The Real Eminem is your one-way ticket deep inside the mind of the real Eminem. It will blow your mind!
This book contains two exclusive in-person April 1999 interviews with Eminem and one exclusive in-person 2001 interview with D12. Links to exclusive audio interview excerpts with Eminem and D12, and rare unreleased songs.
Hear Eminem's raw response to being labelled white trash.
Listen to Eminem get emotional and shut down those who weren't down with him before he blew up.
Hear Eminem list who is in his close circle and who is extra.
Hear Eminem speak on coming up with Proof.
Listen to Eminem talk about how his name became known and why Dr. Dre signed him.
Discover what led Eminem to tattoo his stomach and dye his hair blonde the same day AND hear him speak on relations with his baby mother, Kim.
Hear Eminem's raw response to being labelled a role model.
Listen to Eminem talk about the difference between wanting to shock people and piss people off.
Hear Eminem break down underground Hip-Hop.
Hear Eminem list who is in his close circle and who is extra.
Hear Bizarre speak on the formation of D12.
Listen to Kuniva & Proof speak of D12's message.
Hear Proof & Kuniva discuss the politics behind the infamous hidden track "Girls."
Listen to Kuniva speak on how his mother got robbed.
Hear Swifty McVay detail the meaning behind his name.
Eminem didn't invent ill rhyming or the ill lower class mentality. However, he had lived it, seen it, done it, and was now speaking on it for the world to hear. He is not a bad guy. Everything he wrote, rapped or expressed had been in the mix, in one form or another, before.
During the period of these interviews, Eminem's life was racing one-hundred million miles an hour. He managed to maintain a grip on reality by sticking with the crew he came with up consisting of Proof, Bizarre, Royce da 5'9, Porter, DJ Head, The Brigade and Manager Paul Bunyon, AKA Paul Rosenberg. Eminem firmly placed anyone else in his midst in the role of an extra, not to be trusted. He may have given the odd person play, but he steadfastly refused to do anything of note for anyone outside of his core crew.
These interviews deliver a hard twenty-six-year-old Eminem. The real Eminem as an angry young man eager to prove himself to the world and give them the middle-finger at the same time. These interviews deliver an Eminem solely concerned with representing himself, his family, and those he came up with in his time of need. These conversations provide an Eminem who proudly declared he lived for the day.
The second part of the book features an exclusive 2001 interview with D12. It provides a first-hand look into the "Just Don't Give A Fuck" mindset of the crew and choice background information on Eminem in the midst of becoming an international phenomenon.
