Eminem: The real Slim Shady

Tuesday, 11 July, 2000, 18:16 GMT 19:16 UK

Eminem's rapping style has made him a huge star

By BBC News Online's Chris Charles

Given his deprived background and the gangsta rap culture, it shouldn't really come as a surprise that Eminem has had his fair share of problems and critics. Born Marshall Bruce Mathers III in Kansas City on 17 October 1972, he spent his childhood flitting between there and Detroit, settling in Detroit when he was 12.

Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?

Switching schools every few months, the young Eminem found it hard to make friends and nurtured his talent for rapping to make himself heard in the classroom. He eventually dropped out of full-time education and drifted in and out of menial jobs, but a desire to make music was the only thing that really stimulated him. On Christmas Day 1995, wife Kimberly gave birth to their daughter, Haile Jade, and a few months later Eminem released his debut album, Infinite. Although slammed by many for being too derivative, it forced him to revise his approach.

Nothing to lose

"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," he later explained. "It was a growing stage....I had nothing to lose and everything to gain." Far from sitting on his laurels, Eminem threw himself into his new project - which would eventually become The Slim Shady EP - and got his big break when he came second in the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles. From then on, things moved at an electrifying pace. Shortly after the release of the Slim Shady EP in 1998, hip hop legend and Eminem idol Dr Dre signed the 25-year-old up to his Aftermath label. His Slim Shady LP went triple platinum after hitting number two in the US Billboard charts and went on to win a Grammy. Success was to follow in the UK and across Europe, but his new-found popularity would, perhaps inevitably, lead to problems.

Misogyny

The controversial subject matter of his songs led to accusations of him being a misogynist. His own mother launched a $10m lawsuit against him for using the lyrics "my mom smokes more dope than I do" on the hit My Name Is - a track which sees him wonder which Spice Girl he wants to "impregnate".

The rapper ponders his future in the dock

Even his grandmother jumped on the bandwagon after learning how he planned to use the voice of his dead uncle in a song. "He's changed for the worse. He talks filthy to me and is angry and disrespectful. I don't know what's gotten into him," she said, adding: "He's a bitter boy with sad songs who wants to make fame." Despite his critics, Eminem cleared possibly the biggest hurdle of all by overcoming the 'Vanilla Ice syndrome' to become a white rapper respected in the black-dominated world of hip hop. His latest single The Real Slim Shady and album The Marshall Mathers LP have proved huge hits on both sides of the Atlantic and in an ideal world he would have everything to look forward to.

But life could never be that simple for Eminem.

Source: BBC.CO.UK

The Real Slim Shady

'He ain't walkin' around obese,' Trick Trick says, clearing up rumors; LP also features Dr. Dre, Kid Rock, Proof.

Eminem Brings Weight To Trick Trick LP; Newcomer Says Slim Shady Hasn't Gotten Fat, Though

By Shaheem Reid

With Eminem's presence sorely missed in the hip-hop scene, the least bit of news about him makes fans and media alike go crazy. The latest rumor surrounding the Detroit MC was that he had ballooned to more than 200 pounds. Word on the street is that Slim Fast even came out and publicly offered him an endless supply of its dietary drink — and a spokesman position!

Trick says Em getting down isn't just a physical thing — Slim Shady is still lyrically sound and ready to knock off heads. In fact, he is just one of the guests on Trick's upcoming independent LP, The Villain.


Random6666
"Now every body want Eminem not to rap/sing anymore because he's getting fat. what the *beep* because Em's name is Slim Shady so he should be slim in a way. if your name is bull shady, you have to look like a bull it would be 5star if you pick some horn and put them on your head all the time no matter how bad you rap no matter what you rap about you have to look like a bull."

Herald Interview Marilyn Manson - Twiggy is back

Herald: So, Twiggy’s back?

Marilyn Manson: He’s officially back. This is just the beginning. I think we’re going to start writing right away, with the attitude we’ve made music with in the past, without any care at all. For Marilyn Manson, it seems to have become about the death toll, because we get blamed for every act of violence. They don’t have a Grammy award for school shootings, but I guess I would get one if they did, whether I asked for one or not. It’s good to have my partner back, who was the only person able to stare all of that in the face and not be afraid of it. He and I are like brothers in that when we’re together, we’re not afraid of anything. I think that’s how we’ve made our best music.

Herald: How different a person are you without the makeup on - like when you go to the supermarket?

Herald: What’s the secret to freaking people out?

Herald: Is that a dietary thing?

Marilyn Manson: I’ve made my body a place where germs are afraid to live. That’s my diet.

Songbird Media Player

What is Songbird?

Songbird is free software media player and web browser developed by Pioneers of the Inevitable (with members who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine), with a stated mission "to incubate Songbird, the first Web player, to catalyze and champion a diverse, open Media Web."[1] Songbird runs on Mozilla's XULRunner platform, thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and most distributions of Linux. On the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Songbird utilizes the VideoLAN Client for media playback. For Linux, Songbird utilizes the GStreamer Media Framework instead of the VideoLAN.

Features

Users can add features and change functionality in Songbird by installing extensions. Community coded extensions are available on Songbird's add-ons support page. Known community designed extensions are: Qloud Tagging & Search, eMusic Integration, iTunes Importer, iPod Device, Artist Tracker, Library File Organizer, Audioscrobbler Notifier, Wikipedia Artist Display, SHOUTcast Radio Directory, UnPlug, Adblock Plus (install.rdf must be modified), Taglib metadata handler and Minimize-to-Systemtray.Skins are referred to as "feathers" in Songbird.

Localization

There are 98 localizations of Songbird currently being developed at various stages. Localizations are done on a volunteer basis. Songbird encourages developers from all languages and locales to help update and develop localizations so that Songbird can be available in each of the 482 language tags established by the IETF for all 567 localities of the world. Songbird has made this project available at Translate Songbird!.

Web Browsing

As Songbird has a built-in web browser, it needs a user agent string to identify itself. For example, Songbird responds with the following user agent under an American version of Windows XP Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; RV:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121916 Songbird/0.4 (20071226135127)

Songbird's Nest
Songbird Add-ons
Killer of iTunes

I really appreciate those guys who comes with the idea of this player. really nice even it support extension like Mozilla FireFox Internet Browser. So that's mean you can customize it. Songbird replaces iTunes. Well, It can play MP3, Mpeg4, OGG Vorbis, Speex, AAC, WMA, WMADRM, FLAC and less important LPCM, ADPCM, AMR(your recording from Nokia Mobile Phones) With Quick Time playback and Windows Media. But, if you're a developer, you can teach Songbird how to play your favorite format! or even somebody will teaching and let you know when he/she get done with it, I'm sure.

Evanescence

Amy Lee - Vocalist, Piano, Keyboards
Will Boyd - Bass Guitar
Rocky Gray - Drums
David Hodges - Keyboards, Piano, Backing Vocals
Will Hunt - Drums(Tour Member)
John LeCompt - Guitar, Vocals(live)
Troy McLawhorn - Guitar(Tour Member)
Ben Moody - Lead Guitar

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Evanescence was founded by singer, pianist and songwriter Amy Lee and former lead guitarist and songwriter Ben Moody. The two met in 1994 at a youth camp in Little Rock, where Moody heard Lee playing "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf on the piano. Their first songs together were "Solitude" and "Give Unto Me", both written by Lee, and "Understanding" and "My Immortal", both written by Moody. The songs were edited by both artists, and they shared equal credit. Two of Lee and Moody's songs found playtime on local radio stations, raising local awareness of the group and demand for a concert. The band eventually appeared live, and became one of the most popular acts in the area. After experimenting with band names, such as Childish Intentions and Stricken, they decided on Evanescence, which means "disappearance" or "fading away" (from the word evanesce, which means "to disappear"). Lee has stated she loves the name because "it is mysterious and dark, and places a picture in the listeners' mind." Their first full-length demo CD, Origin (released in 2000), is relatively unknown. The band also released two EPs. The first is the self-titled Evanescence EP (1998), of which about 100 copies were made. The second is the Sound Asleep EP, also known as the Whisper EP (1999), which was limited to 50 copies. Origin and the EPs contain demo versions of some of the songs on their debut album, Fallen. For example, the recording of "My Immortal", found on Fallen, can also be found on Origin, minus a handful of additional string accompaniments. Only 2,500 copies of this record were produced; in response, Lee and Moody encouraged fans to download the band's older songs from the Internet.

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FALLEN

In early 2003, the lineup was completed by Amy Lee and Ben Moody's friends, John LeCompt, Rocky Gray and Will Boyd, all of whom worked on Evanescence's earlier songs. Meanwhile, Evanescence signed on with their first major label, Wind-up Records, and began work on their next album, Fallen. While they were looking to promote Fallen, Evanescence accepted an offer from the video game company Nintendo to perform on the "Nintendo Fusion Tour" which they headlined in 2003. Fallen spent 43 weeks on the Billboard Top 10; has been certified 6x Platinum; and has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, including 6.6 million in the United States. The album was listed for 104 weeks on the Billboard top 200, and it was one of eight albums in the history of the chart to spend at least a year on the Billboard Top 50.

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LINEUP CHANGES

Tim McCord - Bass
Terry Balsamo - Guitar

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GRAMMY AWARDS
Won best artist of the year award in 2004.
Won best hard rock performance "Bring Me To Life" in 2004
Nominated for Best album of the year "Fallen" in 2004
Nominated for Best rock album "Fallen" in 2004
Nominated for Best Rock Song "Bring Me To Life" in 2004
Nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal "My Immortal" in 2005
Nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance "Sweet Sacrifice" in 2005

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Evanescence Official US site
Evanescence Official UK site

Govinda will play as Bhola

Lucky 2 is a forthcoming Hindi film to be directed by Neeraj Vora. The film will see Govinda and Amisha Patel in lead roles while the other cast includes Tusshar Kapoor, Tanushree Dutta and Upen Patel.

Directed by Neeraj Vora
Produced by Shree Ashtavinayak
Starring Govinda, Amisha Patel, Tusshar Kapoor, Tanushree Dutta, Upen Patel
Music by Monty Sharma
Country India
Language Hindi

The film, titled Lucky 2, went on floors on Thursday. Vora describes the film penned by him as a thriller comedy

Bullet For My Valentine

SCREAM AIM FIRE

Details of the CD/DVD special edition of Bullet for my Valentine's forthcoming album, Scream Aim Fire, have been revealed.

They are as follows:

CD:

• 'Scream Aim Fire'
• 'Eye Of The Storm'
• 'Hearts Burst Into Fire'
• 'Waking The Demon'
• 'Disappear'
• 'Deliver Us From Evil'
• 'Take It Out On Me'
• 'Say Goodbye'
• 'End Of Days'
• 'Last To Know'
• 'Forever And Always'

DVD:

• 'Scream Aim Fire' music video
• The Making of Scream Aim Fire
• Bullet TV
• Welcome to the studio
• Sonic Ranch Cribs
• Night at the ranch (Part1)
• Night at the ranch (Part2)
• Quad Pinching
• Photo Gallery

Scream Aim Fire is set for release in North America on January 29th.

Have Gun — Will Travel
Los Angeles, June 13 (UPI) -- Detroit rapper Eminem has been signed to star in Paramount's big screen adaptation of the CBS TV series, "Have Gun -- Will Travel." Paramount has extended its 18-month option on the film based on the 1950s Western that originally starred Richard Boone as gunslinger, Paladin, The Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday. In the updated version, Eminem, aka Marshall Mathers, would portray a bounty hunter, the Reporter said. Although the film will be dramatic rather than musical, the rapper will most likely contribute to the soundtrack. Eminem impressed Hollywood with his film debut, "8 Mile", and studios have been in search of other film vehicles to capitalize on his screen appeal.
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In 2005, Eminem was a subject of criticism in Bernard Goldberg's book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, being ranked at #58.

The Golden Age of Grotesque

The album follows the evolution of Manson himself ("Thaeter") through to "Obsequey (The Death of Art)", or "art into a product". This album takes on dual layer storyline, first as a punk rock ballad spouting the notion to live life to its fullest in presumption that there is no future. The second storyline takes a parody to the idea that living life to the fullest has led us into a nihilistic stupidity, hence the "rebel to sell" references within 'The Bright Young Things' and the transformation into a commercially acceptable "happy" icon, Mickey Mouse (Manson posed as Mickey Mouse throughout the album's publicity.) In the song Obsequey there is a dialogs in the background. This dialogs can also be heard on the Japan Bonus Track Baboon Rape Party. It was revealed in a 2007 edition of the British rock magazine Kerrang! that this was intended to be Marilyn Manson's departure from music. His divorce drove him to write GAOG's successor - Eat Me, Drink Me

Track listing

• "Thaeter" - 1:14 (Manson, Gacy, Skold)
• "This Is the New Shit" - 4:19 (Manson, Skold)
• "mOBSCENE" - 3:25 (Manson, 5)
• "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag" - 4:11 (Manson, Skold)
• "Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth" - 3:34 (Manson, 5)
• "The Golden Age of Grotesque" - 4:05 (Manson, 5)
• "(s)AINT" - 3:42 (Manson, 5, Skold)
• "Ka-boom Ka-boom" - 4:02 (Manson, 5, Skold)
• "Slutgarden" - 4:06 (Manson, 5)
• "♠" (or "Spade") - 4:34 (Manson, 5)
• "Para-noir" - 6:01 (Manson, 5, Skold, Gacy, )
• "The Bright Young Things" - 4:19 (Manson, 5)
• "Better of Two Evils" - 3:48 (Manson, 5, Skold, Gacy)
• "Vodevil" - 4:39 (Manson, 5, Skold)
• "Obsequey (The Death of Art)" - 1:48 (Manson, Skold)

Charting positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2003	The Billboard 200	1
2003	Top Internet Albums	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2003	"Mobscene"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	18
2003	"Mobscene"	Modern Rock Tracks	26

The Last Tour On Earth

a live album by Marilyn Manson

Album released on 12th of November 1999 and Produced by Marilyn Manson. It's a 14(fourteen) track album. Which include some of the hit songs form the previous albums Mechanical Animals and Rock is Dead.

Track listing

• Inauguration of the Mechanical Christ – 2:44
• The Reflecting God – 5:31
• Great Big White World – 5:22
• Get Your Gunn– 3:36
• Sweet Dreams / Hell Outro – 5:36
• Rock is Dead – 3:20
• The Dope Show – 3:46
• Lunchbox - 8:35
  
• I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) – 7:31
• Antichrist Superstar – 5:16
• The Beautiful People - 4:30
  
• Irresponsible Hate Anthem – 4:40
• The Last Day on Earth – 4:26
• Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (Studio Recorded Track) – 3:59

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1999	The Billboard 200	82

The Last Tour on Earth is a live album comprising recordings from Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals and Rock is Dead tours. On the studio version of The Dope Show, Manson says that drugs "are made in California", but in the live version, he says that "drugs, they say, are made right here in Cleveland", to a roar of crowd approval, suggesting that the song was recorded in Cleveland, Ohio. Lunchbox was recorded in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) was recorded in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "The Last Day on Earth" was recorded in Las Vegas on the Mechanical Animals Tour, and Get Your Gunn was recorded some time during the Rock is Dead Tour.

Mechanical Animals

Mechanical Animals is Marilyn Manson's third full-length album, released on September 15, 1998. It was the #1 selling album for its first week of release, the first for Marilyn Manson's career. The album "tells a story" through its lyrics and music, similar to Manson's other albums and endeavors. Four singles were released off the album: "The Dope Show", "Rock Is Dead", "I Don't Like The Drugs(But The Drugs Like Me)" and only released promotional and with a video, "Coma White". It is Manson's worldwide best-seller. Despite its success, the album was marred by controversy and is notorious for its shocking imagery. Initial sales were extremely strong but it became virtually blacklisted when it became the scapegoat of the Columbine Shootings of 1999.

THE DOPE SHOW

Track listing

• Great Big White World
• The Dope Show
• Mechanical Animals
• Rock Is Dead
• Disassociative
• The Speed of Pain
• Posthuman
• I Want to Disappear
• I Don't Like The Drugs(But The Drugs Like Me)
• New Model No. 15
• User Friendly
• Fundamentally Loathsome
• The Last Day On Earth
• Coma White
• Untitled(insert disc into computer to play)

All lyrics written by Marilyn Manson

In 1998, Marilyn Manson asked Dave Navarro to play a guitar solo for Manson's song I Don't Like The Drugs(But The Drugs Like Me) which appears on the record Mechanical Animals, to which Navarro agreed, earning himself credit for the solo in the album's liner notes.

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1998	The Billboard 200	1

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1998	"The Dope Show"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	12
1998	"The Dope Show"	Modern Rock Tracks	15
1999	"I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	25
1999	"I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)"	Modern Rock Tracks	36
1999	"Rock is Dead"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	28
1999	"Rock is Dead"	Modern Rock Tracks	30

COMA WHITE

Remix & Repent is a five-track EP from the industrial rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on November 25, 1997 during their Antichrist Superstar period. It features remixes of songs from Antichrist Superstar, live tracks recorded during the Dead to the World tour, and an acoustic version of Man That You Fear.

Track List

• The horrible People
• The Tourniquet Prosthetic Dance Mix
• Dried Up, Tied and Dead to the World (Live in Utica, NY)
• Antichrist Superstar (Live in Hartford, CT)
• Man That You Fear (Acoustic Requiem for Antichrist Superstar)

MAN THAT YOU FEAR