Eminem Interviews Resource

[willowmoonblood]

May 13, 2016 8:27:22 GMT -5 PlayMyJam said:

May 13, 2016 8:04:07 GMT -5 GG102 said:

I remember reading that EM stated that those threesomes with Kim never occurred. That and the Black Gold interviews always cracks me up!

I think this is how things go... Journalists like to exaggerate and there are always wild stories floating around about celebs. Couple that with any sort of explicit interview answers and you get great material for headlines and tabloid articles. 

 I remember reading a blind item a few years ago on Crazy Days and nights basically saying that Em would hook up with Rhianna whenever they did a show together and he would just watch her with another girl. I thought they must have made that up from the Black Gold interview. LOL 

[willowmoonblood]

May 12, 2016 22:31:22 GMT -5 schmidt said:

May 12, 2016 16:50:56 GMT -5 cally said:

That Black & Gold interview...I would loooove to read or see this same interview with him right now, now that he´s mature and get to know his opinions and how he feels about sex after all these years and I would love for him to answer a question based on what he has learn/feel or think about relationships after all of his relationships.
And I don´t know why but I really like he´s not into freaky stuff like girls on girls and not into animal haha, I understand why he was mad when he thought/knew or whatever Kim was (supposed) hooking up with some chic in a wild party and he freaked out (when most men find that attractive). And I like the fact he only do some things with some girl he´s in a relationship.

Not into freaky stuff like girls on girls, well at one point there was rumors about him and kim having threesomes with other women.

www.contactmusic.com/eminem/news/eminem.s-threesomes-with-bisexual-ex

I would love to have seen that documentary even if it was total BS LOL 

[schmidt]

May 13, 2016 9:10:22 GMT -5 willowmoonblood said:

May 12, 2016 22:31:22 GMT -5 schmidt said:

Not into freaky stuff like girls on girls, well at one point there was rumors about him and kim having threesomes with other women.

www.contactmusic.com/eminem/news/eminem.s-threesomes-with-bisexual-ex

I would love to have seen that documentary even if it was total BS LOL 

well i guess you can't exactly call Ems uncle Todd and Jennifer Watkins the most reliable sources of information, and remember that interview on Mojo In The Morning, right after Jennifers book came out, where Kim said Jennifer stopped talking to her, because she refused to have a ‘ threesome ‘ with her and her husband.

I would really love to see that documentary to

[sophiemom]

man that family is fucked up.

[Admin]

So for the sake of recovering old Shady Camp stuff...

Here's at least most of Jenny's book: jrcomc.tripod.com/index.html


Here's the Kesia interview: mynameis-slimshady.tumblr.com/post/22141652617/marshallshadyem-eminem-and-kesia-alvarez-the








Some very negative reading.

[Admin]

Here's a thread at section eighty with a lot of Eminem audio interviews: forum.sectioneighty.com/eminem-audio-interviews-collection-1991-2015-updated-11-10-15.t39408/

[Admin]

Eminem Interview :: "Eminem Blows Up" (Rolling Stone, 1999)

In three short months, twenty-four year old Marshall Bruce Mathers III has gone from white trash to white hot.
The Michigan rapper who calls himself Eminem - and whose debut The Slim Shady LP, sold 480,000 copies in its first two weeks - was a $5.50-an-hour cook in a Detroit grill before his obscenity-strewn, gleefully violent, spastic, hilarious and demented rhymes landed him in the studio with rap honcho Dr. Dre.

The blue-eyed MC is dealing with the instant fame and simultaneous criticism well enough -- much better, actually, than he is dealing with the fifth of Bicardi he downed an hour ago. On a chilly Friday night in New York, he emerges bleary-eyed from the bathroom in his manager's office. "I just threw up everything I had," he says in his slow-roll drawl, which is a bit slower at the moment. "All I ate today was that slice of pizza. Feel good now, though."

His manager exhales slowly with relief. Eminem has three club gigs tonight, and the first one starts in less than an hour. The crew (nine, including DJ Stretch Armstrong and Dennis the security guard) ambles toward the elevator. Downstairs awaits Eminem's partner in rap, Royce the 5'9, who looks to be about that and has seven people of his own in tow. Em hops into a gigantic ant white limo as fellow honky Armstrong cops a rhyme from Eric Clapton's Cream. "In the white room, with white people and white rappers," he bellows. A minute later there's a knock on the window and one of Royce's posse gives Eminem the first of the three hits of ecstasy he will consume over the course of the night. Down it goes in a swallow of ginger ale as the car zooms off towards Staten Island.

Out on New Dorp Lane, there is a crowd of kids, a mere fraction of the number already inside the Lane Theater. The all-ages show is packed, and Eminem is the evening's main course. The mob is being controlled by the club's security, but when the rapper moves inside, the burly dudes are no match for the crush of shouting teens. "You look good!" one girl shouts. "Oh, my God, he looks even better in person," shrieks another. Everywhere, kids have tiny glow sticks in their mouths, which, here in the dark, look like neon braces. At the back of the club, up a ladder, is the minute-dressing room, where the very proud owner of the club is waiting. "Hey, nice to meet ya," he says. "My daughter told me to get Eminem, so I got Eminem. It's her fourteenth birthday. Hey, say hi to her and her friends."

Eminem soon grabs four bottles of water and heads to the stage. He owns this audience. These predominantly white kids know every word, every nuance, and can't get enough. If Slim Shady's rhymes about sex with underage girls ("Yo look at her bush, does it got hair?/fuck this bitch right on the spot bare/Till she passes out and she forgot how she got there") bother them any, they don't show it. In fact, the filthier the material, the louder the cheers.

On The Slim Shady LP, Eminem says "God sent me to piss the world off." Interscope Records is Em's label - a perfect fit for a company that's home to controversial artists like the late Tupac Shakur and Marilyn Manson. Eminem has been condemned as a misogynist, a nihilist and an advocate of domestic violence, principally in an editorial by Billboard editor in chief Timothy White, who attacked The Slim Shady LP as "making money by exploiting the world's misery." "My album isn't for younger kids to hear," Eminem says. "It has an advisory sticker, and you must be eighteen to get it. That doesn't mean younger kids won't get it, but I'm not responsible for every kid out there. I'm not a role model, and I don't claim to be." On the album, his alias, Slim Shady, hangs himself from a tree by his penis, dumps the girlfriend he's murdered in a lake with the help of their baby daughter, takes every drug at once, rips "Pamela Lee's tits off" and heads out into the night yelling, "Too all the people I've offended, yeah fuck you too!"

This hard-core attitude has won him acceptance not just from teenagers taken with his video but also from the hip hop community. Later on, at Manhattan's Sound Factory, Em will win over a mostly black audience. He will be greeted with indifferent stares that will melt into smiles, then rump-shaking abandon by the end of his four-song set. The rapper will top of the evening - well, the morning by that point - entertaining doelike women and spiky-haired guys at the trendy mecca called Life, where a table of model types will be evicted so that Em and his friends may kick back.

Right about now, though, a roomful of Staten Islanders is going berserk. In the silence between songs, a young girl in the front row who's wearing a white baby T screams, "I love you!" Eminem walks over. "I love you, too," he says and bends down to give her a hug. Big mistake. The girl lays a kiss on his lips and sets off the girl next to her, who tears Eminem's head away and kisses him full on the mouth. "Oh shit," he laughs. "I'm going to jail tonight!" He launches into "Scary Movies," the B side to the independently released "Bad Meets Evil" single, and the audience raps right along. When he sits at the front of the stage, his pants are pulled at and his crotch is grabbed. "I touched his dick!" on girl boasts to her friend.

Eminem is already a bona fide star, the type not-likely to play a club this small again. The only reason he is here at all is that this date was booked before his debut album entered the charts at Number Two. The demand for the record at stores around the country was so great the Interscope shipped more that 1 million copies - extraordinarily rare for a first record. Eminem has similarily conquered MTV: Since the January release of the wise-ass video for "My Name Is" he has been on the network more than Carson Daly. And now three months later, despite the fact that he's never headlined for any length of time, the rapper has been offered slots on every summer tour except CSNY's.

Eminem empties a water bottle on the heads of the audience, drops his pants, waves his middle finger around, and the show is over. He is whisked into a waiting car through a back alley. The police have been called to keep things orderly as the limo moves of into the night. At the curb, a girl who looks no more that fourteen shouts, "I want to fuck you," tugging suggestively at the top of her shirt and revealing her pierced tongue. "I want to fuck you, too," Eminem says aloud to himself. "But I won't."

Eminem is a white boy in a black medium. He has been booed on the mic and told repeatedly by black hip-hoppers that he should stop rapping and go into rock & roll. "It's some very awkward shit," says Em's mentor, Dr. Dre, about the race card. "It's like seeing a black guy doing country & western, know what I'm saying?" Even Dre's judgement was suspect when he signed Em to his Interscope imprint, Aftermath. "I got a couple of questions from people around me," he says. "You know, 'He's got blue eyes, he's a white kid.' But I don't give a fuck if you're purple: If you can kick it, I'm working with you." Indeed, talent will overcome, and Em is having the last laugh. "A lot of the people who disrespected me are coming out of the woodwork now for collaborations," he says. "But I like doing my own shit. If there were too many other voices, the stories wouldn't go right." True enough - slipping a verse into a song about a New Wave blonde babe nurse's aide who overdoses on mushrooms and relieves her father's sexual abuse, all over a party-hearty tempo, isn't exactly the same as freestyling on the "Money, Cash, Hoes" remix.

For anyone expecting more of the naughty pop-culture-obsessed blonde kid in the clean version of "My Name Is", proffered on MTV, The Slim Shady LP is some bad-trip nether world. But that world is exactly why the hip-hop underground loves Em. His off-the-beat flow, way off-the-beat lyrics and loony-tunes presentation place him in a class by himself. Em isn't trying to be Jay-Z, DMX, or Tupac; he's trying to be the Roadrunner, turning his enemies' anvils back on themselves with split-second trickery. He's also probably the only MC in 1999 who boasts low self-esteem. His rhymes are jaw-droppingly perverse, bespeaking a minimum-wage life devoid of hope, flushed with rage and weaned on sci-fi slasher flicks.

And in the midst of the splatter is Marshall Mathers. Songs like "As The World Turns", in which Shady "fucks a divorced slut" to death with his "go-go-gadget dick," are adolescent fantasies that indicate how Em spells revenge. But songs like "If I Had" and "Rock Bottom" are where the cartoons fade away, the bravado drops and the frustrated kid of this not-too-distant past appears, fed up with life, dead-end jobs adn the poverty that has made him "mad enough to scream but sad enough to tear."

"I couldn't even got into a motherfucking club just being Eminem, before the video," Mathers says, walking through Newark Airport the day after his New York club shows. "Last night they had people clearing tables for me. It's fucking bananas. Scary shit too, 'cause you can fall just as quick as you went to the top." He is a smallish guy who walks with a subdued swagger. Em is like a class clown with a lot on his mind: When he's on, nothing escapes the cross hairs of his snottiness, but when he's off, no one is included in his thoughts. He keeps the world at bay with humor and an ever-growing list of character voices, including a roguish Scotsman, a Middle Eastern cab driver, and a sleazy lech. He slips into these voices constantly, even in the midst of heart-wrenching stories about his childhood. Today he is chipper and apparently no worse for wear after just two hours of sleep and no breakfast. He is bound for his home-town of Detroit for three days off before heading to Mexico to perform on MTV's Spring Break '99, then on to Chicago for more album promotion.

The rapper is no stranger to moving around. He and his mother shuttled between Missouri and Michigan, rarely staying in one house for more than a year or two, and finally settled down when Marshall was eleven. It was the start of a life full of enough screaming fights and sordid dramas that, at the tender age of 24, Eminem is ready for his own Behind The Music. But what happened depends on whom you ask. To hear him tell it, his life up until now has been non-stop hard knocks, beatings from bullies, and brawls with his pill-popping, lawsuit-happy mom. His mother, Debbie Mathers-Briggs, on the other hand, denies both of these characterizations, claiming that her unending love and financial support got Eminem through the dog days. It's a story that would make Jerry Spring salivate, but let's just stick to the facts: (1) Eminem has never met his father; (2) he spent his formative years living in a largely black lower-middle-class Detroit neighborhood; (3) he dropped out of high school in the ninth grade; (4) he and his baby's mother have been breaking up and making up for the past eight years, and; (5) he loves their three-year-old daughter Hailie Jade, more than anybody else in the world.

Eminem's parents were married, his mother says, when she was fifteen and his father was twenty-two. Marshall III was born two years later. His parents were in a band called Daddy Warbucks, playing Ramada Inns along the Dakota-Montana border. But their relationship when sour. The couple split up, and Debbie and her son lived with family members for a few years before settling on the east side of Detroit. Marshall's father moved to California. As a teen, the future Eminem sent his dad a few letters, all of which, his mother claims, came back "return to sender". "I heard he's trying to get in touch with me now," the rapper says. "fuck that motherfucker, man. Fuck him."

The single mother and her sons (Em's younger half-brother, Nathan, was born in 1986) were one of three white households on their block. "I'm colorblind - it wasn't an issue," Em's mom says. "But the younger people in the area gave us trouble. Marshall got jumped a lot." When he was sixteen, his ass was kicked fiercely. "I was walking home from my boy's house, through the Bel-Air Shopping Center," he recalls. "All these black dudes rode by in a car, flippin' me off. I flipped them off back, they drove away, and I didn't think nothin' of it." Evidently they parked the car. "One dude came up, hit me in the face and knocked me down. Then he pulled out a gun. I ran right out my shoes, dog. I thought that's what they wanted." But they didn't - when Mathers returned the next day, his shoes were still stuck in the mud. "That's how I knew it was racial." Em was saved by a white guy who pulled over, took out a gun and drove him home. "He came in wearing just his socks and underwear," his mother says woefully. "They had taken his jogging suit off him, taken his boombox. They would have taken him out, too."

Eminem heard his first rap song when he was nine years old. It was "Reckless" a track featuring Ice-T on the Breakin' soundtrack, which his Uncle Ronnie had given him. Ten years later, when Ronnie committed suicide, Eminem was devasted. "I didn't talk for days," he says. "I couldn't even go to the funeral."

He dropped out of high school after failing the ninth grade for the third time. "As soon as I turned fifteen," he says, "my mother was like, 'Get a fucking job and help me with these bills or your ass is out.' Then she would *censored*ing kick me out anyway, half the time right after she took most of my paycheck." His mom says none of this is true: "A friend told me, 'Debbie, he's saying this stuff for publicity.' He was always well provided for." Either way, his salvation was rap and the rhymes he had begun to write. "As soon as my mom would leave to go play bingo, I would blast the stereo," he says. Soon enough he was ready to test his skills by sneaking into neighboring Osborne High School with his friend and fellow MC Proof, for lunchroom rap throw-downs. "It was like White Men Can't Jump," says Proof, now an account executive for hip hop clothier Maurice Malone. "Everybody thought he'd be easy to beat, and they got smoked every time."

On Saturdays the two friends went to open-mic contests at the Hip-Hop Shop, on West 7 Mile, ground zero for the Detroit scene. "As soon as I'd grab the mic, I'd get booed," Eminem recalls. "Once motherfuckers heard me rhyme, though, they'd shut up." With four other rappers, Em and Proof formed a crew called the Dirty Dozen before Em released his own album, Infinite, on a local label in 1996 - an effort devoid of Shady's wacked out humor and pent-up rage. "It was right before my daughter was born, so having a future for her was all I talked about," he says. "It was way hip-hopped out, like Nas or AZ - that rhyme style was real in at the time. I've always been a smartass comedian, and that's why it wasn't a good album."

Detroit DJs and radio folks seemed to agree, leaving Infinite well enough alone. "After that record, every rhyme I wrote got angrier and agrier," Eminem says. "A lot of it was because of the feedback I got. Motherfuckers was like, "You're a white boy, what the fuck are you rapping for? Why don't you go into rock and roll? All that type of shit started pissing me off." It didn't help that days before his daughter's first birthday, Eminem got fired from his cooking job at Gilbert's Lodge. "That was the worst time ever, dog," he says. "It was like five days before Christmas, which is Hailie's birthday. I had, like, forty dollars to get her something. I wrote "Rock Bottom" write after that."

This downward spiral ended one day on the john when Em met Slim Shady. "Boom, the name hit me, and right away I thought of all these words to rhyme with it," he says. "So I wiped my ass, got up off the pot and, ah, went and called everybody I knew."

Shady became Em's vengeful gremlin, his knight in smarmy armor, and Inspector Gadget Incredible Hulk with a taste for a bit of the ultra-violence. It was high time for Em to write some of the wrongs in his life, and Slim Shady was just the cat to right them. At the top of the shit list was his grade-school nemesis, D'Angelo Bailey. Yes, the bully who gets it with a broomstick in "Brain Damage" was entirely real. "Motherfucker used to beat the shit out of me," Eminem says. "I was in fourth grade and he was in sixth. Everything in the song is true: One day he came in the bathroom, I was pissing, and he beat the shit out of me. Pissed all over myself. But that's not how I got really fucked up." During recess one winter, Em taunted a smallish friend of Bailey's. "D'Angelo Bailey - no one called him D'Angelo - came running from across the yard and hit me so hard into this snowbank that I blacked out." Em was sent hom, his ear started bleeding, and he was taken to the hospital. "He had cerebral hemorrhage and was in and out of consciousness for five days," his mother reports. "The doctors had given up on him, but I wouldn't give up on my son."

"I remember waking up and saying, 'I can spell elephant,'" Em recalls with a laugh. "D'Angelo Bailey - I'll never forget that kid."

Old D'Angelo won't forget you, either. "He was the one we used to pick on," says Bailey, now married with kids and living in Detroit. "There was a bunch of us that used to mess with him. You know, bully-type things. We was having fun. Sometimes he'd fight back - depended on what mood he'd be in." As for Eminem's recollection of the event that put him in the hospital, Bailey boasts, "Yeah, we flipped him right on his head at recess. When we didn't see him moving, we took off running. We lied and said he slipped on the ice. He was a wild kid, but back then we thought it was stupid. Hey, you have his phone number?"

In the spring of 1997, Eminem recorded his eight song Slim Shady EP - the demo that earned him his deal with Interscope. At the time, he was scrounging more than ever. He and his girlfriend, Kim, had been living with their baby in crack-infested neighborhoods. A stray bullet flying through the kitchen window and lodging in the wall while Kim was doing dishes wasn't the worst of it - they had been adopted by a crackhead. "The neighborhoods we lived in fucking sucked," Kim says. "I went through four TVs and five VCRs in two years." After cleaning out the first of those TVs and VCRs, plus a clock radio, the guy came back one night to make a sandwich. "He left the peanut butter, jelly - all the shit - out and didn't steal nothing," Em says. "Ain't this about a motherfucking bitch. But then he came back again and took everything but the couches and beds. The pillows, clothes, silverware - everything. We were fuckin' fucked."

The young parents moved in with Em's mother for a while, which wasn't much better. "My mother did a lot of dope and shit - a lot of pills - so she had mood swings," Em says. "She'd go to bed cool, then wake up like, 'Motherfuckers, get out!'" Em's mom denies all of the above. "I've never done drugs," she says. "Marshall was raised in a drug and alcohol-free enviroment." He moved in with friends, and Kim and the baby lived with her mother. "I didn't have a job that whole summer," Em recalls. "Then we got evicted, because my friends and me were paying rent to the guy on the lease, and he screwed us over." The night before he headed to the Rap Olympics, an annual nationwide MC battle in L.A., he came home to a locked door and an eviction notice. "I had to break in," he says. "I didn't have anywhere else to go. There was no heat, no water, no electricity. I slept on the floor, woke up, went to L.A. I was so pissed."

"Oh, my God," recalls Paul "Bunyan" Rosenberg, the beefy lawyer who manages Eminem. "There was this black guy sitting next to me in the crowd at the Olympics. After the first round, he yells, 'Just give it to the white boy. It's over. Give it to the white boy.'"

They didn't, and Em was crushed. Not only couldhe have used the first-place prize, 500 bucks and a Rolex, but he wasn't used to taking second. "He really looked like he was going to cry," Rosenberg says, nodding thoughtfully. Well, Eminem lost the battle, but he won the war. A Shady EP given to a few Interscope staffers soon made it into the hands of co-head Jimmy Iovine. While Em was in L.A., Iovine and Dr. Dre took a listen. "In my entire career in the music industry," Dre says, "I have never found anything from a demo tape of a CD. When Jimmy played this, I said, 'Find him. Now.'"

Their first day in the studio, the pair knocked off "My Name Is" in about an hour, and as much as that song proved that Em is a brother from another planet, they were just warming up. "I wrote two songs for the next album on ecstasy," Eminem says. "Shit about bouncing off walls, going straight through 'em, falling down twenty stories. Crazy. That's what we do when I'm in the studio with Dre." Dr. Dre on E? "Ha, ha," Dre laughs. "He didn't say that! It's true, though. We get in there, get bugged out, stay in the studio for fuckin' two days. Then you're dead for three days. Then you wake up, pop the tape in, like, 'Let me see what I've done.'"

"Hey, turn here," Eminem says to the driver of the big white van currently crunching through the snow-covered streets of east Detroit. "Stop. That was our house. My room was upstairs, in the back." The small two-story homes on the gridlike streets are identical - square patch of grass in the front, a short driveway on the side - differentiable only by their brick face or shingles. The van turns off 8 Mile, passing Em's high school, then the field next to the Bel-Air Shopping Center, where Em lost his boombox and nearly his life. Em is looking out of the window like a kid at Disneyland, pointing, recalling happy and heartbreaking memories with equal excitement. "I like living in Detroit, making it my home," he says as the van heads toward the highway. "I like working out in L.A., but I wouldn't want to live there. My little girl is here."

The van pulls up to Gilbert's Lodge, the every-food family restaurant in suburban St. Clair Shores where Em worked on and off for three years. Inside there are antler chandeliers, a couple of appetite-suppressing mounted moose heads and a "trophy room," containing the jerseys of various local teams. The restaurant's staff scurries about, unaware of Em, who has virtually walked into the kitchen without being greeted. "Yo, Pete, whassup?" Em calls to a mustached man checking on orders. "Hi, Marshall," answers his former manager, Pete Karagiaouris. "Coming in to buy the place?" A few heads turn, and apron-clad folks say quick hellos.

"Hi, Marshall," says a forties-ish waitress with a sticky-sweet voice and a Midwestern accent. "You know, I watch MTV and I never see you."

"Oh, yeah?" he replies coolly.

Em takes a table towards the back. After a very silent twenty minutes, he stops a passing waitress: "Can we get some beers here?"

"Yeah, but I need to see your ID," she says.

"I don't have my wallet with me, but I used to work here - ask Pete. I'm over twenty-one."

Less than twenty-four hours ago, in Staten Island, security guards had kept a frothing crowd from tearing Em to shreds while he earned five grand for rapping four songs. In his own hometown, in the place he spent forty to sixty hours a week for three years, he's a stranger, and one without silverware, water or a menu. Either Gilbert's issued a memo about keeping Em real or the staff is having trouble coming to terms with Marshall's success. "Why did that bitch have to say that?" he says about the MTV jab. "fucking bitch. I never liked her." It's a theme he returns to for the rest of the night. Em's shot of Bacardi arrives; he slams it, gets another and goes off to talk to the Gilbert's former co-workers. "Man, everything can be going so right," Rosenberg says, sipping his beer. "But a comment like that will stick with him for days. This is his reality - he came from this, and after everything is over, this is the reality he has to go back to."

The manager heads over, offering to make Eminem a special garlic-chicken pizza. "He was a good worker," Karagiaouris recalls. "But he'd be in the back rapping all the orders, and sometimes I had to tell him to tone it down." Em demonstrates, freestyling the ingredients of most of the appetizers in his herky-jerky whine. "Music was always the most important thing to him," Karagiaouris says. "But I never knew if he was any good at it - I listen to Greek music."

"You know what, Paulie?" Em says, smiling mischeviously. "I want to do a clothing line. Fat Fuck Clothing, for the Big Pun in you. What do you think?"

It's getting late, and Eminem's daughter is waiting for him. He has four days here at home to spend with her and her mother.

The van winds back to Detroit, stopping at a modest home. Kim, a pretty blonde, hops in holding Hailie, a groggy but smiley blue-eyed beauty who immediately dives onto Em's lap and wraps her arms around his neck. The van whisks off, Hailie falls back to sleep, and Em tells Kim about the New York shows. Forty minutes later, the van turns into the trailer park - more of a village, really - that Em calls home. "After I got my record deal, my mother moved back to Kansas City," he says. "I took over the payments on her trailer, but I'm never here." Indeed, the eviction notice on the door is proof enough. "Don't worry, we took care of that one," Rosenberg says as Em rips it off and goes inside.

The double-wide mobile home houses Eminem's possessions, which, after all the robberies and the moving around, have been acquired in the last six months. An autographed glossy of Dre that reads, "Thanks for the support, asshole" (mirroring Shady's autograph in "My Name Is") is on the wall, as is the album art from the Shady EP. Above the TV are two shots of Em and Dre from the video shoot, along with pictures of Hailie. A small rack holds CDs by 2Pac, Mase, Babyface, Luther Vandross, Esthero and Snoop Dogg. A baby couch for Hailie sits in front of the TV. On a wall near the kitchen is a flyer titled "Commitments for Parents," which lists directives like "I will give my child space to grow, dream, succeed and sometimes fail."

Hailie settles down on the floor with a stuffed polar bear as Kim prepares her for bed. The couple are happy to see each other tonight, but songs like "'97 Bonnie and Clyde" make it clear that times are not always this tranquil. Their relationship has been volatile - all the more so since their daughter's birth. At one point two years ago, when they were on the outs and dating other people, Kim, according to Eminem, made it difficult for him to see his daughter and even threatenend to file a restraining order. Em wrote "Just the Two of Us" on the Shady EP, to tell the tale of a father killing his baby's mother and cleaning up the mess with the help of his daughter: "Here, you wanna help Dada tie a rope around this rock?/Then we'll tie it to her footsie, then we'll roll her off the dock/Here we go, count of three. One, two, three, wee!/There goes Mama, splashing in the water/No more fighting with Dad, no more restraining order."

The original had a slightly different beat and a less monied production that "'97 Bonnie and Clyde," the version on the Interscope album, but on the Shady LP, Hailie chillingly plays herself (she is also on the album cover and liner notes). "I lied to Kim and told her I was taking her to Chuck E. Cheese that day," Em recalls. "But I took her to the studio. When she found out I used our daughter to write a song about killer her, she fucking blew. We had just got back together for a couple of weeks. Then I played her the song, and she bugged the fuck out."

Kim declines to comment on that song or any of the others about her, including a track slated for Em's next album called "Kim." The song is the prelude to "'97 Bonnie and Clyde," with Em acting out the screaming fight that ends in murder. Em has played it for her already and claims that now she is truly convinced that he is insane. "If I was her, I would have ran when I heard that shit," Dre says. "It's over the top - the whole song is him screaming. It's good, though. Kim gives him a concept."

Em's friend Proof has been around the couple from the beginning. "This is what I love about Em," he says. "One time we came home and Kim had thrown all his clothes on the lawn - which was, like, two pairs of pants and some gym shoes. So we stayed at my grandmother's, and Em's like 'I'm leaving her; I'm never going back.' Next day, he's back with her. The love they got is so genuine, it's ridiculous. He gonna end up marrying her. But there's always gonna be conflict there."

Em says Hailie has heard his record and loves it, but he knows she's too young still to get much more than the beats. "When she gets old enough, I'm going to explain it to her," Em says. "I'll let her know that Mommy and Daddy weren't getting along at the time. None of it was to be taken literally." He shakes his head ruefully. "Although at the time, I wanted to fucking do it." Em is the first to admit that he's got a bad temper, which he has harnessed into a career. "My thoughts are so fucking evil when I'm writing shit," he says. "If I'm mad at my girl, I'm gonna sit down and write the most misogynistic fucking rhyme in the world. It's not how I feel in general, it's how I feel at that moment. Like say today, earlier, I might think something like, 'Coming through the airport sluggish, walking on crutches, hit a pregnant bitch in the stomach with luggage.'"

Slim Shady is Marshall Mathers' way of taking revenge on the world, and he's also a defense mechanism. On the one hand, a lot of Slim Shady's cartoonish fantasies are offensive; on the other, they're better than Mathers re-creating the kind of abuse the world heaped upon him growing up. "I dealt with a lot of shit coming up, a lot of shit," he says. "When it's like that, you learn to live day by day. When all this happened, I took a deep breath, just like, "I did it.'" The magnitude of what he's done in such a short time doesn't seem to have sunk in. Em hasn't sipped the bubbly or smelled the roses - and if he allots time for that in the next few months, it will have to be at the drive-through. As for the future, he won't even wager a guess.

"If he remains the same person that walked into the studio with me that first day, he will be fucking larger than Michael Jackson," says a confident Dre. "There are a lot of ifs and buts, but my man, he's dope and very humble." As Eminem closes the door, with Hailie's blanket in his hands, he looks humble, a little tired and pretty happy. For now.

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Eminem Interview: "Chocolate On The Inside" (Spin, 2000)

The most promising new rapper of the year is a cartoonishly angry welfare kid from the Detroit ghetto. Oh, and by the way, he's white.

Give this kid a magazine rack, because he's got a lot of issues. For starters, there's race (he's the "corny-lookin' white boy" who got his lunch money stolen at his inner-city school and never forgot), drugs (he's well acquainted with mushrooms, weed, etc.) and women (he envisions his mom as a drug addict with no breasts, fantasizes about murdering his baby's mother and advises a husband to cut off the head of his adulterous wife). For 23-year-old Marshall Mathers, a.k.a. Eminem, a.k.a. Slim Shady, whose major-label debut, The Slim Shady LP, is the shocker pop-hit of 1999 (entering the Billboard 200 at No. 2 with more than 280,000 first-week sales), life is a bitch who needs to die, now! He's so angry his "dance" song features a line about Kurt Cobain committing suicide. But by outrageously spoofing every fear every parent ever had about his/her child, the album also defies any pat answer as to why this runty dude is so pissed off. And it implicitly ridicules anybody who tries to label his music as either "positive" or "negative."

Less than a year ago, Eminem was a little-known, if nastily skilled, MC from Detroit, with only an independently released album and EP to his name. Now, after hooking up with Dr. Dre (he'll soon appear on Dre's Chronic 2000 album), he's been known to give shout-outs to Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine onstage. Since early '99, MTV has been endlessly rotating the uproarious video for his single "My Name Is," in which Eminem impersonates Marilyn Manson and Bill Clinton, as well as a publicity bit featuring Missy Elliott and Dre giving the rapper props (Interscope also bought commercial time to play the video during Howard Stern's Saturday night CBS TV show). He's getting spins on hip-hop radio stations, extremely rare for a white artist, and is even recording a song for Limp Bizkit's new album. All those years he spent fighting for his right to be white finally paid off.

Spin: From listening to your album, you get the impression that your childhood was pretty much a living hell. What was it really like?

Eminem: I was born in Kansas City, and my dad left when I was five or six months old. 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. 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. 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'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. I'm not trying to give some sob story, like, "Oh, I've been broke all my life," but people who know me know it's true. There were times when friends had to buy me f***in' shoes! I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Spin: These were mostly African-American neighborhoods where you grew up?

Eminem: 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. 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. I was 15 years old and I didn't know how to handle that shit.

Spin: Were most of your friends black?

Eminem: 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. Then I'd notice that a lot of motherfuckers always had my back, but somebody always had to say to them, "Why you have to stick up for the white boy?"

Spin: When did you first get into hip-hop?

Eminem: The first hip-hop shit I ever heard was that song "Reckless" from the Breakin' soundtrack; my cousin played me the tape when I was, like, nine. 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. They always had the latest rap tapes-the Fat Boys, L.L. Cool J's Radio-and I thought it was the most incredible shit I'd ever heard.

Spin: What'd you think when you first heard the Beastie Boys?

Eminem: That's what really did it for me. I was like, "This shit is so dope!" 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. A little color issue developed, and as I got old enough to hit the clubs, it got really bad. I wasn't that dope yet, but I knew I could rhyme, so I'd get on the open mics and shit, and a couple of times I was booed off the stage.

Spin: Your single ("My Name Is") is getting played on both Modern Rock and Urban radio. Are you surprised at how quickly you're being accepted?

Eminem: Thing is, I'm not really a commercial rapper. 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.

Spin: Has being white really affected the way you see yourself as a rapper?

Eminem: In the beginning, the majority of my shows were for all-black crowds, and people would always say, "You're dope for a white boy," and I'd take it as a compliment. Then, as I got older, I started to think, "What the f*** does that mean?" Nobody asks to be born, nobody has a choice of what color they'll be, or whether they'll be fat, skinny, anything. I had to work up to a certain level before people would even look past my color; a lot of motherf***ers would just sit with their arms folded and be like, "All right, what is this?" But as time went on, I started to get respect. The best thing a motherf***er ever said about me was after an open mic in Detroit about five years ago. He was like, "I don't give a f*** if he's green, I don't give a f*** if he's orange, this motherf***er is dope!" Nobody has the right to tell me what kind of music to listen to or how to dress or how to act or how to talk; if people want to make jokes, well f*** 'em. I lived this s***, you know what I'm sayin'? And if you hear an Eminem record, you're gonna know the minute that it comes on that this ain't no fluke.

Spin: Did you ever come close to quitting?

Eminem: About three or so years ago, not that long after my daughter [Hailie Jade Scott] was born. I was staying in this house on 7 Mile Road, and little kids used to walk down the street going, "Look at the white baby!" Everything was "white this, white that." We'd be sitting on our porch, and if you were real quiet, you'd hear, "Mumble, mumble, white, mumble, mumble, white." Then I caught some dude breaking into my house for, like, the fifth time, and I was like, "Yo, f*** this! It's not worth it. I'm outta here." That day, I wanted to quit rap and get a house in the f***ing suburbs. I was arguing with my girl, like, "Can't you see they don't want us here?" I went through so many changes; I actually stopped writing for about five or six months and I was about to give everything up. I just couldn't, though. I'd keep going to the clubs and taking the abuse. But I'd come home and put a fist through the wall. If you listen to a Slim Shady record, you're going to hear all that frustration coming out.

Spin: Could you see why some black people might be not be so enthusiastic about a white kid trying to be a rapper?

Eminem: 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.

Spin: Did you ever wish you were black?

Eminem: 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 shit." But I'm not ignorant-I know how it must be when a black person goes to get a regular job in society. Music, in general, is supposed to be universal; people can listen to whatever they want and get something out of it. 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.

Spin: How do you feel about other white rap fans?

Eminem: 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. He wants to be hard; he wants to smack motherf***ers for no reason except that the world is f***ed-up; he doesn't know what to rebel against. Kids like that are just fascinated by the culture. They hear songs about people going through hard times and want to know what that feels like. But the same thing goes for a black person who lived in the suburbs and was catered to all his life: Tupac is a fantasy for him, too.

Spin: Should suburban white kids, who don't have any firsthand experience of the way black people live, really be identifying so closely with hip-hop?

Eminem: Well, whether a white kid goes through as much shit as I did, or didn't go through any trouble at all, if they love the music, who's to tell them what they should be listening to? Let's say I'm a white 16-year-old and I stand in front of the mirror and lip-synch every day like I'm Krayzie Bone-who's to say that because I'm a certain color I shouldn't be doing that? And if I've got a right to buy his music and make him rich, who's to say that I then don't have the right to rap myself?

Spin: Do you think that hip-hop culture can open up their minds at all?

Eminem: I don't know, man. Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. If anything is at least going to lessen it, it's gonna be rap. 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. If we could truly be multicultural, racism could be so past the point of anybody giving a f***; but I don't think you or me are going to see it in our lifetimes.

Spin: What do you think will happen if your album blows up and becomes a huge hit?

Eminem: I imagine I'll go through a lot of this same racial shit, but that'll just make my second album better-because I'll have even more to rap about.

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Eminem On His New Found Maturity (Daily Mirror, 2003)

It's a terrible irony for a man who made his reputation by being foul-mouthed, angry and offensive to as many people as possible. Rapper Eminem once thrived on his notoriety but now finds himself being held up as a shining example to American youth.

If that wasn't enough, the 30-year-old former rebel is being tipped for an Oscar for his acting debut in the gritty 8 Mile, which opens in Britain on Friday.

The semi-autobiographical film, which co-stars Kim Basinger, took $55million on its opening weekend in America and the soundtrack album went straight to No.1.
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When asked to explain his transition from white trash hero to national icon, Eminem - real name Marshall Mathers III - shrugs and says he was never really understood in the first place.
"They portrayed me as a vicious, vile, evil person," he says. "But I wouldn't have got anywhere in this business if I was just a complete a**hole."

It seems that the raging star - who had vowed to urinate on the White House lawns - was actually satirising those who point accusing fingers at rap culture and warn of the copycat behaviour it incites.

His lyrics put it better: "It's all political, if my music is literal/and I'm a criminal/how the f**k can I raise a little girl?/I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to..."

The little girl he refers to is his six-year-old daughter Hailie, the only thing apart from his music that makes Eminem's blue eyes light up.
"She is a character," he says proudly, "she has such a personality. She runs around making up little sayings and phrases..."

Eminem admits "having a soft spot for kids, with my own being number one on my list. She's growing up and I'm trying to set an example for her."

The doting dad also confirms that he has changed a lot since he launched himself into the mainstream two years ago.

"Fame hit me like a ton of bricks," he explains. "I was pulled in every direction. I got caught up in the drinking and the drugs, the fighting and just wilding out.

"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."

AND there are other signs that the bad boy is becoming a good man - he is considering a reconciliation with ex-wife Kim.

The tempestuous pair, together for 15 years, split in June 2000 after Kim's flirtations with another man provoked Eminem into brawling and brandishing a gun. He received two years probation.

The couple divorced in October 2001, weeks after Kim gave birth to a daughter fathered by another man. But Eminem is thinking of having his tattoo, "Kim: Rot in Hell", removed - another sign that he has mellowed.

He had a lot to get over after a working-class upbringing that was unquestionably tough.

The only child of a teenage bride, whose husband abandoned them when he was 18 months old, he and his mother Debbie "kept getting kicked out of every house we were in".

When he was 12, mother and son finally settled in a small house on Eight Mile Road - the dividing line between Detroit's black and white communities which he has now captured on film. "It's the borderline," he explains, "It wasn't like rich or poor on either side.

"Both sides had the same income but it was black on one side, white on the other. And me growing up on both sides."

After years of being bullied in school, he found a kindred spirit in classmate Kim Scott and renamed himself Eminem (after his initials).

Her family was as troubled as his and she moved in with the Mathers when she was 13. But after five turbulent years under the same roof, Debbie had had enough. When she insisted that Kim move out, Eminem went with her.

Working as a dishwasher and cleaner by day, he spent his nights trying to break into Detroit's hip-hop scene.

The film 8 Mile describes a week in the life of Jimmy "Rabbit" Smith Jr, who lives with his mother and sister in a depressing trailer park.

But unlike Eminem, who has feuded with his mother for years, Jimmy has a loving relationship with his alcoholic mother. The star is passionate about the story. "The movie is about Jimmy coming out of his shell and finding his own way, not being a follower, being a leader.

"He's going through struggles with his family but he wants to make it and be a rapper."

Eminem's film has also rekindled curiosity about his relationship with mother, Debbie.

The inflammatory lyrics on his 1999 debut, The Slim Shady LP, prompted an $11million defamation suit by Debbie, who eventually settled for $25,000. And she is unlikely to be impressed by Basinger's alcoholic character. She recently dismissed the film, saying: "I don't care about the drug-crazed mother in 8 Mile.

"It's a fictional story and I'm not even going to see it."

Eminem says of his mother in the film: "Jimmy's embarrassed by her. He's ashamed at what she is and doesn't want to become that.

"He doesn't want to fall into that same hole. He wants to be able to pull himself out of that, pull his little sister out of it and maybe, eventually, pull his mother out of it, too." His commitment to the project isn't a great surprise.

After all, he struggled against the odds for seven years to become a respected artist, until a second-place finish at the 1997 Rap Olympics in LA got him a record deal.

Top producer Dr Dre signed him, groomed him and wised him up the business. He may have failed the 9th grade three times before dropping out of school but Eminem has become a shrewd operator.

For his film debut, he surrounded himself with the same kind of top talent that has made him the best-selling rap artist.

8 Mile is directed by Oscar winner Curtis Hanson, the man behind LA Confidential and Wonder Boys, and produced by Oscar-winner Brian Grazer, whose credits include A Beautiful Mind.

Hanson described Eminem as a natural movie star and spent an unheard-of six weeks rehearsing with him before shooting the film in Detroit.

He believed his star would shine in his hometown and he filled most of the support roles with Detroit natives.

The street where Eminem spent his teen years is lined with bars, repair shops and trailer parks and Hanson likened Eminem to "a flower struggling through a crack in the cement".

OTHERS say he has more in common with a young Elvis - both popularised a black musical style and then set out to conquer Hollywood.

Both had teenage brides and daughters they adored. Both also struggled to overcome addictions.

But Eminem disagrees, pointing out that he sings songs he has written, is in charge of his own career, and, unlike Elvis, will now remain clean and sober.

He also never contemplated starring on screen. "My only scheme was to be a rapper," he says. "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.

"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."

He was even reluctant to read the script for 8 Mile. "Well, reading is the worst thing in the world for me to do. I hate it. But I read the first couple of pages and couldn't stop.

"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.

"You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive. Breaking out is the point of the film."

Having broken out of his own 8 Mile, Eminem is pondering what to do next. "I need drama in my life to keep making music," he says.

"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.

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Eminem Interview (MTV, 2002)

Eminem's current mode of transportation has none of the plush luxuries you would assume a rapper might have in his traveling venue: no TV, no PlayStation 2, no DVD player and no roof.
"Throw it up," the Detroit rhyme Goliath says, looking down at an anxious fan waving a CD. Eminem's in New York City, traveling with a small entourage around Manhattan on a double-decker bus, made for tourists to go site-seeing. But Slim Shady is the spectacle today as he rides downtown from Times Square.

"I remember them days, just being so f---ing hungry," Eminem laughs after trying to catch the guy's CD that was flung to him from street level. "People will go to such lengths. I would do anything to let people hear my sh--. I didn't care, 'Please dub my sh--, please listen to my demo.' "

Nowadays, there aren't too many people who haven't heard Eminem's irresistible irreverence, and while he loves to be heard, nothing will ever beat a day at home chilling with his daughter, Hailie Jade. And while his young one thinks her dad's gone crazy, Eminem insists he's quite the sane one. It's the world around him that's gone bonkers.

Atop the double-decker and on a hotel roof in Manhattan, Shaheem Reid and Sway Calloway got the lowdown on Marshall Mathers, the man. Among the things they chatted about were how he rates himself as a dad, what he thinks of his own father, why he doesn't cover himself in ice and what it feels like to have strangers jumping into your pool ...

MTV: Jay-Z has a new album coming out where he says fame is both a gift and a curse. Do you agree with Jigga's assessment?

Eminem: You gotta take the ups and downs with it. Fame has got its pros and cons. The pros would be you don't have to ride one of these [double- decker buses] anymore. The cons would be all the craziness that comes with it. When you get rid of some of your small problems, like having bills, [and then transition] to getting to where somebody like me or Jay-Z is, you have a whole new slew of problems, like lawsuits and other things I never knew could exist.

MTV: The tour is going well and you've sold millions of records, but you're one of the few rappers that we never hear talking about ice or cars or your bank account. What do you do with your money? Better yet, what's the first big-ticket item you bought?

Eminem: The first big-ticket item that I bought was a house. When I first started seeing money, I treated that like it was the only house I would ever buy and the only royalty check that I would ever get. That's how I treat every [check]. The truth is, you don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. This is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. I could wake up tomorrow and this could all be over. You have to invest.

MTV: What was it like owning your first home?

Eminem: At the time I bought it, I had no idea how famous I really was. It was across the street from a trailer park and we had kids coming across all day knocking on the door. We had a pool in the backyard, kids were jumping in the pool. It was crazy. The house was on a main road so we had people whipping in my driveway like, "Em, what up?" I literally couldn't go outside my house. So we deaded that real quick, sold the house, lost money and bought a new house. That's probably the best investment I've made, my new house.

MTV: You say you weren't aware of your fame when you first started blowing up. When did you start sensing how popular you were becoming?

Eminem: The first time I really sensed it was flipping through channels and seeing my face on every channel. You kind of get sick of yourself. The first time I experienced it was probably walking through a mall or something and not realizing how many people really know who you are. I probably got the most unmistakable nose and chin in the business. Sometimes I'll go out and cover up [most] of my face. If they see one eye [people know it's me], it's crazy.

MTV: Your daughter Hailie is obviously a huge inspiration in your life and music, and the two of you have even recorded a song together. But does she know the depths of her daddy's fame yet?

Eminem: Yeah, she knows. She's six and she's getting the grasp of that whole thing. She's starting to realize. She goes to school like, 'My dad's on TV,' and these other kids, their dads aren't on TV.

MTV: Hailie is becoming a mini celeb in her own right. She seemed really comfortable recording "My Dad's Gone Crazy." Do you see her following in your footsteps and making music when she gets older?

Eminem: When she's 25, maybe she can. She's gotta grow up first. She scares me a little bit 'cause she's got that "little star" quality.

MTV: So will Hailie be getting any siblings anytime soon? Maybe you could spearhead a hip-hop Partridge family.

Eminem: No more kids. I'm good with Hailie. I'll spoil her and give her everything I never had. I have other family members that I take care of and want to take care of, but as far as kids, I'm cool. No more, one is enough.

MTV: As you approach the big 3-0, are you getting this whole parenting thing down pat? How would you rate yourself as a father?

Eminem: I do the best I can right now. I truly believe I'm doing the right thing and I do a good job. I'm a father before anything. I'm a father before I pick up the mic. I'm a father before I'm Eminem. Of course I'm not the perfect parent. There may be things I'm doing wrong and I'll find out in 10, 15 years, but right now I'm doing the best job I can and that's all I can do.

MTV: As much as she depends on you, in "Say Goodbye Hollywood" you liken Hailie to sort of your lifeline, saying "I gotta get up, thank God/ I got a little girl/ And I'm a responsible father/ So not a lot of good I'd be to my daughter/ Layin' in the bottom of the mud ..." Do you think that your daughter has saved your life?

Eminem: I think that in a roundabout way she did save my life. I always had drive coming up and I always wanted to make it as a rapper. That was my dream. But when she was born, it was the reality of "I have to do this." I had nothing else. I had no high school education. I want her to be able to grow up and look back on this and be like — whether people agree with it or not — "My dad put me on a song. My dad wrote songs for me, my dad said my name all over the place." I want her to be able to look back in magazines and everything and just know. I don't ever wanna be like my father was to me.

MTV: In the video for "Cleaning Out My Closet," you talk a lot about your mother, but some of the most mind-searing images portray your recollection of how your father treated you and your mother. Have you ever tried to reach out to him?

Eminem: I have never spoke to my father and I never will. I'm cool. It's not a void in my life, missing or anything. I'm happy and I've got who I need in my life and I think I've found a peace, an inner peace. I don't feel like I ever need to meet him one day and be like, "Oh my life is complete." I don't want to know him.

MTV: You've been feuding with your mother for quite some time, you've dissed her numerous times in songs and even took a couple of shots at her during the Anger Management Tour. What type of toll, if any, has your estrangement taken on Hailie's relationship with her grandmother?

Eminem: That's a difficult situation because my little brother lives with me now so my mother occasionally has to come there. I know that I can't imagine what goes on in a six-year-old's head. I know there's probably part of [Hailie] that maybe wants to see her grandmother but she doesn't know what's going on, and I just basically keep her sheltered from it. When [my mother] does come to the house, I try to occupy Hailie. When she's old enough and she wants to know her grandmother, she can make that decision on her own. But as of right now, I'm not gonna subject my daughter to any of that.

MTV: You have a first-hand perspective of what it's like to come from a home where the parents are not together. How much of an effect do you think your divorce from Kim will have on Hailie?

Eminem: I think that it's good that this happened while Hailie was real young and didn't get so used to seeing her mother and father together all the time. I think it's better we did it early because sh-- was rocky for a while ... I don't wanna subject my seed to that type of turmoil, 'cause it was turmoil a couple years ago. I think that right now when I look at it, she's a happy little girl. To me she doesn't show any signs that something's bothering her or anything like that. Maybe when she gets older she could tell me, maybe it was something I didn't know.

MTV: So now that you're single once again, are you going the Puffy route and looking for a new girl to ride, ride, ride?

Eminem: No. I'm not looking for a new woman. I'm cool being single — not to say I don't get down (laughing). But as far as a relationship or getting married again, I'm cool, man. I learned my lesson and I've seen what it is and what it can and can't be and I feel like I've learned enough from my first mistake. Let that be the last one and keep moving forward. Relationships? No.

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Eminem Interview: "It's Lonely At The Top" (NY Rock, 2001)

Are fame and fortune dreams come true? According to Eminem, they're more of a nightmare.
Born Marshall Mathers III and alternately known as Slim Shady, the guy from Detroit came from out of nowhere, skyrocketed to hip-hop stardom in less than two years, and is now a household name, unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. With four-million copies sold in five weeks (ten-million to date), Eminem's latest release The Marshall Mathers LP scored the best-selling solo debut week in pop history. The CD won countless awards, accolades, and, an avalanche of criticism, for its implications of violence and prejudice. The unrestrained rapper has become a steady guest on every rock radio station's playlist and every publication's headlines. Each for very different reasons. Eminem has kept the news desks full with his controversial lyrics, arrests, weapons charges, lawsuits, marital disputes, and, believe it or not, four Grammy nominations – complete with corresponding backlash from critics and activist groups alike.

NYROCK: So how does it feel to be rich, famous and the idol of countless teenagers?

EMINEM: I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. I mean, everybody wants to ride on my fuckin' coat tails. Everybody's trying to hang on to, wants a piece of my ass. You gotta be careful what you wish for; you just might get it.

NYROCK: What's so bad about being a star?

EMINEM: I can't go out anymore and play basketball, because everybody knows my fuckin' face. All I really wanted was to have a career in hip hop and now I got to deal with so much shit! There are people coming to my house, knocking on the door. Either they want autographs or they wanna fight. It's fuckin' crazy!

NYROCK: Not to be smart, but I think you're getting quite an ample compensation for it. Okay, the loss of privacy is hard, but certainly you knew what was coming?

EMINEM: Nobody really understands the pressures put on me. I'm under so much fuckin' pressure, pressure to always be good, pressure to always be on point. There are so many pressures that go with my job right now. It's crazy. Sometimes I think I do a lot of fuckin' crazy shit but then I don't know what the fuck is normal. My life certainly isn't. Maybe it never was....

NYROCK: What was your life like before you became famous?

EMINEM: Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. Now it seems like somebody has pressed the fuckin' fast forward button and my life just seems to be rushing by. It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening. But I tell you the fuckin' shit feels a lot more real than the good things. That's fuckin' strange!

NYROCK: There has been much controversy over your liberal use of the word "faggot" and what people perceive as gay bashing. It's put you right in the line of fire from gay and lesbian groups the world over...

EMINEM: I'm not gay bashing. People just don't understand where I come from. "Faggot" to me doesn't necessarily mean gay people. "Faggot" to me just means... taking away your manhood. You're a sissy. You're a coward. Just like you might sit around in your living room and say, "Dude, stop, you're being a fag, dude."

NYROCK: But you can see how it would insult homosexuals?

EMINEM: Yeah, but it does not necessarily mean you're being a gay person. It just means you're being a fag. You're being an asshole or whatever. That's the way that the word was always taught to me. That's how I learned the word. Battling with somebody, you do anything you can to strip their manhood away.

NYROCK: Sometimes it seems that you enjoy creating a bit of ruckus. I wonder if "faggot" is really necessary ...

EMINEM: I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker. I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. When I started saying "faggot" on record, I started getting people going, "You have something against gay people," and I thought it was funny. Because I don't; I really don't. I have something against assholes, but I'm not into gay bashing. A lot of people are too stupid to understand it.

NYROCK: Your mouth got you in quite a lot of trouble. Would it be easier to bite back some remarks, to stop the misunderstandings? It might keep people from coming to your door and trying to fight you...

EMINEM: I don't think it would stop them. They'd think I'm a sissy and would really want to kick my ass. My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it. Why are these thoughts in my head? A lot of people think a lot worse shit than I do. They just don't say it. If I'm crazy enough to think it, then I'm crazy enough to say it. So who's worse? Come on, I mean somebody who thinks really weird fuckin' shit, shit I really don't want to think about. But I got nailed for saying just mildly sick shit. That's how I base my whole shit. I think there's a reason why I think this way. I don't think I say the things I say for no reason. I write it down and say it. You know, I call it being honest, but some sick asshole who does sick things on the sly and doesn't talk about it is cool?

NYROCK: I guess you're not aiming for a career in diplomatic service...

EMINEM: Fuck no! 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. 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.

NYROCK: You're a father; you have a little daughter. There has been mention in the media of lawsuits. I just want to know about your plans. Being a parent seems like a big responsibility...

EMINEM: 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. Fuck all the fame and shit, Hailie is far more important. She keeps me from being too extreme. I realize that no matter how crazy I act onstage or how wild I may get, there's got to be a limit. I can't step out of a certain boundary. I have to be here for her. Her father has to remain alive. I have to maintain. 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. What can I say? I love her and a lot of shit has happened to me, but Hailie makes up for everything. In a way, she also makes up for all the fuckin' pressure and all the shit. My daughter's not gonna need anything the rest of her life and that makes me feel real good. Fuckin' good!

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Eminem Interview :: "Oh Yes, It's Shady's Night" (April 28th 2000)

EMINEM is still the baddest boy in hip-hop. So bad, in fact, that his own mother sued him for £10 million last year after he claimed in his hit single 'My Name Is' that she smokes more dope than he does.

The success of 'My Name Is' helped the Detroit-based rapper's controversial major label debut 'The Slim Shady LP' sell four million copies in the US. Eminem's sharp, funny, fast-flowing rhymes and outrageous white-trash humour made him the most original and talked-about rapper in America.

Now he's back with a new album cheekily-titled 'The Marshall Mathers LP' (it's his real name, hence the M&M-style nom-de-rap). The first single is 'The Real Slim Shady', on which he disses the competition and Britney Spears to boot. He'll be premiering this and other tracks from the album when he appears at London Brixton Academy on Bank Holiday Monday (May 1). His special guest star is Dr Dre, original gangsta and producer of 'My Name Is'.

Interview: PAUL ELLIOT

Music365: You're recording your new album with Dr Dre in Los Angeles. Don't you get distracted easily when you’re in such a lively city?
Eminem: "No, I'm focused when I'm recording. When I record I slip into the zone. I don't like to talk a lot. I like to stick to myself and get my thoughts together, think how I'm gonna map out each song. Each song is fairly easy to write. I record vocals on one day and take the tape home to listen to them overnight. Then I do more vocals the next day. I always do my vocals twice. I might have the skeleton down, the vocals and the beat, for two months before I think of the finishing touches to put on it, like sound effects or if I want the beat to drop out here or something. I take my time on my shit that way."

You recorded a song with Limp Bizkit but it wasn't included on their album 'Significant Other'. Were you pissed off?
"I wasn't pissed. It just didn't come out the way we wanted. I plan on having them on my next album. It's still up in the air. We'll see what happens."

When you were growing up, which rapper was your biggest hero?
"I wanted to be LL Cool J, I wanted to be Run, Ad-Rock, Big Daddy Kane, a lot of people. Me and my friends used to stand in front of the mirror and perform. The kids from the neighbourhood would come around to watch. We knew all the words."

Is 2-Pac's 'Me Against The World' your favourite record?"It's one of them. 2-Pac was at one time my favourite rapper. 2-Pac was more of a feel emcee, a feel rapper. That's what I'm trying to do with my new shit."

You never met your father but it was reported that he was trying to get in touch with you following your success. Did you speak to him?
"No, I was on tour. I had a brother and sister from his side of the family. I don't even know if he's remarried, but they knew how to reach me all this time, they knew about me. I didn't know about them. I don't know them so I can't say if they’re trying to cash in on my success, but I would say that since this success, I feel like that is the reason that they’re trying to get in touch with me."

Are you a millionaire yet?
"I could safely say that I'm well off, but I'm not a millionaire. People see me on TV and mistake me for having more money that I actually have. I got money now, more money than I've ever had in my entire life, but I still don't feel like my future is set, I still feel like I gotta work extra hard to get where I really wanna go. Shit, I still got a second album to work, possibly an acting career."

When you were still a kid, did you really beat a man with a baseball bat when he attacked your mother?
"No, he hit me with a baseball bat. Some lady was talking shit to my mom, she came out and pointed a finger in her face, and I said, 'you ain’t gonna touch my mother', so some dude comes out with a bat, hit me in the stomach with it, then ran from me, and I ended up chasing him. While I was fighting him I had him down on the ground when the cops caught me. They didn’t arrest me. I told 'em that the dude hit me first and I had witnesses and that was it. That was a long time ago."

Did you get involved in a lot of fights when you were a boy?
"I used to get beat up a lot. Fights are fights. I used to walk home by myself, go to my girl’s and see my friends, and when I walked back I got fucked with. It happened a lot. Nine times out of ten I would be walking by myself. Where I was growing up, everybody tried to test you."

Were you ever shot?
"I been shot at, never hit. I was 16. These gang dudes were shooting at me."

Is it still hard for a white rapper to gain respect in the hip-hop community?
"People overall respect the lyrics and they know that I know what I'm doing. They can look past the whole white rapper thing. I'm not the first and I'm not gonna be the last, but hip-hop music is always gonna be predominantly black. Everybody loves hip-hop but not everybody can do it. Black people started rock'n'roll, so how can anyone say that black people can't do rock'n'roll now? The world is fucked up, it's fucking stupid, man. Whether you're latino, white, black, Asian, it don't matter. I'm tired of hearing about the white thing. If somebody says something about it now it's funny. I laugh it off."

Could you live in LA or will Detroit always be your home?"I love it out here. I love it 'cos I don't live here. It's a fun place to visit but I don't think I could ever leave Detroit, man, I got too much history there, too many roots, and plus, that's what makes it so cool about coming out here. LA is my little getaway to record my shit and then jet back home. I also got a studio in Detroit that I can go to if it's the middle of the night and I want to lay some shit down.

"I can't really help when the ideas come. Most of this shit comes either when I'm laying in bed waiting to sleep, or if people are talking. If they say something, a lot of the time it'll be the way people put words together, and they'll be talking to me and I won't even be listening to them because the last thing they said gave me an idea. I sit there with a blank stare and people think I'm on drugs constantly. I do that to my girl a lot. She'll be talking to me and I'll be like, 'uh-huh, uh-huh'. I'll be looking off and she'll say, 'You’re not even listening!' 'Yeah I am!' 'Repeat what I said!' 'You said, er, I don’t know what the fuck you said!' "

You're launching your own label now.
"Yeah, Shady Records. I just started it with Interscope. The first signing is D12, a rap group that I'm in. There's six emcees and we each have two identities, like Eminem and Slim Shady. It's not really similar to my shit. It is as far as the hard-edged rhyming goes, but if anything, it's a little grittier. I don't want to say it's underground because people associate that with shit that doesn't blow up, and I think D12's got what it takes to blow. It's just gritty. My shit is kind of sarcastic and political and Dirty Dozen shit is on some criminal type shit, you know what I'm sayin'? They're on some more gun-bustin' and shootin' and stabbin' shit, a little more so than I am, if you can believe that."

You've revealed a lot of your personal life in your songs. Do you regret anything you've said?
"No, I don't regret any of it. I really believe in that shit, man. I don't believe in talking behind nobody's back or being fake. It's fun for me to do that. When I write something I don't hold back, there's no holds barred. And whatever the consequences may be, if I offend anyone or whatever, I'm saying it so I'm willing to deal with it. I don't know if anybody does it like me, saying whatever they want to say. If I'm feeling it, then I'm gonna say it. Flat out. I'm not mad. I leave my anger in the studio. I get all my shit out on the mic, I say what the fuck I gotta say, and then I'm done. I can go home and sleep I got it all off my chest. I put it out. Music is a form of expression."

What do your fans think of you when they meet you?
"There's kids who meet me who say they were scared to meet me, they thought I was gonna bite their head off. I'm like, Who the fuck am I? All I do is make music, and I'm doing the same thing I been doing since I was 16 years old. I ain't changed shit, and all these fans and shit is kinda crazy to me."

What do you think of all the white rock guys acting like black rappers — people like Kid Rock and Korn?
"I like it. I don't listen to it every day. I like Bob, Kid Rock. He was a friend of mine. I respect what he's doing, he's being himself."

Is Dre producing all of the new album?
"He's doing a lot more than he was. He did three tracks on the last album. He's got at least seven on this one and we ain't even finished the work we're doing. Dre has been so busy with his own album. He's been mixing it down and shit, but as soon as he's finished, we're gonna start getting in there and knocking shit out like we did the last one. We got in there a couple of times and knocked out a couple of songs. I had the songs written, we just did the beats in the studio.

"I get a lot of sporadic shit - shit will just hit me. I can never sit down and search for rhymes. I mean, I can, but I don't really like to do that. It comes out better when I let it hit me instead of trying to search. I would definitely say that the tracks I've done are killing this first album. That's the way I feel. If you don't upstep the game every time you come out, if you don't make your album better than your last one, then you shouldn't even be in the game. I definitely feel that this album is topping the last one.

"You see it all the time, especially in hip-hop. Somebody will make a good first album and then the next album will be shit. I feel like lyrically, I'm too smart to fall into that trap. Ideas come to me constantly. I'm not somebody who's limited, who put all his ideas on one album. I constantly keep runnin'."

How do you feel now about your first album?
"The 'Infinite' album? I realise it's there, I did it, but I wasn't really experienced enough to know what to do in the studio. There was only 1,000 tapes pressed up of that shit. I think you can look it up on the internet and get it, and if you do, it’ll be a bootleg."

Your uncle Ronnie committed suicide. Have your ever felt so low that you wanted to end it all?
"That's always been something that's been in the back of my mind, but I don't think I have the balls to do it. There was this one time when I really felt like I wanted to do something to change my life, whether it would be doing something I regretted, or with rap or whatever. I was recording the song 'Rock Bottom'. We had just found out we were supposed to be getting this deal from some record label — I'm not gonna say which — and we found out that this guy who was saying he was gonna get us the deal was working in the mail room and he was nobody.

"A bunch of other personal shit was happening in my life right about then, and I just thought I wasn't gonna get a deal no matter what, and I just took a fucking bunch of pills. I puked the shit up. I didn't have to go to hospital but my fucking stomach hurt so bad. I had a little problem and I just took too many. I don't know if I was necessarily trying to kill myself, I was just really depressed and I kept thinking, more pills, more pills, I just kept taking 'em. I bet I took 20 pills in the course of two hours, Tylenol 3s. That's why I like going back and listening to my album and thinking of what I was feeling back then."

Is 'Rock Bottom' your most personal song?
"That and 'If I Have', but I got songs on this next album that are even more personal and go even deeper into that shit. I'm going a little bit more of a serious route now. My shit was real political but people didn't see it like that, they thought I was just being an asshole. I look at the way I came up and the things I was around and the places I was raised and shit, and I figure, that shit made me what I am. So if people perceive me to be an asshole, the way I live made me an asshole, what I been through has made me an asshole."

There was a rumour that you had recorded a song with Marilyn Manson — a prequel to the controversial track ''97 Bonnie & Clyde'...
"With Marilyn Manson? Nah, rumours, rumours. But yeah, the track is done. I don't want to give it away, I'll just say it's like some movie shit. I got a lot of songs on this album that are like movie plots, twisted stories."

Your little girl Hailie Jade is four this Christmas. Do you still speak to her every day?
"I just got off the phone with her a little bit ago. She's talking up a storm, man, she talks a lot. I want to try to get her into some kind of acting or something, she got this little personality that's incredible. She loves to talk. She'll say shit out of the blue, big words that I didn’t even know she knew. She'll look at it as a joke."

Are you still writing songs on Ecstasy?
"A couple of the songs on the new record were written on X. It exaggerates shit. Somebody will be just looking at me wrong and I'll just flip a table over, like, what the fuck are you staring at?! If you're in a good mood you love everybody, but if you're in a bad mood and you got shit on your mind, you're gonna break down and shit. The hardest shit that I've fucked with is X and 'shrooms."

A music industry commentator once claimed that you were making money exploiting the world's misery. Isn't it more accurate to say that you're making money exploiting your own misery?
"That woulda been a better choice of words, but looking at him, I don't think he was able to come up with a good choice of words. Looking at his picture I expected him to say that about me. If people don't like my shit it's not my problem. If you don't like it don't listen to it. Nobody's fucking forcing you to listen to it. Nobody bought you the album, threw it in your CD, tied you up and made you listen."


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[cally]

I love reading this old interviews, I read with his voice stuck in my head <3

[britanny]

Thanks for posting all these.

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May 12, 2016 14:16:59 GMT -5 willowmoonblood said:

Eminem Interview by Debbie Rigaud for Black Gold





*** Please notice- Explicit Language ***





(Intro) Who would've known that on October 17th 1974 one of today's hottest mcs, Eminem aka Slim Shady would be born? By using virgin tight lyrics, metaphors that flow out of him like genetic material out of a thug after some raw sex, while at the same time manipulating words like a pimp does his ho, His Royal Shadiness has taken the hip-hop world by storm, transporting him from the underground rap scene to mainstream America.









It all started back in the hard streets of Detroit, home of Motown, where Eminem started laying the smack down on mcs all over the city. After garnering the reputation as a battle mc, Eminem entered the Rap Olympics in '97. Although he "lost" the battle and finished in an undeserved second, he still won the war by impressing Sway & King Tech (of 92.3 The Beat) in that they invited him to bless the mic. Super producer Dr. Dre was so impressed by Shady's lyrical prowess that called the show to get in contact with Eminem, and the rest is history...Vinni Vidi Vici. He came onto the scene. He saw, and others saw, that he has the skill to make his mark in hip hop. He conquered the stereotypes that people had about "white mcs" and his skill: A Double Platinum Album and blessing other albums, from platinum artists such as Missy Elliot, to the likes of the Madd Rapper and the High & The Mighty, not forgetting his underground roots. As well as dampening the panties of females worldwide. With topics ranging from baby momma drama (Bonnie & Clyde '97), being pissed off to those that dissed him (Just Don't Give a Fuck), a man fighting within himself (Guilty Conscience), and a Jesse James/Billy the Kid themed collaboration with fellow mc Royce the 5'9 (Tommy Boy Records), Eminem has put Detroit in the Hip Hop Atlas.



While other magazines like to dwell and exploit the obvious, it was time to get down and dirty and ask Sir Shady his views on violence in Hip Hop, negative publicity, and OF COURSE SEX, SEX, and MORE SEX. Now get your hands in the air/and get to clappin' 'em/and like back and forth because/this here is what you thought it wasn't/it be the magazine with the questions by the dozen/ I be the D-E-double B-I-E/and check out the man who goes by the name of...Slim Shady. (FROGG please forgive me!)



INTERVIEW (Debbie): How are you feelin' today?

(Eminem): I'm doing good. I'm doing good.



(Debbie): Here's a copy of the Magazine. How ya feelin' the magazine?

(Eminem): I'm feelin' it! I'm feelin it



(Debbie): Why don't you give the readers the 411 on you : name, age, sign, birthday...

(Eminem): Alright. (with a nerdy voice) My name is Marshall Mathers, I'm 24 years old, I was born October 17, 1974, and um I...I'm a Libra. A'ight



(Debbie): I saw you on MTV Spring Break and you were definitely making it happen. How were you feelin' it?

(Eminem): I was feelin' it. I love Cancun. I love Spring Break. That was one of my most funnest part of the tour.





(Debbie): Did you always want to rhyme? Did you ever want to do anything else?

(Eminem): When I was like 12 or 13, I wanted to be a comic book artist. You know, I used draw pictures, but when I was around 14, 15, 16, I knew I wanted to rap. I knew it! I felt it in my heart.



(Debbie): Now your from Detroit. Is it that much different than LA or NY?

(Eminem): Every city's different, ya know. Every city's different, but in Detroit, we got an underground. We got a strong underground and shit, you know? People, they know what time it is, you know.



(Debbie): You say Detroit got an underground, but you ain't really hearing anything from Detroit except for you and Royce (da 5'9), so you'll definitely be putting them on the map.

(Eminem): Right. That's why I say underground. Mainstream ain't heard of Detroit yet. Ya know. Beside me and Royce da 5'9, we the only two cats really doing it on a large scale. Ya know, on a wider scale.



(Debbie): Who are some of your favorite MCs or artists?

(Eminem): My favorite MCs or artists...Um...Jay-Z. I like DMX, LL Cool J, Treach from Naughty By Nature, Nas. I like Redman, Royce da 5'9. Royce da 5'9 is one of my favorite MCs and he ain't even out yet, but I swear to God he's gonna bang motherfuckers in the head when he comes out! I'm telling you!



(Debbie): What do you think is the state of violence right now in Hip Hop? You know, we had Biggie die, Tupac Die, and now Big L...

(Eminem): (With anger in his voice) Shit is crazy! This shit is crazy and motherfuckers need to slow the fuck down! They do not realize that when you do some shit like that, you take somebody's fuckin' life! That shit is uncalled for! Big L?! Tupac?! Biggie?! Those are fuckin' Legends! You don't take Legends fuckin' lives! You don't take ANYBODY'S life like that! That shit is crazy! Hip Hop needs to slow the fuck down! But I don't think that shit that happened with Big L and whoever else it was rap/hip hop related, you know what I'm sayin? I don't think that was hip hop related. Motherfuckers were on some personal shit. But motherfuckers just gotta chill! You never gonna stop crime in America. That's just the way the world is. You're never gonna stop it. It's always gonna keep on, you know what I'm sayin'? As long as motherfuckers are broke and they ain't got nothing to lose, this shit is always gonna happen! Always! I hate that shit!



(Debbie): Who would you like to work with?

(Eminem): I just did a song with Missy, I just did a song with the Madd Rapper, I'm on Dre's Chronic II, but other than that, I'm done with collaborations. I don't want to spread myself too thin.



(Debbie): So if Rakim's calling you, you gonna say "I'm done with collaborations?!

(Eminem): Now I didn't say all that! (laughing)



(Debbie): Well, on a lighter note, you know this is an adult magazine and I have to ask adult questions, so are you down?

(Eminem): I'm down, I'm down.



(Debbie) So you're feeling the magazine and you have your different flavors. You have chocolate, vanilla, your butter pecan ricans...

(Eminem) A'ight!



(Debbie): So, what's your favorite?

(Eminem): What's my favorite? I LOVE ALL WOMEN! Yo, I don't... I don't...I can't say "I want a women to look like this, and this, and this when she comes backstage and otherwise I don't want to talk to her." I'm attracted to all women! I'm attracted to the female species, ya know.



(Debbie): I know you live in a predominantly Black neighborhood, did you date any sistas when you were younger? Was it taboo?

(Eminem): I met a little bit of resistance, but for the most part it was all love. I grew up with people on my block and they knew me, you know. I mean I got jumped, fucked up shit happened to me a few times, but that happens to everybody. I don't think it has anything to do with color or any of that shit. It's just all a part of growing up. So...



(Debbie): So are you lovin' us thick sistas or are you into those boney sistas?

(Eminem): I don't have a look code, I just look at every girl I see, and every girl I meet...



(Debbie): Do you watch any adult movies or porn?

(Eminem): All the time! I watch that shit on the bus!



(Debbie): Say word?! So who's your favorite actress of all time?

(Eminem): Janet Jacme.



(Debbie): Say word?! Stop lying!

(Eminem): Janet Jacme!



(Debbie): Would you ever star in a porno movie?

(Eminem): Hell...(couldn't hear the answer)



(Debbie): Hell no?

(Eminem): Hell shit yeah!!!



(Debbie): Oh hell yeah! (laughter)

(Eminem): Would I star in a porno movie?! (saying it like I was stupid)



(Debbie) I'm saying, represent! Like "A day in the Life of Slim Shady!"

(Eminem) Real soon you'll be seein' a porno by Slim Shady!



(Debbie) Oh for real?!

(Eminem) I got a little movie coming out and then you'll see a porno by Slim Shady.



(Debbie) Say Word?! So I'm saying...

(Eminem) There ain't no shame in my game. NO SHAME IN MY GAME AT ALL.



(Debbie): What would be the concept? (Eminem): The concept would be me fucking all the girls that dissed me.



(Debbie): So, if you could star with any adult actress, who would it be?

(Eminem): I like Janet Jacme, I like Amber Lynn, I like Ginger Lynn, Shane...



(Eminem) Who's that girl...Gina? (Debbie) Jeanna Fine?

(Eminem) No, no, no! Gina somethin' else, Gina somethin' else...She's older too!



(Debbie) You mean Nina Hartley!

(Eminem) (like we struck gold) Yeah! Nina Hartley! I LIKE Nina Hartley too! (laughter)



(Debbie): What's kind of girls do you consider freaky?

(Eminem): Girls who do girls. I'm not into really freaky shit. I mean, no bottles up into some shit and no animals.



(Debbie): So you wouldn't consider yourself a freak?

(Eminem): Not really. I'm not into really wild shit. No finger in the ass. No finger in MY ass (laughter).



(Debbie): You're not inspired by porn?

(Eminem): Only to try different positions. I saw some wild shit the other day. This girl was standing on her head, with her legs on this guys shoulders. Some upside down shit. I don't like all that extra shit, but I definitely wanna try that upside shit. No pierced clits. That's all pain. Is your clit pierced?



(Debbie) No!(laughter)

(Eminem) That's good! I don't like pierced clits (laughing).



(Debbie): So no anal sex?

(Eminem): Hell no! I only fuck with one hole (laughing). I mean if it's with my girl, then that's different, but hell no.



(Debbie) That's wild! I figured you'd be a full blown freak!

(Eminem) Not really.



(Debbie) I think everyone is freaky, but the right person has to bring it out. See, I think you have a freaky side, but someone needs to bring it out.

(Eminem) I've been with my girl for eight years, and it still not out.



(Debbie) But your girl ain't me. (laughing)

(Eminem) Oh word (laughing)?! We'll see the next time I come to New York! But that orgy in Pittsburgh was wild, but I don't consider myself a freak. I mean I might grab a girl's hair and kick her a couple of times (laughing). Maybe slap her (laughing).



(Debbie): What are some of your other favorite positions?

(Eminem): Doggystyle, I hate being on top! I like it when the girl is on top. I'm lazy like that. I like to make the girl work. And I like doggystyle!



(Debbie): Do you see a difference between how different girls sex you? Like do Black women do things that white women don't do, etc?

(Eminem): Nah. I don't see any difference. Why?



(Debbie) Because I see a definite difference in how Black men perform and white men perform.

(Eminem) How is that? Like what?



(Debbie) Like a lot of Black men don't perform oral sex whereas a lot of White men do.

(Eminem) I don't eat the cat either.



(Debbie): Word?! What's up with that?! (laughter)

(Eminem): I don't fuck with the cat! You don't know what's been down there!



(Debbie): So you NEVER would perform oral sex?!

(Eminem): I mean if it's with my girl or someone I know, then I would do it. but if it's with someone I just met, I ain't running up in that! But overall, I RARELY, RARELY, RARELY do it. But I'm mostly into having a girl cum. If she don't cum, I can't even stay hard. I'll just roll over and go to sleep.



(Debbie) That's very generous! Most men aren't like that!

(Eminem) I ain't most men.



(Debbie): Do you masturbate?

(Eminem): Hell yeah I do! At least two times a day! (laughing). Nah, it's not like that. I don't know how many times. I don't keep track (laughing). Why do you?



(Debbie) No.

(Eminem) You lying ass! When was the last time you had sex?



(Debbie) February

(Eminem) You haven't got dick since February. What's up with that? I gotta get to New York (laughter).



(Debbie): What's the freakiest thing you've ever done with someone on tour?

(Eminem): I haven't done really freaky yet. I'm still waiting to do it. I like watching girls do shit in front of me.



(Debbie): What is the freakiest thing you've seen on tour?

(Eminem): Nothing really.



(Debbie): Stop lying! I know about them two girls doing their thing with each other in front of all! Come on! We at Black Gold are all family! What was up with that?!

(Eminem): Oh you heard about that shit?! That wasn't anything. Just some immature girls. See, I like to watch, but every time I meet girls, they always wanna do shit with me, but I'm like "Nah." That Dallas shit was some bullshit. These two girls were eating each other out and as soon as the pants were coming off, it was like "Well, I don't know if I wanna do this." The other girl was wild and down for whatever, but the other was like "I don't know. She's my friend.." The freakiest shit I seen was in Pittsburgh. I seen four girls at once.



(Debbie): Say word?! How the hell did that happen?!

(Eminem): I don't know! (laughing) They all took turns. I had my boys in there and the girls were giving us a show. That shit was wild!



(Debbie): Does your girl know all this shit is going on?

(Eminem): Hell no! (laughing) and you better not print it either! (laughing) But she ain't stupid either, but she don't know all that...



(Debbie): Alright now, on a sentimental note. For all the female readers of Black gold that want you to melt in their mouth, what kind of woman are you looking for? That is if you are looking...

(Eminem): What kind of women am I looking for? One night stands! (laughter)



(Debbie): For real?! (laughter) (Eminem): That's all. That's all! (laughing)



(Debbie): You aren't trying to get married and have more kids?

(Eminem): Hell no! I got one little girl in this world and that's all I need!



(Debbie): How's your family doing?

(Eminem): How's my family doing? My little girl is doing fine.



(Debbie): Yeah, she made her debut on the Bonnie & Clyde joint on the album. Is she star material? (Eminem): She's definitely star material! My little girl is beautiful. My little girl is going to be a movie star. She's only three, but she's so smart! Three going on seven.



(Debbie): That's good! Now knowing that you had your daughter, in Bonnie & Clyde, as an accomplice (in her mom's murder), I KNOW your girl must have been trippin'! How did you explain yourself after she heard that shit?

(Eminem): What I told her was like "Look. I was pissed off!" That's all I could say. I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one point in time, I really wanted to do that shit. For real. Baby Momma Drama.



(Debbie) That should be the title of your next song! Baby Momma Drama!

(Eminem) That is so typical!



(Debbie) Every more reason to do it!

(Eminem) Nah, I got other songs about her. I finished four songs for the next album, and I have a song called "Kim" which is basically about shit that led up to "Bonnie & Clyde." I gotta few songs. I gotta few. My baby's mother put me through a lot of shit, so she's worth a lot of songs.



(Debbie)(Laughing) You mean before you killed her?!

(Eminem) Yeah. Before I cut her throat. (laughing)



(Debbie): So is she gonna come out with an album about you?

(Eminem): (laughing) That would be funny! That would be really funny! (laughing)



(Debbie): Any R&B sad songs?

(Eminem): (a very quick) No! No, no, no!



(Debbie): You don't like R&B? I mean old R&B?!

(Eminem): I'm not saying I don't like R&B. It's just not my thing. It's not the type of music I get into. I mean I could listen to a little bit of it, but me doing it personally, I can't fuck with that.



(Debbie): So what's up your babymova? (laughter) (Eminem): Me and my girl have been breaking up and making up so much! Right now it's cool. I just got back with her. But she got an attitude and I can't stand that attitude shit. But shit got worse when my daughter was born.



(Debbie): How is that?

(Eminem): Every time we would fight and we'd break up, she'd say "Well if you don't want to see me anymore, you can't see Hailie (his daughter). She would use my daughter against me.



(Debbie) That's messed up.

(Eminem) Yup. Baby Momma Drama.



(Debbie): Did you want a boy?

(Eminem): It didn't really matter.



(Debbie): But all men want a boy. All men want a little man. You didn't feel that?

(Eminem): I did in the beginning, before she was born. But once she was born, I was like, "I got a little girl."



(Debbie): Were you scared to death?

(Eminem): I wasn't scared. I was changing diapers at 11, when my brother was born. I was a little scared, but when she was born, I was like "This isn't so bad."



(Debbie): So what's up with your brother? Is he safe? You know people are probably on his shit because you're his brother.

(Eminem): Yo, my brother is mad cool. He's the most popular kid in the school! He got like 10 girlfriends!



(Debbie): For real?! (laughter)

(Eminem): Word! He even dyed his hair blond and got his ears pierced! He look just like me! He came to my concert and the girls were all over him! They didn't even want to get with me! He was sitting on this girls lap and she was rubbing all over him! I was like "You go you little pimp!" (laughter)



(Debbie): Have you had women fight over you?

(Eminem): Hell yeah! I had a bunch! One night there was two girls in my hotel room, and I didn't like any of them. So I left the room. I can't remember why I left because I was drunk, but I left. Then I look outside in the parking lot, and these two girls were fighting each other. Each was blaming the other for me leaving. I mean they were scrapping on the floor. Little did they know I didn't like any one of them.



(Debbie): What's the weirdest shit that happened to you with a female?

(Eminem): One time there were two girls in the hotel lobby, and I picked one girl over her friend and took her upstairs, and the other girl was crying!



(Debbie): Word? What was up with that?

(Eminem): She was a manic depressive. I know this because I saw her popping pills and I asked her what she was doing and she told me. She was taking anti-depressants. She was like "I'll be okay as long as I'm taking my medication." And when I picked her friend, she flipped out! She was crying "I'm the Slim Shady fan, not her!" "Why is she up there and not me?!" "My rent is due!"



(Debbie)(laughing) Damn!

(Eminem)Yeah, and I saw her the next day at the show. She was like "Hi, do you remember me? I said "Yeah, and get away from me!" She was crazy (laughter).



(Debbie)(laughing) Oh damn. That mess is wild!

(Eminem) Yeah (laughing)



(Debbie): How do you deal with all the people grabbing all over you?

(Eminem): It's wild because I'm real! I'm a human being like everyone else. You can talk to me because I'm just like you. But motherfuckers can be rude. I mean I'll be eating and a cat will come up to me and be like "Yo, Em. Drop me a freestyle!" "Yo, Em, can I get an autograph," "Yo, can you call my house and leave a message!?" And I'm like "Yo, I'm eatin!"



(Debbie)That's funny because in New York, people don't do that because most rappers grow up with you and live down your block.

(Eminem) That's true. And in California, they're cool too! They ain't star struck. I'll be in a diner eatin', and a cat will be like "Yo, what's up Em" and walk by. But in the Midwest, people lose their mind! I'm like, "You can touch me. I'm real!" Let me give you an example of the funniest shit that happened. Me and Big Nasty (Eminem's bodyguard) were at the airport, bringing back the rent-a-car, and the rent-a-car lady comes running up to the car to check the mileage. I don't think she knew who I was. But then when I stepped out the car, she flipped out! She kept on saying "Oh my God" "Oh my God" over and over again! She was like "What's your name?!" "What's your name?" I said "My name is.."(doing the song), and she flipped out again. She asked for a hug and I gave it to her. She still kept on saying "Oh my God," "Oh my God." Then she turned around to walk away, and I don't know what happened, but she tripped and fell on her face! We were laughing our asses off! (laughing)



(Debbie) Word?! She fell?!(laughing)

(Eminem) Yeah! And when she was on the floor, she STILL kept on saying "Oh my God," "Oh my God!" (laughing)



(Debbie): That shit is wild! How are you dealing with all the media attention?

(Eminem): 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. Like the Source. They're like, he's white, let's get over it. But when Rolling Stone came out with "Low Down Dirty White Boy" on the cover, I was like "This shit is critical." I liked the article inside, but when I saw the cover, I was like "What the fuck is this?!" But then you have your magazines like XXL that called me a culture stealer and an invader. That's some elementary school shit. Give me a break! It's funny how all the magazines can dwell on my race, but they could NEVER say that my shit is whack because they know my shit is tight!



(Debbie) That just shows how little people know about hip hop, because you have crazy rappers that are white in the underground.

(Eminem) I know! I came from the underground.



(Debbie) Also, some people have a hard time believing that there are poor white people or that they even live in a ghetto. America has crazy white people in poverty.

(Eminem) 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. I don't want them to be poor. I just lost a friend of mine to some bullshit! He was playing around with some friends and he accidentally sprayed water on this girl's sweater. She went back and told two dudes that he sprayed water, and they went over to him, shot him twice and ran over him with their car. Over some stupid bullshit.



(Debbie) I'm sorry to hear that.

(Eminem)(very sad)Yeah. He was gonna come out with an album in two weeks. I wish I brought him on with me... But we (white people) have problems too.



(Debbie): Do you plan on making two sets of videos? Like one will be an X-rated version on videotape and one for the networks like Tupac's "How do You Want It"?

(Eminem): I thought about it. But I'm doing a feature film on my life. Me and Dre. Some of it's going to be true, and the other is gonna be some bugged out shit. The other shit is how Dre views my life. How he sees my life, how I was born, how I was conceived, etc. It's gonna be bugged out! It's gonna be released on videotape It's gonna be wild!



(Debbie): Speaking of video, I saw the "Guilty Conscience" video on BET and I heard that MTV edited the hell out of it. What happened?

(Eminem): I sent MTV a copy of the video, and because they are on this anti-violence campaign because of the Columbine killings, they edited the fuck out the video. The Commissioner against Violence wrote MTV and said "How can you say you're against violence when you play Eminem, Korn and Marilyn Manson?" BET is showing me mad love. But I haven't seen the edited video yet.



(Debbie) Why shouldn't BET show you love? You're hip hop too.

(Eminem) Yup



(Debbie): Why do you think there is such a connection between Hip Hop and the adult industry?

(Eminem): Because rappers are all freaks! Also Hip Hop is tying into everything!



(Debbie): I heard Dustin Hoffman played "The Mummy" at one of your concerts. How did that jump off? (Eminem): I was performing at the House of Blues in California, and he was there with his kids. He came backstage and we were talking and I asked him to play "The Mummy." His kids begged him to do it. He was like, "Hey if it makes my kids happy and since you make my kids happy, I'll do it." I was amped. That night, he came onstage as "The Mummy" and everybody was wondering who the Mummy was. Then at the end of the show, I was like "Do ya'll wanna know who the Mummy is?" I ripped off the mask and when everybody saw it was Dustin Hoffman, the crowd went bananas!



(Debbie) See that's messed up because ya'll weren't trying to do that in New York when I went to the show! (Eminem) We didn't have The Mummy idea set up yet. But in every city now we're going to let someone else be The Mummy.



(Debbie) Well, I would've been the Mummy! But Big Nasty said the costume wouldn't fit because my chest is too big!

(Eminem) Yeah, I don't think the costume would fit because your chest is too big (laughter)



(Debbie)(laughter) Damn! You remember?!

(Eminem) Yeah, I do (laughing)!



(Debbie): Now why did you feel the need to dis Milkbone, Cage, and everybody? I mean, your shit was hot and it would've still been hot without the dissing, so why did you feel you had to break on them?

(Eminem): I didn't know any of this shit was going to happen between Cage and me. I dissed Cage because he said I took his style. I don't even know the motherfucker! I never even heard of it! I never even heard of him! My manager, as a matter of fact, had to send me a copy of his record and he (his manager) was like "Yo, this kid is saying you bit his style..." I was like "Yo, send me his record." I heard his record and I was like "This motherfucker don't even sound like me!" With Milkbone, I wasn't even dissing Milkbone on my album. When I said "I'm on a Serch to crush a Milkbone" (from "Don't Give a Fuck"), I was talking about stereotypes and now I heard he wants to bring it, so he could bring it and look stupid, you know what I'm sayin'!



(Debbie)I think it's on the Death Row "Chronic 2000" album.

(Eminem) I don't think so, but I heard his shit and his shit is garbage. I wish it is was dope enough for me to respond, but it's not, you know what I'm sayin'? So fuck it. I'm not giving them any more attention.



(Debbie): What about Vanilla Ice? See, I think Vanilla Ice gets a bad rap. I think he was just a puppet in the game. The executives were like "You want to eat? Say you're from the ghetto even though you aren't." He was a puppet.

(Eminem): Look, I went to all black schools, and I went to mixed schools. I say be proud of where you come from and represent. Fuck it, if you're from Beverly Hills, be proud. Don't lie! I could never lie! Shit! I'd be too paranoid that people would find out. I couldn't do it, but then again, I'm not in his situation. Did you see what he said about me in Vibe Magazine (June issue)?



(Debbie) Yeah, but I don't think he really means that. I don't think he really hates you, I just think he feels that he HAS to, not because he truly feels that way. It's like, there are few of you so-called "white rappers" out there that he feels he needs to break on you and playa hate. It's all jealousy.

(Eminem)Yeah. When I read it, I felt like he was jealous of me. You could sense the animosity, like he was saying to himself, "That (Eminem) should be me."



(Debbie) But I think Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer were ahead of their time. I mean they were going platinum when a lot of rappers weren't. Hammer had sponsors, a doll, a cartoon before ANYONE else did, and they hated on him. Now everyone's doing the same thing.

(Eminem) Yeah that's true. But I'm sayin' still represent. Isn't Hammer broke?



(Debbie) Not by OUR standards. By the standards of people living in Beverly Hills.

(Eminem) True.



(Debbie) Look at Milli Vanilli. They wanted to expose themselves and say that they weren't singing their own shit. But their manager beat them to it and exposed them as frauds. Ain't that fucked up!

(Eminem) Hell ya!



(Debbie) And you know what? Their manager still kept in touch with the member that died. As a matter of fact, the manager was the one who found him when he committed suicide!

(Eminem) Word?!



(Debbie) You know that manager is NOT sleeping well at night!

(Eminem) Hell No! He definitely ain't!



(Debbie) I also think the reason that some people have a problem with you is because, you're white, you love rap, you don't want to be black because you're proud of who you are, AND you came from the underground, so you are a part of Hip Hop, whether they like it or not. No one "made" you like they "made" Vanilla Ice.

(Eminem) Exactly, I love Hip Hop regardless, and people from the underground know me. I mean it's not like I wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and say "Boy, I sure am white today." So get off it and move on.



(Debbie) That's why you're talking to Black Gold! We on some other shit!

(Eminem) A'ight!



(Debbie) I mean, MC Serch, I know that brother was praying to be Black before he went to sleep. (laughter) He even dissed white people in his own rhymes.

(Eminem) Yeah that's right. In "Gas Face" he said "Black cat is bad luck/Bad guys wear black/Must have been a white man that created all that." I remember when I heard that, I felt funny, like "Yo, what is he saying?!" I felt uncomfortable. But he is a dope MC and one of favorite MCs.



(Debbie): So do you really smoke all that weed and do all that shit that you say on the album?

(Eminem): Everything I say, 99.9% of that shit I lived. I either lived it or I've seen it. It's better for me tell you what I don't do, than what I do do. I don't do heroin, cocaine, but I do 'shrooms, ecstasy, and I don't really smoke that much weed. I guess because I smoke so much of it, that shit has no affect on me (laughter).



(Debbie) So use something stronger, like crack! (laughing)

(Eminem)(laughing) Yeah right! but nah, I don't smoke crack either. But I do drink Bacardi. I drink that shit like water!



(Debbie) That's wild that you're so honest and you could say "Yo, I drink"

(Eminem)(reciting a line from "Don't Give a Fuck") Well, my name is Marshall Mathers and I'm an alcoholic...(laughing) Why? Do you do drugs? (Debbie) No.

(Eminem) Not even weed?! (Debbie) No!



(Eminem) Would you try it?

(Debbie) I never tried and I don't know if I would.



(Debbie): You shouted out Canibus on you album. He was one of our cover stories. Have you ever seen him perform or freestyle?

(Eminem): I never heard Canibus freestyle, but I respect him as a lyricist. I will say that.



(Debbie): Yeah. I have a mixtape and I heard him freestyle and he's on some technological shit. He's real nice. What advice do you have to those who are trying to get into the game?

(Eminem): Keep working! You gotta know that you're dope. You gotta know you have talent. If you know that, keep working and it will happen. If you ain't got any talent, I can't speak for that!



(Debbie): Any advice to our female Black Gold readers who might be feeling you?

(Eminem): Use condoms!



(Debbie): (laughter) Besides that!

(Eminem): (laughter) Use condoms. Use used condoms if you have to! (everybody's laughing). I don't give a fuck! Use used condoms if you have to! Right?



(Debbie): Do you believe in God?

(Eminem): Yeah I do, but I'm not a religious person. I don't go to church and all that.



(Debbie) Me too, but I know you must have praying everyday! And he definitely blessed you! Very few people can actually do what they love.

(Eminem) Hell yeah I prayed everyday! Before I got my deal, I lost my job. I couldn't even afford diapers. I was like "Something gotta give!"



(Debbie) Well you've definitely been blessed!

(Eminem) Thank you.



(Debbie): Well what's in the future for Slim Shady?

(Eminem): In the Fall, I'm doing another tour, but I don't know who else is on it. And then there the Chronic tour with Dre. I'm gonna be meeting with him, but there is no release date yet for the album or the tour.



(Debbie): Any last words?

(Eminem): Don't ever let anyone try and stop hip hop. Hip hop is gonna be here for mother-fuckin E-V-E-R. Hip Hop is forever. Hip Hopis universal and it will never stop. These motherfuckers tried to stop it in the beginning, they could not stop it.



(Debbie) Well, God Bless you and thank you so much for the interview! God Bless to your family!

(Eminem) Thank you!



(Debbie) Oh by the way, everything I didn't put in here I'm going to put in a tell all book!

(Eminem) You're gonna put all kinds of shit in a tell-all book! Oh word!



(Debbie)I'm saying. You gotta give me the hush money!

(Eminem) Oh word!



(Debbie) Yeah! You went double platinum, you could afford it! I'll give you my bank account number! (Eminem) A'ight. I'll drop $7 million tomorrow.



(Debbie) I'm gonna call it "The Shady Memoirs." (laughter)

(Eminem) You're an ass! (laughter) Peace.

LOL! This interview could never happen again.