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Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States.
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“The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”
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“The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”
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“Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.”
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“Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.”
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“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.”
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“You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.”
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“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”
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“I was a smart kid, but I hated school.”
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“I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.”
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“I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.”
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“Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.”
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“Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I need to keep working on myself for a while.”
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“I need to keep working on myself for a while.”
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“Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.”
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“Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.”
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“To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.”
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“You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.”
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“You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.”
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“I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.”
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“I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.”
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“I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”
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“I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”
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“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.”
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“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.”
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“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.”
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“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?”
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“Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?”
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“Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.”
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“Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.”
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“Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.”
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“Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.”
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“I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.”
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“I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.”
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“I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.”
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“I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.”
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“I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.”
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“I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.”
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“A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.”
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“A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.”
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“It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.”
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“It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.”
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“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.”
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“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.”
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“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
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“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
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“A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'”
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“A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'”
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“Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”
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“Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.”
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“I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.”
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“I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.”
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“The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.”
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“The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.”
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“I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.”
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“It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.”
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“It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.”
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“I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.”
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“I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.”
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“There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.”
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“There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.”
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