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Overview
Angry Blonde is the only official Eminem book on the market, done with the complete authorisation and support of the rap superstar.
Eminem is a multi–platinum recording artist whose albums The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP have sold nearly nine million copies combined.
Eminem‘s most recent release, The Marshall Mathers LP, made music history as the fastest–selling album from a solo act in Billboard history‘ it sold 1.76 million copies in its first week and has netted 6 million copies to date.
• Entertainment Weekly called The Marshall Mathers LP "The first great pop record of the 21st Century."
Eminem is everywhere. His face has graced the covers of Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Spin, among other magazines; he has a Pay–Per–View special slated for Christmas 2000; and he will be performing at the MTV Video Music Awards this September.
Eminem‘s personal life is also garnering him a lot of media attention: he‘s currently being sued for defamation of character by his mother and faces two separate assault charges.
Along with his controversial lyrics and Eminem‘s own commentary on them, Angry Blonde will feature never–before–published photos.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780060934514 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 06/04/2002 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Sales rank: | 502,701 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.38(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.36(d) |
About the Author
Read an Excerpt
The Real Slim Shady
Okay, so they made me do the single. Thing was, I had that hook for a minute, but I was nervous about doing anything with it. I didn't even bring it to Dre. He didn't know I had it in store, stockpiled with a bunch of other hooks. See, I write the hooks a lot of times before I write the actual rhyme. So I had this hook, but I asked myself, "Will this work?" It just needed the right beat. Man, we went into the studio about four times trying to come up with one. We did about four or five different tracks and still nothing was working. Finally, me and Dre was in the studio and we had just about given up. I was laid out on the couch, exhausted, and Dre was about to leave the room. I was tellin' the bass player and keyboard player to play something till I liked it. So they kept f--kin' around, f--kin' around, f--kin' around, and f--kin' around till Tommy (one of Dre's keyboard players) played the first few notes of "The Real Slim Shady" and I jumped up and said, "What was that?" I then asked him to do something different with it. Make it go up, and then down. He did a couple of different things with it until I was like "Right there." I then ran and got Dre to come listen to it. They added drums. Now, this all happened on a Friday. We had a meeting on Saturday with the label and they asked, "Well, did you come up with anything?" I played them "The Way I Am" and they said, "It's a great song. It's just not the first song." Originally, they were talking' about "Criminal" being the single, but I told them to let me take this sh-t ("The Real Slim Shady" instrumental) over the weekend and I'd have the rhyme written by Monday. Then we'd see if it worked. If it didn't, then f--k it. Right around this time was when Will Smith was dissin' gangsta rap and Christina Aguilera was talkin' sh-t about me on MTV, putting me on blast about being married during a time when I wasn't ready for the public to know that about me yet. So I waited just long enough to get new subject matter to get into. Now I had something to talk about. I came in on Monday, recorded it, and was done. Interscope, obviously, was satisfied. That situation made me value the saying "Things happen for a reason."
Copyright © 2000 by Marshall Mathers III.