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 I don't want them once
they turn 18 - On Britney Spears & Christina
Aguilera
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'.
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.
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