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I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune. -- T-Pain
I'm a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England. -- Jamie Bell
You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem. -- Alan Vega
I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that. -- Selena Gomez
There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem. -- Evelyn Glennie
You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious. -- Niall Horan
You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof. -- Brittany Murphy
I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music. -- Moby
You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man. -- Curtis Jackson
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess. -- Earl Sweatshirt
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I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing. -- Ed Sheeran
I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does. -- LL Cool J
The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre. -- Tablo
Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to. -- Tyler, The Creator
When I started at the 'Guardian,' though, I couldn't think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as 'Guardian' writers queued up to drool over Eminem. -- Julie Burchill
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. -- Taryn Manning
That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics! -- Alan Vega
My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious. -- Harrison Ford
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers. -- J. Cole
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible. -- Phoebe Tonkin
Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust. -- Skylar Grey
But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat. -- Alan Vega
Eminem is the greatest, ever. -- Akon
Nobody's gonna be bigger than Eminem. -- Kanye West
50 is Eminem's favourite rapper... I'm my favourite rapper. -- Kanye West
Eminem is like the godfather of the hip-hop game, -- Tony Yayo
I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends? -- Chris Kirkpatrick
We Know that World's best rapper is Eminem and He is White -- Wiz Khalifa
I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill. -- Kat Dahlia
I have a lot of respect for Jay-Z, Eminem, Ludacris, Cee-Lo. They're groundbreaking. -- Eyedea
I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England. -- Jamie Bell
Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal -- Nicki Minaj
Eminem is more like a friend. And I'm also a fan on Eminem. -- Obie Trice
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I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service. -- Chance The Rapper
Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice. -- Uncle Kracker
I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up! -- Gabby Douglas
Every time I listen to Eminem, I fall in love with music all over again. -- Hayley Williams
Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that... What about Obie? -- Obie Trice
I am a huge Eminem fan and find it flattering that he would rap about me. Personally, I'm honored. -- Kim Kardashian
The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem. -- Curtis Jackson
Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and hes a good friend. -- Obie Trice
I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing. -- Obie Trice
Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing. -- Chubby Checker
Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem. -- Big Sean
What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil. Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal? -- Fredro Starr
The first rap album I bought was Eminem's The Slim Shady LP so I wasn't even based on West Coast rap like that. -- Tyga
Eminem's rhyme patterns are super dope and he can squeeze a million words in a couple bars. Crazy creative. His voice changes alot though. -- Chamillionaire
The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor. -- Judd Apatow
I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now. -- Rick Ross
Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. -- Sara Blakely
When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. -- Nico Mirallegro
When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. -- Nico Mirallegro
I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius. -- Robert Pattinson
I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius. -- Hayley Williams
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. -- Bruce Dickinson
I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does -- LL Cool J
I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me. -- Sherman Alexie
My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell. -- Curtis Jackson
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that. -- Russell Simmons
I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones. -- Lesley Gore
There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people. -- Ahmet Ertegun
Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God. -- Stevie Wonder
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It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem. -- Robbie Williams
I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic. -- Moby
Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me. -- Ryan Montgomery
When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem. -- Julie Burchill
My favorite song is Eminem's 'Rap God.' That joint is just incredible, It's six-and-a-half minutes of him just crushing the whole game. It's so different from what I hear if I listen to the radio. -- Mekhi Phifer
People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously. -- Talib Kweli
I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem. -- Cyhi the Prynce
Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty. -- Willie Nelson
I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to. -- Steve Blake
But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all. -- Michael Rapaport
You know, I'm too old to be an Eminem guy, but I love the back beat of that song. And he walks into the Fox Theatre and a black gospel choir is rising in song. And he turns to the camera and says... -- David Maraniss
Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap cheat sheet. -- Janet Evanovich
Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible. -- Talib Kweli
I found it to be kind of ironic, because I'm white, therefore I'm appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who's white and won it many times - and they didn't seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me. -- Iggy Azalea
Something is wrong with Eminem. He has so much in his mind that I almost feel lucky that he has music. I feel like he has so much in his head that music is such a great release for him. He is one of my favorite artists. Absolutely. -- Rihanna
I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up. -- Obie Trice
Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials. -- Eminem
Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything. -- Big Sean
I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, 'Who is this guy? He's dope!' First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, 'Eh.' He started to get really successful. He wasn't 'mine' anymore. -- Russell Peters
Common would come to my house and give me a freestyle verse. I'd make a new beat for it and put it with something else. That's how I met Eminem - he came to my house back when he first started. He gave me a bunch of freestyles, and that's how we built a relationship. Everyone came to my house. -- Clinton Sparks

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