Eminem Frequently Asked Questions

[TheGentlePlayer]

Geno

[MinM]

it doesn't seem like FAQ or something. For example ur answer about D12--a dude who just liked Em's music asking "Who D12 members are?".. and then like Ok, Kuniva, Porter and so on, seein' those names the very first time (its logical if he asks who D12 is, right?), and then he like Oh yeah and who the fuck is Fuzz? I dont know the other guys but i got a feelin' that i HAVE to ask about Fuzz, hell yeah!
And the SFTV question--ur forgettin the SFTL EP it would be better if u just list his releases
I can continue forever

[Sam.]

We can have a thread that has a lot of Information regarding the most common Topics ,that way we can prevent redundancy.

[Norway kills]

Eminem makes a response to the leaking of his material in the song "Take From Me" on the Hell: The Sequel EP.

However, one should note that "Take Frome Me" was made before Koolo started leaking songs, as he leaked a snippet of that exact song.

[trinell05]

This FAQ is useless without his phone number, address, last four digits of his social security number and his favorite color (sky blue ).

[Ka0t1c]

you've got issues, bitch

[Mr Change]

Eminem makes a response to the leaking of his material in the song "Take From Me" on the Hell: The Sequel EP.

However, one should note that "Take Frome Me" was made before Koolo started leaking songs, as he leaked a snippet of that exact song.

No it wasn't.

Koolo leaked some songs, then he got ahold of that snippet and was toying with Royce with it.

Pretty sure Take From Me is about Difficult leaking.

Which would be prime example of how conflict causes the best to come out in Em.

Say what you want to, but that verse is emotional and angry from the heart.

[Emadyville]

Good work

[SlipperyMooseCakes]

I enjoyed the fun facts, I know there are a lot more and I will post some to help out in the near future. One thing that should be edited is the part about Yelawolf and the release of his album. Some of that information is a bit outdated.

[the real slim shady]

not sure if its worth posting here buttttt

1-35 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd9KxbaDDcU
36-71 with something dumb at the end http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxgdWrme6cw

01. Em's at the Guinness Book of World Records for being the fastest selling hip-hop artist.

02. One of the Requirements to be signed to Shady Records is you have to battle Eminem

03. During the shooting of 8 Mile, Em would write lyrics for the soundtrack during breaks. When shooting resumes crew members will have to pull the notepad from him in order to catch his attention and make him stop writing.

04. Em was bullied as a kid because he was small and was often mistaken as retarded. He would hum melodies to himself not knowing it was loud enough to be heard by everybody. (He still does today. He also said that he is always writing and that he cant stop writing because ideas keep flowin' in.)

05. Em is of Scottish and Welsh decent.

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

07. Eminem is the oldest member of D12 (b. 1972). Kon Artis is the youngest (b. 1978).

08. He is a Spiderman fan.

09. Em is a Baptist (just like his mom and the rest of her family). He's not religious though. Kim's the one who is Catholic. She's also not religious.

10. Em wears glasses because he's near-sighted.

11. Em's a gadget freak.

12. Em's favorite porn star is Janet Jacme.

13. Kim and Em's term of endearment is "Stinky".

14. Despite what was written before, Em did not attempt suicide. He took pills to fight his depression and accidentally OD'd. He was happy to wake up the next day.

15. The platinum bracelet and ring he usually wears both have "DAD" inscribed on them. Both are from Hailie.

16. Despite his chosen profession, Em is still a very quiet individual (much like his character Rabbit) which either surprises or annoys the **** out of people.

17. Em used to have a problem with people staring at him.

18. Em thinks Robin Williams is brilliant and vice versa.

19. Em's all-time favorite movie is The Matrix.

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

21. Em had a crush on Madonna when he was 11

22. The first concert he ever went to is Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane and Queen Latifah in Detroit.

23. Em cuts his own hair

24. Em's fave dance song is Busta Rhymes's "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See".

25. 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.).

26. Lose Yourself may have topped the poll on songs that spurs ball players to victory but it also topped the poll on songs most likely to lead to car crashes.

27. Elton John has dedicated his song Rocket Man to Em.

28. 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.

29. Shannon Elizabeth was Em's first choice to be the girl in 'Superman'.

30. Neil Tennant (Petshop Boys) has a crush on Em and wishes that the events in their song "The night I fell in love" would happen to him.

31. Em and Hailie has a cat named Tigger.

32. For his 8 Mile role, Em dropped from 168 lbs (12 stone or 76.21kg) to 145 lbs (10.35 stone or 65.8kg).

33. Em wears size XXL clothes.

34. Marshall Jr. and Debbie were in a band called Daddy Warbucks. They played @ Ramada Inns along the Dakota-Montana border.

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

36. Em does not smoke.

37. Em has been rumored to be ghostwriting for LL (for his response to Canibus's diss), Dre (all songs in Chronic 2001. and also the songs in the upcoming Detox), and 50 Cent (50 has admitted that Em made some changes to some of his lyrics to make the song flow better).

38. Kim once worked at the Oasis Executive Spa, a massage parlor that was allegedly engaged in prostitution. Em was the last to know that Kim worked there. Em found Kim's job too much to bear and was one of the reasons for one of their biggest blow-ups.

39. Em has adopted Dawn's (Kim's twin) daughter, Alaina.

40. When Dre first met Em, Em was wearing a bright yellow tracksuit which he got from a sponsor because he didn't have the money to buy decent clothes. Dre thought he looked like a banana.

41. Gary Kozlowski was the guy who was with Em when he went spying on Kim at the Hot Rocks Bar. He was charged because he tried to hide Em's gun when Em dropped it. Em and Gary became friends when they were in their teens. Gary appears on TES's "The Kiss" skit.

42. Dre made Em change (in 'Love Me') the line "I'm the equivalent of what will happen if Suge rapped" to "I'm the equivalent of what will happen if Bush rapped."

43. Em's other celebrity neighbor in his new Oakland hood is Aretha Franklin.

44. Em received $3 Million for his 8 Mile role.

45. The other members of D12 thought that Proof will be the one to blow up first amongst their group and that they never thought in a million years that Em will be the one since Em's quiet and shy.

46. Em has a double. His name is Joe Pace aka 'Partial Mathers' and he's 19 years old. He has toured with Em at the Anger Management Tour and was a part of the 'vanishing' act. He's also performed with Em at the 2002 Mtv Movie awards wearing the 'Rap Boy' costume. He also works as a decoy and does camera-blocking sessions for Em's videos.

47. Luis Resto calls Em's style of production as 'Classical Hip-Hop' because of Em's penchant for using live instruments and minimal sampling.

48. Most people do a lead track and another ad-lib track to fill in words but Em's totally unique because he layers each song. He does his main vocals then right under it he makes an angry track (same as the main vocals but angry), a yelling track and sometimes a soft, whispering track.

49. Universal and Interscope have originally agreed for Em to use 'Cleanin out my Closet' as the theme for 8 Mile that's why it was used in the 1st trailer. But Em thought that, 'it was too personal to use for the movie.' The studios were upset and thought that COMC was the greatest song they've heard and thought that Em can't make a better one. Then Em made 'Lose Yourself'.

50. Em did all the three verses of Lose Yourself in one take.

51. "Hailie's Song" was supposed to contain an interpolation from George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" but George's widow retracted George's permission. Em had to redo the whole song.

52. It was Dr. Dre who convinced Em to include Hailie's Song on TES. Dre played the song to two of his female friends and when they cried he was convinced that it should be included on Em's new album. Em had originally planned on just keeping the track in a safe for Hailie to listen to when she grows up. He was embarassed to have it released at first.

53. Em called on Craig G (of the original Juice Crew) to co-write with him all the rhymes that was recited on 8 Mile.

54. Em's relatives used to call him 'Mickey' when he was a baby because he had big ears.

55. Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine were backstage at the Oscars when Em won. They were there for their boy even if Em wasn't there.

56. Eminem's favorite drink is Mountain Dew.

57. It had been Eminem's dream since he was 16 to sample Aerosmith's Dream On, his dream came true on the track Sing for the moment.

58. The song playing in the background of the skit The Kiss (The Eminem Show) is actually called Everyone's Looking At Me. The track was originally meant to be featured on The Wash soundtrack, but didnt make the cut.

59. Hailie came up with the hook to My Dad's Gone Crazy. While Eminem was mixing Soldier, Hailie was there playing and said "Somebody please help me".

60. Some of Eminem's favorite movies are How High?, Orange County, and The Matrix.

61. Eminem's 99 purple Mustang 2 was sold online for $27,900.

62. Em wears size 10½ shoes.

63. To record '97 Bonnie and Clyde Em told Kim he was taking Hailie to Chuck E. Cheese.

64. The shady one attends public community meetings and even lets kids in the neighborhood play basketball at his house.

65. Eminem's tattoo artist is Mr. Cartoon, he's located in California.

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

67. Eminem originally wanted to become a comic-book artist.

68. Kim has a twin sister named Dawn

69. Eminem gave his manager Paul Rosenberg one of the Grammys that he won in 2000

70. The cast Eminem is wearing in Fight Music is due to an injury Em's sustained whilst trying to fix his house.

71. The guy dressed as a cactus that in Purple Hills video is also in the beginning of the Without Me video clip.

but youre still going to make people like your status on facebook to see them?

I will admit, i only knew about 15 - 20 of these

[the real slim shady]

^ I'm still obviously posting them, the more likes the more it spreads.

number 16 seems weird though, i mean in the BME live stream he was mad, then other videos of him make him seem like a loud person.. where did you find these by the way?

[the real slim shady]

^ I'm still obviously posting them, the more likes the more it spreads.

number 16 seems weird though, i mean in the BME live stream he was mad, then other videos of him make him seem like a loud person.. where did you find these by the way?

these are before his overdose by the way!

[EG.]

25. 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.).

Dre might need glasses too

[the real slim shady]

25. 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.).

Dre might need glasses too

[UofLCard]

I would make a note on the first post that Nate is Eminem's half brother and that they have different dads.