Je n'attendais très honnêtement pas grand chose de cet ouvrage, hormis quelques belles photos. Finalement, ça a été une bonne surprise : si les photos sont effectivement globalement toutes de qualité (mais présentées sans ordre ni agencement particulier, ce qui peut être le seul reproche), les infos trouvées dans ce livre ont complété mes connaissances sur cet artiste.
En effet, sans prétendre faire mieux que les (auto)biographies ou essais plus complets déjà publiés sur Eminem, ce livre offre un résumé clair de la vie et de la carrière de l'artiste jusqu'en 2012 (plus récent que beaucoup d'autres ouvrages, donc), et intègre des anecdotes que je n'avais pas encore lues ailleurs. Bien sûr, j'imagine qu'on peut trouver ces informations ça et là sur internet, mais ce livre offre l'avantage de réunir en un tout cohérent et abordable tous ces points, et c'est appréciable.
Cet ouvrage est donc un excellent complément aux livres plus denses sur Eminem, et reste un bel objet d'art pour sa présentation et la qualité de ses photos.
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His initial fear was that he wouldn't be able to raise [Hailie] and support her as a father should, and was tormented that for her first two Christmases she would find nothing of any value under the tree. However, when she turned three, she had more than enough presents to make up for it.
People ask me, "What would you say to someone that wanted to grow up to be like you ?" And I would say not to do it. Don't grow up to be me. But, at the same time, is it really a bad thing to grow up to be like me, to come from the gutter and become a rap star ?
My album is so autobiographical that there shouldn't be any more questions to answer. It's the story of a white kid who grew up in a black neighborhood who had a pretty shity life... not the worst life in the world, but still a fairly shity life.
When I record I slip into the zone. I don't like to talk a lot. I like to stick to myself and get my thoughts together, think how I'm gonna map out each song.
The government organization was interested in one lyric in particular, where Marshall raps : "Fuck money/I don't rap for dead presidents/I'd rather see the president dead". Agents wanted to discover wether it threatened the then-president George Bush's life. However, the investigation went nowhere and the finished article, eventually titled "We as americans" ended up as a bonus track on Eminem's 2004 album Encore.