For me, this CD was it.
I am now setting up how Eminem changed the United States of America, or maybe just a whiteboy for McAllen, TX. My Mom bought me this album when I was in “whatever grade”, but got me the edited (ie. beeped out) version, HA! To think that cutting out the cuss words really did anything at all. I still have that exact CD, and it is AWESOME with the words “beeped out”. This album had great beats, produced by Dr. DRE, and also had 5+ songs appear on TRL!!!! (for consecutive days in a row…EXTREMELY hard to achieve).
I am now going to stop making want to ever buy, or listen, to this ablum, and will tell you from the bottom of my heart, maybe even soul, that this is one of the “awesomest” albums ever made. No Joke. This album signle handedly CHANGED SOCIETY. I FUCKING MEAN THAT. IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME YOU ARE A HOMO! (sorry this album did things to me…) Name something, anything, from today and I can relate it directly to Eminem’s “Marshall Marthers” album. Examples include prescription meds/health care, christina agulera, the list goes on, and on. This album had significant impacts on society, and the culture of today, no matter how direct, or indirect they have been. Mainly, I wanted to say this album was MY generation, and I wanted to share that with everyone. My psyche will never be the same
….If you would like to share albums from your past childhood, or wish to contact FerrisSC, please comment below.
Thank you.

February 4th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug apparently.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
FerrisSC –
Relate the Marshall Mathers EP to FDR providing aid to countries fighting Nazi Germany In March 1941, effectively bringing the US into WWII.
I definitely agree with you though – that album was HUGE from a general pop culture standpoint but I think it was pretty much a stylistic dead-end.
Lately I’ve been listening to a shit ton of hip hop and I think from a straight-up music standpoint Wu-Tang’s “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” was a much bigger step forward.
If you haven’t listened to this album lately, or if you’ve never listened to it, now’s a good time to start.
Here’s something for fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITLNzPoEqs