If you had some sneaking suspicion that Eminem was not big on embracing authority, you need not look further.
The latest issue of "Vibe" magazine commemorates the 10th anniversary of the home-grown movie "8 Mile" with interviews with Eminem and his co-stars.
And as you might expect, he is pretty frank.
He's asked: "This movie broadened your base to an incredible degree—after its release, you were suddenly surrounded by stadiums of people ages 5 to 55, which is weird considering the word “fuck” is said 200 times in 110 minutes. Were you prepared for parents to like you?"
Eminem responds: "My career up to that point was very me-against-the-world. That was the mentality that I had—'Fuck everybody.' And then all of these parents loving me? It was weird. Like, Fuck am I going to do now? I need to figure out a new way to piss people off. I wasn’t ready for that. I still don’t understand it. It is what it is. I don’t even know what that means, but it is what it is."
