"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.
On these 50 essential songs, Eminem fearlessly displays that devotion to task and proves why he’s been one of pop music’s most fascinating, complex characters.“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. But for a poor, white, emotionally unstable MC to excel in hip-hop and not be viewed as a villainous buffoon, he must possess prodigious artistic gifts and a real commitment to personal transparency. He’s also, on occasion, regurgitating grotesque sexist, homophobic stereotypes. When Eminem raps about violent, tragicomic death, he is furthering a grand murder-ballad tradition in folk and blues music. But spend serious time with Eminem’s entire catalogue and you quickly realize that those two sides of his music are inextricable, one always informing the other. They eschew the more viciously somber, rock-leaning character studies helmed by Em and his longtime Detroit collaborators Jeff and Mark Bass. Some fans celebrate only the funny “Slim Shady,” when the musical comedy is quality controlled by executive producer Dr. It’s just now he’s finding it harder to joke about the darkness that has always fueled his best work. Just listen to the vulnerability and self-doubt on his recent single “ Walk on Water.” At age 45, the Detroit rapper continues to make art about how people are driven crazy by weakness and lack.
Though he’s been a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning star for almost 20 years, Eminem is not an unequivocally triumphant figure, either within pop music or within his own mind.
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