Following Eminem's admittance to almost quitting rap after being booed at his first concert, SOHH talked to Obie Trice to get his insight on Em's past. Obie commended Eminem's will to succeed and noted what may have got him booed back in the day.

"I knew that when that happened to him, but that's just part of the game," said Obie. "I remember doing shows in New York back in the day where the crowd was just staring at me. I was trying my best to get some type of reaction, and that didn't happen at that time until later on in my career when they just started knowing who I was. So, I believe that's part of the whole process of getting to know an artist and listening to his music. Eminem, at the time, was a breaking-through artist. He was a white dude back when hip-hop was mainly just black culture."

Eminem described his first concert performance as "so f***ing traumatic." Imagine if he had quit...

Source: sohh.com