Eminem is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States. Throughout his career, he has had 10 number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. With US sales of 45.1 million albums and 42 million tracks as of June 2014, Eminem is the second best-selling male artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, the sixth best-selling artist in the United States and the best-selling hip-hop artist. Globally, he has sold more than 172 million albums, thus being one of the world's best-selling artists. Rolling Stone ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, calling him the King of Hip Hop.
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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.
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.
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
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.
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
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.
I need to keep working on myself for a while.
Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
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
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?
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.
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything
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.
Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
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.
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Rap was my drug.
It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
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.
My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.
I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
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.
My only scheme was to be a rapper.