Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s ex-manager, has said that the rapper’s merging together of ‘stalker’ and ‘fan’ into the word ‘stan’ on his 2000 Number One was a “happy coincidence”.
Fans have speculated for years whether the rapper deliberately created a new portmanteau word when he named the track. But speaking to the Independent ahead of a new documentary about obsessive fans called, inevitably, Stans, which he co-produced, Rosenberg insisted that wasn’t the case.
