A biography for Eminemhasn’t been written yet.
“האם אי פעם הופלתם לרעה או הייתם שונאים? אני הייתי. לא רק זה – גם הפגינו נגדי!”
“זה הכל פוליטי! אם המוזיקה שלי גסה ואני פושע, איך לעזאזל אני יכול לגדל ילדה קטנה? לא הייתי יכול, לא הייתי מתאים.”
“אולי עשיתי כמה טעויות, אבל אני רק אנושי... אבל אני גבר מספיק כדי להתמודד איתן היום.”
“אל תעשנו סמים, אל תקללו, אל תלכו מכות – תשאירו את זה לי.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.”
“I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.”
“I'm not really book-smart.”
“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.”
“My only scheme was to be a rapper.”
“Rap was my drug.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.”
“Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.”
“I need drama in my life to keep making music.”
“I didn't just invent saying offensive things.”