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• At this point, I’m like “Come up with something new.” I hate the same old questions. But it seems like “white” magazines such as Spin and Rolling Stone focus on my “whiteness” more than Black magazines –On his colour
• Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto, I’d say I lived in the ‘hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now
• There’s a difference between realness and an act, and they’re an act, and they know they’re an act, and they even say they’re an act, they even say they’re cornballs, they admit it.
• I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
• My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood. –On his family
• Some asshole kept throwing oranges and other fruit at me while I was onstage. Fucker had an arm like a major league pitcher.
• Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.
• I had too much NyQuil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place.
• Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.
• Sometimes I’m real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.
• I would never fucking put them in a rhyme. I don’t even want them wondering if I was trying to diss them. I got a lot of love for them. I grew up on that shit. The other rappers, whatever.- On the Beastie Boys.
• All my life I’ve been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I’m at a boiling point…Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.
• I get offended when people say, `So, being a white rapper…and growing up white…after being born white…’ It’s all I ever hear!
• You can’t control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? 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…that’s me
• It doesn’t exactly feel like a shock, but it’s all new to me, and I’m taking it in as it comes. –On his rise to stardom.
• 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…while I lay in a pool of steaming hot water!
• 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’.
• My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
• Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. 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. –On his alter-ego, Slim Shady.
• 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’.
• I don’t want them once they turn 18 – On Britney Spears & Christina Aguilera
• When I was 9 years old, my uncle put me on to the Breakin’ soundtrack. The first rap song I ever heard was Ice-T, ‘Reckless.’ From L.L. to the Fat Boys, and all that shit, I was fascinated. When L.L. first came out with ‘I’m Bad’, I wanted to do it, to rhyme. Standing in front of the mirror, I wanted to be like L.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 honor to hear the words out of Dre’s mouth that he liked my shit. Growing up, I was one of the biggest fans of N.W.A, 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.
• Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.
• 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. The Slim Shady EP, I lashed out on everybody who talked shit about me.
• 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 grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody.
• 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. I respect the culture…that’s me.
• If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I’m saying, is that I’m not gay, you know? 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. –On homosexuality.
• 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.
• 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. ‘Cause I protect my Child! Not yours! Rest of the kids I don’t care about – buy my album, go murder, rape, pillage, kill!
• 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. Period. 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. It’s still cool that I got it.
• Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.
• I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
• Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
• I don’t have to say anything to my fans about my music and try to explain it, because they get it, and that’s why they are fans, do you know what I mean?
• Though I’m not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley, to do Black Music so selfishly and use it to get myself wealthy.
• As soon as my mom would leave to go play bingo, I would blast the stereo.
• Battling with somebody, you do anything you can to strip their manhood away.
• Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
• But I’m not ignorant-I know how it must be when a black person goes to get a regular job in society.
• But in 2000, people were offering me roles and I thought it was something I might want to dabble in. But I was doing the music so much, I thought I’d do films later.
• Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
• I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
• I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.
• I come from Detroit where it’s rough and I’m not a smooth talker.
• I got caught up in the drinking and the drugs, the fighting and just wilding out.
• I know and I want to be there for my daughter, whenever she needs me. I want to be with her on every step of the way, ya know. She’s the best thing that happened to me.
• I know my mother tried to do the best she could, but I was bounced around so much – it seemed like we moved every two or three months.
• I need drama in my life to keep making music.
• I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
• I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.
• I was born in Kansas City, and my dad left when I was five or six months old.
• I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.
• I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.
• I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
• I’m proud of myself for pulling through all that and my criminal cases, my divorce. If I was still on drugs and living the life I lived three years ago, I’d be a failure.
• It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
• It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who took up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.
• Most of the time it was relatively cool, but I would get beat up sometimes when I’d walk around the neighborhood and kids didn’t know me. One day I got jumped by, like, six dudes for no reason. I also got shot at, and ended up running out of my shoes, crying.
• Music, in general, is supposed to be universal; people can listen to whatever they want and get something out of it.
• My dream was like, let me get a record deal, let me go gold and I’ll be happy. Let me make a living off what I do.
• My mother couldn’t afford to raise me, but then she had my little brother, so when we moved back to Michigan, we were just staying wherever we could, with my grandmother or whatever family would put us up.
• My only scheme was to be a rapper.
• My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.
• My whole market, my whole steez, is through the underground; if those hip-hop heads love it, I’ll rise above. It’s like, you hardly ever hear a Wu-Tang song on the radio, but they rose from the underground on word of mouth.
• Nobody really understands the pressures put on me.
• Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you’re always going to find a hip-hop tape; that’s all I buy, that’s all I live, that’s all I listen to, that’s all I love.
• Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.
• She really helps me when I’m about to do something too stupid. All I have to do is think about Hailie. She keeps me in check, definitely.
• Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
• That’s what I’ve found just on a street level – fans, and people on the street. They either can’t stand me or love me for telling the truth and saying what’s on my mind.
• That’s when I decided I wanted to rap. I’d hang out on the corner where kids would be rhyming, and when I tried to get in there, I’d get dissed.
• The movie is about Jimmy coming out of his shell and finding his own way, not being a follower, being a leader.
• The positive aspect of the movie is that no matter where you come from, you can break out of it if your mentality and drive is right.
• Then when I was five we moved to a real bad part of Detroit. I was getting beat up a lot, so we moved back to K.C., then back to Detroit again when I was 11.
• There are people coming to my house, knocking on the door. Either they want autographs or they wanna fight.
• There was this mixed school I went to in fifth grade, one with lots of Asian and black kids and everybody was into break dancing.
• Thing is, I’m not really a commercial rapper.
• Well, reading is the worst thing in the world for me to do. I hate it.
• When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
• Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
• Yeah, near 8 Mile Road in Detroit, which separates the suburbs from the city. Almost all the blacks are on one side, and almost all the whites are on the other, but all the families nearby are low-income. We lived on the black side.
• You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive.

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