And it started to feel like, you know, maybe Marshall's gettin' a little respect." You know what I mean? He can't write what I'm writing right now. He recalled, "I finally found something that yeah, this kid over here, you know, he may have more chicks, and he may, you know, have better clothes, or whatever, but he can't do this like me. Eminem proved highly skilled at such verbal sparring and, despite his race, quickly became one of the most respected figures in Detroit's underground rap scene.
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Kim, who claimed that she didn't know her father and had been sexually abused by her stepfather, came to live with Eminem and his mother Deborah.Īlthough at the time rap music was almost exclusively produced by Black people, Eminem, who has pale white skin and bright blue eyes, nevertheless entered into the Detroit rap scene as a frequent competitor in rap "battles"-competitions in which two rappers take turns insulting the other through improvised rap lyrics. You know, somewhere, they'll be stored, like, locked away." Ex-Wife and DaughterĮminem was just 15 when he met 13-year-old Kim Ann Scott at a house party. I just felt like I wanna be able to have all of these words at my disposal, in my vocabulary at all times whenever I need to pull 'em out. "I found that no matter how bad I was at school, like, and no matter how low my grades might have been at some times, I always was good at English. Yet despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity for language, devouring comic books and even studying the dictionary. "Beat up in the bathroom, beat up in the hallways, shoved into lockers," he remembered.Įminem attended Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan, where he failed the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17. He had no close friends, kept almost entirely to himself and was treated like an outcast at each new school. This itinerant lifestyle left a large impact on his personality. "That was probably the roughest part about it all." "I would change schools two, three times a year," Eminem later recalled. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.” “There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act and they know they're an act. It's the music that I love and the music I respect.” “A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. But just know that 'Slim Shady' is hip-hop. But I think I've calmed down a bit.” “Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. Never even seen a picture of him.” “I'm not afraid to take a stand.” “Opportunity comes once in a lifetime.” “Anything I've ever said I certainly meant at the time. “There's obviously a limit to what people want to know, but I've pretty much put most of it out there.” “The emotions in a song, the anger, the aggression, have got to be legitimate.” “I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.” “My father? Never knew him.
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