I wasn’t sure before then if this was a one-time thing, but I had people knocking on the door and I realized that it was getting crazy. That was one of the inspirations for writing “Stan.” It was like, These people are actually looking up to me? So, it inspired songs like “Stan” because to have fans is a dream come true, but it’s also so bizarre and so surreal. Even as I sit here now, I still trip out in my head about how it got to this level.

All I ever really wanted to do was to be a respected MC. To make enough money to survive, so that I wouldn’t have to work a regular job. That ties into my competitive spirit, and I don’t know when that’s going to go away, if ever.

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Even so, Eminem says that talking about his struggles — in songs like “Going Through Changes” — has been empowering. He says he’s turned the weaknesses he discussed on the album into strengths. “I felt like I did a lot of growing up, and I don’t really feel like the last album really reflected where I was at mentally,” he says. Despite going back to drugs, the rapper says he was scared. In Recovery, Eminem opens up about his struggles with addiction and his newfound sobriety. A sobriety coin is a token given to AA members – who are involved in a 12 step programme – and represents the amount of time the addict has remained sober.

According to court documents obtained by In Touch, Kellie, 38, filed a petition against Reed and Sharon Jacobs, who are the coadministrations of Kyle’s estate. President-elect Donald Trump declared a win on stopping illegal immigration through Mexico on Wednesday after talking with that country’s leader. The two spoke just days after Trump threatened to impose sweeping new tariffs on Canada and Mexico as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. Trump said Sheinbaum “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico.” Community members, workers, and diners are mourning the “immense loss” of a beloved Massachusetts restaurant owner. The “Slim Shady” rapper shared his experience with addiction at the height of his fame.

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I just remember liking it more and more,” Eminem says of his addiction to prescription medications in a clip from the documentary How to Make Money Selling Drugs. Having brushed aside accusations that he had a drug problem on the grounds that he wasn’t shooting heroin or smoking crack, the rapper fell dangerously deep into a substance habit that included Vicodin, Valium, and Xanax. Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, recalled Narcissism and Alcoholism Rosenberg asking his doctors whether the rapper may have suffered permanent brain damage as he learned to make music and rap while sober for the first time in years in the wake of his overdose. At this point, a lot of the big achievements that could come in your career have happened for me already, so I don’t hyper-focus on numbers and being on charts. What I hyper-focus on is people like Kendrick Lamar, Joyner Lucas, J. Cole and Big Sean, and watching them and how the fuck they’re doing their shit. Because they’re also focused on being the best rappers.

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The film, which was co-produced by Entourage‘s Adrian Grenier and also features interviews with 50 Cent, Woody Harrelson, Freeway Rick Ross, and The Wire‘s David Simon, opened in theaters this week. Eminem opened up about his accidental overdose to The New York Times in 2011, and said his addiction was at one point so bad that he was taking up to 20 pills a day. He has since replaced “addiction with exercise,” he told Men’s Journal in 2015. I remember a few months after Proof had passed, I was about to use the bathroom, and all I remember was I just fell over. The next thing I remember was waking up with fucking tubes in me and shit, and I couldn’t talk.

The Fight Club star spent years struggling with alcohol before Cooper helped him get sober. “I got sober because of this guy,” he told the audience at the 2020 National Board of Review Annual Awards after Cooper presented him with a trophy. When her sister visited her in the summer of 1998 and brought along prescribed painkillers for a rib injury, Curtis said she hit her rock bottom. “I knew she had them in her suitcase in our guest room closet,” she told the publication, crying at the memory.

As I started making a little money, I could buy more of them. The article comes not long after Em shared his experience of a near-fatal drug overdose 15 years ago in an interview with Paul Rosenberg. ““It took a long time for my brain to start working again,” Em said of his accidental overdose on methadone.

The strangest and probably the greatest thing that’s happened to me over these past 25 years in a professional sense was getting to meet all my heroes. It took me a long time to get over meeting Dre. When he walked into the room at Interscope, I was like, What the fuckin’ fuck?

1. He had to sit down then-fiancée Meg Ryan and explain what was going on.
2. The two spoke just days after Trump threatened to impose sweeping new tariffs on Canada and Mexico as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs.
3. Eminem celebrated 12-years of sobriety last month but before he tackled his tricky relationship with drugs he was popping 90 pills a day.
4. Eminem has opened up about his struggles with addiction and fame in a new essay.

I have fun watching the rappers I just mentioned, and being like, OK, let me see if I can do something that inside I think I can top that. And every time the best rappers drop an album, it changes the landscape of the fuckin’ game. At least it does for me, and I’m like, I need to be able to rap like that. Because if I don’t do that, someone’s going to come behind me, probably in the next couple of years, and wash me. “I was in a really dark place. I felt like it was over for me … professionally,” Eminem says. “I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block. … Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself — a lot of self-loathing. I was in active addiction. I knew I couldn’t control it anymore.”