Eminem

I was a smart kid, but I hated school. ”

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap. ”

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. ”

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. ”

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person. ”

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this. ”

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know. ”

Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap. ”

I didn't just invent saying offensive things. ”

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap. ”