Are we too good on the Coli to admit that Eminem's "My Name Is" is a classic track?

[Unknown Poster]

I know the majority of this forum don't fukk with Eminem. But us old heads can atleast remember the impact he made when he first burst onto the scene.

I remember being 14 years old watching MTV Jams after schooll. All of a sudden this video comes on and I was like

I deadass thought it was some commercial for some new mTV comedy show...

Until Dr. Dre popped up second later...then I was like oh shyt this guy for real now...this is real.

I remember hearing "I Don't Give a fukk" on college hip hop radio and his track on the Beyond. Real Experience, but I couldn't put a face to the name. He sounded like Chris Tucker on the mic to me.

Then I saw this video and put two and two together and was like "that's that guy".

This got played on all the local hip'hop stations first. I don't remember it getting played anywhere else until months later.

But cmon.

That beat?
That lyricism?
Those lines?

This wasn't his first single though. "I don't give a fukk" produced by the Bass Brothers was and that video wasnt played that much when it came out (fall 1998).

But everytime this comes on my ass is like


And while we're at it, let's give some props to the where original sample came from. "I Got The Blues" by funk/jazz musician Labi Siffre.

(edit: I'm pretty sure the true crate diggers and music heads will recognize that this was also sampled for Jay-Z' "where I'm from" and The Beatnuts' "Beatnuts Forever")



There were problems between Eminem's camp and Siffree because one of the lines in the song went "my english teacher wanted to fukk my in junior high/the only problem was that he was a guy" and that offended Siffree because he was openely gay. So because of thie Eminem changed the line to "my english teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high/thanks alot next semester I'll be 35."

1998-2002 eminem was something else i dont know what happened..

 

[kingdizzy01]

that shyt was terrible hahaha, i first heard the infinite album then this shyt dropped a year later, shyt had me confused lol. guilty conscience and a couple other tracks on that album carried it over tho.

nah for real, when my name is dropped, it was on some limp biskit type shyt to me.

 

[Zero]

Yes. We grew up.

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

It's classic cause of the popularity

I dont listen to it that much cause its based off of shock value like the rest of his shyt

 

[avon barksdale]

that song was more like a tom green skit when i first heard it and still is..only em i fucc with when he first came out was this

 

[2CT]

i thought dude was a joke after hearing this and Real Slim, until i seen a documentary on MTV of the making of MMLP

most the snippets they played had me like this shyt sounds ridiculous and dope as hell at the same time

finally heard the whole album and the rest was history

i was like 10 at the time and my whole summer camp was buzzing about that album, teachers pissed we were talking about clitorises

 

[Unknown Poster]

that shyt was terrible hahaha, i first heard the infinite album then this shyt dropped a year later, shyt had me confused lol. guilty conscience and a couple other tracks on that album carried it over tho.

nah for real, when my name is dropped, it was on some limp biskit type shyt to me.

I was into Limp Bizkit heavy back then.
and KoRn. But I was a bigger hip hop head at the time but I definitely agree they were in that same vein.

 

[Unknown Poster]

i thought dude was a joke after hearing this and Real Slim, until i seen a documentary on MTV of the making of MMLP

most the snippets they played had me like this shyt sounds ridiculous and dope as hell at the same time

finally heard the whole album and the rest was history

i was like 10 at the time and my whole summer camp was buzzing about that album, teachers pissed we were talking about clitorises :mjlol

I bought SSLP the week it came out.

The only other albums I did that for were Wu-Tang Forever & ATLiens.

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

The impact it made..definitely

 

[Black]

pathetic

 

[BK The Great]

ehh it was decent, the beat is dope but Em's serious shyt is better and i can actually listen to it more than alot of his silly stuff. shyt like this he made are undeniable

 

[Mac Casper]

I've said it before and I'll say it again . .

Eminem's first three albums may not be classics but they are a product unlike any other in music . . the closest you could get is Movies for the Blind by Cage

When you look at Eminem's string of first singles for each of those albums

"My Name Is" to "Real Slim Shady" to "Without Me"
"Just Lose It" was wack
"We Made You" was alright but he lost his tolerance for giving Interscope that debut single and he didn't do one for "Recovery", that's when the Rihanna/Eminem single was born + the inspirational "Not Afraid" single

Then he did it again with "Bezerk"

Another artist who followed a similar route with their album's first single was Ludacris. With these singles I think of the character he brings to the track and I would feel comfortable with that character collaborating with Mac Dre, I think they would've put together a great track. If you look at songs like "Get Stupid" it seems Mac Dre would've fit in well at Interscope

In regards to Eminem vs. Cage

This beef has been going on ever since 1998 when Eminem released the Slim Shady EP. Cage has gone on record saying that Eminem has copied his style and his lyrics. This has been denied by Eminem and in the Slim Shady LP, you can hear the disses Eminem lays down to Cage in "Role Model:" "Bought Cage's tape opened it, and dubbed over it."

In a song called "Drastic Measures" Eminem disses Cage as well. "I'm picking up Cage's sister early..., went on stage and sprayed Cage with agent orange." In the same freestyle Em also says "Wiped my ass with his page is The Source...". Also, in a freestyle off Tony Touch's Power Cypha 3 - 50 MC's on CD 05, track 06, Eminem says: I write a rhyme a day, So it's no wonder how come your whole album is soundin like a bunch of shyt that I would say [Then Em screams "CAGE!!"].

Cage was not prepared to just take these insults, and began by dissing Eminem in this song called And So Kiddies... . Cage mentions "Tired rhyme styles from Detroit, Michigan" referring to Eminem's heavy MTV rotation. He also insults Eminem's alter ego Slim Shady, calling him bytch Lady. He has released a freestyle called "bytch Lady" too, which is almost impossible to get your hands on. When asked in an interview with HipHopSite.com how the rivalry began and where it currently stood, cage said "It started because he is a bytch ass nikka! Right now it stands with me kicking in his fukking face, real horror show, I ain't lettin' all the shyt he said slide." Cage also rips into Em on "Illest four letter word." Here are the Em dissing lines: I heard some blonde bytch walking through New York looking for Cage, I'll stab you in the face, ten times in the same place.

A parody of Dr. Dre's "Still Dre" called "Still Cage" has been released by Cage. That can also be found on various file sharing networks.
We are doing our best to keep this info up to date but we can't vouch for its 100% reliability.

 

[Unknown Poster]

I've said it before and I'll say it again . .

Eminem's first three albums may not be classics but they are a product unlike any other in music . . the closest you could get is Movies for the Blind by Cage

When you look at Eminem's string of first singles for each of those albums

"My Name Is" to "Real Slim Shady" to "Without Me"
"Just Lose It" was wack
"We Made You" was alright but he lost his tolerance for giving Interscope that debut single and he didn't do one for "Recovery", that's when the Rihanna/Eminem single was born + the inspirational "Not Afraid" single

Then he did it again with "Bezerk"

Another artist who followed a similar route with their album's first single was Ludacris. With these singles I think of the character he brings to the track and I would feel comfortable with that character collaborating with Mac Dre, I think they would've put together a great track. If you look at songs like "Get Stupid" it seems Mac Dre would've fit in well at Interscope

In regards to Eminem vs. Cage

man...I forgot about the Eminem/Cage beef....


Cage actually had some joints though...


that still goes...

 

[R-Typ3]

99% of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than i do...I told her i'd grow up to be a famous rapper make a record about doin drugs and name it after her

Stop the tape this kid needs to be locked away Dr Dre don't just stand there operate I'm not ready to leave it's too scary to die...

I heard this on a radio before I saw the video and couldn't deny it either way...Listening to his cadence you could tell 'Em came from battling so I was in already

 

[diggy]

Horrible