Category: Eminem

“Basically what I was trying to do with it was take [people] back to ’95, that time when that beef was happening,” Em added. “Make them realize how ridiculous the beef was in the first place that it ever came to that level.” Regardless of how the public receives the record, Slim Shady has already…

— by Shaheem Reid, with reporting by Lauren Lazin With the impending release of “Tupac: Resurrection,” which hits theaters November 14, MTV presents two shows: “Tupac: Resurrection – An MTV Movie Special” and ” Tupac: Resurrection: Soundtrack,” which premiere on MTV October 30 beginning at 11 p.m. ET. Marshall Mathers just heard the news and…

For those who still believe Eminem might be a racist, I would like to quote him in his own words in an interview given to the Spin Magazine: “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…

by Chuck Eddy, December the 25th 2002. So when you’re born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day, and then suddenly your daddy’s not a pawn and you’re not a pauper anymore, do you get more presents on your birthday, or less, or what? Hard to say, but Hailie Jade Mathers, who turns…

THE BEST WHITE RAPPER Getting in Touch with Your Inner Slim Shady by Erin Franzman EMINEM IS THE BEST white rapper there is, because he doesn’t try to sound black. Lil’ Kim can rhyme “of course” with “Christian Lacroix” (“of cawz” and “la-crawz”) by dragging her vowels until they’re flat as pancakes–without sounding like a…

August 30, 2002– Hip-hop wordsmith Eminem recently released an animated video to his song “White America,” a clip that criticizes the United States, calling it the “Democracy of Hypocrisy” and “Divided State of Embarrassment.” The video is laced with vivid images of people urinating on the White House lawn, a Columbine-like school shooting, the Constitution…

Obie Trice : a talented rapper signed to Shady Records Obie Trice is one of the coolest guys I have ever met . We met on June the 19th at Paris Bercy (Anger Management Tour 2003) (at the busses area). He’s got a great sense of humor and this encounter will always remain a great…

The Body and Soul of Eminem Across the Borderline by DAVE MARSH While I watched Eminem’s 8 Mile, the film that replayed itself in parallel wasn’t an Elvis film or Purple Rain, which I’d been told to watch out for, but Body and Soul, Robert Rossen’s 1948 boxing movie in which John Garfield struggles to…

The Eminem Blog 1. Eminem’s lyrics help desensitize boys and men to the pain and suffering of girls and women. Eminem’s fans argue that his raps about mistreating, raping, torturing, and murdering women are not meant to be taken literally. “Just because we listen to the music doesn’t mean we’re gonna go out and harass,…

By JANET MASLIN Published: October 30, 2003 Writing seriously about pop idols requires a delicate balancing act, one that positions the author safely on the continuum between fogy and fan. The writer must sound intelligently admiring rather than merely star-struck. The peregrinations must range beyond mere thumb-sucking repetition of the obvious. Yet the supernova’s heat…