The artists and MCs who were mentioned during Eminem’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame speech are honored to have been acknowledged by the Real Slim Shady.

Eminem didn’t want to talk about himself.

When the Detroit rapper, Oscar, Grammy and Emmy winner and the best-selling hip-hop artist of all-time was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this month, he was uninterested in recounting his own personal story as he took the stage at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

So instead, he made a list. A long list, of more than 100 artists from hip-hop’s golden age — from rap’s early days through to the mid-’90s, right up until the time he first picked up a microphone — who contributed, in ways big and small, to the artist he would become. The ceremony, including Em’s induction, premieres at 8 p.m. Saturday on HBO and HBO Max.

Em first put pen to paper and started sketching out his list about 10 days prior to the Nov. 5 ceremony, according to his manager, Paul Rosenberg.

“We never started off by saying let’s limit it to X number, because we knew that would become a struggle: How can I fit this person and not this person?” said Rosenberg, on the phone this week. “So we just said go for it, come up with a list, and we’ll see what it looks like.”

That initial list was around 75 artists, “and then he kept adding to it,” said Rosenberg. “And nobody felt like telling him no, because it was so genuine, and so from his heart. He really meant what he said.

“So we just said, hey, you know what? It is what it is. This is your moment, and if this is the way you want to spend it, you have the right to do it. So do it.”

He did it. Eminem, reading from behind a pair of black-framed eyeglasses, rattled off an exhaustive list of names, in alphabetical order starting with numbers, of the village of emcees who raised him, as he put it.

“They say success has many fathers, and that’s definitely true for me,” Eminem said. “So whatever my impact has been on hip-hop music, I never would have or could have done this without some of the groundbreaking artists that I’m about to mention right now.”

For Em, it was a way to both pay homage to those who came before him and to acknowledge the glaring omissions in the Rock Hall’s representation of rap music.

As much as that list of names meant to Eminem, it meant even more to those who were mentioned, from the multiplatinum rap icons to the lesser-known Michigan artists.

Merciless Ameer is one of several artists still buzzing from being included on Eminem’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thank-you list.

“It makes me feel like all the hard work has been recognized,” said Ameer, the Detroit rapper who was sandwiched on the list between Melle Mel and Mobb Deep. “For Em to say that in the Hall of Fame, my name is in the Hall of Fame. That’s a real big look.”

‘A Day Without a Rhyme’

Merciless Ameer was raised in the Seven Mile and Livernois area, and he dropped an early Detroit hip-hop classic in 1989 with his hypnotic single, “A Day Without a Rhyme.”

The song, which features a sample of Eric B. and Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul,” finds Ameer singing the praises of hip-hop; “a day without a rhyme is like a day without sunshine,” he raps. “How can you unwind without a funky drum line?”

That single gained airplay on Detroit radio and earned him a local following. But at the time, rap was largely a coastal phenomenon and there was little nationwide attention on Detroit, so its impact was mostly felt regionally.

Those who heard it, however, never forgot it.

Years later, in 2000, Ameer said he ran into Eminem at the first BET Awards in Las Vegas. It was a year after Eminem’s breakout and he was performing on stage with a reunited N.W.A. and Snoop Dogg, his tourmates on that year’s Up in Smoke Tour.

“He came off stage and I was standing there and I was like, ‘Eminem, it’s your homeboy, Merciless Ameer.’ And his jaw dropped like he saw a ghost,” said Ameer, born Ameer Stein. “And he started singing, ‘A Day Without a Rhyme,’ just like in the beginning of my song, and I was like ‘wow.’ That was awesome.”

That meeting was tucked away in the back of his brain, but it didn’t prepare Ameer for his Rock Hall shoutout.

A self-described night owl, Ameer was up late the night of Nov. 5, and he got a message on Facebook at around 3 a.m. from a fan telling him he’d been mentioned by Eminem at the Rock Hall ceremony.

The next day he saw other people were posting about it, too. So he called his daughter, who lives in Los Angeles, and the two of them watched footage from the ceremony on YouTube together over FaceTime.

“We heard him say all the names, and we didn’t realize at first it was in alphabetical order, so it took him a long time to get to me,” said Ameer, laughing. When they finally got to the moment, “we jumped up out of our seats at the same time, me and my little girl. So that was a very exciting thing.

“I gotta congratulate Eminem for making it to that podium, and I completely appreciate him mentioning me,” he said. “It’s almost like I was there, you know?”

These days, Ameer is still rapping — after a spelling flip-flop, he’s now Mersiless Amir — and he released a 30-track triple album titled “True Legend” earlier this year. (“A Day Without a Rhyme,” meanwhile, was just added to Spotify this week.)

But the mention from Eminem marks a new career high point.

“My name rang that night, if nevermore,” he said. “It’s very exciting. My mom’s really happy about it, my daughter went crazy. It feels great.”

Cue up the Serchlite

MC Serch woke up the morning of Nov. 6 to 67 text messages on his phone.

The 3rd Bass rapper and former morning show host at WJLB-FM (97.9) had no clue what was going on, and it was too early for him to try to figure it out. So he went back to bed.

When he woke up a few hours later, all was clear: Eminem had mentioned 3rd Bass in his Rock Hall speech — third on the list, as it were, right behind 2 Live Crew and 2Pac.