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Eminem [1972-0] American

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Musician, Rapper

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.	Life, Truth	101
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.		102
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.	Love, Society	103
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.	Life	104
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.	Funny, Trust	105
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.	Best, Car, Love, Music	106
Guns are bad, I tell you.		107
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.		108
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.	Money, Time	109
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.	Funny	110
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'		111
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'.		112
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.	Music	113
I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.		114
Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.	Famous	115
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.		116
I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.		117
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.		118
My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.		119
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.	Home	120
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.	Music	121
A lot of truth is said in jest.	Truth	122
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.	Dad	123
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?		124
I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.		125
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.	Freedom	126
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.	Business, Relationship	201
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.	Best	202
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.	Home, Music	203
I was a smart kid, but I hated school.		204
The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.		205
It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.		206
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.		207
You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.		208
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.	Best	209
Honestly, I never really put the mic down.		210
It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.		211
I need to keep working on myself for a while.		212
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.		213
I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.		214
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.		215
When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.		216
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.	Sad	217
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.		218
I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you're always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.	Chance	219
It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.		220
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.		221
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.		222
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.		223
I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.	Women	224
These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.		225
I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.		226
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.	Humor	301
To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.		302
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'.		303
Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.		304
My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.		305
Rap was my drug.		306
Touring is hard on the body.		307
It feels good to have your work respected again.		308
I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.		309
I'm very much a creature of habit.		310
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.		311
Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.		312
I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'		313
I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.		314
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.	Change	315
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?		316
The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.	Age	317
I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.	Music	318
I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.		319
I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.		320
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.	Family, Marriage	321
I didn't just invent saying offensive things.		322
My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.	Family	323
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.		324
Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.		325
Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.		326
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.	Poetry	401
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.		402
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.		403
Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.		404
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.		405
The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.	Anger	406
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.		407
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.		408
I need drama in my life to keep making music.		409
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.		410
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.		411
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.'	Learning, Positive	412
Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.		413
Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!		414
Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.		415
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.		416
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.		417
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.		418
If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.		419
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.	Mom	420
My only scheme was to be a rapper.		421
I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.		422
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.		423
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.	Poetry	424
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.		425
I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.		426
I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.		501
When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.		502
I'm not really book-smart.		503

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