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Last Updated: Friday 18-May-2001 15:43
QUOTES
-ALBUMS-
"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and
laugh from beginning to end." - On his album
"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." - On Infinite
"I think my first album opened a
lot of doors for me to push the
freedom of speech to the limit." - On his debut album
"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." - On the
Slim Shady EP
"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." - On the Slim Shady EP
-ENEMIES-
"To all the people who never gave love, and continue to deny me
'cuz of what I look like: suck my dick you fucks!!!" - On people
who
are unsupportive
"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." - On ICP
"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. " - On ICP
-FAMILY AND FRIENDS-
"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." - On his wife Kim
"My father? I never knew him. Never
even seen a picture of him."
- On his Dad
"My family has never been there
for me. They expect things because
we're blood." - On his family
"It was an honour to hear the words
out of Dre's mouth that he
liked my shit. Rowing 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." - On Dr. Dre liking his music
"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. " - On the
Beastie Boys
-GIRLS-
"I don't want them once they turn 18." - On Britney Spears and
Christina Aguilera
"I hate bitches. [One] fucked up,
and it made me look at girls as
sluts." - On girls
"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!"
- A Spring Break fantasy
-GROWING UP-
"I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent
home,
never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends
came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three
times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't
go
to school. I couldn't deal." .- On his early education "I mean
I got
jumped, fucked up shit happened to me a few times, but that happens
to everybody. I don't think it has anything to do with color or any of
that shit. It's just all a part of growing up."
- On growing up in the hood
"My earliest memory was raping the
baby-sitter when I was 5...she
was 15." - On his younger years
"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."
- On his childhood
"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."
- On his childhood
"There were times when friends had
to buy me fuckin' shoes!"
- Being on welfare
-HIP HOP-
"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." - On the hip-hop culture
-LIFE-
"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'."
- About his attitude
"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." - On his philosophy for life
-LYRICS-
"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." - About his lyrics
"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." - About his lyrics
-MISCELLANEOUS-
"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." - About his fans/hip-hop
"It doesn't exactly feel like a
shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm
taking it in as it comes." - On his rise to fame
"Some ass hole kept throwing oranges
and other fruit at me while I
was onstage. Fucker had an arm like a major league pitcher..."
- About one of his concerts
"I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin
again. Lost my stomach all over
the place." - Drugs
"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." - Drugs
"Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes
I could be a real ass hole.
I think everyone is like that." - About his attitude
"Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected
sex, don't be violent. Leave
that to me." - Random comment
"To the people I forgot, you weren't
on my mind for some reason and
you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway." - From the MM LP
"I felt like it's my time to shine,
I have to rip this. At that time, I felt
that it was a life or death situation." - On his debut at The
Wake Up Show
"Who's Tony Blair, did he get his
dick sucked?, oh he ain't shit then..."
- On English Prime Minister Tony Blair
-RACE-
"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'." - On his race
"I try not to look at it that way.
Being white. I don't wake up every
day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'." - On his race
"Unless you want to fuck me, why
do you care what I look like?"
- On his race
"At this point, I'm like "Come
up with something new." I hate the
same old questions. But it seems like "white" magazines such
as
Spin and Rolling Stone focus on my "whiteness" more than Black
magazines" - On his race
"All my life I've been dealing with
my race because of where I grew up
[Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody
who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face."
- On the question of race
"I get offended when people say,
So, being a white rapper...and
growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!"
- On the question of race
"It's funny how all the magazines
can dwell on my race, but they
could NEVER say that my shit is whack because they know my
shit is tight!" - On magazines
-SLIM SHADY-
"I was takin' a shit. I swear to God. And the fuckin' name just popped
into my head. Then I started thinkin' of twenty million things that
rhymed with it." - On how he came up with the name
Slim Shady (alter ego)
"I had this whole Slim Shady concept
of being two different people,
having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go,
and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro
of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me…"
- On his Slim Shady alter ego
"Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts
that come into my head. Things
I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should
be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm fuckin around.
That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of
humor I guess." - On his Slim Shady alter ego
"When I was 9 years old, my uncle
put me on to the Breakin'
soundtrack. The first rap song I ever heard was Ice-T, 'Reckless.'
From L. L. to the Fat Boys, and all that shit, I was fascinated.
When L. L. first came out with 'I'm Bad', I wanted to do it, to rhyme.
Standing in front of the mirror, I wanted to be like L. L."
- On his childhood influences
-SUICIDE-
"I took a lot of them, I took a bunch of pain killers - Tylenol.
I took 13,
16 of 'em and fuckin' threw 'em up. I thought I was going die, I
thought I was going to die for real." - On his suicide attempt
-VIOLENCE-
"I do promote violence and I don't give a fuck."
- In reply to Time Magazine
"I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew
and N.W.A. and I never went out
and shot nobody." - On violence
"Saving Private Ryan was probably
the illest, sickest movie I've ever
watched, and I didn't see anybody criticising that one for violence."
- On violence
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