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Eminem is 2000's biggest pop star. Turn on MTV and you can
bet he's there, and with Stan he's bidding for the Christmas No 1. He tells lifebyte
why MM was really his year.
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Is it true you've signed up for a movie about your life?
I haven't signed up for it yet. There's just talk of it. It's supposed to be a
2000 version of Purple Rain, like a hip-hop version, based on my life.
It's a role I wanna play. I want to be an actor, because, you know, whoever says
I can't do something... then I'm determined to do it.
Is that the biggest drive in doing what you do?
The bigger success I am, the more it hurts my family. I have family members who
are really salty about me succeeding, they're jealous of where I've gotten. It's
kinda fun just to sit back. You know, they say success
is the best revenge.
The last 18 months has been mad for you – and you've worked like crazy.
Were you aware that you had just one shot at fame, and you should take it?
That's what it was. Every time somebody offered me money to do a show, press,
promotion, anything – I was doing it. I guess it paid off, you know. But
last year it got to a point where it almost wasn't. I almost started to crack.
I would do a show in the afternoon, then I'd drive to a nearby city and do a show
there, come off stage, do a bunch of press... I was working myself to death.
Stan is about a fan who's obsessed with you. Is that something you've experienced
this year?
Well, people went as far as to put my address on the internet. I get fan mail
to my house. I throw it away. If somebody sends fan mail to my fucking house,
it's going in the fucking garbage.
Your music rages against disposable pop, but you're 2000's biggest pop star.
How do you cope with being on MTV all the time?
I deal with it the best I can. When I go on MTV, I tend to have fun with it...
because I think people see me and wonder what the fuck I'm doing there. I don't
consider myself pop music at all. I may be popular, but I'm not pop music. That's
watered down, cheesy shit for ten year olds, and that's not what my music is.
How would you describe your music, then?
I'm hip-hop. I'm hip-hop to the fullest. I'm not rock and roll. I'm not R 'n'
B. I'm not pop. I'm not country. I have the ability to appeal to rock crowds,
but kids listen to rock and roll because they identify with it because its rebellious
and they can go, 'Fuck you, Mom and Dad, I'm not going to school, I'm not wearing
these clothes,' and Slim Shady is that, too. Only hip-hop.
– Interview by Johnny Davis 8.12.00
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