I leave you the best phrases of Eminem (1972), affirmed both in his songs and in different interviews. They are part of the legacy that one of the most recognized rappers in history is leaving.
Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, born in Missouri in 1972 (United States), stands out for his controversial lyrics, which has earned him to sell more than 150 million albums worldwide, in addition to having an award Oscar for producing and performing the soundtrack of the film 8 Miles.
In any case, possibly his most important milestone throughout his career has been to eliminate topics within rap and hip-hop, having reached the altars of a musical genre dominated by black artists.
- "If people want to take something from my music, it should be the certainty that you can achieve what you want, as long as you work hard for it and don't give up."
- "Don't use drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent, leave that to me."
- «If you have enemies, that's fine, it shows that you are defending something».
- "Somewhere deep inside me there is a decent man, only he cannot be seen."
- «I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it really feels like».
- «Behind every successful person there are a lot of envious people».
- «Sometimes I am really good, but sometimes I can be a very bad person. I think all the people in the world are like that.
- "Love is just a word, except when you start to define it."
- «Shit… How much damage can you do with a pencil?».
- "If there is no drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be boring."
- "I always wanted this, but it is becoming more of a nightmare than a dream."
- "When you are a child, you don't really see the color of people."
- "The fact that my best friends were colored never became a problem until I was a teenager and started rapping."
- "Personally, I think rap music is the best in the world."
- «Hip hop is my life, it's everything I listen to, it's everything I love».
- "I think I'm a little sicker than the average individual."
- «The truth is that you don't know what will happen tomorrow, life is a crazy journey».
- "I will be what I set out to be, without any doubt I will achieve it."
- "You have to walk at least a thousand miles in my shoes so you know what it feels like to be me."
- "Sometimes it feels like I'm in a strange movie, sometimes I think that none of this is reality."
- «Dealing with those people who stick a knife in your back taught me something; They are only powerful when you turn your back on them.
- «Sometimes I act as if nothing bad affected me; If I let negativity take over, then my insecurities could eat me alive.
- "Music is a reflection of being."
- "Maybe in my songs I talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it."
- "If you have an opportunity, to take advantage of what you always wanted at this precise moment, would you take it or would you let it escape?"
- «Before being famous, everything happened in slow motion».
- «We see the moment and we want to freeze it, but it shouldn't be like that; we should own it and keep it. '
- «I have my right to remain violent. Anything I say can be used against you.
- "Fame is really funny, until it really becomes difficult."
- "These times are difficult and will become increasingly difficult."
- «It is better if you lose yourself in the music, this moment is better if you own it, it is better if you never let it go».
- «You only have one chance, don't miss it. That opportunity comes only once in a lifetime.
- «I don't care if you are white, black, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, small, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor, if you are good to me, then I will also be good to you».
- "Why be a King, if you can be God?"
- «Music is like magic, there is a certain feeling when you decide to show your work to other people and they feel it too».
- «This is your moment, and every minute you spend try to keep it because you don't know when you can have it again».
- «It was my decision to be clean, I did it for myself. But I admit that I did it thanks to you.
- «You don't get another chance in life. Life is not a Nintendo game.
- «We walk this road together, through the storm, the weather doesn't matter. Cold or hot".
- "When I go, just keep going."
- «Why do you care how I look? Unless you want to be with me… ».
- "Sometimes I think that rap is the only way to end racism."
- "I come from the part of Detroit where life is really hard, I am not a mere talker."
- "Face things like a man and shut your mouth."
- "The question is, are you idiots smart enough to know what it's like to feel stupid?"
- «Fuck the money! I don't rap honoring dead presidents, I'd rather see all dead presidents. No one had ever said it before.
- «I don't do 'black music' nor do I do 'white music' I do war music for the boys who go to secondary school».
- "The moment I used my adversities to my advantage, my career soared."
- «Everyone has aspirations, goals or whatever; and everyone has reached that point in their life where no one else believes in them.
- "They can unmask me, but they can never understand me."
- "Don't even try to judge me, you have no idea what I've been through."
- "I don't give a shit about anything, God sent me into the world to pee on it."
- "Success is my only damn opinion, not failure."
- «I say what I want to say and I do what I want to do. There is no middle ground. People will either love you or hate you for it.
- «I make jokes of myself because I force myself to do the things that come to mind».
- «I have this ability not only to nurture my talent, but to see the diamond where a lot of people are sometimes looking for it and just don't see it».
- «Let me remind you of what made me come so far. Imagine that I'm giving up, then draw a circle around that image of me and draw a diagonal line through it.
- "I treat the money I earn as if it were the last time I was going to earn money."
- "He was a smart boy, but he hated school."
- "It's just too difficult to meet new people, at least from my position."
- 'It was just white trash. Not rich, not glamorous, but I'm not ashamed of it.
- «There was a kind of rebellion, like a youthful anger in my being. And then there was also the fact that I'm white, and you know, what I do is mostly black music. "
- «I want to solidify myself as an artist and show that, as I grow as a person, making mistakes and learning from them, I will grow artistically».
- "Rap was my drug."
- "Whatever he said, he was certainly feeling it at the time."
- "My father? I never met him. I never even saw a photograph of him.
- «The truth is difficult to digest, that's why my social circle is so small. I am quite a case making new friends ».
- «I say things that will shock people, but I'm not trying to shock people. I don't want to be the next Túpac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I'll do the best I can with my time.
- «Before I used to go to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. But the guys at the bar started to recognize me and I couldn't face it. So he would go to Denny's or Big Boy to eat alone. It was a really sad image. I got so fat that people started to stop recognizing me.
- «Many truths are told in jest».
- «I had nothing that was really for me, school, a home… nothing until I found that something I loved, music. And that changed me forever.
- «My writing process, the way I create my lyrics; is that I simply write down everything that gets out of the rhythm that I am feeling. As soon as I hear the beat, what I want to write comes to mind almost immediately.
- "I need to work a little more on myself for a while."
- «Personally I think rap is the best there is. If you poke around in the dash of my car, you'll find a rap record or tape. That's everything I buy, everything I live, everything I hear, everything I love.
- «It would be stupid to say that there are no children who see me as their example; but I have no responsibility towards them. I'm not a babysitter.
- "I don't have women, they just drive me crazy."
- "My point is this: if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it."
- "Anyone with a sense of humor, when I play an album of mine, they will laugh from beginning to end."
- "I don't think I've ever read poetry."
- «It makes me nervous to think what kind of person he was. I was a terrible person, a very bad person.
- 'I don't even know how to speak for myself. I never had that role of father that inspired me that confidence or gave me advice.
- "Hip-hop may be changing, but there will always be those people who are part of the pack, and there will always be those who are simply not part of the pack."
- «I have achieved enough with music, I don't have to go out and do things and get saturated».
- «I love attention, but I don't like to feel it for a long time».
- "My family has never been there for me, they just expect something because we are relatives."
- «Hip-hop saved my life. It is the only thing in which I have been able to be moderately decent, without him I would not know what to do.
- "My only goal was to become a rapper."
- «Five or six songs were derived from the original version of“ Encore ”. So I had to compose new songs to replace it.
- «I always say this about my music and music in general: music is like a time capsule. Each part reveals a stage of my life that was or a stage of my life that is right now.
- «Suppose there is the typical white child, who lives in a beautiful house and goes to a school for white children, having his future practically assured. That he chooses one of my records means a lot to me. That tells me he is living a rebellious fantasy.
- «To the people I forgot: at no time did you cross my mind and you probably don't deserve to be thanked».
- «Because sometimes you feel tired. You feel weak; And when you feel weak, you feel like you want to drop everything. But you have to search within yourself. You have to look for that inner strength, and bring out everything bad in you. And use that motivation not to give up, not to be a loser. It doesn't matter how much you want to lie down and not get up again ».