Eminem News, New Album and Rumors 2016: Rapper Says Original Lost 'Stan' Version Was Way Better (VIDEO)
Rapper recently said that much better version of the fist verse and third verse were lost forever for one of his best single hit song 'Stan' because his new engineer got high and screwed up the session.
Eminem said “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!”
Unfortunately, fans can only imagine how the original songs would sound with their imagination. Perhaps Rapper might think it's better but in fact it might not be?
The song was made by The 45 King, and uses a little bit of modified break from Dido's "Thank You" as its base sample.
The song was nominated for various awards, including Best Song at the MTV Europe Music Awards, Video of the Year, Best Rap Video, Best Direction, Best Cinematography at the MTV Video Music Awards, but only won Best International Artist Video at the MuchMusic Video Awards.
In the meantime there's no confirmed date or news regarding Eminem's new album which all of his fans are eagerly waiting.
