Monday, August 15, 2011

Get To Know Eminem Better Here

By Marianne Moore


* Eminem is the fastest selling hip-hop artist as recorded by The Guinness Book of World Records.

* To be signed to Shady records you have to battle Eminem

* Eminem wrote lyrics for the soundtrack of 8 Mile during film breaks. He got so absorbed in the task that film crew members would have to pull the notepad from under him.

* He was bullied badly in his childhood as he was smaller than the rest of his peers and also people mistakenly mistook him as being retarded. He hums tunes loudly, not thinking that anyone can hear him.

* Eminem's roots can be traced back to Scotland and Wales.

* Em has been falsely reported dead by a car crash 4 times and a drug overdose once.

* Of all the members in D12 Eminem is the oldest.

* He loves Spiderman.

* Eminem and his family are all Baptists although he is not at all religious.

* Eminem is near-sighted and wears glasses.

* Em's a gadget freak.

* Eminem has a favourite porn star named Janet Jacme.

* Eminem failed 9th grade 3 times before he dropped out of school at age 14.

* Eminem has never attempted suicide despite reports to the contrary. He took an overdose of anti-depressants by accident.

* Eminem's first album was called 'Infinite' and it sold 1,000 copies.

* Eminem is actually a very quiet person despite his chosen career.

* He never liked the fact that people stared at him and took offence a lot.

* Eminem's favourite actor is Robin Williams.

* The Matrix is his favourite movie.

* Em thought Luis Resto was Michael Bolton when he first met him

* At age 11, Eminem had an infatuation with Madonna.

* A concert by Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane and Queen Latifah was the first concert that he attended.

* Em cuts his own hair

* Eminem's preferred dance song is Busta Rhymes's "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See".

* Em and Dr. Dre's first choice for Stan is Macaulay Culkin. Macaulay was doing a play. Dre picked Devon Sawa because he thought he looked like Em (Em made a video where he's the one portraying Stan, and Devon made a similar video. Dre almost could not tell them apart.).

* Lose Yourself topped the poll on songs that spurs ball players to victory in matches.

* Rocket Man was dedicated to Eminem by Elton John himself.

* Em's high-profile movie debut should've been 'Training Day' with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. He was to play Denzel's drug dealer friend. 8 Mile came along so we all know how that ended. The other movie that he also considered was 'Lazarus' with DMX which is a part of 'The Crow' series in which he was also supposed to play the villain.

* Shannon Elizabeth was his primary choice to be the girl in 'Superman'.

* Neil Tennant from the Petshop Boys has a crush on Eminem.

* Em and Hailie has a cat named Tigger.

* For his 8 Mile role, Em dropped from 168 lbs to 145 lbs - extreme dedication to be fit for the role.

* Em likes to wear size XXL clothes as it makes him feel larger.

* Eminem's mother and father were in a band together.

* Em prefers Fords. His friends say that he doesn't like to drive though.

* Em does not smoke

* Em used to spend hours at night studying the dictionary so that he could expand his vocabulary for his ryhmes.

* Eminem hoped that he would become a comic-book artist when he was older.




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