"The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it."
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 15 of 17)
326 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money."
"With every song, all the elements have to work. First, the beat has to be great - you start there. You start with the music, and then the ideas follow. Then you start thinking of rhymes, and then you record it, and sometimes - this happens to me a lot - it doesn't come out as good as it did in my head when I first wrote it."
"The parents are pissed, but the kids love it."
"Follow me and do exactly what the song says Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people And drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal."
"I've always respected what Wayne does, and Wayne, to me is definitely one of the greatest in the game right now."
"You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang."
"Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do"
"Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people"
"It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever."
"So many lives I touch, so much anger."
"I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think."
"I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat"
"I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic."
"When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am."
"Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening."
"Sixty sluts, all of them dying from asphyxia after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup."
"But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail."
"I Like Gay Men, Right Ken?"
"Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross."