When he started with, 'I'm cancerous/So when I diss you wouldn't want to answer this/If you responded back with a battle rap you wrote for Canibus,' that shit was just raw to start off with. The chorus is super dope, 'Don't you want to grow up to be just like me?' When I heard that I was like, 'Oh my god, this is dope.' Everything in that song is super sick."
Favorite Album: "My favorite album of his is The Marshall Mathers LP. I still bump it to this day. That was the inspiration for the new album I just worked on. The rawness and raw emotion he has on the songs. The Slim Shady LP was really dope and I liked it because it was raw, but he got a little more professional on The Marshall Mathers LP where he was a super legit artist. To me, that was him in his prime. He was professional but still raw at the same time and had that underground feel. He just did whatever the fuck he wanted to do, and said whatever the fuck he wanted to say—and I think every artist should be like that."
Favorite Moment: "When he was at the MTV Video Awards and came out performing 'The Real Slim Shady,' and all those dudes were dressed like him. That did it for me, I was a fan for life at that moment. This fool is the best of all time and it was just so raw with him walking through with his wife beater. It gave me chills seeing him come out, I think I was in high school when that happened. It was so dope."
Prodigy
Favorite Song: "My favorite Eminem song is probably 'Lose Yourself' because I can relate to it a lot. That's how I feel every time I write a rhyme. I understand where he's coming from. It's do or die. That's how I feel every time I make any song. I feel like it might be like 'that' song."
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP, that one was dope. It was something new. People were like, 'Yo, who the fuck is this dude?' He was just wild. His rebelliousness-I can relate to all of that. So yeah, that's probably one of my favorite joints right there."
Favorite Moment: "When I first met Em, we were in the studio around 2001 or 2002. I was with Xzibit and Xzibit was like 'Yo, Em's in the other room. You should go holla at him.' So I walked over there. Em was writing a rhyme but when he seen me, he just stopped what he was doing and was like, 'Yo man, I grew up on Mobb Deep. Ya'll inspired me. I love ya'll. I'm one of your biggest fans, I appreciate all your work.' And I was just like, 'Good looking yo.'
"I peeked over at his page he was writing on and it was like the craziest shit. This motherfucker had words going in every direction, like it wasn't on the line. He had a legal pad and this nigga had words going everywhere like his mind-you could tell his mind was everywhere, just like every word on the page.
"Even in the "Lose Yourself" video when he's writing on the bus or whatever, that's what it looked like. You could just tell like this motherfucker has a lot on his mind and his mind is moving at a million miles per minute. Yeah, "Shook Ones" and "Survival of the Fittest," he put our songs in the movie. The movie starts off with, I believe "Survival of the Fittest." I'm not too sure but it starts off with our song in the battle and shit. And he's going to the bathroom and throwing up and what not because he's nervous.
"Then we did the deal with 50 Cent and we went on tour together. Most of the tour I didn't get to see him because we did our show first and he went on last. After the show everyone is tired and they go in their dressing room and try to go back to their room. So most of the tour, I didn't even get to see him, except when he was on stage. When we had a day off, Em was shooting a video. We were on the video set and everyone was there-like D12 and Cashis.
"Me and 50 were in the dressing room talking business, and Em walked passed the room. I didn't pay no mind, I just kept talking to 50. Then, all of a sudden, I see him come back and he was like, 'Yo, P let me holla at you.' So I got up and went into the hallway to talk to him and he was like, 'Yo man, I apologize. I know we've been together on tour for mad long. I didn't even get a chance to talk to you the whole tour.' I was like, 'Nah, it's all good my nigga.' He was just showing love and shit.
"It was a good experience just being around him and being on tour with him. And seeing how-you know even 50 like-they were strictly business. They were really professional, and they good people too. They weren't on some superstar bullshit. They'll take the time out to talk to you. That was my impression of him. He was a real good dude."
DJ Clark Kent
Favorite Song: "'8 Mile.' The lyrics, the rhythm, the way he sounds like one of the instruments in the beat. It's perfect."
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP. It was perfect execution. Perfectly A&R'd. Extremely complete body of music."
Favorite Moment: "The very first time I heard him rap. It was the first time I heard a white rapper, actually rapping from a 'white' point of view. Not trying to sound 'black' or 'urban.' When you heard some of the things he said, you could only get the picture of a white kid. Historically black kids don't disrespect their mom, but take a walk in a grocery store, a white kid is yelling at their mom in a disrespectful tone.
"The 'Black' experience is different from 'White.' Eminem feels absolutely comfortable in his 'whiteness.' Rap music was the story of urban America, usually, told from a 'Black' mans perspective. This gave white folks a clearer understanding of what goes on in the hood. Eminem told the story from a 'white' view, giving Black people a better understanding of their experience. He's absolutely incredible."
Buckshot
Favorite Song: "I have a few of them. 'Lose Yourself,' because that shit is crazy. 'Lose Yourself' is the way most of us feel. You got to take advantage of everything right now. This is what it is. And 'The Real Slim Shady.' It came at the perfect time. You had the half the world walking around looking like Eminem. I can imagine him being the Eminem himself, he can't walk outside and not see nobody that's not like you. I got muthafucks rapping like me, looking like me. I got a hundred million fans. What the fuck is going on?"
Favorite Album: "I can't say. I'm an album person. But at the same time, I'm a song person. Then I'm an artist myself, so it makes it even harder because I'm really into this niggas shit. I'm not one of those people that's single bound that say, 'I only like this. I only like that album.' Let me tell you something, Em is my dude because he is one of the best entertainers. Period. He's not just a rapper. Rap is something he do. He's an artist."
Favorite Moment: "My favorite moment of Eminem is when I was heading the Lyricist Lounge. I'm sitting in between this girl legs. I'm about to go on stage and I'm just sitting looking at this dude and I'm like, 'Yo, this muthafucka is literally setting this house on fire. If there is any room for me when I get on stage, I'm good.' It was almost like the microphone was smoking after what I just saw. This was early Eminem, so you can imagine, the mic was on fire. The whole crowd was on fire. It was purely off wording. It was purely off of tearing ass off the mic.
"It was a battle, I don't remember who he was going against. I don't remember nothing else except for Eminem with that mic on stage literally going bonkers, everyone was going bonkers. I said, 'This dude is going to be one of the biggest problems in hip-hop history if they let him in that gate.' Like a boxer, I already knew what his skills was. Next thing you know it was on. The only thing I'm thinking is, 'I got to go on after this nigga?'"
MellowHigh
Domo Genesis: "I fuck with The Eminem Show. But one of the first rap albums I ever bought as a kid was the fucking The Marshall Mathers LP, my mom actually bought it for me. Then she took it from me because it had too many curse words on it."
Hodgy Beats: "Mine might be Relapse, honestly. A lot of people don't fuck with that shit, but I think it was crazy. A lot of people don't fuck with Encore either, but that caught me as a kid. That was the album that grabbed me."
Stalley
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP. That would probably be my favorite. That whole album pushed him over for me as far as lyricism and standing ground to who he is. He was out the shell already, but he became more expressive about who he was, what he represented, and what he didn't like. That is when I realized you could write a conceptual rap album. Every song was formatted perfectly. The album is more than just 'Hi, my name is.' It was all real songs. 'Stan,' that song was amazing to me. All the tracks work because they stay true to consistent theme and tone.
"I was just having having a conversation in the studio and said, 'Em made the angriest albums, ever.' They always sold well and connected to listeners. His honesty is so brilliant on each album. I always tell people that he and Luda have the best flows in the game. They ride over any beat. Em went stupid on 'Rap God.' He is one of the best."
Favorite Moment: "I love how he stays true to the Midwest and true to Detroit. It is good to someone come from a market like Detroit and really resonate and put hip-hop on the map. That is special to me, coming from Ohio. He really set in stone that lyricism comes from the Midwest, that we have rappers who really care about the culture.
"As an Ohioan, I have to concede that Michigan has the best rappers. Facts is facts. I will be the first to tip my hat to Michigan rappers. Detroit itself has a lot of great lyricists from Em to Royce. You can go to guys like the Chedda Boyz. There were always guys making noise on both a large and small scale. Detroit has the best lyricists and battle rappers. I'm a big fan of battle rap. I know that Em comes from that circuit."
Chance The Rapper
Favorite Song: "Man that's a crucial ass question. It's probably either 'Just The Two of Us' or 'Kill You.' It was just subject matter and content, they both are very different ways of approaching a story. One is literally him telling you what he is going to do to you, and the other he is standing there like an actor—it's hard to even describe.
"That was one of the few revolutions in hip-hop, there was a point when I heard that and I was like 'shit is different now.' I gotta listen to this over and over. He is like a boxer about this shit-you know when niggas talk about the sweet science? He's got that shit, he knows. He's like a technical rapper. Eminem is the rawest shit of all time. [Laughs.]"
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP. That was just where he was like the darkest and the hottest. I guess like albums are so crucial and I want to say Infinite was crucial, but specifically The Marshall Mathers LP is when I was like 'Aww, yeah.' That's a lot of people's point where they were like, 'This is my favorite rapper, Eminem is my favorite rapper.'"
Favorite Moment: "He's done like hella funny shit—the Mariah Carey shit was mad funny, and his random beefs. The Elton John shit was cool. I don't know if this counts but the moment I saw a commercial for 8 Mile, like 'What?!' The Eminem movie version? Let's go."
Fredo Santana
Favorite Song: "'The Way I Am' because it's me. I am who I am-I'm me. I ain't nobody else. I liked that song. It's just the way he is, fuck the radio, fuck everything man. He is who he is. If they don't like the music-step. That's how I do my music."
Favorite Album: "The Eminem Show and The Marshall Mathers LP. The Marshall Mathers LP was kind of dark. I like the lyrics on The Eminem Show. 'Superman' was my shit, I played it a million times back to back. Then when 8 Mile came out they had the 'Superman' uncut video. That shit was raw as fuck."
Favorite Moment: "The 8 Mile movie. He was rapping, freestyling-I used to watch that movie everyday. It was something like a life story, you know?"
TY Dolla $ign
Favorite Song: "My favorite Eminem song is 'Stan' because that's one of the best-written songs ever. He wrote the fuck out of that song."
Favorite Album: "The Slim Shady LP was incredible. From top to bottom it was put together right, he killed the lyrics and he was hungry."
Favorite Moment: "My favorite Eminem moment has to be the MTV Awards when he came out with like a thousand Eminems. That was just like fucking very original and just classic. I'll never forget that. Eminem is definitely the best rapper alive."
Meek Mill
Favorite Song: "'Forgot About Dre.' Can we count that as an Eminem song? "Nowadays everybody want to talk like they got something to say/But nothing comes out when they move their lips." The flow is crazy. Eminem is really flow to me, because I couldn't fully relate to the shit he was talking about. He talking about different shit. I ain't want to kill my mom. My mom loved me so I couldn't really relate to him on that, but he had a crazy flow that I fucked with. Real shit."
Favorite Album: "I don't know. Eminem was out when I was young. My mom was coming in with Eminem albums and shit and I was just running with them from there."
Favorite Moment: "I say 8 Mile. That movie inspired me a lot. When he was killing shit on stage and he started rapping all the stuff about himself."
Chris Webby
Favorite Song: "I'm gonna have to say 'Rock Bottom.' It's just incredible how he opened up his world and all the things he was going through at that time-before all the shit went down. I come from a completely different background, but the way he put that record together-it's like I could completely relate to and see everything that he was going through. Also the beat is sick, it's a flip of a Janis Joplin record—which not a lot of people know."
Favorite Album: "I'm gonna have to say The Slim Shady LP. Even though The Marshall Mathers LP was just a little bit stronger musically and production-wise—there is nothing like that first album. Every parent was ducking for cover, doing everything within their power to make sure their kids were not listening to The Slim Shady LP. I sure as fuck was doing everything within my power to listen to it. I sure did, and then some I suppose."
Favorite Moment: "I think it was when he won Best New Artist at the VMAs. When he went to give his speech, a bunch of pills fell out of his pocket and I thought that was fucking hilarious. Everyone was seeing him for the first time and he came out like that-spilling pills out of his pocket. That was fucking genius. I'm sure that was staged, but that shit is fucking...you know, his sense of humor has always been really a huge part of what he does. The thing I love about him is like what he's feeling on a record, you feel after you listen to it. If he's angry, you're gonna get angry too. He's got a great way of changing people's moods to understand what he's talking about."
Alex da Kid
Favorite Song: "I love 'Superman.' When that came out, I used to work at MTV in Europe. I remember playing that song on a loop for like two weeks straight. I guess people started to get annoyed with me. I love 'Superman,' I don't know why. I think it's the lyrics. But there's so many songs I love-there's a lot."
Favorite Album: "My favorite Eminem album is probably The Marshall Mathers LP. I feel like, with Marshall, he doesn't get enough credit for being a songwriter. He writes amazing songs. That album in particular has amazing songwriting on it. Just telling amazing stories in such a unique way. He's definitely one of the best songwriters of our generation. I just don't feel like he gets enough attention on that side of what he does too.
"But you know what? I love the new album. I was having a conversation about this with someone the other day, there's very few people who stay relevant, especially in hip-hop. And for him to have one of the biggest albums of the year, like 15 plus years in the game-it's incredible how he just maintains people's interest. So this album for me is really dope as well."
Redman
Favorite Song: "My favorite Eminem song is 'Just Don't Give A Fuck' or 'My First Single.'"
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP."
Favorite Moment: "Being at Eminem's studio doing 'Off The Wall.' We was goin at it on the mic!"
Diddy
Favorite Song: "My favorite Eminem song is 'My Name Is.'
Favorite Album: "My favorite Eminem album is his first album, The Slim Shady LP."
Favorite Moment: "My favorite Eminem moment was probably in 8 Mile when he started dissing himself."
Joell Ortiz
Favorite Song: "'Lose Yourself.' This song isn't just my favorite Eminem song, it's one of my favorite hip-hop songs in general. It's an incredibly inspirational record that makes me feel the exact same way when I hear it now as I did back then."
Favorite Album: "My favorite Eminem album is The Slim Shady LP. It was my first introduction to Marshall's music and I've been a fan ever since."
Favorite Moment: "My favorite Eminem moment is probably biased. It involves Slaughterhouse. [Laughs.] My favorite moment was when we were all sitting backstage at the XXL cover shoot with contracts in front of us, and we had finally finalized the Slaughterhouse record deal. That's probably kind of more of a moment for myself, but it involved Marshall so...[Laughs.] That's the moment that I'll never forget."
Crooked I
Favorite Song: "'The Way I Am' because everyone knows I'm big on the technical side of lyricism and songwriting, that song is fucking perfect."
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP because he proved to me that he was one of the illest lyricist-dead or alive-on that project. And yes, that is something you have to prove to me."
Favorite Moment: "When Em was freestyling on Sway and King Tech's Wake Up Show because it was my first time hearing him and he went berserk on the mic-pun intended."
Royce Da 5'9"
Favorite Song: "The Way I Am" because of the complex flow that he used. And he was able to turn it into a hit record without compromise.. Only reserved for the geniuses."
Favorite Album: "Marshall Mathers LP because that album was when he was truly able to get his point across from the perspectives of before and after fame. He took the world on a ride with him that album."
Favorite Moment: "My favorite moment was when he did 'Real Slim Shady' at the VMAs with 100 kids with their hair dyed blond marching through the venue. That moment let you know shit was real in hip-hop. Evolution."
Joe Budden
Favorite Song: "'Lose Yourself' is a Top 5 song of all time to me just because of what it stood for, the message it delivers to such a vast array of people, both signed and unsigned. I know it did a lot for me as an MC on the rise."
Favorite Album: "The Marshall Mathers LP is my favorite album because it's a high point in its entirety. So many joints on there, you could tell Em was totally in pocket for the duration of that album."
Favorite Moment: "When he signed my group Slaughterhouse. Enough said."
Waka Flocka Flame
Favorite Song: "My favorite Eminem record, I don't think it was a record. It was a freestyle he did on 8 Mile. "Terrance parent's had a real good marriage..." That freestyle. That was the best Eminem verse I ever heard in my life."
Favorite Album: "8 Mile. I like the whole 8 Mile Soundtrack. That's what made me an Eminem fan."
Favorite Moment: "When he did 'The Real Slim Shady' and he had all the Eminems in the crowd. I'm like, 'Aw, that man's swagger man.' Because you ain't know where he was until you see the man with the microphone. That was brilliant, genius, and simple."
E-40
Favorite Song: "My favorite of all time is 'My Name Is,' the first song we ever heard from him. It's unique and comical. 'Love The Way You Lie' off Recovery, too. It seems like it'll never get old. It's got the '80s feel and it's a song you can just hear. Whenever you hear it-it just feels good. The melody of the song and the feel of it. It's a hit song."
Favorite Album: "I'm not going to lie. I never really bought an Eminem record. I think I bought the first one. It's not because I don't like him. I think he's one of the greatest rappers of all time. It's just I don't buy a lot of rap music-me personally. But The Eminem Show, I liked it. He's been around for a while and he's got several albums. I respect him and everything."
Favorite Moment: "I've never met him ever-in my life. Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno sat on his face at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards and Em was mad. That's the thing that stuck out. His reaction."
Dizzy Wright
Favorite Song: "My favorite Eminem song is 'Mockingbird.' He's talking to his daughter and explaining the whole situation and it's pretty smooth."
Favorite Album: "The Slim Shady LP. It's unique and I felt like-well he never really gave a fuck-but that's when he was really just did not give a fuck. The thing I like about Eminem the most is that he never gave a fuck. And how he went from being serious to being funny, I just thought that he found his balance real well."
Favorite Moment: "My Eminem moment would probably be when he went at Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon. He did Nick Cannon bad. I liked the fact that he clowned him."
Black Milk
Favorite Song: "My favorite song I would probably have to say is 'Brain Damage' off The Slim Shady LP. I would play that song the most off that album. The story telling, him talking about being bullied in junior high school, and getting revenge on the bully at the end. It was just a crazy story and that whole album was like never before heard hip-hop or lyricism. That was one of the records that just stuck with me when I first heard it."
Favorite Album: "I know most people's favorite album is The Marshall Mathers LP, but I think mine is The Slim Shady LP. It just got heavy rotation in my crib when it first came out. It influenced the way I rapped back then. It was him in his rawest form before he got super commercial."
Favorite Moment: "His freestyle he did a while ago on the Wake Up Show. It was him, it might have been Evidence, and two more other rappers. Almost all of his freestyles are incredible, but that was one that I still have saved on my desktop on my computer."
Yelawolf
Favorite Song: "My new favorite Eminem song hands down is "So Much Better." It's pretty much perfect. Every line is clear as day, his perspective on bitches is amazing, and the melody and cadence is spot on. On some nerdy MC shit, he spazed on this new album lyrically. I can't pick which one he killed the most but theres lines in every record that are rewind worthy."
Favorite Album: "My favorite album is super hard to pick, but The Marshall Mathers LP is probably my favorite. It has classics like 'The Way I Am,' 'Stan' and 'Criminal.' But honestly, my current favorite is MMLP2. That's no shit, I'm really enjoying this album. I do love the The Slim Shady LP too. Fuck ya'll for asking me, dudes got a lot of dope songs spread out over the past 10 plus years. A lot of classics."
Favorite Moment: "My favorite moment is when he dropped M&Ms or some shit out of his pockets when he was called to accept an award. He said he forgot his thank yous, then mooned the entire planet when he walked off stage. I'm a fan man, ya'll favorite moments and albums are just like mine. I was watching just like the rest of the world and I'm honored to be here now. So congrats CARcKer DICK. You're still the illest!! - White Dog."
Yela
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