First Time Hearing Eminem - "The Way I Am"

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[@justjsse8917]

Now you know why us "old " guys just aren't impressed by most this generations rap. Love these throwbacks

[@dr.manhattan7313]

yeah its just underwhelming but there are a few bright spots

[@incredible8310]

Agreed, but give JID a try. He impresses me every time I hear him

[@gallupswon]

Haha best comment ever. Eminem definitely ruined other rap for us.

[@stevonwhite8933]

Can’t forget Joyner Lucas or Logic for lyrical work today💪🏼

[@arbelomusic5724]

You couldn’t of said it better! We are not impressed after we grew up with this 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@billylarson2974]

“Radio won’t even play my jam” is a legendary bar for Eminem because his record label threatened to drop him because his songs weren’t “radio appropriate”. Two days later him and dr Dre dropped this without telling the record label

[@lucasromerova6150]

Wasn't Dre The Record Label?

[@STRICKLANDCAVESESSIONS]

This is why us 30-40 year olds can’t handle today’s rap. When you compare 90’s rap to today’s rap, it’s not even close.

[@Jdecook2008]

The opening verse of this song is absolutely epic. His rhyme scheme, cadence, raw emotion, and overall delivery is unmatched. This song gives you the rage he feels in his words, and brings you into his world.

[@dcg590]

No one has ever matched his cadence

[@Makaveli13Xroy]

So this is one of his earliest songs i heard when i was about 13 years old .... im 35 now and this is still one of the hardest eminem songs to me hands down , the flow the lyrics the anger and raw emotion in his voice will never be matched

[@Jdecook2008]

@@Makaveli13Xroy fuck yes, man.

[@LED816]

This is probably my favorite song. It’s not his best but I just love it

[@Escorpio123PS]

I feel it

[@BogMez77]

“And i rest again peacefully” (RAP) one of the most slept on bars Em has ever said

[@KarriSimone]

Damn glad you commented I was asleep lol

[@rapgod8990]

Deym!🤯 Ure a legendary for catching dat bar😮

[@BogMez77]

Just doing my part 😂

[@kaithvision]

🔥🔥🔥🔥 fuck, I’m a die hard fan of em and this bar is craaaaazy, THANKS!

[@vtrmrl]

for real man!! I have never seen any reaction channel catching this one, maybe its too obvious, but i've always thought it was one of the best of this track.

[@jayintee]

One of greatest rhyme schemes and flow ever, he went in on this song. He's not only rhyming ON beat but WITH the beat🔥🔥🔥

[@markmac2206]

kind of like "Im Back" on this same album. sounds like his words ARE the beat.

[@careless-minds]

Thats whats so interesting about him. It's like he plays instruments with his words

[@nicholasheuermann9221]

For real. Used to play this song so many times when the album came out

[@jeyzeus]

He produces this beat, so it was easier to create the beat that fits his flow.

[@jayintee]

@@jeyzeus true but he did the same thing with the grinding beat on Friday Night Cypher and forever and countless of others. He just got a good ear

[@paddyk9632]

People don’t realize that back in 99’ 00’ even up to 02’ Eminem was legit censored. They wouldn’t play him on radio stations. People legit protested him in the streets. Congress had a session about him. This dude is the best rapper ever. Not only are his bars the hottest, he introduced white people to rap, which in turn made all the black rappers richer. 🐐

[@Wickytb]

I feel old that 20something people don't know this :( Eminem is just excellent at his craft. It's ultimately a devil's bargain, nobody has it all.

[@devankey8498]

White kids were bumping hip hop and gangster rap in the burbs before em was big

[@paddyk9632]

@@devankey8498 while that is true, you are making an argument for the exception. Before Eminem, if you lined up 100 white kids and asked them what they are listening to, 10% (random number) would say hip hop After Eminem if you lined up 100 white kids and asked them what they are listening to 50% (random number) would say hip hop I’m not saying you aren’t correct…but what I am saying…is that Eminem exponentially increased the hip hop fan base. He made everyone else more money, thats why people would beg him and pay him millions of dollars to be on tracks with them So yeah…I get it….a small population of whites were listening to hip hop….but Eminem is the GOAT because he got middle America kids AND parents to listen, and won them over forever.

[@TheThugNasty]

They don’t get it… people were in the streets PROTESTING. I still remember all the Karen mothers on the news

[@RLAjabs]

there's a fun channel that does like bar graphs of 'biggest thing through history' like empires, economy, etc. they did an album sales graph, and younger folks ought to really look at it to see who were truly dominant musicians when album sales actually mattered. eminem was the absolute king of the late 90s.

[@GunplayZae]

Man if only this younger generation knew about that classic Em. Man’s was so controversial they weren’t playing him on rap radio stations. Em is definitely the reason they enforced the parental advisory on CD’s

[@hippychick7638]

😂Facts✌

[@basketcas3717]

Hell yeah. There are very few white rsppers I like today. Like chris webby is pretty good but he's always talking in his music like their trying to cancel him or about his freedom of speech like it's in jeopardy but literally no ones trying to cancel him or really gives a shit about the content he's putting out as far as being controversial. He's just trying to be infamous like eminem

[@mr.m42]

Actually the parental advisory on music was due to Tipper Gore's advocacy back in the 80s. In response to hearing her daughter playing, "Darling Nikki," by Prince

[@thetej1098]

@@mr.m42 i came here to say this

[@topspot4834]

them parental advisories started with 2 Live Crew

[@thatguyshaq7053]

Just to give context, back in Em's prime, the media blamed Em for damn near everything that was wrong with kids at the time. They were on his ass heavy. Politicians came at that man trying to get him banned,

[@markmac2206]

thankfully Dre went through the same shit so he could at least lean on him a bit.

[@413.]

And when he speaks about cocky Caucasians at rock n roll stations asking him those dumb questions hes talking about his infamous howard stern interview

[@jefflambricks]

Yea. It’s art. You go to an art museum and see vaginas painted. Do we say it’s the cause of rape?

[@Moses255337]

Its cus the white suburban parents were getting upset that their little kids were listening to him, and then the government listened to the parents.

[@TamTranTriZzle]

And when he's referencing the Columbine Shooting and how Politicians were blaming it on Marilyn Manson (and they blame it on Marilyn) saying the shooters were heavily influenced by Manson's music to the way he dressed etc..."but where were the Parents at? "Middle America, NOW it's a tragedy, NOW it's so sad to see..." Such a great bar referencing the hypocritic nature of society in that shootings happen all the time but no one cares cus it's in poor neighborhoods, black neighborhoods, poverty areas etc... but Columbine was in Suburbia, white middle class neighborhood, so NOW all of a sudden, everyone cares.

[@onpoint315]

It’s hard…I appreciate their reaction….but man I was front and center when this dropped..this album changed everything. These young cats can never understand…music just ain’t the same the impact back in the day carried me and so many others through real life and a war…. This that shit!

[@DaDefense08]

The dude that keeps saying he didn't know how Eminem like he can't be a fan of Hip hop and not know about Eminem I know he probably young but learn your history bro lol

[@versatilitymills8620]

Music still has major impact to people today.

[@devilinthedarkness4830]

Alot of the younger generation dont even know what MTV is or was, they've only known the reality shows, they don't remember coming home from school with TRL and buzzworthy songs being dropped, even BET was good back then.

[@kellygriffin8232]

I remember when this dropped, I was a sophomore in high school and this went like “viral”…. Well if we would’ve had ‘viral’ back then…. 😂

[@SuperDanman25]

Preach man, preach! When this album came out bro.........bro!!!!

[@WillVrealty]

33 years old here.. I remember listening to this album at 11 years old and it provided an outlet of everything I was thinking and feeling and couldn't say. It was an experience, therapeutic and rawness that was needed at that time. If you know, you know.

[@eatmyshorts3147]

He was doing shit that no other rapper did before, let alone a white rapper..Em is just a legend lol

[@judemusyoki7052]

34 here, it's so warm hearing all these stories that show we were going through the same experience with this music

[@user-yz4dq4fk1b]

🤜🤛

[@gdoubler81]

I was 18 when this came out. Just started university and was mad stressed. It helped get me through those first 2 years.

[@xeranu8960]

Don't know how mom let my big sister get this album, we were going through a rough childhood and we were blasting this shit all the time, Eminem helped me through alot of pain.

[@4Everlast]

The level of flow, consistency and the amount of flows he gave us thus far is beyond insane. There'll never be another M.

[@manzelllyles1804]

You all gotta realize both "The Way I Am" and "Stan" came out on the same album, The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000, his 3rd album after his nationwide debut in 1996. He quickly went from rags to riches, but was having issues with his family, with the labels & the government about the content of his songs, and his fans. It's no surprise he sounds angry in this song. "Stan" wasn't a true story, but it was based on real experiences Em had. He was one of the first White boys to kill the mic in hip-hop in a big way, and his Caucasian fan base were crazy and happy to have a representative. But think, you'd be upset too if you couldn't take your 5-year old daughter out to eat or you have people sliding notebooks for you to sign while you're trying to use the bathroom. Eminem's early music was crazy, and it produced some crazy fans. He wrote "Stan" about how far some of those fans would go, and wrote "The Way I Am" to tell EVERYONE, _"Look, I appreciate the love, but I am still a real person. Give me some space, or don't be surprised if I pop off on you. Call me what you want; that's the way I am."_ it was a newly-famous guy asking for respect.

[@theburnout8715]

Eminem show was 3rd this was his sophomore lp

[@JC-hw5en]

He dropped Infinite and an album with D12 in 1996 but was relatively unknown to the public. He was on some compilations as well. His nation wide debut wasn’t until Slim Shady LP in 1999 (Aftermath/Interscope)

[@bend4852]

He's the only rapper I know of to ever diss his own fans. Granted he wasn't dissing his entire fanbase just the overzealous types AKA stans

[@Thawhid]

Yea I was a lil annoyed when they thought it came out in 2011

[@brcage]

@@JC-hw5en infinite was official...

[@azraelfaust487]

the song wasn't released on 2011, it was in 2000 on his album "MMLP" it's one of the best selling rap albums of all time, the whole album is CRAZY

[@xbox360gamertag8]

It actually is the best selling rap album of all time with over 21 million copies sold. 1.78 million in the first week

[@marcodelgadilloii5308]

@@xbox360gamertag8 isn't it the eminem show

[@tomfoolerey]

Used to lay with my head next to the radio speakers and play this album on repeat for months after I got it

[@jamiebell3965]

Marshall mathers LP 2000 crazy album 🔥

[@mikeg4960]

@@xbox360gamertag8 I thought OutKast Speakerboxxx was but regardless it’s up there in top 3

[@seanhutt4621]

So some of the backstory specifically of the song they'd already wrapped the album and the studio came back saying that they needed a single that he should make another song like my name is and after a 20 minute argument he yelled just f*** it went and sat down in the hallway outside angry and wrote this song in less than 10 minutes It came from somewhere real and in my opinion is one of the hardest tracks ever recorded by anyone of any era you feel this man's soul on this track

[@GreenDope1]

If I’m not mistaken he wrote this while on a plane. He had headphones on and it was only the piano loop. Notice how he’s flowing to the piano loop.

[@dmar5714]

Yep agreed but I would also put lose yourself In There

[@anthonylambraia8749]

I will never understand if someone says eminem is overrated, its fine if you do not PERSONALLY like his music but his longevity speaks for itself at this point

[@kalebguidroz5339]

Not over rated. Just became really corny.

[@anthonylambraia8749]

@@kalebguidroz5339 that’s fair, not everyone likes all things. I guess it’s more why do people need to attack things that they don’t like personally

[@kalebguidroz5339]

@@anthonylambraia8749 yea I get that. I literally grew up listening to all of his shit. Scouring the internet for unheard or unreleased music. I was definetely a Stan at one point but I just grew out of it. I love pretty much love every album starting at recovery going backwards but anything since recovery has been hard for me to get behind. MMLP2 had its good songs as well.

[@HowlingWolf518]

@@kalebguidroz5339 If nothing else, Venom and Survival are pretty tight.

[@kalebguidroz5339]

@@HowlingWolf518 survival was alright venom is pretty much the embodiment of the Eminem I don’t like

[@RobertJ890]

You need to react to the whole Marshall Mathers LP it’s probably the greatest rap album of all time, Remember Me and Bitch please 2 are fire

[@ralphlindie5230]

drop the likes for this

[@williamhall3236]

Yo bitch please 2 is fire

[@Sylintlyfe]

Definitely! If they did a live cast running through the album, I'd hella tune in!

[@RemingtonSteel]

I'd take Eminem Show

[@kaliboyy7163]

I have a tough time deciding between the Eminem show in the Marshall Mathers LP. I love them equally I think, and God bless the Slim Shady LP. Those first three albums for the public were absolutely insane. I hate being in my 40s now, but I lived in the best area of hip-hop and I got to see this new man come out the gate, piss off the world, seen him live numerous times, never disappointing me once, loved watching all of the different Politicians and Activists trying to ban him, trying to ban his music from being played, slim prevailed.

[@ChamberedElite77]

One of the reasons Eminem is so good, is he came up in a time when white rappers, no matter how good they were, were deeply disrespected. Now, Eminem is so good, even those that hated him, had to give him recognition, and admit that he had skill. in my opinion, there will never be an MC again like Eminem. He is in his own class. No MC currently even comes close.

[@onepunchflan3071]

I agree he was truly special. He didn't take his own advice though and stop when he started losing his skill.

[@leon94753]

You are very right

[@colbywalker5301]

@@onepunchflan3071he never lost his skill. It’s still there he lost his substance. I don’t really listen to anything after relapse outside of maybe 5 or 6 songs. The skill is still there though but he’s just not saying nothing, or he’s saying something he’s already said, like rap god,

[@jamesspencer6222]

My favorite bar on here is when he said "I can't top "What My Name Is" the record label was pushing him to make another hit that would top his major track What My Name Is and yet this track did in fact top it. The man seems to reach new limits every time he's pushed into a no way out spot. He adapts but yet never seems to change. 33 now and I remember his first major album slim shady lp and I remember having to hide it from my parents haha

[@bend4852]

Facts. He was viewed as a gimmick rapper who wouldn't last very long but he proved everyone wrong. He can rap about totally off the wall crazy stuff and he can also rap about some real shit and make motivational music

[@TonyMontana-ys5xz]

Slim shady lp haha very strong album Destroys most of what is released in the last 10 years for example

[@MrMaximum91]

Hahaha had multiple Eminem cds smashed by my parents when I was a kid good times lol

[@marieneu264]

Yes! I love when artists write songs against their labels. Who’s the girl that sang “I’m not gonna write you a live song”??? She wrote that to protest against her label and it probable became the best song she ever had on the charts.

[@unintelligentlifeform7180]

This came out in 2000. It was probably the hottest album that year. I was a kid (middle school) and remember how much heat Marshall got for his music. Politicians, news organizations, and parents were blaming him for all kinds of issues. this song was just an awesome summary of his career up until then. He wanted to be a great rapper...But not famous. He had people trying to set him up for lawsuits. He had family members taking him to court over lyrics. He had radio stations not playing his songs. He was very polarizing and really brought a new crowd into the rap genre. Don't forget...he was a "white" guy trying to make it in rap during a time when gangster rap was still dominating. So this song was just him unleashing and obviously people related to the anger and frustration of the song.

[@whidoineedthis]

1988

[@ejness]

Facts, bro. He didn't miss on that album. Every song was PURE HEAT.

[@thomasduray9163]

Fuck your jewelry my records almost platinum biach

[@chaukateecrookswamp9195]

@@whidoineedthis wrong

[@whidoineedthis]

@@chaukateecrookswamp9195 whats wrong

[@royalbry]

Love seeing this new generation revisiting classic Eminem

[@elijahhernandez221]

yuh nba yb the new em with the way ppl hate them or love them

[@bbranco01]

41 year old over here...I am feel very very old..lol

[@AD-pd3ov]

This is one of his first songs. He performed live at the MTV awards show I think in 2000 and he did this song with Marilyn Manson. They were always getting blamed for teens shooting schools. It was ridiculous!

[@BehindtheBlindz]

I’m still smiling like a proud parent!! Em is in my top 2 and to see a younger generation… Em is a beast! I’m loving all their Em reaction videos.

[@kingpiece5705]

who's the other one in your top 2

[@spursbucswhitesoxfan]

"And they blame it on Marilyn." He's referring to Marilyn Manson. He even appears for a second or two in the video. Manson was an extremely controversial rock star back then who was blamed for the Columbine school shooting because the shooters were such huge fans of his.

[@markmac2206]

i was just gonna say this was back when school shooting were starting to pop up and here we are still goin through this.

[@ViNNYDICEnice]

The shooters weren't even fans of Marilyn Manson lol, they just blamed him because he had a weird look and the shooters were considered gothic because they wore trench coats.

[@spursbucswhitesoxfan]

@@ViNNYDICEnice you may well be correct. Read 2 different articles about it. One said they wore Manson t shirts and the other said they detested Manson's music. I could very well be incorrect about them being fans. I just know that Manson got blamed for it and he said it basically ruined his career.

[@ViNNYDICEnice]

@@spursbucswhitesoxfan Yeah, it was basically the media making shit up because at the time Marylyn Manson was extremely popular and parents were starting to question "what are we letting our kids listen to? Why are we letting them look up to and dress like these freaks" and MM was basically the poster child for it. All the sudden two kids create a plan to shoot up/set bombs off in their school and they were wearing trench coats, so the media and ignorant parents just ran around and tried to blame anything they could and MM was a good headline/scapegoat. The shooters were actually fans of a german heavy metal/rockband called KMFDM. BTW, I'm not trying to blame you for thinking that because it is a wide spread false narrative. I just wanted to let you know the truth.

[@richiegreen9907]

Eminem and Manson are actually real good friend

[@hailsatn6669]

My children, don't know how hard this song hit when it came out. It shocked us to this day!!

[@samdubb01]

Eminem had so many hits because he came up in a day where; if you wanted to hear him, you had to buy the whole CD and then you would just stumble onto one gold hit after another. That man is a legend! I remember his first CD that I bought at CD Warehouse.. I had to have my older brother purchase it because it had a “Parental Advisory- Explicit” warning on the front of the album. Lol

[@ianjohnston8057]

CDs were big for sure, but Napster was pretty damn big too

[@samdubb01]

@@ianjohnston8057 yeah, I never used Napster.. but I did use LimeWire and FrostWire.. is that the same thing?

[@Thats.So.Trish57]

I got the chance to see Eminem during the tour for the first album and he was amazing then. They gave away the “Hi, my name is” stickers. He jumped in the crowd and doused me with a bottle of water. It was a great experience.

[@MrSquadup2]

“We All Die One Day” is a MUST!!! Eminem, 50, G Unit and Obie… they absolutely kill Ja Rule and Irv Gotti… it also has one of the hardest verses by Em

[@marklaprade7705]

Please!!!!!! This song is so hard

[@FayesFood]

But Banks may have the best verse overall.

[@marklaprade7705]

Banks was so hard back in the day, bars for days!

[@gregbrancwash]

Wow I just commented this!

[@MrSquadup2]

@@FayesFood Banks was EXTREMELY underrated. That whole song is just a verbal annihilation of Ja and his people. The album Invasion pt. 2 Conspiracy Theory from DJ Green Lantern is nothing but Em and G Unit going after Ja’s throat. One of the hardest albums I’ve ever heard. If any of you haven’t heard that album and you’re an Em/G Unit fan you’re missing out

[@ocsmo5650]

Fun fact: Eminem’s beginning flow when he comes in is known as an anapaestic tetrameter. Whether he did this intentionally shows how knowledgeable on literature he is, or if he did it by accident by just going with the flow is equally as impressive.

[@goofyahhh254]

he likely knows, but his knowledge of rhyme schemes is the best there is IMO because he obsesses over them. whether he knows what it is called or not, in practice it's all the same. FIRE

[@FiryaFYI]

When writing the song he only had the piano sample on a loop on a tape. and he wrote it while traveling. so he wrote the entire song just by the piano and rhymed to match it.

[@matthewhyndman88]

Bro is modern day Shakespeare

[@mitchelltyler5972]

@@matthewhyndman88 He was arguably more partial to iambic pentameter, but I see what you did there.

[@RoviHughesMusic]

this is the first song i remember hearing in my life. i was walking into a Kohl’s… about 7 years old. my friend had his brother’s cd and we were taking turns listening. this song came on and i remember looking down and all the hairs on my arms were standing up. i never knew music could cut through you like that. my life truly has never been the same. music continues to save my life, over and over again, 20 years later. this reaction brought me right back to that Kohls parking lot. haha thank you guys.🪶🎶

[@susanconstable2113]

The man is a master at lyrics. He is just insanely good.

[@chrishaugh1655]

I feel so blessed to grow up with this music. This is why we "old" people always say no one can ever touch this man.

[@tobyfrazier1543]

To help y’all understand some history the hook comes from Eric B and Rakim’s song “As the Rhyme goes on” Rakim says “I'm the R the A to the K-I-M ..If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?” He made the I-M sound like I Am which is where Em may have started to learn how to bend words? Maybe?

[@realvictator3658]

Not maybe....Definitely...most def

[@erickcardena8488]

Em saw Ra spell Kim and had to go in! 🤣

[@thekiddy4263]

The geeza’s been manipulating the English language way before that son lol

[@Hideotic]

And then Eminem’s song inspired Nas on “You’re Da Man” off Stillmatic

[@aurawolf664]

Rakim is the Godfather of Rap. If you want to understand how its done, you start by studying him.

[@hyp3rsora]

Fam, the chorus “I am whatever I say I am, if I wasn’t then why would I say I am!” … is a shoutout to Rakim’s “As The Rhyme Goes On”: “I'm the R the A to the K-I-M If I wasn't, then why would I say, I am” Also, this song was dropped in 2000. He’s been this ill for almost 3 decades and he’s ONLY GETTING BETTER! 🙌

[@kzimmerer1]

I remember hiding his CDs from my parents when I was in grade school, specifically after “Cleaning Out My Closet” came out when I was 10 and my mom caught me listening to it. Parents were RAGING because us kids were listening him rip his mom apart in that song.

[@johnnyTimothyRokket]

Regardless of what people feel about Eminem , this song shows you why he is a legend

[@tiffanycurtis4794]

ONE OF EMINEM MOST POWERFUL SONGS 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@normal-potato05]

Absolutely my favorite track by Em, if it’s not, definitely the best track in the *Marshall Mathers LP* That Marilyn line, that was a reference to *the Columbine High School massacre controversy.* The media needed a scapegoat to take the blame, and they blamed *Marilyn Manson* for poisoning the mind of the *two teens* (the two shooters) with his music. Which is relatable to Eminem he also said in the track *Renegade* “Or is he the latter, a gateway to escape? Media scapegoat, who they can be mad at today”

[@johnkramer295]

Just like the media wanna blame any non-Democrat for school shootings, and not the lack of mental health systems in America.

[@beetlemondapowerful1542]

Eminem became my favorite rapper after this song came out

[@markmac2206]

and they actually censored his line on Im Back about Columbine. i think thats the only time he had a lid put on him. we know what he said and he did repeat it on Rap God but still its crazy he got censored 1 time even.

[@neillscott4192]

Well, in all honestly. Marilyn Manson did create a lot of weirdo teens at the time.

[@normal-potato05]

@@neillscott4192 that’s probably true, and I don’t think he’s a very nice person considering all the domestic abuse thing, but I believe he had nothing to do with the Columbine shooting

[@Cmiller11]

Bro. Watching this video really gives me the feels. I remember hearing this for the first time when he dropped this and I was like holy shit this is amazing. And all these years later it still bangs. This is good music that will last forever. Eminem is a goat

[@Cmiller11]

Also, if you like this song listen to “soldier”

[@Eric-ni7po]

It’s fun watching you guys react to these songs. Brings back memories of when I heard them the first time. Keep it up, fellas.

[@chidorikev]

The Way I am and Stay Wide Awake are definitely not on the same album they are 9 years apart. Y’all should check what album each song y’all react to is off of so you can draw comparison or just peep the similarity in style between songs of the same albums or I mean it would just be good to know lol

[@Sylintlyfe]

should definitely do "Forgot about dre" eminem wrote the whole song before Dre even made the beat!

[@ashleyadams5902]

I was just upstairs listening to my Will Smith CD hahahahha love the video!!!

[@Sylintlyfe]

@@ashleyadams5902 🤣🤣🤣🤣 classic!!

[@daniellemcfarland3659]

Agreed! The music video though! Lol

[@Sylintlyfe]

@@daniellemcfarland3659 the video is forever classic!!

[@geraldinekaramjit1850]

The video is so funny, makes me lol everytime I watch it

[@m00nchxld8]

Eminem was BIG worldwide back in the early 2000s he blew up so fast INTERNATIONALLY he just connected with all of us youngsters he's the only one who ever dared to diss his wife and mom on a song lol I was 10 when I first discovered his music he got me through some dark times..

[@dayatatime01dengan25]

Legend!!! Thanks for the post guys! Respect is earned which he has done! OG✌️

[@onlyangel7]

i was so excited for this reaction omg thank u sm .. i think yall would really like "my darling" "darkness" & "cleaning out my closet"

[@onlyangel7]

wait we should get them to react to fack 😭

[@jamirys]

Yes really want to see them react to darkness

[@r.g.9610]

Alright, now I feel old. Because I remember buying this CD and playing this song over and over again. For the record, "The Way I Am" was released back in 2000 and was part of the Marshal Mathers LP. So, to be fair you wouldn't have known the song because you weren't in the 6th grade, you were in a crib or in utero. 😏

[@lea88pu]

Yeah, we are old for them, but actually we are still young.

[@MonsoonGeek]

The palpable rage that’s seething through in this song still gives me goosebumps.

[@ohmyDahliasxx]

There will never be anyone better lyrically.

[@sara.s.s1827]

,,Solider” and „Square Dance” are AMAZINGGGG, The bit is crazy as well as lyrics, u will love it i promise

[@jamiereamer6954]

Yes!! Business and Say Goodbye to Hollywood are two of my other favorites on that album! The Eminem Show is 🔥🔥🔥

[@muhammadfadinajib2355]

Yes please react to those two songs

[@NeverNotHoopin]

Nothing can top Till I Collapse and White America

[@user-ly7zl9gb7m]

ALFREDS THEME - EMINEM (Official video). So much word play. Bars for dayssssss Edit: just make sure Russ or Ross or whatever his name is, is there. The kid that said Eminem would “disappoint” on Gospel. Em blows Wayne out the water with the word play.. and I’m a Wayne Stan.

[@lasith747]

THIS YES!

[@inamfcbb262]

Naah i don’t like alfred’s theme man

[@DinkLink]

Yep

[@Settiis]

Definitely something you need your ears tuned in!

[@inamfcbb262]

@PrynceJ yeah you’re right it has bars but i just don’t like that song , probably my least favorite song of the album

[@eyezpitched]

It's cool to see you guys discovering these classics. It reminds me of the first time I heard them.

[@rachelkoiks]

Yessss!!! I love this Eminem period. Brings me back to middle school/high school days

[@cheezytacos]

Three songs you have to checkout by Eminem: Darkness, Soldier, and No Apologies. MUST LISTENS

[@goofyahhh254]

like for no apologies

[@k.h1365]

Do as the world turns it's nasty! It's Kool watching y'all get excited as I did when I was a kid buying these cds when they came out🔥🔥 I still have every em CD and record

[@timmilligan5264]

As a 54 white guy,I grew up during the beginning of HIP hop and I've been blessed for 42 years of all the greatest rappers ever and its refreshing to see u guys give slim shady his due. Much love

[@TheMathMax]

#CartierFamily Man you guys freaking rock! I'm in Nova Scotia Canada and the contractor that was here yesterday, we had a discussion about the Cartier Family! Keep it up young men, yall rock!

[@ronturner3533]

80's Baby Blessed To Witness This In That Current Moment Of 2000. 🤯... I Hope The Kids Understand Some Day How Epic This Is. 🔥

[@jblue04]

Yes this is real time was amazing. If you weren’t there at the time, new kids don’t understand why he has such loyal fans of ALL races. I say that because people seem to think that black people don’t fck with Em and that’s a major lie.

[@paulius7328]

If you want some real, raw Eminem you must listen to Soldier by Eminem

[@matheusgoebel8577]

This song is HARD!!!!

[@vtrmrl]

facts.. Soldier is my top3 Em tracks, along with the way i am and till i collapse

[@favoriteofalltimefoat]

The whole slim shady album is as raw as he get thrs no need to skip on that lp lol

[@aurawolf664]

listen to the sound of me spilling my heart with this pen/mfers know that ill never be marshall again/ full of controversy until i retire my jersey/ til the fire inside dies and expires at 30/ lord have mercy on any of these other rappers adverse me/ and put a curse on authorities/ in the face of adversity im a soldier 😤😤😤

[@Snipuh]

What made these songs great is we got to see him getting criticized live over time no matter what he did and accomplished, while he still poked fun at the irony of the others they didn't criticize, so he kept firing at whoever in these songs. They all have a meaning from what was going on. It was fun to watch and so is. Em is that savage champion and he just kept getting better & better 🔥 he literally has NO ceiling. Love it. By the way another really good underrated song was Wale featuring Wiz Khalifa & 2 Chainz called "Rotation" 🔥🔥🔥 I love that song

[@Sir_blanco1]

You guys have a endless catalog of different flows,pockets you never knew of, and the cadences omg!!

[@truejohnsolo]

I'm a white dude from the suburbs and my older sister was listening to this when it came out in like 2001 and she let me listen to it even though I wasn't allowed to listen to it. I was mind blown at like age 11 and been a fan of Eminem ever since. Even as a kid, I could see the massive impact he had on pop culture.. Like it's hard to appreciate if you didn't live through it. But he was BIG, like probably one of the biggest superstars in the world at that time if not the biggest. He's not kidding when he said they talked about him in the news all the time. I love all hip-hop but you can never sleep on Em.. He's undeniably one of the hardest and greatest rappers of all time!

[@Sunny-jz3dy]

This mans pen is unmatched!!! 🐐 This song is a classic! The way he uses his voice in this...dang!!! Eminem is a student of the game! He was influenced by many rappers! Rakim, Redman, Biggie, Tupac...etc!! I dont remember the whole list he gave...but there were a few!

[@vtrmrl]

"it goes Reddie, jayz, tupac and biggie, andre from outkast, jada, kurupt, nas and then me."

[@willmolina7395]

KURUPT , BABY ..I LOVE WHEN HE MENTIONS HIM..KURUPT HAS HAD SOME CLASSICS..

[@Sunny-jz3dy]

@@willmolina7395 💯 at the same time...thats not a complete list either! LL Cool J...& a few others!

[@inmycreativity5762]

And Jay-z

[@kiewe]

"im a product of Rakim, Lakim Shabazz, 2Pac, N.W.A, Cube, Doc, Rey, Yella, Eazy..."

[@huntercox5000]

Love y’alls videos! Thanks for brightening our days fellas

[@SabrinaLWilliams]

This is from 2000 and I can't explain what this meant when it was released. His lyrics and his take on events at the time were real, raw and controversial, nothing like mumble cr@p today

[@brandonshifflett7808]

This song gives me chills everytime

[@Mazinojr]

No apologies - Eminem reaction please

[@Lokahi-fo-life]

To me he is the greatest lyricist rapper ever. That’s saying a lot, because I’m old and have lived through all the rap eras.

[@nathanhargenrader645]

This is probably Eminem’s best song. The message lyrics bars flow crazy rhyme schemes. Song goes hard.

[@smartjunayd]

Eminem is literally the king of rhyme schemes, nobody does it better

[@damian9o7]

i’m 23 now and i remember when i got my first ipod touch, i bought all of Em’s albums and that’s all i listened to in middle school. I’m glad ppl can still appreciate his music

[@James-wd7nd]

Y'all are so cool!! Love your commentary and enthusiasm! Absolutely awesome thanks for your love for great lyrics, love ya

[@aussie-filo7249]

I remember Eminem's concert being banned in Australia when I was in highschool!!! Love your reactions, guys!!

[@jubapxakadze630]

this is a certified em classic and one of the best songs he has ever done and every one knows it. im glad u will know it too.

[@michaelsaylor4903]

This song came out in the year 2000. 22 years ago

[@jackiejuarez7595]

Goat 🔥 I will never get tired of his songs been a fan as long as i can remember i have hella respect for him . Hes a real one

[@kidchrist35]

Love that y'all found this after all this time, this is the song that sold me on Em

[@mikearon1970]

Same... I actually hated him at first, thought he was a joke... then I heard this and was blown away at his lyrical ability and cadence and raw emotion and realized he was something special

[@jamesevans7277]

I was 21 when the Slim Shady LP came out and we grew up with Eminem, it's cool to see the younger generations discover the greatness of Eminem ....keep killing it fellas !!

[@kimreed4468]

James. I wasnt 21. But my wedding reception was on 8 mile across from the trailer park when Marshall was 2.

[@Arabemessi]

Bruh ur old af

[@kimreed4468]

@@Arabemessi We're not old. We are well versed in classic rock music that came out well before most of you were even born. Need lessons? We know lyrics from songs that you've never heard.

[@jamesevans7277]

@@Arabemessi 🤣🤣 Hey Thanks!

[@Arabemessi]

@@kimreed4468 I pretty much dont care about music tho,it mostly bothers me

[@carolyn_kim]

You should react to the official music video of “Darkness.” The double meanings and story telling are insane. It literally gave me goose bumps the first time I saw and heard it.

[@Jaze1618]

Yea I hate that they added that disclaimer to the beginning of it now, it ruins the surprise. Hopefully people tell them to skip the first 6 seconds of the video if they react to it.

[@TheMetallicDr]

Yes!!!

[@PamelaQuinto]

Yea for sure you have to do the song darkness but the official video You have to watch the video so you understand the song.the entire song is Double meaning its crazy 🔥 its a must

[@carolyn_kim]

@@Jaze1618 I didn’t know they added a disclaimer. Ruins the surprise!

[@nofame688]

@@carolyn_kim what's the surprise

[@katherinenoll9732]

You guys are so funny!!! It's so fun to watch y'all REALLY hear these things for the first time and react the way we did when were y'alls age!! Thanks so much for this!!! 😍😍😍❤❤

[@thearianmandalorian]

when this track came out back in the day, i was instantly hypnotized by his flow. that shit was and still is an insane track, everything in that track is epicness it self

[@austindowney5581]

React to “Darkness” & “Never Love Again” if you want to see master class lyricism on display by both of those entire songs being double entendres.

[@goofyahhh254]

Darkness and all that are fine they're the newer songs but I feel like they should explore eminem's older catalogue because there are so many songs on there that are slept on and fire that would never make into the mainstream, I believe Darkness was a single too. So yeah, I'm requesting wicked ways ft x ambassadors.

[@Lubenica224]

Marshall Mathers LP from 2000 is a Masterpiece this was his rise to the elite rappers that made him to a superstar at this time i remember this like it was yesterday, crazy times back then

[@iGoOLey]

No doubt 🔥 I remember that "I've got this bullet in this chamber.." was straight fire at that ti.e but eminem is the only rap I can listen to years later with a new perspective 👊 keep up the great work

[@jelufinch2804]

Tnx guys, for always reacting to eminem songs, God bless

[@rebeccalebeck9180]

This is on Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000 guys....... Still a BANGER! That's crazy. The definition of a classic!💙

[@JeffSmith-eq3kc]

That album is so stacked it's wild.

[@Makaveli13Xroy]

this is one of hiis best flows and lyricism to this day, So this is one of his earliest songs i heard when i was about 13 years old .... im 35 now and this is still one of the hardest eminem songs to me hands down , the flow the lyrics the anger and raw emotion in his voice will never be matched

[@johnnywishbone1349]

Been listening to this many years ago when I was a kid. Seeing youth see how hard this hits still reminds me how great record was

[@uneverhadme7396]

This makes me so happy cause I remember jamming Slim Shady LP back in the 90's and every album after like the future is about to be wild. Yo Eminem interviews on anything MTV was fucking out of control, what a great time to live lol

[@llcooljj]

this track was the beginning of Eminem vs the Cheneys, that was crazy. He was the first one to diss them in mainstream and everyone fucking loved it

[@jameskavanagh6447]

Loving these eminem reactions guys the progression from your bar catching is fast tracking now. .brilliant channel guys🔥🔥🔥

[@LostLegendx888]

Love the reactions from the dude on the left. Same bro. Same. Amazing

[@musicalidy6026]

Heard this the first time on MTV music awards or something... just. blew. me. away. Searched for it right away, downloaded it and been one of my all time favourites.

[@ryanmichael457]

This is still one of his best songs between the beat & the verse’s! Brings me back to when I first heard this

[@jonahxsmitty]

Y’all are slowly becoming my favorite reactors haha

[@richardmiddleton7539]

Respect the honesty and the Digs ... D.O.C. next who EMINEM Loves

[@bwizzle4194]

I still know every word to this song. I was 17 when this came out I've always been a fan. This kinda solidified him as a great rapper.

[@astroplayer74u]

one of the hardest flows ever laid. through out the entire song too. crazy

[@danielschnapp6737]

This was the very first Eminem song I can remember hearing, in the year 2000, I was 8 years old. It was like nothing I ever experienced and this will always be a top song by Eminem. The flow and passion in his delivery is top tier

[@shannarmel2229]

Throwing it back makes me feel so old but i still remember every word!

[@BayloughRanger]

Man I get goosebumps sitting here watching this new generation listen to the music I grew up on. Rap has changed so much since I was a kid it really isnt the same. So its great to see people love this old school rap.