Time Travelers from 12 Monkeys are needed!
As Eminem continues to briefly reflect on his historic career this year, he shared a rare story about his critically-acclaimed single “Stan.” What sticks out from The Marshall Mathers LP’s album cut was his third verse, where stan sends his suicide note. However, what most listeners don’t know, is that the legendary Detroit rapper has an original third version that was better than the retail version.
While fans will never get a chance to hear it, due to a music engineer on hand destroying the verse in a studio session (you can probably thank the green leaf for that one), take a look at the story below.
When we recorded Stan I worked with a couple different engineers but this particular engineer I had never worked with before. While we were recording the third verse of Stan, he started rolling a joint and asked me if I minded if he smoked while we cut. What was I gonna do? Say no? He was already rolling it so I told him “no problem”.
Everything was cool and I had gotten all the way to the last 3 lines and I screwed up so all he had to do was punch in my vocals at the end so I could re-do that line and the verse was finished. Back then we were recording on 2 inch tape, so once you recorded over something it’s gone forever.
So I’m in the booth waiting and he backs the tape up all the way to the beginning of the verse and punches me in. I realize he’s in the wrong spot and I can’t hear any of my vocals so I start waving my arms and yelling in the mic to try to get his attention. He doesn’t notice so I run into the control room through a cloud of smoke and yell “Yo, I wanted to keep those vocals” he just looked at me and said “My bad man…you wanna hit this?”
The first half of the verse was GONE. I re-recorded it but you should have heard the original take that shit was WAY better…oh well!
"The first half of the verse was GONE. I re-recorded it but you should have heard the original take…" https://t.co/8ZMYJWJvjY
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) May 27, 2016
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