Watching younger people watch him makes me realize how steeped in 60s-90s pop culture and politics his lyrics are. It would take HOURS to explain all of the back stories and history behind nearly every line or scene in this video
Or just the fazed-reaction of the Osama part. Like I don't blame him, so don't get on me about it. Just makes me feel weird where back in the day that'd make everyone gasp, now it's like who is this cave dweller?
You gotta check the dates these songs were released. This song was released 11 years before Rap God. People were so upset by his music back in the day they protested against him at the Grammys and they wanted MTV to stop playing his music. Hell, this song came out the year after 9/11 and the video has a bit with Osama bin Laden dancing in a cave and another one with him mocking the vice president's heart condition while electrocuting him. Eminem's music is kinda like what Seinfeld is to TV shows. It influenced pop culture and the stuff that came after it so much that it's hard for people hearing it for the first time today to understand why it was such a big thing. There's people running around today unironically calling themselves stans and claiming to be a part of stan culture that don't know that 'Stan' is an Eminem song about an overly-obsessed fan whose obsession ruined his life and led him to do terrible things.
This version is mild. They changed a lot of lyrics to make it radio friendly. They had to. A lot of his early lyrics seriously pushed the limits of what people thought you should be able to say. He was literally challenged by the government on a few things.
Don't listen to those who say you talk too much. RU-vid is VERY strict about music. Pausing is necessary so you won't get a strike. Most people don't get that. You're doing a good job. Yes, they tried to cancel him. Rap God came out way after the days of MTV. Also, Em is hilarious...lol. Here's the story. He did the Marshall Mather's CD and the media was like, "where's slim shady/bring back slim shady". So this was his answer to that. Also, he was constantly judged for his more "uncomfortable" lyrics and that kids were buying the CD. So he pointed out that it's not his responsibility, it's the parents job to keep their kids away from explicit content.
100% agreed, YT and the labels never seemed to care about the Fair Use Doctrine. Talking over the song won't help, that algorithm is sneaky. Pausing and chatting is definitely the best way to TRY to avoid a claim. Once he clears more subs, it'll make more sense to have a Patreon and do live streams. I've been in live streams that get the plug pulled and go dead when the algorithm detects copyrighted songs. I've seen people try a LOT of ways to trick it, from slowing a song down to like 98% speed to inserting an extra layer of "noise".
It was also an amazing experience being from another country, where 'explicit language' isn't really a thing. I mean sure the CD's had those images printed on them but that was because American produced music was sold with the label, they didn't bother printing any without lol. It was meaningless overseas. Watching the 'controversy' from afar was crazy. I was up to date to the references and followed the outrage without the panic where I was at. Kinda similar to the Satanic Panic you know? Everything was pretty chill at home. Sure, not completely but not as crazy as it was in the USA.
If you can always do the explicit version of every Em song to get the full experience. The more you dig into Ems music the lyrics are important. So be ready to pause and rewind a lil. Em is the best and most technical rapper to touch the mic.
This song was very much a product of it's time. The people he's dissing in the song haven't been relevant for a long time. Most of the people he disses was because they had an issue with his songs back in the day
"Who is he dissing". Literally EVERYONE who had anything to say about him LOL. I was in 7th grade when Eminem hit the scene with "My Name Is" and it was wildly vulgar and mainstream all over MTV. In the late 90s home TV and cable became more "affordable" for middle class so most of us had a small 10-13" TV/VCR combo in our bedrooms and could access MTV and our own media for the first time - not to mention this new technology called "the internet" which was creeping it's way into more and more homes. Watching this video 2 decades later (!!) makes me appreciate him even more because every gag and clip in the video references and makes fun of some pretty niche pop culture moments "you had to be there for".
Honestly his first say 4 albums are probably my favs because of nostalgia, but he has just gotten better with age. More of his earlier stuff might be "funner" but his newer stuff is just insane with his technique and the density of doubles, triples, and even quadruples
Yeah, I haven't really followed his career - of course being a Gen Xer, I was there for his early, controversial days but his newer material sounds amazing. I wish he would inject more humor into his new music though. He still is a funny dude and you get glimpses of it (Godzilla has some funny stuff and it was genius to bring in Tyson!) but not like this song or much of his Shady stuff.
Bruh people who say this....smh. he may be technically "better" for rap purists or sosomething, but that ENERGY he had, the chip on the shoulder, everything like that is nowhere near early eminem
@@daddyfuse50 how is some of his newer stuff that has over 60million words a second low energy? How is some of his newer stuff where he's telling people and industries to F Off not him with a chip on his shoulder? Do you even listen to Em? lol
"Why would they let him say certain things that he said on Rap God" vs "cancel him on MTV" - Eminem was a cultural phenomenon during the late 90s/early 2000s. Eminem is still massive relatively, but even now he's like 5% of his peak force.
If anyone deserves such an epic title, it’s Dr. Dre. Batman has become such an empty character..I’d rather see Blackman and Robin nodding along to some music in the Batmobile than any movie related to Batman in the last decade. ❤
The song isn't about Rap music without him, it's about the pop celebrity MTV TRL culture of the era that he ruthlessly mocked but wanted to claim him as part of it while at the same time agreeing with the powers that be upset with his language, behavior and lyrics and censoring him. He said controversial shit. And they also knew censorship sells
MTV had a tv series back in the day called Making The Video. A good amount of bands and artist were apart of it, including Eminem. This video was one of the ones on Making The Video. He went after everyone back in the 90's and early 00's. Boy Bands, Pop Stars, Politicians...This was a fraction of what was going on back then.
The scene where he is bald. He was making fun of a techno singer at the time named Moby, who was bald, and often dressed in a track suit. Chris Kirkpatrick was part of Nsync, and they were also huge at the time.
In the 90s it was just a different time. The music Eminem was making was talking about drugs gays homophobia. He talked about a lot of topics that was controversial. They absolutely did cancel him on MTV they also canceled him on the radio. At one point you couldn’t hear Eminem anywhere unless you literally took a parent to buy the album because it was explicit. The music industry tried to cancel him at one point
I want to say you can get away with a LOT more on tv than you used to be. 90s was wild for rap. When the rappers were involved in gang wars this stuff is what hit the shelves and parents did not want their children involved. Eminem was not afraid to call out the other rappers and let them know he had a piece if they wanted to start something. This very much led to hearings at the advisory board about his lyrics a lot. He spit a lot of venom in his songs at everybody.
You really shouldn't listen to any of his songs edited. They take on suck different meanings when they are. Even if you have to watch a lyric video I highly recommend you check out his explicit versions.
When this song came out... the laws about speech were a little bit different in terms of the FCC. They did try to cancel him on MTV but this song came from his 3rd professional album. At the MTV music awards he performed live "The real Slim Shady" (2nd album) where he took shots at female singers in the audience. Mainly Christina Aguilera. And rappers weren't necessarily doing that yet. He was the pioneer of the battle mentality in mainstream music. It was new to about 80% of the American audience. By the time rap god came out which was like, what 2014 or 15.. can't remember, but Em and a whole lot of others had been sparring with FCC guidelines in the name of free speech. Not quite as big of a victory as the one by 2LiveCrew but even from the 90's on, artists challenged the rules the whole way, erroding policies and stances the entire time. Today's FCC is regression. With the way woke ❄️'s cry about being offended, it's almost like everything the old artists did has been nullified. Oh.. And I disagree about old Em being better than new Em. Old Em is greatness, but the evolution of his delivery, the expansion of his style, the diversity of cadence... he might just be the best wordsmith in a long line of poets... and then maybe the best mankind will ever see. Disagree? Who has more focus on the perfection of his/her rhyme schemes, and who in this day and age DOESN'T use ghost writers? Cause Em doesn't.
The bearded guy at 9:12 is Osama bin Laden in his cave lol. Also Chris Kirkpatrick was a member of N*Sync. I guess they had beef lol Also the scenes in the reality show in the house is mocking The Real World (MTV show) & the scene with the people on the floating poop is mocking the show Survivor (which just came out around that time). Lots of early 2000s references in this video :) Also, Dick Cheney was the VP of the U.S. from 2000-2008.
My dude, you called “The Real World” segment “The Amanda Show” when in reality you meant it looks like “All That”, but bro, it’s supposed to be The Real World, one of the best reality shows
I don't know how many people catch this, but the lines 'two trailer park girls go round the outside' is referencing Malcolm McLarens and The World's Famous Supreme Team's song 'Buffalo Gals', from 1983, which has the line, 'Two buffalo gals go round the outside'.
I believe that this was him throwing back to his original, more comedic, Slim Shady persona after getting real DARK with his Marshall Mathers LP... if I remember correctly
Damn man. Listening to people of your generation kinda makes me sad and angry at the same time. "the stuff you guys could get away with is crazy"... fuck, that hit me. I probably just now realized where this new world is heading. As far as i'm concerned - you should be totally fine saying literally whatever the fuck you want, however the fuck you wanna say it. Period. And i'm genuinely ready to fight to the death to defend myself, if anyone would ever try to silence me for whatever reason. Anyway, enough of the negative stuff... keep up the work and have a nice day! :)
His song "White America" explains a little more about why he was getting cancelled. " See the problem is I speak to suburban kids, Who otherwise would've never knew these words exist" "Surely hip-hop was never a problem In Harlem, Only in Boston After it bothered the fathers of daughters starting to blossom" Culture was more conservative leaning back then and he was still able to reach a wider untapped audience in the white communities. I was one of them. I didn't really listen to rap before Eminem. I was in high school when he blew up. I then listened to Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A and others. I still listen to his older stuff for nostalgia, but personally, I'm not a huge fan of modern Eminem.
As someone who has been addicted to em since I was 17 now 43 and I think old eminem has evolved he had been at this 30 yrs and he has matured with age and ppl just say that stupid ish to put him down EDS = EMINEM DERANGEMENT SYNDROME you said check out music to be murdered by all was great but no regrets, book of rhymes, zues,etc there all great
There’s been so many times people complained about Em even today his old stuff still gets brought up because he says whatever he wants no matter the level but he doesn’t care and would do it anyways
I love how this generation says you can't say they today..... You can say whatever the fuck you want today! Y'all to worried about what this person or that person has to say about what you said. Oh don't cancel me don't let me lose followers. Say whatever the fuck you want they don't like it they can move the fuck on. Notice the people that say what they want are still relevant..... Weird right
Its so crazy these kids dont know of his history. We weren't allowed to listen to his music. We had to hide it. Parents legit protested him en mass. Everyone who could tried to stop him and his influence. He forced his way through. as he himself said "Have you ever been hated or discriminated against? I have, I been protested and demonstrated against."
Pause, rewind if you need to and discuss as often as you like. Helps to get videos up and shows the viewers you are trying to get the lyrics and word play. Also try to get uncensored versions, all words are there for a reason . His first release, Hi My Name Is blew up MTV. Suburban kids not only bought his music but dived into rap, both old and new at the time. Parents and influential politicians blamed Em exposing kids to the realities of urban life and Em's profanity and slurs. Just like now he references pop culture of the time so this has tons of references from around 2000-2001. Hope you enjoy his catalog. Many find it easiest to start at the beginning and go on from there to see his evolution, but if you skip around viewers will always help you out with background info in comments. There are a lot of STANs out there. FYI when you react to Stan get the long explicit version. It is a mini movie and you miss important lines due to censors. Just subscribed and going to check out your content. Liking the few I have seen the last few days ❤️🔥
Yo homie f*** what everybody else has to say this is your reaction video everybody heard these songs before we're here to see what you think about it so pause when you want and say what you want when you want just keep it real you hate it you hate it but we all know you're going to love it when you're listening to Marshall Mathers the goats and when I mean goats I mean Marshall Mathers Eminem Slim Shady great reaction must check out Till I Collapse Medicine Man best friend 3:00 a.m. in the morning stay Wide Awake Venom fall Godzilla Nat so many more heat that it's insane patiently waiting Forgot About Dre No Love Drop the World monster you missed out on a whole lot must see these songs and you will realize Eminem is the rap god goat old Eminem is the new Eminem you can't rap about being poor anymore
Love the reaction man would love to watch you discover Eminem’s story through his catalog start from the beginning and it will unfold Stans will be here for all of it
Pausing is fine as long as you remember to back up a few seconds so you don't miss anything.. Talk as much as you need while paused just try and not talk over what you are reacting to. Pause the videos as much as you need to or want to. 👍
He could say whatever he wanted then AND now and still be sold en masse. Being “canceled” doesn’t have anything to do with being able to put stuff out. It wouldn’t get blocked by anyone. Theoretically, if he were cancelled it would lead to people not buying it, but it doesn’t mean it couldn’t be put out. That said, people have been trying to cancel him since he came out, though the concept wasn’t called that at the time. There were protests outside of his concerts and literal congressional committees trying. It didn’t work then and it wouldn’t work now. Being cancelled only works if you let it.
I remember an interviewer asked Eminem if his daughters listened to his music. He said, no absolutely not, they're too young. So I think what he's saying is it's the parents' responsibility to prevent their kids from offensive lyrics. The solution is not to try to ban the artists.
He was considered controversial because of his lyrics and popularity. In 2002 Walmart (our biggest retailer) decided to not sell his CD’s which was crazy, insane at the time because it cost the company multi millions of dollars and just made people want his albums even more.
They didn't just try to cancel him on MTV, they tried to cancel him completely. In his first 2 albums he disses over 100 people and makes it clear who he's dissing. The gayrights people tried the hardest saying he was homopobic and his music was hateful. But after he preformed with Elton John at the Grammys everyone back off.
I'm Gen X. Had the biggest crush on him. Loved 8 Mile battle at the end. Without Me was always my favorite. He's impossible to beat. He's fast, he's funny, and he's incredibly smart. I remember he was hated and they tried to cancel him. He was controversial. And angry lol.
The best song order for Em would be the o start with Track #1 from his fist album and listen to the songs in order from the fist to his most recent. Alsi, it's good ti hear them in order because he does reference his previous songs in some songs.
my man, ifyou are a reactor don't care that much for people that don't like earing you talking. they are not a future audience if you wanna think long term. What you want is people that wants to listen you giving your opinion being on Eminem or justin bieber.
When Em is in the cave with a beard he is impersonating osama binladen. He dresses up as all the characters in this and the log is from a challenge on survivor, a desert island programme on at the time. Eminem in more recent years writes and produces loads on songs which have been released in the charts by other artists singing them so he is someone you want to know of. ❤
Try to listen unedited versions if possible. Old songs especially, they used to change lyrics instead of censoring them out. Also, a lot of times the subtitles are made by AI so they might not match the real lyrics. Either way keep it up!
3:28 Em said a bunch of things back then and is still saying stuff today. You should check out his song, "Tone Deaf" which came out in 2020. It's his song about people trying to cancel him.
His songs and videos made fun of so many other artists and their videos at the time that younger react presenters now can't identify them all. And people can still see the humor even if they don't know exactly who he's singing about.
Eminem was cancelled out on MTV WHEN THE CHANNEL ACTUALLY PLAYED A FEW HOURS A DAY BROADCASTED MUSIC VIDEOS. THESE DAYS ALL THE CHANNEL ALL THEY BROADCAST IS CATFISH AND RIDICULOUSNES
Some of the songs won't make sense to you cause he is referencing people and events from that time. That show that you thought was "Amanda" or something was called The Real World. It was a show on MTV and was actually the show that started all the reality shows on tv today.
Since you are expanding your musical diversity...may I suggest some Harry Mack Omegle Bars? Episode 45 seems to be a good starter for reactions...but 26 or 37.. actually there's not really a bad one...some are just a little better than others.
The reason people wanted to "cancel" him was because even back then, you really shouldn't have been able to get away with saying or doing the things he'd say and/or do. Media was still pretty tightly controlled back then, the internet was around but hadn't blown up, censorship from the golden/silent/boomer generations to "protect morality" was still everywhere. This whole video is actually answering the very question you're asking. The kid in the video is trying to buy a CD with explicit lyrics, which parents were much more concerned about back then.
And oh my God, yes, the Amanda show is Amanda Bynes very very very famous Amanda Bynes. It was her show the longer I watch you the more I realize that you’re such a baby., is it OK thing, but just keep learning baby. Keep learning sweetie.
Em reminds me of kratos. Young em (and kratos) is chaotic, destructive and always picking a fight with others. Meanwhile, older Eminem and Kratos are more deep, methodical and hold way more power and knowledge. Both are good in their respective ways(and both grew a bigger beard), and the white God of Rap and the white God of War are both not people to be (and i cannot stress this enough) fucked with.
