Eminem Quotes

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album.

1. “Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.”
2. “I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”
3. “Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.”
4. “I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”
5. “I had nothing to lose, but something to gain. If I made an album for me and it was to my satisfaction, then I succeeded. If I didn’t, then my producers were going to give up on the whole rap thing we were doing. I made some shit that I wanted to hear. The Slim Shady EP, I lashed out on everybody who talked shit about me.”
6. “One thing I won’t do is put out another song like ‘My Name Is,’ his breakthrough hit. ‘I can’t stand that fucking song’ he says. ‘This album is rawer. Fans looking for bubblegum rap aren’t going to get it here.”
7. “To all the people who never gave love, and continue to deny me ‘cuz of what I look like: suck my dick you fucks!!!”
8. “There’s a difference between realness and an act, and they’re an act, and they know they’re an act, and they even say they’re an act, they even say they’re cornballs, they admit it.”
9. “I don’t think I take the beef as seriously as they do, because I don’t consider them artists. They look at me as an artist. I think they get more uptight about it. I can look at them and laugh. They can’t do anything to me. What can they do to me? They have no credibility, no respect, no talent, they have nothing. All they can do is diss me vocally, they can’t diss me lyrically. There’s nothing they can do to me as far as the music goes. I don’t take it as seriously as they do and I think that frustrates them. I think it’s funny. “
10. “Look. I was pissed off!” That’s all I could say. I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one point in time, I really wanted to do that shit. For real.”
11. “My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.”
12. “My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.”
13. “It was an honor to hear the words out of Dre’s mouth that he liked my shit. Growing up, I was one of the biggest fans of N.W.A, from putting on the sunglasses and looking in the mirror and lip sinking, to wanting to be Dr. Dre, to be Ice Cube. This is the biggest hip-hop producer ever.”
14. “I would never fucking put them in a rhyme. I don’t even want them wondering if I was trying to diss them. I got a lot of love for them. I grew up on that shit. The other rappers, whatever. “
15. “I don’t want them once they turn 18.”
16. “I hate bitches. [One] fucked up, and it made me look at girls as sluts.”
17. “A bunch of girls, swinging from a nice chandelier, landing on top of me naked…while I lay in a pool of steaming hot water!”
18. “My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5…she was 15.”
19. “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.”
20. “We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.”
21. “There were times when friends had to buy me fuckin’ shoes!”
22. “Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. But just know Slim Shady is hip-hop. I grew up on hip-hop, it’s the music I love and it’s the music I respect. I respect the culture…that’s me.”
23. “I’m not alone in feeling the way I feel. I believe that a lot of people can relate to my shit–whether white, black, it doesn’t matter. Everybody has been through some shit, whether it’s drastic or not so drastic. Everybody gets to the point of ‘I don’t give a fuck’.”
24. “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.”
25. “If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I’m saying, is that I’m not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don’t agree with that life style, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it’s your business.”
26. “A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious.”
27. “You can’t control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it’s the music I love and it’s the music I respect. I respect the culture…that’s me.”
28. “It doesn’t exactly feel like a shock, but it’s all new to me, and I’m taking it in as it comes.”
29. “Some asshole kept throwing oranges and other fruit at me while I was onstage. Fucker had an arm like a major league pitcher…”
30. “I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place.”
31. “Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.”