"We sing for these kids who don't have a thing."
Eminem
Rapper, songwriter, record producer
Eminem is a Grammy-winning rapper known for his impactful lyrics that explore themes of struggle, resilience, and personal growth, particularly in his album 'The Marshall Mathers LP'.
- Born
- October 17, 1972
- Quotes
- 326
- Rank
- #343
Quote collection
Eminem quotes (page 14 of 17)
326 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate."
"I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do."
"I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by."
"It feels good to have your work respected again."
"Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person."
"The devil's spirit's trapped inside me. My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man. So I keep conjuring (demons), sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn (Satan) from. I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying. Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the monster that's under my bed. Get along with the voices inside of my head."
"I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute."
"I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet."
"Just never really got into cars and flossin' or never really cared, like I was always the type of person that felt like as long as I make enough money to support my family with this music that's all I really care about. You know what I mean so I don't really buy, I'm just not into like that many material possessions and stuff like that, because at the end of the day, it's just not that important."
"Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day."
"I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds."
"I don't need a tank top to be a wife beater"
"You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally."
"Me and Marcus Allen went over to see Nicole We heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron Gold' Jumped behind the door, put the orgy on hold Killed em both and smeared blood on the white Bronco"
"I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody."
"Came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain. An asshole, that role I think I succeed in fulfilling. Dont think I ever stopped to think I was speaking to children. Everything was happening so fast, it was like I blinked, sold three million."
"Now who is the king of these lewd, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics; who could inherit the title, to put the youth in hysterics; using his music as spirit"
"The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids."
"At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter"