Eminem changed hip hop. FACT. Until 1999's Slim Shady LP white guys rapping was more comical than a form of expressionism, not only did the bleach blonde rapper from Detroit break racial boundaries, he took the genre out of the underground, into the mainstream and popular culture. I was obsessed with him after hearing My Name Is, I still believe that he is a genius, an interesting character and has the balls to do whatever he wanted, then I watched the video below and was saddened to hear him talk about plummeting into the dark depths of addiction.
It's an open, honest interview for How To Make Money Selling Drugs, a docu-film released in the States last week. Marshall got sucked into prescription drugs like those which have been blamed for the death of Michael Jackson. In America these 'legal' drugs are pushed on to those with money, often A-listers, it's big business for the suppliers who target high-earners in hope that they will get addicted. As Eminem states in the interview, these over-the-counter drugs are as harmful as the class A's, the rapper was teetering on death, the so-called 'doctors' pray on victims like vultures. The warning hits home so much harder when somebody so high profile talks of the dangers with addiction.
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