"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."
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 16 of 17)
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"I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess."
"Touring used to be hard. Early on in my career when I was more in grind mode, I was doing two or three shows a day. It was tough because you start feeling like you have no life. That being said, I do enjoy actually doing the shows."
"You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and you throw them out."
"It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat right, making everything sound right - you spent a freaking week trying to make it sound perfect, and someone comes along and shoots it down."
"I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?"
"If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters."
"But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind."
"I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place."
"Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up."
"If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!"
"The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate."
"I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it."
"My morals went when the president got oral."
"It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you"
"My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing."
"Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel."
"You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em"
"Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD."
"I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have."