I remember they held senate hearings to try to shut him down and Aftermath/ Interscope were heavily picketed and so were his concerts, love the reaction

Come on. Dre knew exactly what he was doing. He was one of the architects of NWA and Gangster Rap. When he found Em he knew exactly what he had. And I thank him for it.

This was the time when Tipper Gore, our vice presidential first lady and US Congress were trying to find anything to blame for the violence in America at the time. This happened around the time of Columbine massacre. They tried to blame rap music heavy metal and video games and violence in movies. They never thought to question mental health, or bullying. They still don't bother to question it as much as they should. Em stood tall through all that and came out even better than the government. He's one of the loudest voices of my generation, and yet his words reverberate through all generations.

The Eminem Show album was my birthday present from my mother when I was 15, my father was not a fan initially and my mother said "just wait" & sing for the moment was on every radio station and literally remember my father coming home from work & saying "I get it now, he has something to say". I'm from nsw australia, and I was Nine inch nail's(Trent Reznor is god) & LINKIN PARK....so the volatility of this song always kept with me, my mother and I literally spent every lockdown breaking down Eminem's albums I probably ruined my point there, but he's one of the reason's I'm still alive xx

Joe Rogan once said "What is the point of having F-you money, if you never say F-you?" Eminem embodies this phrase for me

Hes saying when no one knew him, being white held him back, no one wanted to sign him, but when he blew up all the white kids started bumpin that hip hop, all the parents shit like what is this

The problem they really had with em was his influence on the White kids , its cool as long as rap stays in the hood but when it came to white suburbs thru em it became a ”problem”

Mosh. That’s another em classic

In the 90s when this stuff came out, it didn't matter the color of your skin...we all listened to it. It crossed boundaries once thought to be impossible to cross. Dr. Dre and Eminem definitely changed the narrative of rap music forever. Was so good!!!

This has to be one of the most SELF AWARE songs of all time.🙌🏻

7:10 Em is just acknowledging that Dre gave him the credibility he needed to crack open the black rap fanbase. In return, Em introduced the white rap fanbase to Dre. The symbiosis between the two of them 100% both made Em who he is today and brought Dre back into the spotlight as a producer after he split from Death Row and started Aftermath.

Y'all gotta do Eminem " MOSH" you will love it and the message is so meaningful for today some 12 years later

You missed the end of the song, where he says, I’m just playing America you I love you…

I grew up in south Chicago heights as a white boy in the ghetto. I knew what hip-hop / rap was from listening with all my childhood buddies. Then we moved to rensselaer indiana and nobody listened to rap. Within 2 years of living there everybody listened to rap because the emergence of Eminem. He made white people feel like they could now be part off hip hip culture. He really did open a whole new world and he knew it. Thats why 9 times out of ten a white person will say Eminem is their favorite rapper cause the impact he had for us. He broke the wall that had been there forever and now white people could be part of something special. He even referenced how his skin was working to his benifit because before he blew up he was judged and outed simply for being white "rap culture was a little racist to white folks" so thanks also to Dr dre for actually looking past his skin tone. Breaking walls shattering boundaries and bringing people together.

They "hated" Eminem because he was the first Major white rapper to reach such a wide audience, especially youth (8 to 18) and I literally remember being 10 to 11 years old, and having to go to a school meeting several times in the Auditorium, for a PSA to students about his music and I quote "It's repulsive, and obscene nature" and they would suspend any of us found with his CD's in School. So your husband is definitely right! They tried to prevent him from hitting his own demographic.

I swear, I was never big into Eminem when i was younger, but now that I'm grown up (and lets face it, finally have taste) and know how good he is it's like every song i hear of his i respect him more. GOAT.

bj nailed it, tapping into different fan bases was huge for both of them, no one tryna take advantage just a result of their colab

It's true Dre albums were not saleing when he left Death Row and when he signed Em he helped him to get back to hardcore hip hop they helped each other

I'm a little late to the party but this is one of those songs that can be misinterpreted easily, the whole song is a metaphor/bar basically. He's acknowledging why he blew up, which was dope and mocking "white america"...dope reaction love how you guys talk about it

I LOVE Y'ALL EMINEM CONTENT

“Just playing America, you know I love you”

I like how focused Asia was on this one.

Oh man y'all! If my mom knew that I was listening to Eminem in elementary school and at my friend's house, she would have grounded me for listening to "Inappropriate" rap. Obviously, I was a rebel and didn't really tap in to the lyrics because I didn't really understand them. Perhaps that's what my mom was trying to protect me from. Til this day she still doesn't know. Am I going to bring it up? Hell no! Haha! Anyways, love that y'all reacted to and analyzed this song because listening to these lyrics, I understand. It brings a whole new perspective as an adult. Peace and love! Sending y'all positive vibes!

So I got this CD uncensored for my 12th or 14th bday (I swear it was right when it came out, but I would've only been 12). I am white Hispanic, but I don't look Hispanic at all. From this perspective, I 100% jammed to this song. Em was my introduction to rap. I went and sought NWA and 50 and Pac and everybody because i saw Em on TRL. I was little Erica, a young white suburban kid who saw a cute guy and begged her parents for the CD and got it. My dad knew who Em was and grew up on rap. He got it because he wanted to listen to it too and could pass it off like a gift lol. I raided his CDs to listen to more rap ETA - he is also speaking to the fear white America had of him. He was corrupting their children. He was introducing them to rap and hip hop. He was infiltrating the airwaves to pollute their children's minds. He looked like them, so they related to him and bought his music.

One of my favs! I wish we still had this Eminem. I mean he’s still great but this type of energy I just love!

Dre was at a low in his career when he found Eminem. Eminem got Dre back to the top of his success. More money than Dre ever made. But Dre’s co-sign gave Em credibility.

I’m here for ALL Eminem reactions.. he’s the most amazing artist to ever grace a microphone!! I relate to him on so many levels and have over the last 25 years..

Not only American. South Africa 🇿🇦 as well. He is huge in Australia 🇦🇺 as well. His biggest ever concert was in Melbourne

It’s really ironic. He’s telling you he couldn’t get signed because he was looked at as a “White boy rapper” then once Dre signed him the fact he was white and could actually rap worked in his favor massively specially with suburban white kids. I mean the beastie boys and MC Serch were the only white dudes I rocked with prior to Eminem so he really blew peoples minds.

Dre was almost done when he signed Em. The industry had turned its back on him. He was almost over. Look up interviews with Dre about it.

You are right, but you are missing some points he's making : 1-Because he was white he was ignored by hip hop, the color of his skins didn't favor, 2- When he blew up America was concerned as he spoke to white kids, while black rapper could not, so they didn't care Love u guys

Love Eminem he will put anyone on blast even his self noone is safe lol

Remember at that award show n he had all the slim shady come in when he did the real slim shady it was historical

Em had everyone coming at him during the first 6 or so years of his career. From parent groups, the catholic church, LGBT groups, family members, other rappers, the FCC, and Congress. Im glad I grew up during peak Em

Em been woke forever...

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥; as a white male, I never listened to rap until I heard Cleanin out my closet......song was so good, I bought The Eminem Show CD, and this is the 1st song off the album. Mind you, I never heard swearing in any of my previous music, and then...."I never would've dreamed in a million years I'd see so many MF'in people....." was like whoa! I'm lucky that my 1st contact with rap was purchasing one of the top rap albums of all time. After that, I bought all his stuff, and branched out to the genre as a whole. Would never have been exposed if not for the goat. Love the channel, and was fun af to watch Asia on this reaction 😊

Eminem look goddamn Legend of iconic legend he talks about everything I do for every ways when America doesn't respect that black race them off Eminem talks about that on this song that's why everyone has respectful Eminem in the rap game and in general and everyone needs Eminem's opinion Eminem and dr. Dre all the kings of the rap game everything goes on this thing and they put in 50% of the money in Interscope the big record label and Eminem owns Shady Records and aftermath

Loved BJs explanations and knowledge...i forget a lot of people don't know em or experienced him in that era. Idk. I enjoyed this

I just don’t get why people hate on Eminem, everyone that hates on Eminem they are just racist, and they just don’t want to admit that he is one of the Greatest Rappers to ever touch a mic…

Not about privilege, it’s all about fan base! He introduced so many more people to hip hop! The government didn’t like that he was transcending race with rap.

Em is saying that race can work for you and against you. It helped his sales when he became famous but his race worked against him because no one wanted to sign him

Did anyone notice that “Eric” and “Erica” are both in AmERIC(A)? BARS! I love this song. Show those hypocrites!! Also, the balls on Em to have the audio of two planes flying across right after 9/11. That’s super hard.

BJ said, 'hot diggity dog'. That made my day

I was one of the few white kid listening to nwa and a lot of people would dismiss rap music but once people started listening to Em they actually listened to other rap and enjoyed suddenly everyone one liked rap was crazy

This is my favourite Eminem song, its so good.

Classic song! From the beat to the lyrics!

Actually, some did try to take him off the airwaves. The FCC threatened a radio station in Colorado with fines for playing the clean version of The Real Slim Shady

Em has always been self aware early on. That was crazy to witness at the time

You guys missed when he said at the very end. "Im playing know I love you" lol

I remember. I am a metalhead, and love Motown. I don't like most rap. Public Enemy, N.W.A., Dayton Family, Tupac, and Eminem are about the extent of rap artists that I actually like as a whole. When Em was on TRL; was the only time I would tune in, just to see what he would do next. That was about the same time MTV quit being about music.

60 year-old white woman here, and this is one of my all-time favorite Em songs.

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 my mom lost her mind when I was listening to Em back in the day

I am white from a small town. I grew up on run dmc, nwa, and after I was all about dr Dre chronic album when he introduced snoop. Dre introduced me to em in music. I think that’s what em meant by Dre having as many white fans as em had black fans. Just my personal opinion. Absolutely love your guys reactions!! Much love!

Eminem references the parallel to Elvis and converting something that was initially Black music to music for everyone. But the same happened with Jazz about 20 years before that. Which makes it a pattern. Black Culture originates, some white kids, especially poor white kids growing up in proximity to Black communities get exposed to it and one with talent helps it break big to white audiences. Now both Jazz and Rock are seen as music for old white people.

Eminem reminds me of John Lennon. A rare person that comes along and just don´t bullshit anymore. Just raw brutal truths, and not folding to the establishment.

Eminem definitely brought different energy when he's on TRL 😂 He's funny, entertaining, energetic, and didn't talk shyly like most artists at the time.

N that Nas & Em bout to drop tomorooo 🔥🔥

He chose Eric and Erica from Am"eric"a because they are common white names in middle class america everything for a reason

That sequence of bars was saying Eminem was ignored by rap labels until Dre heard his demo and looked past his race. Dre is the reason people know who Eminem is.

Her reaction to this song is everything great about reaction videos. Thank you for the video

10:57 😂 her expression change is amazing!!!!

‘ shoveled shit all my life now I’m dumping it!!!’….golden!!

At the end yall missed "in just playing America, you know I love you" lmao🤣

He’s actually humble in his lyrics at the same time confident but doesn’t go overboard with it, like BJ said he’s keeping it 100 that’s the way he’s been the whole time, damn I love the way the way y’all break these songs down,please keep them coming I would love to donate to y’all’s cause but I’m broke with health problems living in a nursing home,may I make a suggestion I would love to see y’all react to tech n9na, love you guys!

Great line regarding the history of em at the time is the "fuck you Ms. Cheeny" the wife of Dick Cheeny, held a full press conference for the sole purpose of telling Eminem what he can't say. All while her husband was holding a hearing in congress for the same reason. Like "who the hell are you Ms. Cheeny? You don't like my music to the point of holding a press conference? Fuck you"

Eminem is not referring himself to b privileged but rather unwanted in this hiphop scene coz of his color.... but coz of his talent and dr dre's acceptance of his talent beyond his skin, he got a chance... and he is very self awarethat heconnected with the audience immediately coz he was like one of them... white with blue eyes so it somehow helped him in this success... thats y he says if he was black he would have sold half coz he knows he might had been lost jn all d other greats but his skin color has started to work to his advantage...

You guys are both so smart, love listening to you guys break it down

This song will always be my favorite. 🔥🔥👍🏼

A bit of the first verse is that he was considered “trailer trash” for the first 20 years of his life. Why even after he got a record deal, he still felt like an outsider with mainstream White America.

Can no one f*** with Eminem lyrically! It's really not even a competition

I was at trl in 2001 standing in a crowd of people that stretched 13 blocks it was an epic moment in hip hop history for sure i still have the pictures from it also

Dre helped him be accepted in the black community and Em helped Dre expand his fan base. They're great friends.

I was in the 8th-grade grade going to be a freshman in high school when Eminem first came into the scene. People have been trying to cancel Eminem for the last 21 years. From politicians, GLAD(Gay, lesbian, and I forgot what the last letter stood for) to a bunch of different groups of people trying to stop Eminem's career, but Marshall is still here. Most rappers at the age of almost 50 would have retired by now, but not Eminem, he is still at the top of his game. Eminem not only keeps up with these up-and-coming artists, and in most cases can smoke these new school"rappers". Since day one Eminem came out onto MTV I as a new hip-hop artist I never cared what color of skin he had. For me it's was what Eminem could spit as an MC. Sure Eminem may get away with rapping about sensitive topics(or the topics you shouldn't talk about) mainly because no one tried to rap about these sensitive topics before Eminem. Most rappers would say, you can't rap about the president." Eminem more or less said" Why not?" and proceeded to do so anyway. Em has always pushed the bar further and further away and made it possible for other rappers to not be afraid to express themselves as an artist. To say that Eminem hasn't done anything for hip-hop needs to check themselves because you know that is a lie. You don't have to like Eminem as an artist and that's your choice to do so, but you got to respect Eminem impact that he made in the game.

In the 90$ i was listening to Dre ,snoop ,cube,Pac n my white homie got me into Eminem ,from aussie

White, black, brown... color doesn't matter. Genius is genius and he's one of the GOAT'S.

Dude people just dont let the song finish man, the last line of the song is one of the highlights of this entire track. That completely shifts the note at which the listener ends the song. " I'm just playin' America you know I love you". Damn, let the songs finish completely.

Em is the best lyrisist the world has ever seen - No-one comes close

Ahh i died at “f you and the hole you came outta” I am so stealing that! 😂

When Asia says "Is he saying he brought Dre back up with his white fans" YES.. He is saying EXACTLY that. BUT he is also saying that he gained a lot of black fans just because he was produced by Dre, so it was a 2 way street.

As a white metal head - I fucking love this song - it may not have guitar, but it is metal AF

please react to love you more by eminem 🙏🏽

Alot of Eminem haters were silenced after he performed "Stan" with Elton John, most of them were from the gay community and after sing with Sir Elton John they could say anything about him being homophobic. Smartest career choice of all time, I feel by anybody. And side note, I'm white and was a Dre fan long before Eminem fan. Truth be told I didn't fuck with him in the beginning cause I thought he was just another Vanilla Ice (give it up for "Ice Ice Baby", such a good song I don't even care). I was really into Tupac 🐐 back then. And, I feel like in this song he saying that he more of a problem for being white because he can be more an influence on young white people not so much that he gets a pass for it. Great reaction, you two are beautiful and you both rock.

Love this song 🎶

Love your reactions ✌🏼 greetings from Germany 🇩🇪

Guilty Conscious (uncensored) Renegade

50 said it best " Hip-hop is black music, some people cant accept that a white artist does it the best"

i remember during his 2nd and 3rd album they were definitely trying to take him off the air ways. he use to be on mtv and cnn.

It's the truth. My mom is white... I listened to rap since I was like 11... When Em dropped when I was 19, it was the first time she EVER told me I'm listening to terrible music and hate speech... I listened to NWA and 2 Live Crew🤣

I'm just playing america. You know I love you

all the kids tuned in and the adults said oh shit,… our white children! 😂

Even after all these years This track is still Lit 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥

The song that gets slept on the most by black eminem fans is Brain Damage, and it is one ofvthe most important songs because it is a graphic description of how poor white kids grow up, it is my childhood and 90% of my friends childhood on wax; no love at home, no love at school, that is what spawned Heavy Metal, Punk Rock and white rappers.

Hell of a breakdown and understanding the bigger meaning behind the song. The best breakdown of this song thus far. Great job.

Y’all need to check out Eminem’s “Untouchable” next.

I recently got into an argument with another hip hop fan (mostly drake, 21 savage, lil Wayne) about hip hop’s role as a tool to “speak truth to power.” He said to send an example, I sent this, and he said it was boring and sounded like an old man. I don’t get it man. A fresh onion doesn’t have as many layers as there are on this song. And from 1999-2002, this is one of maybe 20 Em songs that are working on so many levels. And to have that many levels and still figure out these complicated rhyme schemes to go with it. Crazy

Eminem was the reason we have explicit lyrics warnings.

Remember this was released not long after 9/11 hints the jet noise in the beginning. A lot of albums reference 9/11 it's scary people seem to forget history, if we did't we could learn the real reason behind certin events.

I really enjoy your videos! Love Eminem! Nice, insightful sharing of thoughts. Especially the one at around 3 mins

Y'all's channel is awesome. You don't care what it is, what genre it is or what color of the person is. Being a 54 year old white guy I feel the same way. Let's get all colors to sit down together And make peace. Let's face it, the government doesn't care about anyone outside the government no matter what color you are. So let's band together and let them see we are ALL AMERICANS. Keep doing what you're doing cause it's awesome.band Asia, you can damn sure sing. Why haven't I been able to buy your record yet?? Mad love

Five years ago, Eminem released another track about a very similar subject. The track is called 'Untouchable', and eveybody dissed it at the time. It got low scores everywhere and nobody was interested in listening to it. That started to change around 2020 with the murder of Floyd...