Who Deserves More Credit for Making the Term 'Stan' Common in HipHop? Eminem or Nas?

[Ronnie Lott]

:Russ: Im a Nas fan but you nikkas is bugging.

And please, explain what a Stan is for real.

Eminem painted the perfect description of character in a multiplatinum selling single that Nas used in his diss a year later.

When Nas said it, nobody had to Google the reference, therefore it's impossible for Nas to be credited with its popularity.

I'm not sure why you quoted me

 

[Lord Mecca]

I'm not sure why you quoted me

nah I'm rockin with you and was going to agree but then I got sidetracked into my own comment. On a tablet and too hard to delete shyt

 

[NotaPAWG]

Em is trash but there's a lot of obvious bias in this thread

 

[Da King]

No one called ANYONE a "stan" till Nas used it

 

[SunZoo]

 

[Mr. Negative]

Nas.

 

[The Fire]

obviously Nas. stan was just a name until Nas made it something a lot bigger

 

[GoldenGlove]

Why are people acting like Eminem's song isn't a classic that influenced one of the GOAT's to even use the term? nikkas in Queensbridge were calling dikk riding fakkits that love the attention 'Stans' before this song dropped or nah?

 

[Lord Mecca]

Why are people acting like Eminem's song isn't a classic that influenced one of the GOAT's to even use the term? nikkas in Queensbridge were calling dikk riding fakkits that love the attention 'Stans' before this song dropped or nah?

After Stan dropped, "Stan" was an instant insult. After Ether dropped, nikkas on SOHH were like "does Nas visit this site?

Exactly the same way they do it today when a rapper says something often said on here, without realizing the fact that it's common urban talk.

 

[GoldenGlove]

After Stan dropped, "Stan" was an instant insult. After Ether dropped, nikkas on SOHH were like "does Nas visit this site?

Exactly the same way they do it today when a rapper says something often said on here, without realizing the fact that it's common urban talk.

Cool, but why you 1 star my thread my nikka?

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

obviously Nas. stan was just a name until Nas made it something a lot bigger

Lol,so the name of a character in a huge hiphop single about a weirdo jock rider,was just a name? lmao

 

[gluvnast]

Not only did Nas make "stan" what it is now, he also popularized "getting murdered on your own shyt."

But let's not act like "Stan" isn't a classic track.

Don't forget the Camel jokes on Hov began there too.

 

[The Fire]

Lol,so the name of a character in a huge hiphop single about a weirdo jock rider,was just a name? lmao

yeah, the name wasn't important until Nas made it important. It could have bob, joe or Daquan, it didn't matter until Nas made it matter

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

the way it's used was all Nas

people might've said "you're like stan"

but nobody was calling someone a stan till Nas

 

[H.S.]

Nas made it into the slang we know today.