Top 60 Eminem Quotes

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.

Where’s Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that… What about Obie?

I’ve always said that if I couldn’t be myself, first I’d want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.

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.

I’m a big Eminem fan, so I like listening to him. My wife doesn’t, though.

Greatest Detroit MC… Eminem.

Early in my career, I was only being dissed by Chingy. Now, I’m being dissed by Eminem. Life is great.

Much respect to Eminem – he’s the greatest.

There are many collaborations I’d like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.

I totally owe Eminem for giving me my start.

Early on in my life, I got two older brothers; we used to listen to Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne.

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

When I made ‘Detroit vs. Everybody,’ I knew. I knew this for Eminem.

The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.

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.

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.

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

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.

And I would like to work with Eminem. Because I’ve always been a fan of his work.

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

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.

I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can’t we just be friends?

The best thing for me is the amount of DMs and people hitting me up every day saying, ‘Your music is providing me with answers.’ That blows my mind, because that’s what Alex Turner and Eminem were for me.

I love working out to Eminem.

I’m a hard-mouthed northeastern lad. That’s me – the Eminem of Northeast England.

I love listening to old school stuff. I listen to some new cats out here, but I’m really into, like, Tech N9ne and his clique; I really like Eminem and those guys – cats that got real flow: I really connect with that. But I do love rock. I love a lot of electronica because I love programming synthesizers.

You’re gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I’m starting to enjoy Eminem.

I’m like, ‘Eminem knows who I am? Eminem watches ‘First Take?’ That’s love.’ I’ve been a fan of his for years, for his music.

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.

Eminem has been someone that I’ve always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every aspect, the storytelling abilities, lyrical ability, honesty. You can hear it in my music that I’m heavily influenced by that.

When you get a song placed with two of the top stars in the world, like Rihanna and Eminem, especially as a new writer, they’re gonna take a huge chunk of your publishing. That’s just the way the business is. I’m not complaining.

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.

Work out to music that’s fun for you. I like a good beat; something from Jay-Z or Eminem.

I almost turned down ‘8 Mile.’ I was due to start ‘ER,’ and I learned they really wanted me to be in ‘8 Mile.’ I didn’t know Eminem; I just knew he was a rapper and saw what everyone else saw in the media. I thought they were just trying to capitalize on his popularity.

I have never spoken to Eminem. I’ve never even spoken to him once.

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem’s living proof.

Eminem is like a God to me. Besides that, Kurt Cobain has been my evergreen musical guru.

I don’t know why records are treated different than books. I don’t know why an Eminem record is different than a Stephen King movie.

If I was a white rapper, the bar for me would be Eminem. Of course his white skin helped him excel to heights that a lot of other rappers couldn’t, but he still was talented. People gravitated towards him because of his skills. He stood the test of time.

I feel like an ‘8 Mile’ Eminem compared to ‘My Name is.’ Whenever my name is brought up, it’s in a ‘Slim Shady’ way, and it’s funny, and I’m lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously.

Eminem heard my music, and he didn’t wanna take a meeting with me.

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.

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.

I loved Shaggy and Eminem.

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.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

Everybody in the ’80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world… Eminem. Rap’s a black thing.

You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don’t let you listen to it – you gotta sneak into a car to listen to this guy rap. He changed my whole life, my whole perspective on music, so to more or less co-sign something that I’ve done is the ultimate childhood goal.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

Eminem isn’t the first entertainer to part ways with his conservative fans.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he’s a good friend.

Evil comes in through the cable and through the Internet. We look forward to the advent of driverless cars. But they can be hacked. You could be riding along, and some 14-year-old in Romania takes over your car, so you end up running the lights and losing your brakes or, worse, listening to Eminem. What’s the purpose?

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

When I was running away, I didn’t have somebody there to help me run away. All I had was DMX’s voice or Eminem’s voice or Tupac’s voice.

Eminem is a master.

I was exposed to a lot of OutKast, Timbaland, Eminem, and my mom introduced me to India.Arie and Erykah Badu, so I guess I’m a mash-up of those styles.

When I first was a part of ‘The Monster,’ I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough – until Eminem liked it.

To be honest, and this comes out of left field, but I would love to do something with Jay-Z or Eminem. I have no limitations when it comes to the stuff I want to do musically. So to be able to do something like that I think would be really, really cool.

Eminem is just incredible. That’s the word that comes to mind: ‘incredible.’