Eminem Quotes about drugs, violence, suicide and rap

Eminem’s an angry dude. I’m glad he’s rapping about recovery now. Here are some Eminem quotes from the darker side, covering drugs, violence and suicide.

I do promote violence and I don’t give a fuck
-Eminem, in response to Time Magazine

I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody
-Eminem, on violence

Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I’ve ever watched, and I didn’t see anybody criticizing that one for violence
-Eminem, on his views about violence

I took a lot of them, I took a bunch of pain killers – Tylenol. I took 13, 16 of ’em and fuckin’ threw ’em up. I thought I was going die, I thought I was going to die for real.
-Eminem, talking about his suicide attempt

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‘Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this’.
-Eminem – on his race

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don’t wake up every day and look in the mirror, ‘Oh. I’m white’.
-Eminem, talking about his race

Unless you want to fuck me, why do you care what I look like?
-Good quote about race from Eminem

At this point, I’m like “Come up with something new.” I hate the same old questions. But it seems like “white” magazines such as Spin and Rolling Stone focus on my “whiteness” more than Black magazines
-Eminem, talkin’ about his race

All my life I’ve been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I’m at a boiling point…Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.
-Think he’s tired of talking about being white?

I get offended when people say, `So, being a white rapper…and growing up white…after being born white…’ It’s all I ever hear!
-Yep. He’s tired of the race card.

It’s funny how all the magazines can dwell on my race, but they could NEVER say that my shit is whack because they know my shit is tight!
-Well, it is.

You can’t control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it’s the music I love and it’s the music I respect. I respect the culture…that’s me.
-Eminem, about rap and hip-hop in general

It doesn’t exactly feel like a shock, but it’s all new to me, and I’m taking it in as it comes.
-Eminem talkin’ about his meteroric rise to fame

Some asshole kept throwing oranges and other fruit at me while I was onstage. Fucker had an arm like a major league pitcher…
-Eminem, in regards to one of his concerts

I had too much Nyquil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place.
-Eminem… That combo wasn’t too bad actually!

Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.
-Eminem on drugs

Sometimes I’m real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.
-Eminem on his attitude

Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.
-Eminem’s theory on life

I felt like it’s my time to shine, I have to rip this. At that time, I felt that it was a life or death situation.
-Eminem on the Wake Up Show

Who’s Tony Blair, did he get his dick sucked?, oh he ain’t shit then…
-Eminem talking shit about Tony Blair