Eminem Quotes

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Eminem

Profession : Rapper

Birth : October 17, 1972

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

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Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

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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.

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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.

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The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

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I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

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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.

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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

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I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.

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Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'

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If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

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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.

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Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

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Rap was my drug.

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There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

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I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

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I'm not really book-smart.

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