Ashley Hindle

Yeah, I really struggled with this, but I've chosen My Name Is from the Slim Shady LP from Eminem.

And this is from when I was a teenager.

I don't know, 13 maybe.

And my mom and dad didn't want me to have it because it had so many swear words in and so much bad stuff, I guess.

And then I got this album and I listened to the whole thing so loud on repeat.

And I think that was the first time that I felt I was properly rebelling, kind of against my parents and kind of against what was expected of me, I guess.

Very nice.

Let's have a listen.

I think most people would be familiar with it, but for those of you who don't, have a listen.

Excuse me.

Can I

have the attention of the class for one second? So good.

It's a great song.

It's really

good.

Some of his stuff, I didn't get into Eminem until much later because I grew up with my parents' music and it was just all I knew and it wasn't until like later in high school that I kind of, you know, you meet other people and other people have their own walks of life and you...

You hear this other music, and it's not really where I landed.

It was not even until into my 20s that I started listening to more rap, and not that I listened to a lot of it, but it was not until much later, and it's just there's something about it.

Technically, he's brilliant to listen to.

Some of the faster stuff is insane.

Lyrically, he's just clever.

It's

incredible.

Yeah.

and the way he works is