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Count me OUT! Thats right. This white guy is nothing but fake. You think he has skills? HA. Dr.Dre helps him on all his songs (not that i like Dre).
If you like all this hip hop stuff listen to Mos Def or Dead Prezident. Atleast then ull learn something other than how to kill homos or beat ur wife.
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sorry never heard of the dudes u mentioned.....why aren't they popular??? jo acha ho use sab jaante hein chaahe jo bhi ho
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haha beshak..... i see people here against him but now there is no doubt he is the best after his album EMINEM SHOW announced as the most selling album and then his first movie was a superhit too....
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True. Very true.
People hate what Eminem has got so far.
2002 was a great year of success for Eminem. His album 'The Eminem Show' was no 1. His song 'Lose Yourself' was no. 1 on the chart as soundtrack of the movie '8-Mile' as well.
Plus, '8-Mile earned almost 55 million dollars in straight 5 weeks. His performace in the movie was Oscar worthy, as Hollywood Access said.
i am in too hes is my favorite
EMIN3M RooooooooooooLeZ !!!!!!!!!!!
You better lose yourself in the music the moment u own it u better never let it go u only get one hcance do not miss your chance to blow...this opportunity comez once in a lifetime yO !!!
Sweet dreams for Vivendi Universal.
Eminem Cheers Troubled Vivendi
Troubled media giant Vivendi Universal finally has something to smile about after it sold more CDs than any of its competitors and increased its market share last year.
Eminem’s latest album helped Universal grab 28.8% of the US market, the biggest in the world, according to Nielsen Sound Scan
Overall, sales of CDs slumped 9.3% to 624.2 million units, the second consecutive year-on-year fall after a 2.8% decline in 2001.
The major labels blame the sluggish economy and free downloading on the internet through services such as Kazaa for the weak sales.
Vivendi’s Universal Music Group saw its market share rise to 29% from 26%.
Vivendi Universal assets, including Universal Studios and Universal Music, have been the subject of sell-off rumours in the past months.
Franco-American Vivendi has been disposing of assets to reduce its 19bn euros (£12.4bn; $19.7bn) of debt.
The company’s share price fell 74.2% last year and it is being investigated by financial regulators in France and the US.
Universal’s Detroit-based rapper-turned-actor sold 7.6 million copies of his latest album, ‘The Eminem Show’ making it the biggest seller of 2002.
The label dominated the top of the charts, with rapper Nelly’s ‘Nellyville’ coming in second with 4.9 million units sold.
Eminem’s ‘8 Mile’ soundtrack was in fifth place, Ashanti’s self-titled album in seventh, and Shania Twain’s ‘Up’ in ninth, said Sound Scan.
Universal’s music division accounts for about 19% of Vivendi’s media-related revenues, the company said in November.
The semi-autobiographical movie ‘8 Mile’, telling the story Eminem’s life and produced by Universal Studios, shot to number one in the US box office in November and took more than $114m.
Despite the success of rap and hip hop, country music was the only style that increased sales last year, gaining 12% on 2001, Sound Scan said.
Market Share 2002
Universal 29%
Warner 15.9%
Sony 15.7%
BMG 14.8%
EMI 8.4%
Independent labels 16.2%
Review: ‘The Eminem Show’ Gets Personal
(Entertainment Weekly) – Eminem has been messing with our collective heads so long now that we expect to be confused: When is he in character, when isn’t he, and when does he mean what he says? Just when we thought we had him figured out, he jerks our chain a little harder.
The early word on ‘‘The Eminem Show’’ was that it would be the most personal of his three albums, and the report appears to be true. '‘I’ve created a monster, ‘cuz no one wants to hear Marshall no more,’’ he whines, partly in jest, in the beat-crazy single **‘‘Without Me.’’ **
On the rest of the album, the monster – Slim Shady – stays off stage, and Eminem reveals the supposedly real Marshall: embattled entertainer, fervent defender of the First Amendment, and, yes, devoted father. What’s most shocking about him, he’s saying, is that he’s not such a shock-value guy after all.
The playful, if dated, humor of the single aside, the largely dark ‘‘Eminem Show’’ focuses more on agonized confessionals than dis-a-minute one-liners (although there are plenty of those). The album is like a therapy session in which the shrink becomes a human beatbox.
The unhealed scars of his childhood are pored over in ‘‘Cleaning Out My Closet’’: In the chorus, he apologizes for making his mama cry, but in the verses, he lashes out at her (‘‘you selfish bitch’’) and vows to be a better dad than his own absentee father (‘‘I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye’’). The song is both fragile and furious, and the syncopated music-box arrangement matches it in tension.
In the creepy-crawly, mesmerizing ‘‘Superman,’’ he depicts himself as both sexual predator and commitment-phobic single guy. Then there’s ‘‘Hailie’s Song,’’ his pledge of love and devotion to his 6-year-old daughter. Like Madonna, he’s learned the value of surprise and reinvention, and what could be more surprising than Eminem earnestly crooning – not rapping – lines like **‘‘It all makes sense when I look into her eyes’’? **
Whatever calculation may be involved – basically, it’s the old sad-clown trick – these are still among the album’s most penetrating moments. They test him and his audience, who may not want to hear sincerity and psychological probing. But they also succeed in fleshing out Eminem’s complexities and contradictions; by trying to understand himself, he shows more self-awareness than we might have thought (not to mention ambition, since he clearly wants to be taken more seriously).
Beyond allowing peeks into his life, Eminem’s other gambits are self-pity and self-mythologizing, and they aren’t nearly as potent. In songs like the trudging ‘’‘Till I Collapse’’ and the bracing, belching Goth hip-hop of ‘‘White America,’’ he tells how persecuted he’s been by the government, how his lyrics are constantly misinterpreted, and how **‘‘I’ll probably never get the props I deserve.’’ **
Ruminating on his career in ‘‘Say Goodbye Hollywood,’’ one of several tracks with washed-out R&B choruses grafted on for no good reason, he goes so far as to say ‘‘I sold my soul to the devil.’’ Yet it’s impossible to sympathize with someone who rose so quickly, and who delights in egging us on as much as possible. (Here, he tweaks activists who picketed him, hurls unkind words at the Bush administration, and becomes the first human ever to rhyme ‘‘anthrax’’ with ‘‘Tampax.’’)
In ‘‘White America’’ and ‘‘When the Music Stops,’’ he boasts about his cultural impact, but as accurate as those sentiments may be, they reek of desperation, as if he needs to remind everyone, even himself, that he’s still relevant. Meanwhile, the kid-and-slay moments – skits in which he pulls guns on his manager and ex-wife, and the sexual raunch of ‘‘Drips’’ – feel obligatory and disposable. His role as a jiggying bin Laden in the ‘‘Without Me’’ video is much, much funnier.
Like its predecessors, though, ‘‘The Eminem Show’’ is a testament to the skills of its star. The sludgy rapping of such guests as D12 only confirms Eminem’s dizzying prowess, gob-spewing individuality, and wickedly prankish humor. (The most striking cameo, in fact, is by Hailie, who chimes in with ‘‘I think my dad’s all cray-zay!’’ like a trailer-park urchin in **‘‘My Dad’s Gone Crazy.’’) **
In ‘‘Sing for the Moment,’’ which includes a tirade against the media and politically motivated prosecutors, the intensity of his delivery overcomes the hoariest of ideas – incorporating a portion of an overly familiar classic-rock oldie, Aerosmith’s ‘‘Dream On.’’ The song becomes a clarion call of suburban kids everywhere, not just an easy route to a hit.
On ‘‘The Eminem Show,’’ he’s still raging against the machine, while admitting that he’s a deeply flawed part of that machine himself.
Grade: **B **
Rapper Eminem won all four categories in which he was nominated at this year’s American Music Awards - but did not even turn up to the Los Angeles ceremony.
He won best rock album, best hip-hop/R&B album, and best male artist in both genres.
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Eminem calling: Phifer accepted the rapper’s prize
“Hey y’all, this is Eminem on the phone!” Phifer said as he carried a cell phone onstage after the rapper’s first win.
Holla......................
Salamz
holla..............
Danm he looks good
Rapper Eminem, once the bane of parents and the gay community, is now one of the world’s most popular music artists with Brit and Grammy nominations and an acclaimed acting debut in 8 Mile. Why?
There was a time when every mention of Eminem was prefaced with the description “controversial rapper” as he stumbled from court appearance to bitter feud to lawsuit to public protest.
But now, he finds himself in an unfamiliar position - an acclaimed actor, the most popular of all mainstream music artists and no longer shocking to the wider world.
Gone, for now, is Eminem’s cartoonish rapping alter ego - which has been the cause of public furore over the last four years.
The incisive, insightful lyricism is still there, as is the irreverent sense of humour, the swearing and occasional violent imagery.
But as the court cases have died down and record sales gone up, the rapper himself has obviously matured.
“I maybe made some mistakes/But I’m only human but I’m man enough to face them today,” he raps on recent hit single Cleaning Out My Closet.
**One reason for his newfound contemplation is his devotion to his seven-year-old daughter Hailie, who is a recurring theme on Eminem’s latest album, the Eminem Show. **
The album even includes one track called Hailie’s song, in which he professes his love for her - although Eminem shows he has not totally changed his spots when the song turns into a rant about her mother, Kim, at the end.
Another reason why the controversy has died down is that he has toned down the anti-women and anti-gay content of his earlier albums.
And inevitably, after four years, his brand of raising hell has stopped surprising us as we turn our attentions to other, more extreme artists who are the latest threats to our children’s souls.
Eminem’s screen debut has undoubtedly won him respect among those who previously saw him as an untalented troublemaker.
**His performance in the film, 8 Mile, has attracted glowing reviews, and given the public a glimpse of his struggle to succees.
He plays a young rapper, Jimmy, and the Eminem on screen is one that still raps and rhymes furiously.
But he does so with a sense of his own fallibility, and a desperation to get out of bleak, broken, post-industrial Detroit. **
The film did phenomenal business when it opened in the US and Canada in November - it made $54.4m (£34.7m) in its first weekend
Entertainment Weekly magazine was one publication to rave over his screen presence, praising the **“scurrilous, soft-eyed yearning of a hip-hop James Dean”. **
“Compact, volatile and burningly intense, he’s got charisma to spare,” was Newsweek’s opinion.
The success of 8 Mile will undoubtedly open more doors for him to return to the big screen - if he wants to.
Elvis made a career playing himself - in various guises - right through the period when his music career had fallen by the wayside.
For every Will Smith (mesmerising in Six Degrees Of Separation, robust and exciting in Ali) there is a Michael Jackson (not even believable as a weirdo in Men In Black II).
Or Britney Spears (Crossroads taking her acting career not much further than her days as a Disney “mousekateer”).
And David Bowie added to his musical canon with fantastic performances in both The Man Who Fell To Earth and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, though he then tainted both music and movies with Tin Machine and Labyrinth.
The world of rock and pop has always seemed more dangerous and spontaneous than that of movies - and especially today in the days of tightly controlled shoots and even more subdued stars.
Although he may no longer be controversial, Eminem is still angry, and while he is angry, he will reach out to angry young music fans looking for a voice.
But the danger is that as he becomes more successful and respectable, he will become more comfortable and out-of-touch with the people buying his records, as has happened to many stars in the past.
Even when not making music himself, one way Eminem will keep his influence strong is through his own record label, Shady Records, which has signed the equally outspoken new talents Obie Trice and 50 Cent.
But if he keeps going for the popular jugular and reinventing himself as he has done so far, he will be around - on stage and screen - for a long time.
It just may be the case that he becomes so accepted that we will forget just why he caused so much controversy in the first place.
No Oscar nomination for Eminem’s Acting. Surprisingly, Eminem didn’t mind at all. His manager told 'He doesn’t want to walk around on the red carpet - that is not his style ’
‘Lose Yourself’ got an Oscar nomination for Best Film Song, though competition is tight in that category.
Eminem missed out on an Oscar nomination for acting despite being tipped by some for his performance in 8 Mile - but he has been shortlisted for best song.
**The Oscars buzz surrounding rap star Eminem’s performance as a young rapper in 8 Mile began when his producer, Brian Grazer, declared that the star had “turned in a performance that reminds me of Stallone in Rocky”. **
Eminem had a “good shot” at being nominated, Grazer said, adding: **“I think the audience is going to be blown away, so will the Academy.” ** 
Grazer should know - he won an Oscar for producing A Beautiful Mind in 2002 and has been nominated twice before.
**In the end, 8 Mile was a box office hit - but the Academy did not see fit to rate it as one of the top five performances of the year from a male lead. **
Observers have offered several possible explanations - one being that 8 Mile was released too early and its Oscar buzz ran out of steam by the time the campaign got under way in earnest.
Another is that the members of the Academy - dominated by ageing and not overly adventurous Hollywood professionals - were not ready to forget Eminem’s recent past as a controversial headline-grabber with homophobic and misogynistic lyrics.
To combat this, film studio Universal took out ads saying 8 Mile “shed light on a vibrant but largely misunderstood aspect of our culture” and had been hailed as a **“superlative piece of filmmaking” **- but that failed to sway the Academy.
Another theory is simply that the Oscars buzz was merely media hot air and he was never really in the running.
Unsurprisingly, we were told that Eminem did not mind whether he was nominated anyway.
His manager, Paul Rosenberg, said: **“It’s not like he gives a damn whether he gets this stuff or not.”
“He certainly doesn’t want to be seen as a movie star. He doesn’t want to walk around on the red carpet. That is not his style. That’s not what he wants to be.”
**But, as if as a consolation, Eminem has been nominated for best song for his chart-topping tune Lose Yourself, which appears in 8 Mile.
He will be a strong contender for that award - although he is up against stiff competition. **
U2’s theme from Gangs of New York, The Hands That Built America, is also nominated, as is Paul Simon’s song Father and Daughter, from children’s film The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
Songs from Chicago and Frida, which do not have big-name music stars behind them, complete the nominations.
Recent Oscars history has seen high-profile music stars triumph in the song category, with Randy Newman, Bob Dylan and Phil Collins winning the last three prizes.
But whether the Academy is ready to shun veterans like U2 and Paul Simon in favour of a controversial rapper will be among the most intriguing questions to be answered on Oscars night.
hey Pakistani Tiger.... i like your signature..... is it taken from an EMINEM song ??? if yes then which 1 ?
BeautifuL_MinD,
Eminem doesn’t write love songs.
Jacko Wacko gaya kaam say… :hehe:
Eminem Dangles Doll in Jackson Imitation
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LONDON - **The real Slim Shady stood up and made fun of Michael Jackson by dangling a baby doll over a hotel balcony. **
Rapper Eminem also wore a surgical mask over his face Tuesday in an obvious swipe at Jackson, who dangled his baby, Prince Michael II, over a balcony railing in Berlin in November.
Eminem, who was staying at the Art House Hotel in Glasgow, went further than Jackson by tossing the doll into the air and catching it.
“Empersonator,” said a headline in the Daily Mirror tabloid, which published three photos. The New York Post’s front page blared: **“Oh baby! Eminem does his best Jacko.” ** 
Scotland’s Daily Record tabloid said the incident occurred as fans and photographers gathered outside the hotel before Eminem’s concert in the city Tuesday.
**Eminem, whose nickname is Slim Shady, is on a British tour but has kept a low-profile between shows. **
The Daily Record said he took over 50 rooms at the hotel for his entourage
hey, count me in :)
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Guess who's back? Shady is Back. Let's get down to Business
The King of Rap is back with another single, Business from the No. 1 album "The Eminem Show". When listening to this, you can't help but think it's "Lose Yourself" over a different beat, while sounding suspiciously like a Dr Dre track! Even though it sounds like all the other Eminem stuff, it's clearly one of his best singles yet, much better than the dire "Sing For The Moment". This should see him get yet another Top 10 hits, without a shadow of doubt.