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TIL In 1998, a 17 years old worked in the mail room at Interscope Records. One day on his own, he slipped a CD from an unsigned artist into Jimmy Iovine’s listening bag that he used to take home every Friday. And Jimmy actually listened to it, and said “Whoa whoa whoa. What is this?” It was Eminem

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