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Hot take: There is a version of Eminem's story where nobody ever hears of him. 🧵

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Hip-Hop

03/13/26

He finishes second at the 1997 Rap Olympics. Drives back to Detroit. Eventually stops trying.

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Hip-Hop

03/13/26

No Slim Shady LP. No 8 Mile. No legacy.

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Hip-Hop

03/13/26

What saved it was a cassette tape.

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03/12/26

Hot take: CTRL is one of the most important R&B albums ever made. And it almost didn't exist. 🧵

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03/12/26

SZA called her label and said she was done. Finished. Over it. They convinced her to record one more session.

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03/12/26

That night she wrote some of the album's biggest songs. The rawness came from being completely done caring and it made everything better.

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03/12/26

What other albums almost didn't get made? Follow me for more daily rap stories.

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03/11/26

Hot take: Gunna's rise is one of the most underrated stories in hip hop 🧵

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03/11/26

Spent years in Young Thug's circle. Always watching. Always learning. Never on the track.

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03/11/26

Then Drip Season 3 dropped. Suddenly everyone was asking who he was.

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03/11/26

The years of being in the room weren't wasted. They were learning and preparation.

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Rap Threads

03/11/26

Travis Scott almost left Sicko Mode off Astroworld completely. The song that defined his career almost never existed. 🧵

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Rap Threads

03/11/26

Three beat switches in one song. His team said it was too experimental. Radio wouldn’t know what to do with it.

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Rap Threads

03/11/26

They weren’t wrong about radio. Radio had no idea what to do with it.

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Rap Threads

03/11/26

It debuted at number one anyway and streamed hundreds of millions of times in the first week. Radio caught up eventually.