Eminem: What I've Learned
After a long hiatus, the rapper talks about coming to terms with anger, fatherhood, being single, being white...and his pink boxers.
BY BRIAN MOCKENHAUPT
Eminem still lives and records in Detroit, Michigan. The title of his movie 8 Milerefers to the road that divides the city's poor and rich neighborhoods. He recently published an autobiographical book, The Way I Am.
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Don't call it a comeback.
People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now. You can change your image and all that -- you can change your fucking clothes, your underwear, your hair color, all that shit -- but it's not going to mean you're a brand-new person.
You want to say, "I don't give a fuck what anybody says." Yeah, you do.
I'm sure people think I've vanished off the face of the earth.
I went for nine, ten years straight, without taking a break at all. I needed to rejuvenate.
