Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, record executive, and actor.
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.
You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it.
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.
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
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.
It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how. '
I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat
I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N. W. A. and I never went out and shot nobody.
Touring used to be hard. Early on in my career when I was more in grind mode, I was doing two or three shows a day. It was tough because you start feeling like you have no life. That being said, I do enjoy actually doing the shows.
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.
I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.
I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.
I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
I really should have fell but I stood
Rap will never be the same as before
You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture. . . that's me.