Before He Was A Star: Hear A Teenage Eminem’s Song “Pooh Butt Day” (1988)

Em didn’t become a rapper overnight

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Recently, a  Reddit user posted an audio clip of a  16-year-old Eminem rapping on a track called “Poo Butt Day.” The video was uploaded in 2011, and credited back to 1988.  The song also features Chaos Kid, who along with Eminem (then known as M&M). Proof and others made up the Detroit rap collective/group Soul Intent.

If you are wondering what a pooh butt day is, here’s what Eminem had to say:

Now a pooh butt day is something everybody’s had No particular depression neither mad or sad. You couldn’t see your butt because your butt is what it is ‘Cause when you’re feeling like a pooh butt then your feeling like s**t.

Sherley Boursiquot—@sherleybee_