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| Kim pleads guilty to drug charge - Posted: 01/01/2004 Eminem 's ex-wife, Kimberly Mathers, has pleaded guilty to a drug charge and a driving offense as part of an agreement to resolve two drug cases, the prosecutor's office said. Mathers, who's been the subject of some of the rapper's songs, appeared Thursday before Circuit Court Judge Edward A. Servitto and entered the pleas to a charge of possessing 25 grams or less of cocaine and failing to give adequate space to an emergency vehicle. The charges came from a June traffic stop in St. Clair Shores. A third charge of driving with a suspended license will be dropped and a charge of maintaining a drug house, from a Warren hotel party in September where police confiscated marijuana and Ecstasy, will be dismissed, said David Portuesi, chief of the drug crimes unit for the Macomb County prosecutor's office. "Probation is an outcome that's recommended here within the state guidelines," Portuesi told The Macomb Daily for Friday's editions. While the St. Clair Shores case was pending, the 28-year-old Mathers failed to appear in court. On Nov. 1, she broke or removed an electronic tether designed to monitor her whereabouts. Mathers turned herself in later that month. Portuesi said the judge has removed the tether and house arrest as conditions of Mathers' bond. Defense attorney Michael Sinutko asked for Mathers to get consideration under a legal provision where offenders convicted of their first drug crime can abide by probation or other terms and get their convictions sealed or expunged. Servitto likely will rule on the request at Mathers' Jan. 21 sentencing. Album leaks investigated by Interscope - Posted: 01/12/03 Interscope is conducting an investigation into leaks surrounding music from Eminem's upcoming album. The rapper is recording his album in a Los Angeles recording studio and despite security precautions, three unfinished tracks have found their way to Internet auction site, Ebay. The recordings were being offered to the highest bidder. Ebay promptly canceled the auction, but the recordings have surfaced several times since being shut down. Security during the sessions has been tight and Eminem reportedly knows everyone that attends each session. Interscope is interviewing every person with access to the studio and considering a special "security team" to prevent further recordings from being leaked. There is no release date for Eminem's untitled album. Get Rich Part Two - Posted: 11/09/03 The first new material from 50 Cent will arrive at the end of the year with the G-Unit album, 'Beg For Mercy'. 50's G-Unit crew is made up of Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and the currently imprisoned Tony Yayo with all four sharing the microphone duties on the album. The Eminem and Dr Dre-signed star told MTV News that he is happy for the G-Unit release to be viewed by the public as the follow-up to his acclaimed debut, 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. "I had to work extra hard on this album," he said. "Now I'm content with them calling this my second album. I think its good enough." Production on the record comes from both of the business overlords, Dr Dre and Eminem, along with more underground names like Alchemist, Emil and DJ Twinz.Young Buck delivered the sales pitch, saying: "Basically what you got from 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' is the same thing you can look forward to on the G-Unit album or maybe more. We got a lot of stuff in store." Eminem Goes Willie Wonka - Posted: 04/09/03 Eminem is giving fans the opportunity to watch him record his new LP in a Willie Wonka-style golden ticket giveaway. To be in with a chance of winning, fans will need to buy the new album from Eminem prot�g� Obie Trice - three of the first 500,000 copies will contain the winning tickets. "We were working on this album and trying to come up with the craziest idea possible to help promote it," explained Em. "Everybody's always doing the same sh*t with their records," said Trice. "'Buy my album, get a DVD, get a free poster, get a piece of my toilet seat'. F*ck that sh*t. When I was a kid I would have given a nut to win something like this." Trice, who has previously provided guest vocals on Eminem tracks including 'Drips' and 'Love Me', was signed to Shady Records after the rap superstar heard him freestyling through his car window. His debut album, 'Cheers', is released in the US on September 23."I'm just happy to be here," Trice told Rolling Stone. "A lot of people where I'm from, they didn't make it. I'm cheers-ing my first album." Eminem or 50 Cent? - Posted: 31/08/03 It's an epic battle for the ages � teacher against student, friend against friend, brother against brother. Eminem and 50 Cent will go head-to-head in four categories at Thursday night's MTV Video Music Awards. Only time will tell how each man fares inside the brutal and often bloody VMA ring, but a look at how the two entertainers stack up in other arenas might shed some light on their odds of taking home a Moonman. Since it's often said that clothes make the man, we turned to an expert � "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" fashion maven Carson Kressley � to tell us whose style is award-worthy Only One VMA For Shady - Posted: 29/0/03 Eminem only won Best Video From a Film for the "8 Mile" anthem "Lose Yourself," but lost two others to 50 Cent. The mentor and prot�g� made light of their competition, however, by joining each other at the podium for their acceptance speeches. The Detroit rapper appeared in a much better mood this year, even joking about his assault of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog last year before his introduction of 50 Cent's performance, which he did with another trash-talking puppet, Special Ed from "Crank Yankers." Ja Rule Adresses His Problems - Posted: 22/08/03 Ja Rule is preparing to release an EP addressing his troubles with Eminem and 50 Cent. The rappers have been engaged in a bitter war of words which has so far been restricted to mixtapes and media interviews. Ja Rule's 'Blood In My Eye' EP will bring the 'beef' into the shops. "Hip-Hop is at a fast and feverish pace right now with all the beefs and all the dramas and I'm at the helm of all of it," he told RapWorlds. "You ain't gonna' go nowhere without hearing my name and you ain't gonna' speak to 50 or Em without hollerin' at them about what I'm doing and it's the same with me. "I gotta' address certain subjects and there's not a better way to do it than with a rough crazy EP," he continued. "Just throw it out there. It's just rugged and raw and saying what I wanna say." The EP will not form part of Ja Rule's forthcoming instalment in his 'Venni Vetti Vecci' saga - his next album is expected to be a double LP. Eminem's Three In A Bed Romps - Posted: 21/08/03 If Eminem ever felt wife Kim Mathers spent too much time with her pals, it's nothing the three of them couldn't work out in bed. 'Kim has a sexual hold on him because of her bisexuality,' said uncle Todd Nelson, who (for some reason) has been keeping an eye on his nephew's sexual proclivities. 'She brings women home and puts them in bed with her, and when Marshal comes in he doesn't come home to just Kim - he comes home to whoever's in bed.' Kim's bisexuality is said to be a factor both in the childhood sweethearts' regular separations and reunions. 'It's every man's dream, right?' offers Nelson. Things may be over for good now, however, as Kim faces drugs charges which could see her away from the bedroom for up to five years. The white trash rapper's dysfunctional family has been spilling more salacious beans about the life of their lucrative relative in a new documentary, predictably titled The Real Slim Shady. Kim's pet name for the rapper is Rat Boy, according to her cousin Jennifer Watkins, because of the uncanny resemblance he bears to a drowned rat. 'Their marriage was straight out of Jerry Springer,' Watkins said. 'It was crazy and very abusive - a lot of anger, a lot of violence with a splash of love thrown in.' Eminem Comes Home With A Bang - Posted: 14/07/03 If you hadn't already, you can now crown him king of Detroit. Plowing through technical snags Saturday night to wage the year's most anticipated concert, Eminem dazzled a sold-out crowd of 46,000 at Ford Field. You wonder how many in the crowd stopped to realize that five years ago they could have seen Eminem perform in the intimacy of St. Andrew's Hall a few blocks away. But Marshall Mathers wasn't a superstar back then. Saturday night he was: 90 minutes, 27 songs, and a poised, confident strike at the mike. It was the grandest hip-hop spectacle the city's ever witnessed. On a mammoth stage sporting the same colorful scenery from last year's Eminem Show tour -- a carnival set that comes complete with a Ferris wheel -- the rapper commanded the stage, joined for most of the show by longtime partner Proof. Eminem dipped sparingly into his 1999 debut album, building most of his set list with material from "The Marshall Mathers LP" and "The Eminem Show." The show opened with "Square Dance" and closed with an anticlimactic encore that included "Rap Game," one of several appearances by Eminem cronies D12 and Obie Trice. Often rapping atop his own prerecorded vocals, presumably to lend bulk to the attack, he scored big when he went with his heavier material, songs like "Kill You" and "The Way I Am." For the ready-to-party crowd -- which was overwhelmingly white -- it was a sing-along kind of night, with audience chants filling out songs like "White America" and "Cleaning Out My Closet," which found 46,000 people dissing Eminem's mom out loud. As it did when the Rolling Stones performed in October, Ford Field proved its muster as a concert venue. The sound was consistently crisp and strong, and probably about as good as you could ask of a big stadium hosting booming hip-hop rhythms. Three years ago this week, Eminem's tour got in trouble with Detroit's mayor when it sought to play a video deemed too graphic by city staff. Saturday night, Detroit's new mayor was in the video that opened Eminem's show. We won't spoil the surprise for Sunday's concertgoers -- check Monday's Free Press for details -- but suffice it to say Kwame Kilpatrick lives up to his billing as America's hip-hop mayor. It couldn't have been good for Eminem's nerves when the video screens went blank midway through the clip, leaving a restless and confused audience. After several minutes of downtime -- with flashlights frantic at the side-stage production board -- the video started back up, and the show was on. That was just one of a series of miscues throughout the night. The sound dropped out more than once, and Eminem's vocals were sporadically mixed, often buried under the beats. That's the good thing about second chances, which the rapper will get when he reprises the show at Ford Field Sunday night. Still, when everything clicked, it soared. Eminem's big homecoming wasn't a standard sloppy hip-hop gig -- it was a bona fide production, with state of the art staging, lights and video. Rapper 50 Cent, the year's biggest new breakout star and a Shady Records artist, preceded Eminem with a set that showed how much he's grown onstage since his State Theatre appearance here in February. A summer of touring has clearly done him some good. Before a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, the New York rapper dished up a 45-minute show with the same high-tech feel of Eminem's set, with video integrated wholesale into the onstage performance. The anthem "In Da Club" and loping "High All the Time" topped his own 13-song set list; 50 Cent later returned to join Eminem onstage for a loose romp through "Patiently Waiting" from his album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'". In a last-minute switch in billing, Missy Elliott was placed into the opening slot, a move that turned out to be a wise one. Elliott's set would have benefitted from more beats and less bumbling around -- the low point came when she stopped the music to toss autographed sneakers to the crowd. R&B vocalist Monica made a surprise appearance to sing "So Gone," but Elliott herself was a non-factor during the half-hour set. With daylight still pouring through Ford Field's windows, it felt like the show still hadn't quite started, and with Elliott doing just about everything but actually performing music for the crowd, that might as well have been the case. She's a genius in the studio, but Missy Elliott could stand some lessons in showmanship from her headlining partners. - Brian McCollum Eminem Buys News House - Posted: 10/07/03 ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- Rapper Eminem has bought a 29-room, 15,000-square-foot mansion last owned by former Kmart Corp. chairman Chuck Conaway. Eminem, born Marshall Mathers III, paid nearly $4.8 million for the home, which has six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, heated marble floors and Honduras mahogany paneling. It is located on six acres near Rochester Hills in northeast Oakland County, nearly 20 miles from Detroit and the neighboring blue-collar suburbs where Eminem grew up Eminem to switch to ballads? The Daily Star reports that Eminem wants to be taken seriously as a singer, say sources, and he'll be swapping his gangster lyrics for soppy ballads. "He wants to be taken seriously as a singer and as an actor," an insider revealed, claiming the rapper is set to remake vintage songs from the '50s and '60s. "From 'Moon River' to 'Puff the Magic Dragon', Eminem is reworking the classics to his style. If you thought he was shocking before, wait until this album comes out." Shady Talks About Future - Posted: 09/07/03 Billboard.com spoke with songwriter Luis Resto, who talked about working with Eminem on his new album, and records for his Shady Records acts D12 and Obie Trice. "[He] and I work together every day," Resto said. "A lot of the time we're writing for all three projects. You go in and you're jamming, doing music, and it gets spread here and there. Some stuff goes to Em, some to Obie and some to other artists. Kim pleads not guilty - Posted: 03/07/03 ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. - The former wife of Grammy-winning rapper Eminem pleaded innocent Tuesday to a drug charge and two driving violations. Kimberly Mathers is accused of possession of up to 25 grams of cocaine, driving with a suspended license and unsafe driving near a stopped emergency vehicle. The drug charge carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. Mathers is free after posting 10 percent of a $7,500 bond. She must undergo drug screening every other week. Police say a St. Clair Shores officer who stopped the 28-year-old on June 10 for a driving violation found cocaine on her and in the car. Prosecutors said tests have shown that the substance found in the car's glovebox and in Mathers' purse was cocaine. Neither Mathers nor her lawyer commented after Tuesday's hearing. Mathers was charged with possession of cocaine in July 2001 but not convicted. --Associated Press-- Poets Praises Eminem - Posted 02/07/03 LONDON - Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, praised American rap star Eminem on Monday, calling him as influential in popular culture as Bob Dylan and John Lennon had been in their heydays. Heaney, 64, was speaking before the start of the Prince of Wales' Educational Summer School in Norwich, where he was a guest. He was asked by journalists in the eastern English city whether there was a figure in popular culture who aroused interest in poetry and lyrics in the way that Bob Dylan and John Lennon did during the 1960s and 70s. Heaney, a former professor of poetry at Oxford University, said: "There is this guy Eminem." "He has created a sense of what is possible." "He has sent a voltage around a generation." "He has done this not just through his subversive attitude but also his verbal energy." Heaney is considered Ireland's greatest living poet and his many anthologies include "North" (1975) and "Field Work" (1979), which explored the horrors of Northern Ireland sectarianism. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, he has continued to alternate writing with teaching as a guest lecturer at several universities, particularly Harvard. - Associated Press Eminem Does Jacko and disses Mariah - Posted: 01/07/03 The people-displeasin' rapper, who has provoked Mariah Carey, dissed Christina Aguilera and denied "Weird Al" Yankovic, spoofed Jacko Tuesday in Scotland, dangling a fake baby from a hotel window. Any resemblance between Eminem's antics and Jacko's scandalous ones in Berlin last November (in which a real baby was the dangled object) was purely intentional. "It's an obvious joke," a spokesperson for the hip-hopster told E! News Live on Wednesday. "It's obvious what he's poking fun at. He has people outside hotels wherever he goes, and he was just having some fun." Upping the fun quotient: Eminem, wearing a Jacko-esque surgical mask, didn't just dangle his dolly at the ArtHouse Hotel in Glasgow, he tossed the thing up in the air. Showing concern for the action figure, Mr. Mathers caught the blond-haired babe before it could fall to the unforgiving pavement--one story below. Then he raised his fist and doffed his disguise. For the record, Jackson was wearing his trademark red shirt but not his trademark surgical mask, when he appeared at the window of his hotel room last fall and held out blanket-covered son Prince Michael II, aka Blanket, to his cheering fans four stories below. Although Jacko took heat from media pundits over his dubious display of parenting tactics, the Pop Oddity insisted his child was never at risk and that he merely wanted to show off lil Blanket's "spirit." Eminem appears to have just been showing off his snarky spirit. The 8 Mile star currently is many miles away from his Stateside home, on the road in the United Kingdom with his Anger Management Tour. He endeared himself to fans in a U.K. show Monday night, taking off a necklace and handing it to a fan in the front row. The British tabs said Eminem announced the piece was worth $450,000. The rapper's rep said it wasn't worth that much and that the tabs invented the six-figure figure. (The rep also noted the necklace wasn't exactly a Cracker Jack throwaway, either.) Jackson's camp, meanwhile, declined to comment Wednesday on the Oscar-winning rapper's satirical skills. Eminem, who previously has ripped the likes of Aguilera in song, is fresh off tiffs with Carey and Yankovic. Last month, Carey accused the Slim Shady one of acting "a little bit girly" for reportedly threatening to go public with phone messages she left on his machine. (Eminem, who has claimed the two briefly dated, denied he intended to sample the songbird's words.) As for Yankovic, the musical funnyman expressed disappointment that Eminem blocked him from filming a music video for his latest opus, "Couch Potato," a reworked version of the 8 Mile hit, "Lose Yourself." Eminem's rep said, at the time, that the rapper didn't mind "Weird Al" messing with the song's lyrics, but that he wanted to preserve its image. UPDATE! Posted 01/06/03 Finally, Ive finished the site! Its taken me a year and a half of short burts of work on the site, now its done. All sections are up and running, and there is only little bits I need to do to perfect the site. If you spot any errors or broken links please mail me. 50 Cent/Eminem Mania Posted: 30/05/03 It's 50 Cent/Eminem mania as New York radio station Hot97 counts down to Summerjam X next week. And with less than 5 days to the mega show, tickets to see the Shady/Aftermath bad guys in tandem are being scalped on Ebay at prices up to $2,000. On June 3rd, Hot 97 will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of its popular concert, Summer Jam, at Giants Stadium. The headliner, Eminem, will make his one and only NY performance before heading overseas for his European tour. 50 Cent is freshly buzzed off his nationwide promo tour which generated mega press. The prospect of the two super acts appearing together for the first time in such a large venue has fans in a tizzy -- auctioning off tickets to the show at prices as high as $2,000 for coveted front section seats. Previously held in smaller arenas, Hot97's one-upping the competition this year by holding the event at Giants Stadium which holds more than 80,000 fans. Giants is loud -- featuring 1568 speakers putting out over 65,000 watts of sound. Summerjam's previous venue, the Continental Airlines arena, held a mere 20,000. Summerjam X will also feature performances by NAS, Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Lil' Kim, Fabolous, The Clipse and Sean Paul. Summerjam has made national headlines in past years for the surprising events that have taken place onstage, including a Michael Jackson appearance, Jay-Z's dis to Nas and Prodigy and the Nas debacle last year when he was allegedly banned from performing a mock lynching on the stage. Sources tell SOHH that Nas and Hot97 execs have since "worked out their relationship and put aside their differences." Nas will perform a set with no Jay-Z disses. 50 and Em will perform an extended set. Source: Sohh.com Eminem's Mom May Help Resolve Pending Lawsuit 26/05/03 Eminem is due in Michigan's Macomb County Circuit Court on Friday, May 30 to defend himself against a $1 million defamation lawsuit filed by his elementary school nemesis, DeAngelo Bailey. In the lawsuit, filed in December 2001, Bailey maintains that Eminem defamed him in "Brain Damage," a song from Eminem's The Slim Shady LP, and thus damaged his career as an aspiring rapper. In the song Eminem depicts Bailey as a junior high school bully. Meanwhile, Eminem may be able to use a lawsuit filed against the local school board in 1982 by his mother, Debbie Mathers-Briggs, to vindicate himself. Mathers-Briggs's lawsuit alleged that Bailey "assaulted and battered" Eminem when the two were attending Dort Elementary School. The lawsuit also asserted that as a result of the beatings, Eminem suffered sleeplessness, vomiting, nightmares, and anti-social behavior. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed on the grounds of governmental immunity. Mathers-Briggs and Eminem have been estranged for several years, but the star's mother has always maintained that she's been getting a bum rap. "Basically, I've been portrayed as a really evil, bad person out there--as far as with my son and his lyrics and different magazines, newspaper articles--and I'm not a bad person," she told LAUNCH. "A lot of people have taken everything that my son says very personal, and I was never given a chance. And the people who don't know me, they were prejudging me." In "Brain Damage," Eminem raps, "I was harassed daily by this fat kid named DeAngelo Bailey/An eighth grader who acted obnoxious, 'cause his father boxes/So every day he'd shove me into the lockers/And he had me in the position to beat me into submission/He banged my head against the urinal until he broke my nose/Soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed me, and choked my throat." Source: Launch.com 8 Mile on VHS and DVD: Posted: 26/05/03 8 Mile is now out on VHS and DVD - Go buy it Now! Eminem Settles Bullying Lawsuit - Posted: 01/06/03 Rapper Eminem and the bully who tormented him at school have settled out of court. DeAngelo Bailey, 30, who launched the �600,000 defamation lawsuit, and the superstar were to have appeared in court yesterday. But sources revealed the two had quietly settled their ancient differences. Eminem had said Bailey shoved him in lockers and broke his nose on a urinal. Bailey is even mentioned in the song, Brain Damage. The track appeared on his second album, The Slim Shady LP which rocketed the rapper to the top of the charts. In the song, Bailey, now a Detroit binman, is described as a "fat kid" who terrorised Eminem daily. But his nephew, Anthony Franva said: "DeAngelo told us he and Em' settled and he had a big smile on his face like he'd won the lottery. "He feels he has some peace of mind. Because of the song, DeAngelo couldn't get his own rap career started. He'd tell people his name and they'd just laugh at him. they knew he was the guy in the Slim Shady song. He's a very good rapper in his own right and deserves success." But Eminem's lawyers said the portrayal of Bailey as a bullying monster was correct. The singer's mother even sued the school district in Roseville, Michigan for failing to protect her son from Bailey and other young yobs. the case was dismissed. UPDATE! Posted 01/06/03 Finally, Ive finished the site! Its taken me a year and a half of short burts of work on the site, now its done. All sections are up and running, and there is only little bits I need to do to perfect the site. If you spot any errors or broken links please mail me. 50 Cent/Eminem Mania Posted: 30/05/03 It's 50 Cent/Eminem mania as New York radio station Hot97 counts down to Summerjam X next week. And with less than 5 days to the mega show, tickets to see the Shady/Aftermath bad guys in tandem are being scalped on Ebay at prices up to $2,000. On June 3rd, Hot 97 will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of its popular concert, Summer Jam, at Giants Stadium. The headliner, Eminem, will make his one and only NY performance before heading overseas for his European tour. 50 Cent is freshly buzzed off his nationwide promo tour which generated mega press. The prospect of the two super acts appearing together for the first time in such a large venue has fans in a tizzy -- auctioning off tickets to the show at prices as high as $2,000 for coveted front section seats. Previously held in smaller arenas, Hot97's one-upping the competition this year by holding the event at Giants Stadium which holds more than 80,000 fans. Giants is loud -- featuring 1568 speakers putting out over 65,000 watts of sound. Summerjam's previous venue, the Continental Airlines arena, held a mere 20,000. Summerjam X will also feature performances by NAS, Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Lil' Kim, Fabolous, The Clipse and Sean Paul. Summerjam has made national headlines in past years for the surprising events that have taken place onstage, including a Michael Jackson appearance, Jay-Z's dis to Nas and Prodigy and the Nas debacle last year when he was allegedly banned from performing a mock lynching on the stage. Sources tell SOHH that Nas and Hot97 execs have since "worked out their relationship and put aside their differences." Nas will perform a set with no Jay-Z disses. 50 and Em will perform an extended set. Source: Sohh.com Eminem's Mom May Help Resolve Pending Lawsuit 26/05/03 Eminem is due in Michigan's Macomb County Circuit Court on Friday, May 30 to defend himself against a $1 million defamation lawsuit filed by his elementary school nemesis, DeAngelo Bailey. In the lawsuit, filed in December 2001, Bailey maintains that Eminem defamed him in "Brain Damage," a song from Eminem's The Slim Shady LP, and thus damaged his career as an aspiring rapper. In the song Eminem depicts Bailey as a junior high school bully. Meanwhile, Eminem may be able to use a lawsuit filed against the local school board in 1982 by his mother, Debbie Mathers-Briggs, to vindicate himself. Mathers-Briggs's lawsuit alleged that Bailey "assaulted and battered" Eminem when the two were attending Dort Elementary School. The lawsuit also asserted that as a result of the beatings, Eminem suffered sleeplessness, vomiting, nightmares, and anti-social behavior. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed on the grounds of governmental immunity. Mathers-Briggs and Eminem have been estranged for several years, but the star's mother has always maintained that she's been getting a bum rap. "Basically, I've been portrayed as a really evil, bad person out there--as far as with my son and his lyrics and different magazines, newspaper articles--and I'm not a bad person," she told LAUNCH. "A lot of people have taken everything that my son says very personal, and I was never given a chance. And the people who don't know me, they were prejudging me." In "Brain Damage," Eminem raps, "I was harassed daily by this fat kid named DeAngelo Bailey/An eighth grader who acted obnoxious, 'cause his father boxes/So every day he'd shove me into the lockers/And he had me in the position to beat me into submission/He banged my head against the urinal until he broke my nose/Soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed me, and choked my throat." Source: Launch.com 8 Mile on VHS and DVD: Posted: 26/05/03 8 Mile is now out on VHS and DVD - Go buy it Now! Scottish Fans To Get Second Chance At Eminem Tickets Posted: 10/05/03 An additional 2,500 tickets are to go on sale tomorrow morning (May 10) for the Eminem show at Glasgow Hampden Park on June 24. The additional tickets have been made available after the final capacity for the event was agreed, due to the completion of stage designs. The tickets go on sale tomorrow (May 10) at 9am, and will only be available through Ticketmaster by telephone and online. When the gig originally went on sale in February, tickets sold out within 40 minutes. Support for the show comes from 50 Cent, D12, Cypress Hill, Xzibit and Obie Trice. Geoff Ellis of promoters DF Concerts said: "With performances from these acts, Glasgow will be playing host to some of rap�s biggest global stars. Fans who get their hands on tickets will be watching one of the hottest shows of the year." He also reiterated that fans should avoid Internet ticket touts. "In the last two weeks we have put on sale final tickets for Robbie Williams and now Eminem. This is another key reason for fans to hold out before paying over the odds to Internet ticket touts." Tickets are priced �30, subject to booking fee. They are available from www.scotland.ticketmaster.co.uk or 0870 169 0100, limited to four per person. Source: ShadySource.com Eminem Film Heads To The Stage Posted: 10/05/03 WENN reports Eminem has given his approval for '8 Mile' to be turned into a musical production, although there are no plans for Eminem to take to the stage himself. But Slim will be given the title of executive producer. An insider reports, "He was thrilled with the idea that it would also be on the stage. It's quite shocking in parts but Marshall actually sees it as something like 'West Side Story'." Victoria Beckham And Dr Dre? - gary on Thursday, May 8 2003 It was reported in English newspapers today that Victoria Beckham (better known for her footballer husband, David Beckham) wants to hold a meeting with Dr Dre to discuss some production work for her new album. Victoria Beckham is desparate to get into the American market, and her words on this is: "If i was to work with Dr Dre it would mean cracking the American market a cinch". In other news, Dr Dre is also looking to have talks with London star Ms Dynamyte. Source: Aftermathmusic.com Dre & Eminem Sued Over A Beat Posted: 07/05/03 It was reported on uk radio that the Shady/Aftermath camp have been sued for over a million dollars for using the beat for Let's Get High, in the court hearing it was said they stole it from an old u group called the fat back band, Dre admitted to lifting the beat but argued he shouldn't have to pay, this is not the 1st time Dre has been to court before for similar case's. Eminem & Nas Honoured - gary on Wednesday, April 30 2003 A staggering 13,000 people turned up to Detroit, Michigan this weekend to witness the city's Hip Hop Summit. The crowds flocked to see Eminem and Nas who were on a panel discussing hip hop, alongside Rev Run from Run DMC, Obie Trice, Russell Simmons and the Mayor of Detroit. Eminem was honoured at the summit with an Outstanding Achievement Award for his charitable work and urged the crowd to vote in local elections. Nas's was honoured with the Heroes Award in recognition of his socially conscious single and video "I Can." Eminem acknowledged that part of the reason he was participating was to help showcase rap talent in his hometown. "I want people to realize there's a lot of talent in Detroit that's not been discovered yet. There's probably 10,000 me's in Detroit... What I'm trying to do is bring the industries here, bring the record labels here and make them realize there's talent in Detroit, and to start looking at it." Eminem added that he hoped to create some hip-hop and music industry oriented businesses in Detroit, though probably "not until I get a little older and start falling back from the music." Source: MTV Eminem's Clothing Line Posted: 24/04/03 P.Diddy has Sean John, Jay-Z has Roc-A-Wear and Nelly has Vokal ... and now hip-hop's other megastar, Eminem, is making his way onto the backs and caps of young fans everywhere. The rapper will be debuting his Shady Limited clothing line this weekend with a collection of T-shirts and hats, followed by a more extensive line of jogging suits, pants and jackets later this summer. According to the line's spokesmodels and Em's "8 Mile" co-stars, Omar "Big O" Miller (Sol George) and Evan Jones (Cheddar Bob), all of the Shady Limited clothes had to pass the rapper's comfort requirement before getting the official Marshall Mathers stamp of approval. Source : MTV.com Benzino Disses Em, Dre & 50 Posted: 24/04/03 Benzino came back with another diss to Em, but this time, hes dissing 50 & Dre 2... Dr. Dre And Eminem Hit With Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit - gary on Friday, April 11 2003 Dr. Dre, Eminem, Interscope Records, and Universal Music And Video Distribution were hit with an amended copyright-infringement lawsuit in Los Angeles District Court last week by Minder Music Ltd., a London-based music publisher. Minder alleges that Dr. Dre's "Let's Get High" featuring Kurupt, Hittman, and Ms. Roq--which was co-written by Eminem--illegally used segments of the 1980 tune "Backstrokin'." Minder, which initially filed suit in July of 2000, is seeking $3.5 million in damages. Dr. Dre's attorney, Howard King, told Billboard that the music in question is a very common bass riff, and that Minder was seeking a ridiculous amount of money. "Let's Get High" was included on Dr. Dre's last album, 1999's Dr. Dre 2001, which has sold more than 6 million copies since its release. Eminem NEW Album! Posted 9/4/02 Eminem is set to release another album, on June 4th this year, called 'The Eminem Show.' The material was originally supposed to be released on May 28th, but got pushed back a week, for undisclosed reasons. Dr.Dre, who produced most of the album, has said, 'Just when you think he can't get any crazier, and has run out of things to say, he comes out with this!' Eminem also denied the rumours that this album is to be more serious. Apparently, the debut single, 'Without Me' is a lot like, My Name Is, and The Real Slim Shady, debut tracks off his previous two albums. Look forward to the release! I will keep you informed. Eminem in love - or is it just another Kim? Posted on 8/12/01 Eminem has got tounges wagging - with news of him smooching with Kim Basinger on the set of his new movie! The pair have been spotted holding hands and even smooching in between scenes. 'Every time they go off together, everyone is talking about them.' A source from the 'Untitled Detroit Project' told us. Apparently Kim was apprehensive at first as there is neraly a 20 year age difference, but that certainly didn't stop her and to be honest, it wouldn't stop me either! The movie has come across some troubles though, as local residents have been complaining about the disruption and cant see what all the fuss is about. One is even quoted, 'It's just eminem.......' Eminem set to be sued again? Yes it's true - Marshall's in trouble again. The Sun Newspaper has reported that Courtney Love wants to sue Eminem for his DVD cartoon, 'The Slim Shady Show.' It shows Courtney's deceased husband, Kurt Cobain, who commited suicide, with half his face missing. And ANOTHER lawsuit? DeAngelo Bailey has issued a $1 million lawsuit, for remarks Eminem made on the 'Slim Shady LP'. In the fourth track, Brain Damage, Eminem is role playing the bully pushing him against the urinals and sinks, and bashing him into lockers. Bailey denies ever bullying Marshall at their Detroit school. Bailey's lawyer stated 'Eminem very wrongly protrayed himself as the victim of horrible, grotesque bullying from his childhood friend.' Eminem to headline US festival Eminem will headline the first ever Reading Festival to be held in the US. The rapper will headline the festival at the Tweeter Centre Amphitheatre in Philadelphia on 8 September together with nu-metal merchants Linkin Park and rapper Xzibit. More acts will be announced soon with a very special guest due to be added to the line-up. Acts will perform for ten hours over two stages. The music kicks off at 1pm until late. Lawn tickets are priced at $39 and seats start at $59.75 and go on sale this weekend. Eminem also headlines the UK Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds festival on 24-26 August. The festival is rapidly heading for a 250,000 capacity sellout. |