Eminem

Eminem: Subterania, London

Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, April 1999

20 Minute Party People ...

His Name Is: Eminem

Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, October 1999

THE ATMOSPHERE of ersatz serenity that is supposed to prevail in newly-refurbished West End hotel lobbies was never going to withstand the arrival of Eminem. ...

Eminem: America's Most Wanted

Special Feature by Stephen Dalton, NME, August 2000

Y2K has been something of an annus horribilis for Eminem (discounting the ten million album sales, that is). Faced with a lawsuit from his mum, ...

Dr. Dre: 10 Reasons Not To Forget About Dre

Comment by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, November 2000

THOUGHT DR DRE HAD SLIPPED OUR MINDS, DID YA? NOPE — US MUTHAF***AS WERE JUST ACTING LIKE WE HADN'T REMEMBERED THE HIP-HOP POWERHOUSE. HERE'S WHY ...

The Way They Are: Eminem and Friends

Review by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, December 2000

HIP HOP, you don’t stop. Whatever it is that this hybrid of street poetics and processed beats represents for modern culture, it ain’t going away. ...

Eminem: Hip Hop’s Trailer-Trash Wunderkind

Profile by Barney Hoskyns, Independent, The, December 2000

FIRST CAME Elvis – America’s worst nightmare, the white-trash negro. Then came Mick Jagger and Marilyn Manson, Johnny Rotten and Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur and ...

Eminem: Love, Hate And The Only Important Pop Star Left

Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, February 2001

Eminem: Evening News Arena, Manchester ...

In the Audience with Eminem

Live Review by Mark Pringle, Rock's Backpages, February 2001

Eminem: The London Arena, Docklands ...

Eminem: The London Arena, Docklands

Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001

FOR A FEW days there, between Internet babies and new genetic codes, Eminem's UK tour made him the leading media talking-point. ...

Eminem: The Eminem Show

Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo Music, May 2002

CAN IT BE mere coincidence that the fourth Eminem album hits the streets in the same week that the third series of Big Brother begins ...

Mean, Moody And Magnificent: Eminem

Profile by Charles Shaar Murray, Observer, The, May 2002

IT'S BEEN too damn quiet, Carruthers. With the upper echelons of the pop scene currently dominated by the industry's endless cavalcade of squeaky-clean teen puppets, ...

Eminem: The Eminem Show (Aftermath)

Review by Peter Murphy, Hot Press, June 2002

WELCOME TO artimitateslife.com, a multi-streamed gush of live webcam feed where we get to see Mr Marshall Mathers as Truman trapped in some Gollywood remake ...

Marshall Mathers, Movie Star: Eminem in 8 Mile

Report by Edward Helmore, Observer, The, November 2002

THREE YEARS AGO he was the foul-mouthed scourge of parents everywhere. A sulky, misogynistic, homophobic, mother-hating all-round bad influence. A white-trash Negro. A true punk ...

Eminem At The Top Of His Underclass: 8 Mile

Review by Wayne Robins, waynerobins.blogspot.com, November 2002

8 MILE, Eminem's big screen debut, is middling as far as boxing movies go: Not as searing as Budd Schulberg's The Harder They Fall, and ...

What's SO F***ing Great About Eminem?

Essay by Andy Gill, Word, The, March 2003

The worst character traits imaginable assembled into violent, cautionary cartoons have produced the charismatic star of the moment, now further immortalised in an acclaimed movie. ...

Eminem: Cleaning Up

Profile by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, June 2003

In the hood: Eminem is pulling out all the stops for his European tour ...

Eminem: Milton Keynes Bowl

Live Review by Andy Gill, Independent, The, June 2003

HE'S THE LEADING pop icon of his generation, the undisputed Elvis of his era, and for many of the 65,000 fans who attend his concert, ...

Can't Forget The Motor City: Detroit from Hitsville to 8 Mile

Book Excerpt by Nick Hasted, Omnibus Books, Summer 2003

The Dark Story of Eminem is the first book by Nick Hasted, whose work has previously appeared in The Independent, the Guardian and Uncut magazine. ...

Eminem: Slim Shady's Rap-Sheet Of Relapse And Recovery

Profile by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, April 2011

Eminem soared from drug-filled poverty to adulation and notoriety, and then collapsed into gilded, narcotic, seclusion. But, after his latest comeback, his biographer Nick Hasted ...