Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known as Slim Shady and his primary stage name Eminem, is an Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor. Having sold over seventy million albums worldwide, Eminem is one of the highest-selling rappers of all time.
Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling hip hop album in history, followed by an increasing amount of popularity, critical praise, as well as controversy. While Eminem has won many Grammy Awards, been praised for having "verbal energy", high quality of lyricism and been ranked at number nine on MTV's list of The Greatest MCs of All Time, #13 on the MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music" and #82 on Rolling Stone's "The Immortals" he has often been infamous for the controversy surrounding many of these lyrics, including allegations of glorifying homophobia, misogyny, and violence.
“You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!”
“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”
“I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.”
“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.”
“Don't let them tell you ain't beautiful”
“Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.”
“A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.”
“If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.”
“I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.”
“Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.”
“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
“But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get ourchecks in the mail.”
“It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening”
“Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.”
“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.”
“When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.”
“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”
“Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters”
“Damn. How much damage can you do with a pen?”
“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”
“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.”
“I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.”
“Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.”
“Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.”
“Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.”
“I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.”
“Cause sometimes, you just feel tired. Feel weak. And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength, and just pull that shit out of you. And get that motivation to NOT give up and NOT be a quitter. No matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.”
“I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.”
“Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil”
“Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.”