EM Fact 01. Em’s in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the fastest selling hip-hop artist.
EM Fact 02. One of the Requirements to be signed to Shady Records is you have to battle Eminem.
EM Fact 03. During
the shooting of 8 Mile, Em would write lyrics for the soundtrack during
breaks. When shooting resumes crew members will have to pull the
notepad from him in order to catch his attention and make him stop
writing.
EM Fact 04. Em
was bullied as a kid because he was small and was often mistaken as
retarded. He would hum melodies to himself not knowing it was loud
enough to be heard by everybody. (He still does today. He also said that
he is always writing and that he cant stop writing because ideas keep
flowin’ in.)
EM Fact 05. Em is of Scottish and Welsh decent.
EM Fact 06. Em has been falsely reported dead by a car crash 4 times and a drug overdose once.
EM Fact 07. Eminem is the oldest member of D12 (b. 1972). Kon Artis is the youngest (b. 1978).
EM Fact 08. He is a Spiderman fan.
EM Fact 09. Em
is a Baptist (just like his mom and the rest of her family). He’s not
religious though. Kim’s the one who is Catholic. She’s also not
religious.
EM Fact 10. Em wears glasses because he’s near-sighted.
EM Fact 11. Em’s a gadget freak.
EM Fact 12. Em’s favorite porn star is Janet Jacme.
EM Fact 13. Kim and Em’s term of endearment is “Stinky”.
EM Fact 14. Despite
what was written before, Em did not attempt suicide. He took pills to
fight his depression and accidentally OD’d. He was happy to wake up the
next day.
EM Fact 15. The platinum bracelet and ring he usually wears both have “DAD” inscribed on them. Both are from Hailie.
EM Fact 16. Despite
his chosen profession, Em is still a very quiet individual (much like
his character Rabbit) which either surprises or annoys the shit out of
people.
EM Fact 17. Em used to have a problem with people staring at him.
EM Fact 18. Em thinks Robin Williams is brilliant and vice versa.
EM Fact 19. Em’s all-time favorite movie is The Matrix.
EM Fact 20. Em thought Luis Resto was Michael Bolton when he first met him.
EM Fact 21. Em had a crush on Madonna when he was 11.
EM Fact 22. The first concert he ever went to is Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane and Queen Latifah in Detroit.
EM Fact 23. Em cuts his own hair.
EM Fact 24. Em’s fave dance song is Busta Rhymes’s “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See”.
EM Fact 25. Em
and Dr. Dre’s first choice for Stan is Macaulay Culkin. Macaulay was
doing a play. Dre picked Devon Sawa because he thought he looked like Em
(Em made a video where he’s the one portraying Stan, and Devon made a
similar video. Dre almost could not tell them apart.).
EM Fact 26. Lose
Yourself may have topped the poll on songs that spurs ball players to
victory but it also topped the poll on songs most likely to lead to car
crashes.
EM Fact 27. Elton John has dedicated his song Rocket Man to Em.
EM Fact 28. Em’s
high-profile movie debut should’ve been ‘Training Day’ with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. He was to play Denzel’s drug dealer friend. 8
Mile came along so we all know how that ended. The other movie that he
also considered was ‘Lazarus’ with DMX which is a part of ‘The Crow’
series in which he was also supposed to play the villain.
EM Fact 29. Shannon Elizabeth was Em’s first choice to be the girl in ‘Superman’.
EM Fact 30. Neil
Tennant (Petshop Boys) has a crush on Em and wishes that the events in
their song “The night I fell in love” would happen to him.
EM Fact 31. Em and Hailie has a cat named Tigger.
EM Fact 32. For his 8 Mile role, Em dropped from 168 lbs (12 stone or 76.21kg) to 145 lbs (10.35 stone or 65.8kg).
EM Fact 33. Em wears size XXL clothes.
EM Fact 34. Marshall Jr. and Debbie were in a band called Daddy Warbucks. They played @ Ramada Inns along the Dakota-Montana border.
EM Fact 35. Em prefers Fords. His friends say that he doesn’t like to drive though.
EM Fact 36. Em does not smoke.
EM Fact 37. Em
has been rumored to be ghostwriting for LL (for his response to
Canibus’s diss), Dre (all songs in Chronic 2001. and also the songs in
the upcoming Detox), and 50 Cent (50 has admitted that Em made some
changes to some of his lyrics to make the song flow better).
EM Fact 38. Kim
once worked at the Oasis Executive Spa, a massage parlor that was
allegedly engaged in prostitution. Em was the last to know that Kim
worked there. Em found Kim’s job too much to bear and was one of the
reasons for one of their biggest blow-ups.
EM Fact 39. Em has adopted Dawn’s (Kim’s twin) daughter, Alaina.
EM Fact 40. When
Dre first met Em, Em was wearing a bright yellow tracksuit which he got
from a sponsor because he didn’t have the money to buy decent clothes.
Dre thought he looked like a banana.
EM Fact 41. Gary
Kozlowski was the guy who was with Em when he went spying on Kim at the
Hot Rocks Bar. He was charged because he tried to hide Em’s gun when Em
dropped it. Em and Gary became friends when they were in their teens.
Gary appears on TES’s “The Kiss” skit.
EM Fact 42. Dre made Em change (in ‘Love Me’) the line “I’m the equivalent of what will happen if Suge rapped” to “I’m the equivalent of what will happen if Bush rapped.”
EM Fact 43. Em’s other celebrity neighbor in his new Oakland hood is Aretha Franklin.
EM Fact 44. Em received $3 Million for his 8 Mile role.
EM Fact 45. The
other members of D12 thought that Proof will be the one to blow up
first amongst their group and that they never thought in a million years
that Em will be the one since Em’s quiet and shy.
EM Fact 46. Em
has a double. His name is Joe Pace aka ‘Partial Mathers’ and he’s 19
years old. He has toured with Em at the Anger Management Tour and was a
part of the ‘vanishing’ act. He’s also performed with Em at the 2002 Mtv
Movie awards wearing the ‘Rap Boy’ costume. He also works as a decoy
and does camera-blocking sessions for Em’s videos.
EM Fact 47. Luis
Resto calls Em’s style of production as ‘Classical Hip-Hop’ because of
Em’s penchant for using live instruments and minimal sampling.
EM Fact 48. Most
people do a lead track and another ad-lib track to fill in words but
Em’s totally unique because he layers each song. He does his main vocals
then right under it he makes an angry track (same as the main vocals
but angry), a yelling track and sometimes a soft, whispering track.
EM Fact 49. Universal
and Interscope have originally agreed for Em to use ‘Cleanin out my
Closet’ as the theme for 8 Mile that’s why it was used in the 1st
trailer. But Em thought that, ‘it was too personal to use for the
movie.’ The studios were upset and thought that COMC was the greatest
song they’ve heard and thought that Em can’t make a better one. Then Em
made ‘Lose Yourself’.
EM Fact 50. Em did all the three verses of Lose Yourself in one take.
EM Fact 51. “Hailie’s
Song” was supposed to contain an interpolation from George Harrison’s
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” but George’s widow retracted George’s
permission. Em had to redo the whole song.
EM Fact 52. It
was Dr. Dre who convinced Em to include Hailie’s Song on TES. Dre
played the song to two of his female friends and when they cried he was
convinced that it should be included on Em’s new album. Em had
originally planned on just keeping the track in a safe for Hailie to
listen to when she grows up. He was embarassed to have it released at
first.
EM Fact 53. Em called on Craig G (of the original Juice Crew) to co-write with him all the rhymes that was recited on 8 Mile.
EM Fact 54. Em’s relatives used to call him ‘Mickey’ when he was a baby because he had big ears.
EM Fact 55. Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine were backstage at the Oscars when Em won. They were there for their boy even if Em wasn’t there.
EM Fact 56. Eminem’s favorite drink is Mountain Dew.
EM Fact 57. It had been Eminem’s dream since he was 16 to sample Aerosmith’s Dream On, his dream came true on the track Sing for the moment.
EM Fact 58. The
song playing in the background of the skit The Kiss (The Eminem Show)
is actually called Everyone’s Looking At Me. The track was originally
meant to be featured on The Wash soundtrack, but didnt make the cut.
EM Fact 59. Hailie
came up with the hook to My Dad’s Gone Crazy. While Eminem was mixing
Soldier, Hailie was there playing and said “Somebody please help me”.
EM Fact 60. Some of Eminem’s favorite movies are How High?, Orange County, and The Matrix.
EM Fact 61. Eminem’s 99 purple Mustang 2 was sold online for $27,900.
EM Fact 62. Em wears size 10� shoes.
EM Fact 63. To record ‘97 Bonnie and Clyde Em told Kim he was taking Hailie to Chuck E. Cheese.
EM Fact 64. The shady one attends public community meetings and even lets kids in the neighborhood play basketball at his house.
EM Fact 65. Eminem’s tattoo artist is Mr. Cartoon, he’s located in California.
EM Fact 66. Em used to spend hours at night studying the dictionary so that he could expand his vocabulary for his ryhmes.
EM Fact 67. Eminem originally wanted to become a comic-book artist.
EM Fact 68. Kim has a twin sister named Dawn.
EM Fact 69. Eminem gave his manager Paul Rosenberg one of the Grammys that he won in 2000.
EM Fact 70. The cast Eminem is wearing in Fight Music is due to an injury Em’s sustained whilst trying to fix his house.
EM Fact 71. The guy dressed as a cactus that in Purple Hills video is also in the beginning of the Without Me video clip.
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