Check out additional interviews in the magazine with Yung Miami, Bobby Shmurda, JID, GloRilla, Yvngxchris, Sleazyworld Go, Styles P, Jim Jones, Symba, Reason, singer Jessie Reyez, actor Trevante Rhodes and music executive Katina Bynum. I want to do things that nobody from this point on can ever top. And again, it’s subjective, and every rapper, especially rappers in competitive rap, wants to be the best rapper. So, I look for the younger generation to push me. It’s about wanting to, and that’s never changed for me no matter what level the fame’s gotten to. It’s always been the most important thing to me.
Eminem Reflects on Career and Battling Drug Addiction: ‘I Don’t Know How the F*ck I’m Still Here’
The mainstream media branded him a “public menace” and theorized about the reasons for his excesses. When criticism threatened to slow down his rise to the top, the Detroit rapper turned to allies such as Elton John, the first big, socially acceptable global star to dare to defend and legitimize the Eminem’s lyrics and talent. His success shot to a new level in 2002 when he emerged as a cinematographic rebel without a cause, but with a hoodie, in the semi-autobiographical movie 8 Mile, which earned him an Academy Award for best original song. It wasn’t until 2008 that Eminem decided he wasn’t about to lose himself to drugs. According to the New York Times, he checked himself into rehab early that year and started the full 12-step program of a recovering addict. The Detroit rapper has been public about his battle with prescription drug addiction.
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I still had “Like Toy Soldiers” and a few that I did feel good about, but I knew in my heart of hearts, this is not the same quality as The Eminem Show. When I look back at my catalog, the first three albums, I’m definitely proud of them. Sometimes I go back, and I listen to them if I’m in a spot where I need some inspiration.
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Eminem’s rise to stardom, back in 1999, made him a scourge of the syrupy late-nineties pop scene. But he also managed to alter stereotypes about the criminality of the rap genre in the eyes of the general public. He dominated the portable CD players of turn-of-the-century youth, who emulated his style by dying their hair blonde and donning tank tops and oversized pants. “If I had been black, I wouldn’t have sold even half of it,” he acknowledged in one of his songs. “I don’t know at what point exactly it started to be a problem. I just remember liking it more and more,” Eminem says of his addiction to prescription medications in a clip from the documentary How to Make Money Selling Drugs.
Also known as AA tokens, recovery medallions, sobriety coins or 24 hour chips – they are given out in the US to people during their journey to overcoming addictions. The 8 Mile actor credits his children for helping him recover and previously revealed he replaced addiction with exercise. At the height of his addiction the rapper was reportedly taking up to 20 pills a day. Rosenberg confirmed that at the time he was concerned about whether Eminem would have “permanent problems” as he recovered.
- “When I got out of rehab, I needed to lose weight, but I also needed to figure out a way to function sober,” he told Men’s Journal.
- The Detroit rapper has been public about his battle with prescription drug addiction.
- At the beginning of my career, I had this whole canvas that I could paint on.
- He’s known as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
But he was also at the height of his drug addiction, as that’s when he overdosed — and according to Billboard, he tipped the scales at 230 lbs when he was in the throes of his addiction. The reason behind this weight gain was two-fold. “We were doing 16 hours on the set and you had a certain window where you had to sleep.
A California man who went missing 25 years ago has been found at a hospital after his sister saw his picture in a news article, authorities said. The discovery unfolded when the sister called authorities on Friday to say she was sent a famous people with fas USA Today article published this spring that showed a photo of a man who looked like her brother, the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office said. The woman’s brother had vanished in 1999 from Doyle, California, which is near Reno, Nevada, authorities said. Ryan Kobayashi, who flew to Los Angeles looking for his daughter, Hannah, after she was reported missing, ‘tragically took his own life,’ according to his family.
