Eminem on stage. ‘The first time I rapped in front of actual people that mattered, in a club, I got booed,’ he recalls. ‘It was very traumatic for me, I just remember it being so fucking traumatic, and I think I went home and I was like, “Man, I quit.” And 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”

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