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Yeah, trying to figure out the difference

But I think the lines are starting to get blurry



[Verse 1]

I'm in a strange place, I feel like Mase when he gave up the game

For his faith, I feel like I'm caged in these chains and restraints

Grinning every stranger in the place while I gaze

Into space cause I'm mentally rearranging his face

I need a change of pace cause the pace I'm working at is dangerous

There's nowhere to dump this anger and thanks to this angst

I done quit chicken heads cold turkey and started slowly roasting 'em

Cause that's where most of my anger is based

f**k your feelings, I feel like I play for the Saints

I just want to hurt you, aim for the skanks

Then aim for all these fake Kanye's, Jay's

Wayne's and the Drake's, I'm frustrated cause ain't

No more N'Sync, now I'm all out of wack

I'm all out of Backstreet Boys to call out and attack

I'm going all out in this rap sh*t and whatever the fallout is

I'm strapped for battles, suck a duck, crawl out the back, bar fight

Prepare your arsenal and beware of bar stools

Flying through the air and bottles breaking, mirrors also

And I ain't stopping 'til the swear jar's full

You done called every woman a slut, but you forgetting Sarah, Marshall

(Palin!) Oh, my bad, slut

And next time I show up in court I'll be naked and just wear a lawsuit

Judge be like "That's sharp, how much that motherf**ker cost you?

Smart-ass, you lucky I don't tear it off you

And jump your bones, you sexy motherf**ker

You so f**king gravy, Marshall, I should start calling you au jus

Cause all you do is spit them lyrics out the wazoo

Evil twin, take this beat now, it's on you"

I believe people can change, but only for the worse

I could've changed the world if it wasn't for this verse

So Satanic, K-Mart chains panic, cause they can't even spin back

The curse words, cause they're worse when they're reversed, motherf**ker

(Rape your mother, kill your parents!)

And these kids are like parrots, they run around the house just like terrorists

Screaming "f**k, sh*t, f**k!" Adult with a childish like arrogance

Wild ever since the day I came out I was like "Merits, f**k that"

I'd rather be loud and I like swearing

From the first album even the gals were like "Tight lyrics, dreamy eyes"

But my f**king mouth was nightmare-ish

And from the start of it you felt like you were a part of this

And the opposition felt the opposite

Sometimes I listen and revisit them old albums often as I can and skim

Through all them bitches to make sure I keep up with my competition

Hogger of beats, hoarder of rhymes

Borderline genius who's bored of his lines

And that sort of defines where I'm at and the way I feel now

Feel like I might just strike first and ignore the replies



[Hook]

This darkness comes in me, here it comes again

It controls my pen, that ain't me, it's my evil twin

(I step out and see my evil twin, he gives me an evil grin)

He's just a friend who pops up now and again

So don't blame me, blame him, cause I ain't playing

(I step out and see my evil twin, he gives me an evil grin)



[Interlude]

Welcome back to the land of the living, my friend

You have slept for quite some time



[Verse 2]

So who's left? Lady Gaga? Messed with the Bieber

Nah, F with Christina, I ain't f**king with either Jessica neither

Simpson or Alba, my albums just sicker

Than struck with the fever, get the cloriseptic Excedrin aleve

Or extra strength Tylenol 3's, feel like I'm burning to death

But I'm freezing Bed ridden and destined to never leave the, bedroom

Ever again like the legend of Heather Ledger

My suicide notes, barely legible read the, bottom

It's signed by the Joker, Lorena said I never can leave her

She'd sever my wiener I ever deceive her

f**k that sh*t, bitch, give up my dick for p*ssy

I'd be Jerry Mathers, I'd ever left it at beaver

Get them titties cut off trying to mess with the cleaver

Golly-wally, I've been heat registered, Jesus

Ever since 1-9-9-4-6 Dresden, it was definite lean

My destiny went on the steps, I met DeShaun

At Osborn, I'd never make it to sophomore

I just wanted to skip school and rap, used to mop floors

Flip burgers and wash dishes, but I wrote rhymes

Trying to get props for 'em, cause I took book-smarts and swapped for 'em

They was sleeping, I made 'em stop snoring

Made them break out the popcorn, now I've been hip-hop in it's tip-top form

Since N.W.A was blaring through my car windows

Leaning on the horn, screaming "f**k the Police" like cop porn

Flipped rap on its ear like I dropped corn

f**k Top 5, bitch, I'm Top 4

And that includes Biggie and Pac, whore, and I got an Evil Twin

So who do you think that's third and that fourth spot's for?

And as crazy as I am I'm much tamer than him

And I'm nuts, then again who the f**k wants a plain Eminem?

But no one's insaner than Slim, look at that evil grin

Evil Twin, please come in, what was your name again?

Hi! f*gg*t, look who's back with a crab up his ass

Like a lobster crawled up there, two rabbits, a koala bear

And a ball of hair, and you're all aware I ain't got it all upstairs

Guess that's why I'm an addict and it's just small up there

Peace to Whitney, geez, just hit me

That I should call the looney police to come get me

Cause I'm so sick of being the truth, I wish somebody finally admit me

Into a mental hospital with Britney

Oh, LMFAO, no way, ho

Jose Baez couldn't beat this rap, OJ no

Hooray, I'm off the hook like Casey Anthony, hey ho

Hey, ho! I sound like I'm trying to sing

The f**king chorus to Hip Hop Hooray

No! I’m hollering you got bottom-end like an 808

And a bass whether we're f**king off that instead of your face, so

Let your low end raise, yo

Tango, what you think, ho? Slow dancing or bowling

You trying to hold hands with your homie?

What? You think I'm looking for romance cause I'm lonely?

Change that tune, you ain't got remote chance to control me

Ho, I'm only vulnerable when I got a boner

Superman tried to f**k me over, it won't hurt

Don't try to fix me, I'm broke so I don't work

So are you, but you're broke, cause you don't work

But all bullsh*t aside I hit a stride

Still Shady inside, hair every bit is dyed

As it used to be when I first introduced y'all to my skittish side

And blamed it on him when they tried to criticize

Cause we are the same, bitch

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"Eminem’s Detroit Childhood Home Damaged in Fire



The Detroit home that inspired many of Eminem's hits was damaged in a tragic fire on Thursday (November 7), days after it was purchased to be turned into a museum.



According to reports, the Detroit fire department responded to the blaze at the home located south of 8 Mile Road. At this time, a cause for the fire is still unknown.



Before the house located at 19946 Dresden St. was auctioned off, it was owned by Eminem’s mother.



It was the cover art on his 2000 album “The Marshall Mathers LP” and makes a comeback on his latest project “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” which was released this week.



Em’s mother Deborah wrote about the house in her book “My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem,” and stated, "Marshall loved it so much that he had a model of it made to take on tour with him. Even though we'd moved a lot, he always said the house on Dresden was his childhood home."



Stay linked to GossipCenter for more details surrounding the blaze."

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"Eminem's Simple Reason for Long Break Between Albums: 'I'm Lazy



Wondering what took mega-selling rapper Emimem so long — three whole years, to be exact — to release his latest chart-topping set, "The Marshall Mathers LP 2"? According to the man himself, the explanation is simple.



"It's basically because I'm lazy," he admitted in an interview with France's NRJ Radio.



Of course, this is classic Em-understatement. Digging a little deeper, it doesn't appear that the superstar was exactly being lazy; it seems more that other projects were taking up his time directly after the release of his last album, 2010's "Recovery."



"I started working on some side projects for Shady Records, the label," he explained of that period. "I did some producing on a Yellow Wolf album and the Slaughterhouse album. I did a collaboration album with Royce tha '59 called 'Bad Meets Evil.' In the middle of all that I was recording for this album."



That certainly sounds as if he were keeping himself busy. Still, the rapper has been fingered for slacking off/not giving it his all several times before. Just earlier this month, in fact, he was accused of lip-syncing on "Saturday Night Live" — or, at the very least, giving an underwhelming performance at the one time he should have been on fire; i.e., mere days before the release of "The Marshall Mathers LP 2." (A rep later told TMZ that Em was actually rapping over a vocal track: "He just likes this sound and if you listen to his albums they are done the same way.")



And, adding to the whole slacker-y image, Em shocked/amused football fans across the nation in September when he was interviewed on ESPN during halftime of this year's Michgan-Notre Dame matchup. After gazing slack-jawed at the camera, he told sportscasters Kirk Herbstreit and Brent Musburger he wasn't used to live TV. He followed that up with a string of inane commentary, including a laughable "prediction" for the Detroit Lions game the following day.



Lazy or not, one thing about Eminem that is not moving slowly whatsoever is his popularity. "The Marshall Mathers LP 2," released Nov. 5, debuted easily at No. 1, with first-week sales of nearly 800,000."

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Anyone can see he isn't the REAL Slim Shady. He has so many dated references in his new album because this is newly produced-and-polished OLD material created by the original Marshall Mathers. The Saturday Night Live incident, where he was clearly lip-synching, underscores the fact that the original Eminem is "gone".



hollywoodlife.com/2013/11/05/eminem-lip-sync-video-saturday-night-live-berzerk/



Eminem, 41, has some explaining to do! Though he shut the rumors down that he lip synced during his Nov. 2 Saturday Night Live performance, the actual footage from the show tells otherwise; his mouth movements weren’t in sync with the music.

While Eminem’s representative has since denied rumors of the rap star’s alleged lip syncing, viewers took to Twitter to express their anger after watching the mediocre performance.



“If what you’re doing in the studio is so complicated, you can’t pull it off live, then don’t even bother recording it. #Eminem #SNL #lipsync” @jeremycox tweeted.



Meanwhile, @cedgordon tweeted, “I didn’t know you were allowed to lip sync on SNL. Eminem wasn’t singing Bezerk live, was he? Sounded just like the record.”



Others compared Eminem’s performance to Ashlee Simpson‘s 2004 SNL disaster. Remember when she was caught lip syncing and immediately slammed for it?



Ouch! Apparently, viewers felt robbed of a real “live” performance. After all, it’s Saturday Night Live, so isn’t that the point?





At about 2:41 you'll see something fairly interesting about the incredible Mr. Mathers







And this follow-up vid probably tells the most disturbing Eminem tale of all...







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Anyone can see he isn't the REAL Slim Shady. He has so many dated references in his new album because this is newly produced-and-polished OLD material created by the original Marshall Mathers. The Saturday Night Live incident, where he was clearly lip-synching, underscores the fact that the original Eminem is "gone".



hollywoodlife.com/2013/11/05/eminem-lip-sync-video-saturday-night-live-berzerk/



Eminem, 41, has some explaining to do! Though he shut the rumors down that he lip synced during his Nov. 2 Saturday Night Live performance, the actual footage from the show tells otherwise; his mouth movements weren’t in sync with the music.

While Eminem’s representative has since denied rumors of the rap star’s alleged lip syncing, viewers took to Twitter to express their anger after watching the mediocre performance.



“If what you’re doing in the studio is so complicated, you can’t pull it off live, then don’t even bother recording it. #Eminem #SNL #lipsync” @jeremycox tweeted.



Meanwhile, @cedgordon tweeted, “I didn’t know you were allowed to lip sync on SNL. Eminem wasn’t singing Bezerk live, was he? Sounded just like the record.”



Others compared Eminem’s performance to Ashlee Simpson‘s 2004 SNL disaster. Remember when she was caught lip syncing and immediately slammed for it?



Ouch! Apparently, viewers felt robbed of a real “live” performance. After all, it’s Saturday Night Live, so isn’t that the point?





At about 2:47 you'll see something fairly interesting about the incredible Mr. Mathers







And this follow-up vid probably tells the most disturbing Eminem tale of all...









As I pointed out in my previous posts, there is no such thing as "the original Marshall Mathers". Eminem was replaced long before getting famous. Well, on the other hand, for the great public, there is such a thing as "the original MM" as he was perceived by them, the guy who took by the storm the music stage at the beginning of 2000's....

As I pointed out in my previous posts, there is no such thing as "the original Marshall Mathers". Eminem was replaced long before getting famous. Well, on the other hand, for the great public, there is such a thing as "the original MM" as he was perceived by them, the guy who took by the storm the music stage at the beginning of 2000's....

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"Eminem Reborn: Inside the New Issue of Rolling Stone



The platinum-blond hair is back, and in so many ways — for the first time in years — Slim Shady truly is, too. In the new issue of Rolling Stone (on stands Friday), senior writer Brian Hiatt gets Eminem to reflect on his sobriety and a lifetime devoted to hip-hop in a more candid way than ever before.



"I'm as happy as I can be, I guess," Em reveals, later telling Hiatt, "Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. I think they have a word for that — what do they call it? Idiot savant?"



Eminem stresses he was being intentionally spaced-out when he appeared alongside Brent Musburger on ESPN in September. In fact, he was channeling the Beastie Boys. "I knew we were about to show the 'Berzerk' video, so I was doing what I call the Berzerk face," he says. "The whole song to me feels like vintage Beastie Boys. And you know the 'Pass the Mic' video where Ad-Rock is making that face, kind of not looking the camera? I was doing my own version."

Em also admits he didn't always understand the Beasties' artistic twists and turns. "When Paul's Boutique came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it," he says. "It took me years to realize how f**king genius it is. I felt bad for sleeping on it.



"Obviously, yes, there was something about Licensed to Ill — you had the Zeppelin samples and their vibe. You had Run-DMC, who were so cool, with the attitude of 'f**k you if you don't like us.' Same as the Beastie Boys. 'f**k you. We f**king curse. We spit beer. We throw it on our f**king fans.' And obviously as they got older their views and things changed, as all of ours do. You can be mad at their sh*t for not sounding like their last sh*t, but if it did, then they didn't grow as artists. Same as me."



Eminem's nostalgia for classic hip-hop albums shaped The Marshall Mathers LP 2, his nearly platinum new album, which moved an astonishing 792,000 copies last week. But he stresses his glances back to the past weren't purely mechanical.



"Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places," he says. "You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. But then you go to Tupac, and he made songs. His f**king songs felt like something — 'Holy sh*t! I want to f**king punch someone in the face when I put this CD in.' Biggie told stories. I wanted to do all that sh*t." "Eminem Reborn: Inside the New Issue of Rolling StoneThe platinum-blond hair is back, and in so many ways — for the first time in years — Slim Shady truly is, too. In the new issue of Rolling Stone (on stands Friday), senior writer Brian Hiatt gets Eminem to reflect on his sobriety and a lifetime devoted to hip-hop in a more candid way than ever before."I'm as happy as I can be, I guess," Em reveals, later telling Hiatt, "Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. I think they have a word for that — what do they call it? Idiot savant?"Eminem stresses he was being intentionally spaced-out when he appeared alongside Brent Musburger on ESPN in September. In fact, he was channeling the Beastie Boys. "I knew we were about to show the 'Berzerk' video, so I was doing what I call the Berzerk face," he says. "The whole song to me feels like vintage Beastie Boys. And you know the 'Pass the Mic' video where Ad-Rock is making that face, kind of not looking the camera? I was doing my own version."Em also admits he didn't always understand the Beasties' artistic twists and turns. "When Paul's Boutique came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it," he says. "It took me years to realize how f**king genius it is. I felt bad for sleeping on it."Obviously, yes, there was something about Licensed to Ill — you had the Zeppelin samples and their vibe. You had Run-DMC, who were so cool, with the attitude of 'f**k you if you don't like us.' Same as the Beastie Boys. 'f**k you. We f**king curse. We spit beer. We throw it on our f**king fans.' And obviously as they got older their views and things changed, as all of ours do. You can be mad at their sh*t for not sounding like their last sh*t, but if it did, then they didn't grow as artists. Same as me."Eminem's nostalgia for classic hip-hop albums shaped The Marshall Mathers LP 2, his nearly platinum new album, which moved an astonishing 792,000 copies last week. But he stresses his glances back to the past weren't purely mechanical."Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places," he says. "You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. But then you go to Tupac, and he made songs. His f**king songs felt like something — 'Holy sh*t! I want to f**king punch someone in the face when I put this CD in.' Biggie told stories. I wanted to do all that sh*t."

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Eminem's platinum hair used to be the rapper's trademark: Who could forget the image of dozens of Eminems parading outside New York's famed Radio City Music Hall as part of the rapper's performance of "The Real Slim Shady" at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards? But after a near-fatal pill addiction brought the MC born Marshall Mathers to the brink, he ditched the dyed-blond 'do in favor of a more natural brunette look.



But now, Shady's back. And so is the hairdo that helped make him a star.



For his latest album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem's longtime manager Paul Rosenberg floated the idea of a major cosmetic shift back to his old look. As Eminem reveals in interviews for his new Rolling Stone cover story, he admitted he was toying with the idea. "I was like, 'I'm so used to it being dark,' you know. So I just tried it," he says.



So what did it feel like looking into the mirror and seeing that blond hair again for the first time in six years?



"Like I relapsed on drugs," he says. "It was a little creepy." Admitting that the last time he was blond was an extremely difficult moment in his life, he adds, "I think getting sober and putting my hair back to its regular color was me washing my hands of it. Dyeing it back probably would have been bad for me a year or two after that. But I'm more comfortable in sobriety now."



Eminem also reveals his problem with sleeping pills began as his career started to skyrocket. "I started to get the sleep problem in the first place when I was feeling the pressures of having to be places at a certain time to perform — and be on par with every single thing that I did, because everyone is watching," he says. "Had I not went to pills I know I would have become a full-blown alcoholic."



Mathers almost died after a methadone overdose in 2007. "I know I probably shaved a few years off my life," he admits. "I was definitely lucky. I think my OCD is getting worse, though."



Eminem's "self-diagnosed" OCD is what he believes keeps him in the studio tweaking every tiny aspect of every song he records. And it's kept him fanatical about his workout routines, too. "I started noticing [stuff] about myself," he tells us. "Like, if I ran on the treadmill, if I had it in my mind that I needed to burn 500 calories, I hit that exact number."



But the drive to make The Marshall Mathers LP 2 sound a very specific way came from gazing outwards, rather than inwards — and album's aesthetic is strongly rooted in hip-hop's past, which Eminem has credited as giving his life a purpose.



"Hip-hop saved my life, man," he says. "It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. I think they have a word for that — what do they call it? Idiot savant?"







"Eminem's Shocking Switch Back to BlondEminem's platinum hair used to be the rapper's trademark: Who could forget the image of dozens of Eminems parading outside New York's famed Radio City Music Hall as part of the rapper's performance of "The Real Slim Shady" at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards? But after a near-fatal pill addiction brought the MC born Marshall Mathers to the brink, he ditched the dyed-blond 'do in favor of a more natural brunette look.But now, Shady's back. And so is the hairdo that helped make him a star.For his latest album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem's longtime manager Paul Rosenberg floated the idea of a major cosmetic shift back to his old look. As Eminem reveals in interviews for his new Rolling Stone cover story, he admitted he was toying with the idea. "I was like, 'I'm so used to it being dark,' you know. So I just tried it," he says.So what did it feel like looking into the mirror and seeing that blond hair again for the first time in six years?"Like I relapsed on drugs," he says. "It was a little creepy." Admitting that the last time he was blond was an extremely difficult moment in his life, he adds, "I think getting sober and putting my hair back to its regular color was me washing my hands of it. Dyeing it back probably would have been bad for me a year or two after that. But I'm more comfortable in sobriety now."Eminem also reveals his problem with sleeping pills began as his career started to skyrocket. "I started to get the sleep problem in the first place when I was feeling the pressures of having to be places at a certain time to perform — and be on par with every single thing that I did, because everyone is watching," he says. "Had I not went to pills I know I would have become a full-blown alcoholic."Mathers almost died after a methadone overdose in 2007. "I know I probably shaved a few years off my life," he admits. "I was definitely lucky. I think my OCD is getting worse, though."Eminem's "self-diagnosed" OCD is what he believes keeps him in the studio tweaking every tiny aspect of every song he records. And it's kept him fanatical about his workout routines, too. "I started noticing [stuff] about myself," he tells us. "Like, if I ran on the treadmill, if I had it in my mind that I needed to burn 500 calories, I hit that exact number."But the drive to make The Marshall Mathers LP 2 sound a very specific way came from gazing outwards, rather than inwards — and album's aesthetic is strongly rooted in hip-hop's past, which Eminem has credited as giving his life a purpose."Hip-hop saved my life, man," he says. "It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else. I think they have a word for that — what do they call it? Idiot savant?"