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| | Eminem was so obsessive about exercise that he burned off 2000 cal per day | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Eminem and running are two of my favorite subjects, so I had to hit this new Shady interview in Men’s Health. Marshall Mathers gets real about fitness and his obsessive personality. It all started with his sleeping pill addiction, which led to an ulcer in his stomach. He ate to kill the pain, which eventually took him up to 230 pounds. I remember reading an Enquirer article that showed a rare paparazzi photo from around 2007. They called him “M&M,” which is just awful.
A few years ago, Eminem told Rolling Stone how he finally realized how heavy he was when he heard two teenagers talking about him. The boys were trying to figure out if he was really Eminem. In the end, one decided, “No it’s not, man – Eminem ain’t fat.” Shortly thereafter, Mathers overdosed on pills and went to rehab. Once he finished the program, he replaced one addiction with another. Eminem threw himself into exercise and ran over two hours every day. He became obsessed with burning 2000 calories by running 17 miles without fail. To no one’s surprise but his own, the heavy mileage tore down his body. Now he’s found a fitness solution:
How he started exercising: “When I got out of rehab, I needed to lose weight, but I also needed to figure out a way to function sober. Unless I was blitzed out of my mind, I had trouble sleeping. So I started running. It gave me a natural endorphin high, but it also helped me sleep, so it was perfect. It’s easy to understand how people replace addiction with exercise. One addiction for another but one that’s good for them.”
He totally overdid running: “I became a f***ing hamster. Seventeen miles a day on a treadmill,” admits the rapper, who says he ran to the point of injury. “I would get up in the morning, and before I went to the studio, I would run eight and a half miles in about an hour. Then I’d come home and run another eight and a half. I started getting OCD about the calories, making sure I burned 2,000 every day. In the end I got down to about 149 lbs. I ran to the point where I started to get injured. All the constant pounding from the running began to tear up my hip flexors.”
Now he loves fitness DVDS: “I know a lot of these DVD guys are wacky, but I’m alone in my gym; I need someone on the TV yelling to motivate me. Besides, some of this sh*t is entertaining. When I first started the Insanity workout, I alternated my routine, running one day and doing the Insanity the other. Then I stopped running altogether because it was too much to do them both. The Insanity won. After a while, I mixed it up. I did the P90X for a little while (and I still do that ab workout because it’s the most challenging). Now every morning before I go to the studio, I do the Body Beast workout with free weights, bench, and pullup bar at home. It’s just me, so it helps that the Body Beast dude is over-the-top.”
[From Men's Journal]
The DVD thing is hilarious because it’s quite a mental image to think of Eminem at home, working up a sweat in front of the television. I used to do tv workouts during college, but those days are over. I spend so much time at home in front of the computer that getting out for a run is a necessity, but 17 miles per day is too much for even the pro athletes. No human body can sustain that kind of mileage. Eminem loves his DVDs and says sometimes he can’t “walk for two days” after starting a new one. It sounds like he’s still overdoing it, perhaps, but this habit is healthier than a pill addiction.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
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If you watched the Super Bowl, you would have seen Eminem in not one commercial, but two.
Aside from the ?Slim Shady? rapper appearing in a Lipton Brisk Iced Tea ad, he was also featured in a rather serious Chrysler 200 commercial, as well.
Of the Chrysler ad, Andrew Hampp of Advertising Age magazine told press, ?As much as the spot is about what it's like in Detroit, it's very much about having Eminem ... and it wasn't necessarily about a promotion for a particular vehicle, but I came away with a higher appreciation for the Chrysler brand."
In the two minute ad, which was the longest in Super Bowl history, viewers saw a story of Detroit's decline over the past few decades. And, just like Em - whose own career stalled out due to his drug demons - the commercial tracked Detroit's eventual return and promised that the best days are still ahead.
It concludes with a choir singing Eminem's iconic "Lose Yourself," and Eminem saying with a stern face, "This is the Motor City; this is what we do.?
Hampp added, "If anything, the spot did a good job coming up with a way to reposition Chrysler. ... He's authentic to a younger generation, which is what Chrysler needs. The toughest demo for them is not grandmothers, but younger kids who already listen to Eminem and might otherwise buy foreign cars."
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Getting down to business on his new music video, Eminem was spotted arriving to the Los Angeles set of "I Need a Doctor" on Tuesday morning (January 25).
The ?Without Me? rapperwas dressed in a black and white ensemble as he waved to the on-hand photogs for the song which is believed to be on Dr Dre's new album out later this year.
Meanwhile, fellow rapper 50 cent recently announced that Eminem is set to help him out on his new album, too.
While attending the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the ?In Da Club? rapper told reporters, "I just flew from Detroit. I?m working with Em on my new album."
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Treating fans to a brand new video offering, Eminem and Lil Wayne have released their collaborative "No Love" music video.
Making for quite the impressive tune, the track samples Haddaway's "What Is Love" while being produced by Just Blaze.
Quite appropriate in its depiction, Eminem and Wayne's creation includes clips of Wayne fittingly rapping in a dark room while he's currently finishing a yearlong jail sentence.
While the video has just made it to the web, the song itself is slated for radio release on October 5.
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Kicking off the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, Eminem took the stage at the Nokia Theatre LA Live looking like he meant business.
Clad in a black hoodie and baggy trousers, the ?Real Slim Shady? rapper began in what looked like a small backstage club.
But once he made his way out onto the main stage, Em was joined by the incomparable Rihanna who sang a duet of ?Love the Way You Lie.?
Eminem and Ri-Ri both played off of each other like the seasoned pros they are, much to the delight of the jam-packed crowd.
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Seeing that he has the best-selling album of the year, it only makes sense that Eminem has been chosen at the opening act for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
With the ceremony taking place in Los Angeles on Sunday night (September 12), MTV general manager Stephen Friedman confirmed that the "Recovery" rapper will get things underway at the Nokia Theatre shindig.
"We thought that there's no better way to kick off the show than a performance from Eminem," Friedman told of the decision to pick Eminem, who's nominated for 8 trophies, as well.
As for the preparations for the annual event, VMA executive producer Jesse Ignjatovic said, "Every year, we try to have a theme and purpose beyond just giving awards away. This year, being back in Los Angeles, we really gravitated toward mid-century modern architecture and the pop culture of the '50s, like the youth-oriented rebellion films 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'Wild Ones.' It's a very L.A. kind of a set."
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| | Eminem's Recovery Goes Double Platinum | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Showing the world he?s still got it, Eminem's recent album ?Recovery? is back to being No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, the ?I Love the Way You Lie? rapper has sold 2.1 million of his albums to date.
Not since Susan Boyle?s ?I Dreamed a Dream? has anyone sat in the number one spot for six weeks, until now.
?Recovery? has deemed Eminem as the only artist to cross the double-platinum line this year.
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He costarred with Brittany Murphy in ?8 Mile? and Eminem recently opened up about his reaction to her tragic death late last year.
In an interview with Vibe magazine, the ?Real Slim Shady? rapper explained, "It was crazy. It's crazy, because at one point, we were very close, and she was a really good person.?
?It's crazy when you see things not just with her but just all these things that are happening in Hollywood with people in music, with people in acting. ... Famous people. Famous people are overdosing at alarming rates and ? that almost sounded like a commercial. Wow.?
He continued, "But they are. And it's one of those things, man, where you're famous, doctors will kiss your ass because they love the celebrity. 'Oh, I can call up Eminem and get him on the phone right now. Oh, hi Marshall, how are you doing? Do you need that [prescription]?' There are doctors that will give you certain things just because of who you are."
"I think about it a lot. I try not to think about it but I do and it creeps me the f--- out. It creeps me out because they say that if I got to the hospital two hours later then I would be gone. I think about that a lot. When I lay in bed at night is when I think about it the most. It creeps me out, man."
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| | Eminem And 50 Cent Deliver Knockouts At American Music Awards | | Added 15 years ago | Source: MTV |
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The two hip-hop heavyweights share the AMA stage.By James Montgomery
Eminem performs at the American Music Awards on Sunday
Photo: ABC/ Dick Clark Productions
Emimen strode out onto the American Music Awards' stage on Sunday night (November 22), looking very much like a prizefighter ready to deliver a knockout.
"In this corner, weighing 175 pounds, with a record of 17 rapes, 400 assaults and four murders," Em shouted, channeling his inner Michael Buffer, "The most diabolical human in the world ... Slim Shady."
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| | Eminem's Relapse 2 Is 'Comin' Out Good,' Just Blaze Says | | Added 15 years ago | Source: MTV |
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'I've been quietly goin' back forth from New York to Detroit the past two months,' producer reveals.By MTV News staff
Eminem
Photo: Michael Caulfield/ WireImage
Eminem has said that the forthcoming Relapse 2 will be more "emotionally driven," and pointed out that he's working with some new collaborators.
"[The album] is gonna be a lot different than people expect," Eminem said in an interview on his Shade 45 satellite-radio station last week. "As far as the contrast from the last album to this one, I got a couple of tracks with [D12's] Mr. Porter, two tracks with him so far. Four, possibly five with Just Blaze. The overall basis of this record, I went back to songs that are more emotionally driven. The last record I made, I think I was concentrating more on spitting. On this album, I feel like there's some of that, but I went back to songs with [feelings] to them as opposed to just rap records."
Blaze — who has worked in the past with Jay-Z, Kanye West, Usher, Mariah Carey, and many others — talked about working with Eminem during an interview with Distortion to Static
that was posted on Monday.
"Now that he's put it out there, I am working with Eminem on his new album," Blaze said. "We are working on Relapse 2 pretty heavily. As of yesterday, we've done about six or seven records. I go back in with him in a couple of weeks and do three or four more maybe. I've been quietly goin' back forth from New York to Detroit the past two months, just gettin' a feel for it and gettin' a feel for working with each other. He hasn't worked with too many people outside his camp. I haven't worked with him before. We got a good working relationship now, a good friendship now, so the records is comin' out good."
While Eminem has kept a fairly low profile in the weeks since the first Relapse was released, he told Shady 45 that he'll decide whether to go on tour after the second album is released.
"During the process of me getting sober and starting to record again like I used to, I got so excited about making music again that I wanted to concentrate [just] on that," he said. "I started recording so many records that we thought about putting out two albums. Then that became my motivation. I wanted to stay grinding and keep making music. But the time I got engulfed in [Relapse 2], it just kind of worked out this way, where I wanted to fall back from live performances for right now and concentrate on making the best music I could make. After this record comes out, we'll see what happens from there."
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