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

Eminem or Nas?


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First sentence was opinion.
Rest was documented facts

My point is Em came up with Stan. I didn't hear anybody calling anyone Stan until Nas did. Em wasn't going around calling people stans. Maybe Nas wasn't the first person to do it. Maybe it was someone online. But Nas made it popular.
 

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My point is Em came up with Stan. I didn't hear anybody calling anyone Stan until Nas did. Em wasn't going around calling people stans. Maybe Nas wasn't the first person to do it. Maybe it was someone online. But Nas made it popular.
nas calling Jay a Stan was nowhere near as popular as the Stan, song or video.
 

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im not sure where it came from.. but eminem took time out to make a song and shoot a video.. and the imagery on this lyric wise is classic.. he channeled a true stan with his pen game.. im giving it to em
 

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Nobody said it was. But nobody was running around calling people stans until Nas did.
Ether is truly a classic diss record.

The camel jokes :banderas:

Making stan and ether an everyday term :banderas:

Em murdered you on your own shyt rings in my head every time I listen to renegade :banderas:
 

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doesn't matter. it would've just been another forgettable song if not for Nas. Let's be real here. Part of Em's legacy rests on "Stan", and that legacy exists because of Nas. Nobody remembers "Kim" or whatever songs Em made.

The goat changed Stan from a proper noun to a common noun. Hilarious and smart shyt :ahh:

Plus Em got the idea for Stan from Nas (One Love). So the cypher's complete :ahh:
:patrice: Em performing that song with Elton John at the grammys is a pretty big moment in em career and pop culture though...shyt was big when it happened .

It's easily one of his most known songs regardless of Nas.
 
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When I think of Stan I think of that cornball cac behind the keyboard on thecoli.com em painted a picture of the obsessed male fan. He gets the credit.
 

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stan > Ether
Every person on earth knows Eminem. Dido, the singer featured on that song, was famous af at the time.

Nas is known, especially in the US and by Hip-Hop fans outside of the US.

But Eminem is a POP worldwide phenomenon who did arena tours. Stan was a worldwide hit. White kids in Russia were bumping that shyt.

You confuse the US with the World, like your President. Fatal mistake rookie.
Key word is white people they are pretty much the only ones that bump em shyt, the only non white group of people you will see that fukks with em is skaters and thats about it
 

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Key word is white people they are pretty much the only ones that bump em shyt, the only non white group of people you will see that fukks with em is skaters and thats about it

White people are apart of hip hop
 

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fukk nas! y'all dikkride nas a little bit too much on some fukkboy shyt. :hhh:Nas is one of the phoniest rappers next to jay, he might even one up him in phoniness. fukk outta here y'all stay with nas dikk in ur mouths.:francis: Eminem created the word he made the character his song was a huge hit. Nas used the term Stan only because eminem created it everybody truly knows what the word is because of eminem . End of story:aicmon:
 
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fukk nas! y'all dikkride nas a little bit too much on some fukkboy shyt. :hhh:Nas is one of the phoniest rapper next to jay, he might even one up him in phoniness. fukk outta here y'all stay with nas dikk in ur mouths.:francis: Eminem created the word he made the character his song was a huge hit. Nas used the term Stan only because eminem created it everybody truly knows what the word is because of eminem . End of story:aicmon:
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