Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people.
Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. A bunch of girls, swinging from a nice chandelier, landing on top of me naked I try not to look at it that way.
Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm fuckin around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess. There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.
The first rap song I ever heard was Ice-T, 'Reckless. When L. Standing in front of the mirror, I wanted to be like L. I'm not alone in feeling the way I feel. I believe that a lot of people can relate to my shit--whether white, black, it doesn't matter.
Everybody has been through some shit, whether it's drastic or not so drastic. Everybody gets to the point of 'I don't give a fuck'. It was an honour to hear the words out of Dre's mouth that he liked my shit. Growing up, I was one of the biggest fans of NWA , from putting on the sunglasses and looking in the mirror and lipsinking, to wanting to be Dr.
Dre , to be Ice Cube. This is the biggest hip-hop producer ever. I had nothing to lose, but something to gain. If I made an album for me and it was to my satisfaction, then I succeeded. If I didn't, then my producers were going to give up on the whole rap thing we were doing. I made some shit that I wanted to hear. I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet.
So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it. Anybody with a sense of humour is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence. I don't like rap anyways, I'm just trying to get my porno career started. We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job.
We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house. I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me, was coming to haunt Eminem. Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. But just know Slim Shady is hip hop.
I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business. I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese.
Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal. On if he let's his daughter listen to his music Yeah, I do. Not all of it I play for her.
Some songs, got a lot of cussing, especially the one she's on. So I make her a clean version. Not yours! Rest of the kids I don't care about - buy my album, go murder, rape, pillage, kill! On his Oscar and why he didn't go to the show "I'm thankful for it, I'm not ungrateful. I'm very grateful. I just don't choose to rub elbows with the whole Hollywood scene.
It's not me. If there is just one award show you don't go to you gonna look ungrateful. But me, I just don't like to go to places where I feel outta my element. And me sitting there with a bunch of movie stars and actors, I don't belong. I rap and do hip-hop, the music that I love. I'm about the music. The grammy's are about as far as I'm goin' go outside my element. Joseph, Missouri. At the young age of fourteen, he developed a passion for rapping and started attending local open — mic contests with friends Mike Ruby and Proof.
He soon caught the attention of Dr. Dre, a famous record producer, and the two formed a long-term professional relationship. He often has trouble with legislators, sometimes due to violence, sometimes due to substance abuse.
The most controversial thing, though, is the kind of lyrics he uses in his songs. He is known for his explicit use of words, which often send aggressive signals. Eminem went on to become one of the most acclaimed rappers in the genre's brief history. As much as any other individual artist, he is responsible for rap's transformation into a mainstream music genre.
Inspired by the birth of his daughter Hailie to make a living as a rapper, Eminem released his first independent rap album, Infinite , in Though the album displayed flashes of his verbal prowess, biting wit and flair for storytelling, the low-budget record failed to turn a profit or attract more than local attention.
Dre , the legendary rapper and former producer of Eminem's favorite rap group N. Dre was so impressed that he signed Eminem to his Interscope Records label.
The heavily hyped record became an instant success, going on to sell over three million copies. Eminem's first single, "My Name Is," mixed a childish humor and energy with rampant profanity and flashes of violence — a potent and fascinating combination that felt different from anything else in rap. The album showed off Eminem's poetic talents as well as his emotional and artistic range.
The Marshall Mathers LP sold over 19 million copies worldwide, won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, received a nomination for Album of the Year and is widely considered among the greatest rap albums of all time.
Nevertheless, The Marshall Mathers LP also came under a firestorm of criticism for its excessive profanity, glorification of drugs and violence and its apparent homophobia and misogyny. While Eminem attempted to mitigate such criticism by maintaining that his raps simply use the rough language he has been surrounded by since childhood, and later by performing a duet with Elton John at the Grammy Awards to demonstrate his openness to the gay community, Eminem nevertheless remains reviled in some quarters for his offensive lyrical content.
In , Eminem reconnected with several of his friends from the Detroit underground rap scene to form the group D12, recording an album called Devil's Night featuring the popular single "Purple Pills. That same year, the artist was all over the airwaves with the 8 Mile track "Lose Yourself," which went on to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Eminem's next album, 's Encore , was less successful than his previous efforts. It still featured popular songs such as "Like Toy Soldiers" and "Mockingbird.
For the next several years, Eminem recorded very little music and was largely consumed by personal problems. Following his second divorce from Kim in , Eminem slipped further into alcoholism and addiction to sleeping pills and prescription painkillers. In December , he overdosed and nearly died. By early , Eminem had managed to kick his addictions to drugs and alcohol and returned to recording music. He released his first album of new music in five years, Relapse , in , featuring the singles "Crack a Bottle" and "Beautiful.
In , Eminem released another album, Recovery , a highly autobiographical attempt to come to terms with his struggles with addiction and experience with rehabilitation. His most acclaimed album in years, Recovery struck a somewhat gentler and more inspirational tone than his previous music, with the popular song "Love the Way You Lie.
Eminem said, "I don't want to go overboard with it but I do feel like that if I can help people that have been through a similar situation, then, you know, why not? After 10 years and seven albums, the rapper who shocked, appalled and fascinated the music world with the unbridled rage of his youthful music is reinventing himself as a mature artist. By doing that, I've become a happier person, instead of all this self-loathing I was doing for a while," Eminem said. I feel like myself again.
On the awards show, Eminem leaked a snippet of the first single from the album, entitled "Berzerk. The collection features the label's most popular songs as well as some new material.
The single "Guts Over Fear" quickly rose up the charts after its late October debut.
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