Eminem: Interviews and Articles MTV Interview Eminem's current mode of transportation has none of the plush luxuries you would assume a rapper might have in his traveling venue: no TV, no PlayStation 2, no DVD player and no roof. "Throw it up," the Detroit rhyme Goliath says, looking down at an anxious fan waving a CD. Eminem's in New York City, traveling with an entourage around Manhattan on a bus, made for tourists to go site-seeing. But Slim Shady is the spectacle today as he rides downtown from Times Square. "I remember them days, just being so f---ing hungry," Eminem laughs after trying to catch the guy's CD that was flung to him from street level. "People will go to such lengths. I would do anything to let people hear my sh--. I didn't care, [I was like] 'Please dub my sh--, please listen to my demo.' " Continue Reading BBC Radio 1 Interview Sara Cox and Tim Westwood caught up with Eminem in New York. On rhyming... To touch the average listener you have to use words that touch emotion. The average listener doesn't catch rhyme for rhyme and syllable for syllable. People think that it's so easy to write a rhyme or song with a catchy hook, but it's not simple. If it was the whole world would be doing it. I believe that this album will show who my true fans are, and show the people who bought my last album for Stan and the Real Slim Shady. Continue Reading Eminem: "Oh yes, it's Shady's night" Eminem is still the baddest boy in hip-hop. So bad, in fact, that his own mother sued him for £10 million last year after he claimed in his hit single 'My Name Is' that she smokes more dope than he does. The success of 'My Name Is' helped the Detroit-based rapper's controversial major label debut 'The Slim Shady LP' sell four million copies in the US. Eminem's sharp, funny, fast-flowing rhymes and outrageous white-trash humour made him the most original and talked-about rapper in America. Now he's back with a new album cheekily-titled 'The Marshall Mathers LP' (it's his real name, hence the M&M-style nom-de-rap). The first single is 'The Real Slim Shady', on which he disses the competition and Britney Spears to boot. He'll be premiering this and other tracks from the album when he appears at London Brixton Academy on Bank Holiday Monday (May 1). His special guest star is Dr Dre, original gangsta and producer of 'My Name Is'. Continue Reading Eminem Interview: Chocolate on the Inside The most promising new rapper of the year is a cartoonishly angry welfare kid from the Detroit ghetto. Oh, and by the way, he's white. Spin: From listening to your album, you get the impression that your childhood was pretty much a living hell. What was it really like? Eminem: I was born in Kansas City, and my dad left when I was five or six months old. Then when I was five we moved to a real bad part of Detroit. I was getting beat up a lot, so we moved back to K.C., then back to Detroit again when I was 11. My mother couldn't afford to raise me, but then she had my little brother, so when we moved back to Michigan, we were just staying wherever we could, with my grandmother or whatever family would put us up. I know my mother tried to do the best she could, but I was bounced around so much--it seemed like we moved every two or three months. I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. I'm not trying to give some sob story, like, "Oh, I've been broke all my life," but people who know me know it's true. There were times when friends had to buy me f***in' shoes! I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything. These were mostly African-American neighborhoods where you grew up? Eminem: Yeah, near 8 Mile Road in Detroit, which separates the suburbs from the city. Almost all the blacks are on one side, and almost all the whites are on the other, but all the families nearby are low-income. We lived on the black side. Most of the time it was relatively cool, but I would get beat up sometimes when I'd walk around the neighborhood and kids didn't know me. One day I got jumped by, like, six dudes for no reason. I also got shot at, and ended up running out of my shoes, crying. I was 15 years old and I didn't know how to handle that shit. Continue Reading