Eminem – Infinite (1996)

February 18, 2024

It’s cool to look right back to independent Em before he blew up, before he was Dre’s bitch and was before he was playing in every suburban white kid’s home in the western world. Infinite, as oddly-titled as it may be, is a slice of mysery of the daily life of a poor white guy in Detroit. Even with the Bass bros onboard even at this early stage, and with Proof (RIP) and Denaun helping with production, Infinite is fairly raw and also pretty depressing. Some of this “broke ass” prose makes its way into Slimy Shady LP, but its far more prelevant here. Nevertheless, you can see the talent that Em has, even if a lot of the rhymes here really don’t seem to be in his style. We all know he found his groove fairly quickly after this though, and superstardom was on the cards.