Download Eminem's Debut Album For Free

Eminem's 1996 debut album, Infinite, is available for free download on 50 Cent's website.

Eminem wrote in his 2008 autobiography, The Way I Am, that he recorded the disc the year before its release and it sold about "70 copies." It's been deleted by Web Entertainment and is very difficult to find, but features production and rapping from D12's Kon Artis, Eye-Kyu and the deceased Proof.

"A lot of people said [Infinite] sounded like Nas, and he was a heavy influence at that time," Eminem wrote in The Way I Am. "But I had an album out, and I could say that.

"With The Slim Shady EP [the 1997 EP which preceded 1999's breakout The Slim Shady LP], it was a different story. That shit got some buzz in the underground, and online sites couldn't keep it in stock. I started getting calls about shows."

Eminem's sixth studio album, Relapse, comes out on Tuesday. He's been quite open about his addictions to heroin and pills in interviews about it, and told Vibe magazine he almost died when he took an amount of methadone "equivalent to shooting up four bags of heroin." He said he didn't have compassion for his mother, who had her own substance-abuse problems, until he realized he was an addict.

"It's no secret I had a drug problem," he said in the Vibe article. "If I was to give you a number of Vicodin I would actually take in a day?

"Anywhere between 10 to 20. Valium, Ambien, the numbers got so high I don't even know what I was taking."

Eminem later admitted he had a problem and went to rehab and began turning to — wait for it — Elton John for advice on how to kick his addictions.

"I talk to Elton a lot," Eminem recently told Detroit's Metro Times newspaper. "We became friends, and I talk to him about things, career-wise. And he had a substance-abuse problem in the past.

"So when I first wanted to get sober, I called him and spoke to him about it, because, you know, he's somebody who's in the business and can identify and relate to the lifestyle and how hectic things can be. He understands, like, the pressure and any other reasons that you wanna come up with for doing drugs.

"Me and him have similar lives and stuff. So I reached out to him and told him, 'Look, I'm going through a problem and I need your advice.' I also talked to T.I. a lot and, you know, we exchange advice."

Here are the songs on Infinite:

"Infinite"
"W.E.G.O. (Interlude)"
"It's O.K."
"313"
"Tonite"
"Maxine"
"Open Mic"
"Never 2 Far"
"Searchin'"
"Backstabber"
"Jealousy Woes"