Eminem Reveals He Almost Quit Rap Prior To His First Deal

Eminem says that he almost quit Rap after b0mbing his first live performance.

He may now be one of the world's highest selling emcees, but there was once a time before Eminem found fame and acclaim. Now, The List reports that Marshall Mathers actually almost gave up on his career before it even started.

Em recalled that he almost gave up on music after getting booed off stage at his first live performance. Despite the trauma of b0mbing on stage, he worked past it and grabbed the mic once again. He went on to say that rapping has been his driving force in life and helped him come back from his lowest moments.

"The first time I rapped in front of actual people that mattered, in a club, I got booed. And it was very traumatic for me," he said. "I just remember it being so !!ing traumatic, and I think I went home and I was like, man, I quit. And you know a week later, a day later, an hour later I got the urge, and I was like, I gotta get up, I gotta do it again."

He went on to say,

"I certainly feel like if it wasn't for Rap, obviously, I wouldn't be here, but it gave me my voice, it gave me my outlook, it gave me strength, you know what I came back from, overdose and a whole load of !! - without rap I wouldn't be able to do a !!ing thing."

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yup this has been known. rap olympics was his last attempt at making it

Eminem says that he almost quit Rap after b0mbing his first live performance.

He may now be one of the world's highest selling emcees, but there was once a time before Eminem found fame and acclaim. Now, The List reports that Marshall Mathers actually almost gave up on his career before it even started.

Em recalled that he almost gave up on music after getting booed off stage at his first live performance. Despite the trauma of b0mbing on stage, he worked past it and grabbed the mic once again. He went on to say that rapping has been his driving force in life and helped him come back from his lowest moments.

"The first time I rapped in front of actual people that mattered, in a club, I got booed. And it was very traumatic for me," he said. "I just remember it being so fu-king traumatic, and I think I went home and I was like, man, I quit. And you know a week later, a day later, an hour later I got the urge, and I was like, I gotta get up, I gotta do it again."

He went on to say, "I certainly feel like if it wasn't for Rap, obviously, I wouldn't be here, but it gave me my voice, it gave me my outlook, it gave me strength, you know what I came back from, overdose and a whole load of sh-t - without rap I wouldn't be able to do a fu-king thing."

One of my favorite rappers [pic]

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thread title could have been "eminem announces new album: recovery"

we get this part of em's career, he overdosed he came back , recovery was half way there, now he needs to move on from this and return to the menace he once was or hang it up

He REALLY need it To hang it up tho. Listening To 2012 eminem rap is like Watching when Sean Kemp was playing on the Magic[pic]

This was well known, he used to speak on this alot during his earliest biographies when his first album dropped. He used to always talk about how he purposely overdosed in 97.

"you're a wack liar. damn! all of your white jokes just backfired!" [pic] damn Em was nice

I miss old em [pic]

yeah we saw 8 mile

dont get mad and start takin your period out on me

excuse my ignorance, but why does the hood in detroit dont !! with eminem?

because he's from warren.

he need to call his mans hov and they need to quit together

Trick trick do, and he is the hood in Detroit.

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the whole of detroit is hood

lol but it's a pretty much an accurate statement

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Hey did you hear about the Berlin Wall? They tore that !! down!