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Eminem Is Co-Producing a Documentary About Him and His Stans

Eminem is fittiingly attached as a co-producer to a new documentary about obsessive fans and fan culture, called 'Stans.'

As Variety reports, the new project was directed by Steven Leckart, and uses Eminem and “the fans that worship him” as a launching point for what’s described as a “revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal journey into the world of superfandom.” Stans is apparently just the working title — named, of course, for Eminem and Dido’s 2000 hit “Stan” about an obsessive, delusional fan — but it’s hard to imagine the film being called anything else. In a statement, Eminem’s longtime manager Paul Rosenberg and Stuart Parr of Shady Films said, “ Stans will be the opportunity for us to to turn the camera around and ask the audience about being fans — and in some cases, fanatics. In his infamous 2001 Jay-Z diss track, “Ether,” Nas rapped, “You a fan, a phony, a fake, a pussy, a Stan.” ( The Outline published an excellent in-depth look at the word’s evolution, as both a noun and a verb, back in 2017.)

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