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to talk to me?</i> 796 00:32:40,741 --> 00:32:42,786 <i>And he was like, you rap well,</i> 797 00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:44,701 <i>you say a lot of personal shit,</i> 798 00:32:44,788 --> 00:32:45,920 <i>and your music and your life is like</i> 799 00:32:46,051 --> 00:32:48,488 <i>the fucking "Jerry Springer Show."</i> 800 00:32:48,618 --> 00:32:49,793 <i>- "I didn't really start doing drugs</i> 801 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,534 <i>"until I rapped about them.</i> 802 00:32:51,665 --> 00:32:53,710 "When I was on tour rapping about Vicodin 803 00:32:53,797 --> 00:32:55,277 "or mushrooms or ecstasy, 804 00:32:55,364 --> 00:32:57,236 people started throwing that shit my way." 805 00:32:57,323 --> 00:32:58,498 - "I couldn't believe the effect 806 00:32:58,585 --> 00:33:00,152 "my lyrics had on people. 807 00:33:00,282 --> 00:33:02,067 <i>They thought we were literally drug addicts..."</i> 808 00:33:02,197 --> 00:33:03,590 <i>- "And that they could get backstage</i> 809 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:04,678 <i>"and bring us substances.</i> 810 00:33:04,808 --> 00:33:06,027 "It was wild. 811 00:33:06,114 --> 00:33:07,942 Welcome to rock and roll." 812 00:33:08,073 --> 00:33:11,119 [cheering, chanting] 813 00:33:12,773 --> 00:33:14,296 - Yo, they were so loud, we couldn't rap 814 00:33:14,427 --> 00:33:15,776 for, like, 10 minutes. 815 00:33:15,906 --> 00:33:16,907 <i>- Just seeing, like, how he was living</i> 816 00:33:17,038 --> 00:33:18,474 <i>and the breakneck pace,</i> 817 00:33:18,561 --> 00:33:21,173 <i>instant stardom, instant fandom,</i> 818 00:33:21,260 --> 00:33:22,348 <i>and people starting to get obsessed.</i> 819 00:33:22,478 --> 00:33:24,611 - What the fuck? 820 00:33:24,785 --> 00:33:25,960 - I was just rooting for him to, like-- 821 00:33:26,047 --> 00:33:27,048 to hang on for the rocket ride. 822 00:33:27,135 --> 00:33:28,658 - England, we're out of here. 823 00:33:28,745 --> 00:33:30,356 We love you. Thank you. 824 00:33:30,530 --> 00:33:32,053 Peace. 825 00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:37,145 <i>- Were you prepared for how much the fans</i> 826 00:33:37,276 --> 00:33:39,017 <i>would connect with you?</i> 827 00:33:39,191 --> 00:33:44,370 - What I put out was very much, um, 828 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:47,851 raw and, like, just real, 829 00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:51,638 as far as situations in my life and how I came up 830 00:33:51,725 --> 00:33:52,987 and shit like that. 831 00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:56,338 And I think that that's maybe one 832 00:33:56,425 --> 00:34:00,821 of the things that made some people 833 00:34:00,995 --> 00:34:02,475 feel like they could relate. 834 00:34:02,605 --> 00:34:06,044 It was a weird, strange kind of adjustment, 835 00:34:06,174 --> 00:34:10,570 and my personality wasn't well-equipped to handle that. 836 00:34:10,700 --> 00:34:11,527 <i>[pulsating music]</i> 837 00:34:11,658 --> 00:34:13,007 <i>- "FANatic."</i> 838 00:34:13,181 --> 00:34:14,748 <i>- I've never gotten into any music</i> 839 00:34:14,835 --> 00:34:16,619 like I've gotten into Eminem's lyrics. 840 00:34:16,706 --> 00:34:20,232 Like, once I started listening to him, I couldn't stop. 841 00:34:20,362 --> 00:34:22,364 We are at the restaurant that Eminem worked at 842 00:34:22,451 --> 00:34:24,018 before he made it big. 843 00:34:24,149 --> 00:34:26,107 <i>- Around the time Marshall's really starting to blow up,</i> 844 00:34:26,194 --> 00:34:27,848 <i>there's a million channels.</i> 845 00:34:28,022 --> 00:34:29,328 <i>You know, the Internet starts picking up.</i> 846 00:34:29,502 --> 00:34:31,286 - This is where Eminem spent most of his time. 847 00:34:31,417 --> 00:34:32,635 - [gasps] This is the phone Eminem touched. 848 00:34:32,809 --> 00:34:35,899 <i>- Content is just at its infancy of becoming king.</i> 849 00:34:36,030 --> 00:34:38,163 From a media standpoint, you are really 850 00:34:38,293 --> 00:34:40,339 now into the minutia of what it takes 851 00:34:40,469 --> 00:34:42,123 to hold on to an audience. 852 00:34:42,254 --> 00:34:44,125 <i>And what that came down to for us, really,</i> 853 00:34:44,299 --> 00:34:47,128 <i>was like, the fan experience, we gotta go even more.</i> 854 00:34:47,302 --> 00:34:48,608 - What was your best subject in school? 855 00:34:48,782 --> 00:34:50,436 - Oh, my God, none. 856 00:34:50,566 --> 00:34:52,264 Maybe English. I was all right at English. 857 00:34:52,394 --> 00:34:53,569 Everything else I was horrible at. 858 00:34:53,700 --> 00:34:55,354 I was the worst. 859 00:34:55,441 --> 00:34:57,747 <i>- Fans just had such an insatiable appetite</i> 860 00:34:57,834 --> 00:34:59,271 for more and more access 861 00:34:59,445 --> 00:35:00,794 to the artists that they loved. 862 00:35:00,881 --> 00:35:02,448 I mean, now you're really opening the floodgates 863 00:35:02,578 --> 00:35:03,840 for people who see that 864 00:35:03,927 --> 00:35:05,146 to live vicariously through that moment 865 00:35:05,277 --> 00:35:06,930 and go, "Well, that's all it takes. 866 00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:08,889