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I identified with and loved LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. I realized I was becoming like the rappers that I looked up to as a kid. This is where I was dealing with critics who didnвЂ™t understand why people were identifying with me. Marky Bass said, вЂњYo, we got a call from a doctor!вЂќ Then, a couple weeks later, we get a call. We come back to Detroit, I have no fucking home, no idea what IвЂ™m gonna do. This kid from Interscope, Dean Geistlinger, walks over and he asks me for a copy of the CD.

IвЂ™m like, вЂњWhat the fuck do I do?вЂќ I was devastated. I went through a lot of people to get through to the end, and then he walked away while I was rapping. I didnвЂ™t have anyone to battle! IвЂ™d never been in a situation like that before. When I rapped, he went and hid behind a video screen. I went to the Olympics, got all the way to the end, and then lost to the last guy. I got you a ticket to the Rap Olympics in Los Angeles.вЂќ At some point, Wendy Day called me and said, вЂњI want you to be on the battle team. We had pressed up The Slim Shady EP and it was doing pretty well in Detroit. I had a big battle of my own, and it was definitely not like RabbitвЂ™s.

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That was the trick I had to figure out - how to make the rhyme sound like him, and then morph into me somehow, so you see the parallels between his struggles and mine. If IвЂ™m telling you that my daughter doesnвЂ™t have diapers, I need this amount of money to pay my bills this month, and itвЂ™s some real shit IвЂ™m telling you, then you know that itвЂ™s just coming from me. How is that going to come from a real place? It would sound so corny if I was just rapping as Jimmy Smith Jr. I gotta figure out how to reach a medium. So IвЂ™m playing this character, but I have to make parallels between my life and his, in this song.

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That was one of those songs where I remember telling Paul, вЂњI donвЂ™t know how to write about someone elseвЂ™s life.вЂќ Because the movie is not me the movie is Jimmy Smith Jr. I had started with this syllable scheme - вЂњ somebodyвЂ™s paying the pied piperвЂќ and вЂњMekhi PhiferвЂќ ended up fitting. Putting the name of the actor right there in the lead single was just about the rhymes. Lyric:В вЂњFood stamps donвЂ™t buy diapers, and thereвЂ™s no movie/ThereвЂ™s no Mekhi Phifer, this is my lifeвЂќ ThatвЂ™s when shit just got really - it was a lot to deal with at once. It went from the day before, doing whatever the fuck I wanted to do, because nobody knew who the fuck I was, to holy shit, people are fucking following us. But once that single came out, my life changed like that.

ThatвЂ™s when it was like, вЂњOK, this isnвЂ™t a joke anymore.вЂќ We had kind of felt that, being in the studio with Dre and shit. I never wanted to go back to just rapping regular again. It was a way for me to be myself and say what I felt. If anybody got mad about it, it was him that said it. WeвЂ™ll each be two different people.вЂќ When I started rapping as Shady, as that character, it was a way for me to vent all my frustrations and just blame it on him. He said, вЂњLetвЂ™s be in a group called D12, and there will be six of us, and weвЂ™ll each have an alias. Lyric:В вЂњSlim Shady, Eminem was the old initials (bye bye!)вЂќД¬oming out with an alias was part of ProofвЂ™s whole idea.

Fuck it.вЂќ I started to write angry songs like вЂњJust DonвЂ™t Give a Fuck.вЂќ I was like, вЂњIвЂ™m gonna rap like I donвЂ™t care anymore. Not to say that I didnвЂ™t love AZ and Nas, but for a rapper to be compared to someone, for people to say that you sound like someone else - nobody wants that. People were saying that I sounded like AZ and Nas. When that didnвЂ™t happen, it was really deflating. We expected weвЂ™d be able to get something with it, though. We pressed up under a thousand, initially. Lyric:В вЂњSo put my tape back on the rack/Go run and tell your friends my shit is wackвЂќ If for a second you entertain the idea of that being entertaining, if something ever happened out of that? No. No one wants to see something real happen. But when you have two rappers like Biggie and Tupac getting into it, you get the hip-hop community torn.

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