14 DAY TRIAL // Not that his latest album needs anymore promoting, since it’s officially the best-selling debut of the year, but rapper Eminem is now featured in the latest issue of the iconic Vibe magazine. Sharing the same cover with Dr. Dre, both dressed in lab coats and cooking up something, Em also opens up in the accompanying interview about his music, his experience with heavy drugs and his own death.
Eminem has come a long way from the days when he’d need a fistful of pills just to get through the day and he’s probably the first one to admit to it. Aside from learning what it feels like to come very close to death, the rapper has also taken from this experience another important revelation: that being a star means you really get to have your way with everything. If you have money, you will always find doctors to supply you with the right prescription for whatever drug you may want, Eminem says.
And this is precisely why there are so many celebrity deaths, including that of his “8 Mile” co-star Brittany Murphy. “It was crazy. It’s 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 it’s one of those things man where you’re famous, doctors will kiss your [expletive] 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,” the rapper explains.
Seeing and hearing of so many famous people overdosing on prescription pills and based on his own experience with them, not few have been the instances when Eminem came to think about his own death. “Yeah, I do. A lot. I think about it a lot. I try not to think about it but I do and it creeps me the [expletive] 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,” the star explains.
In the same interview, Eminem also talks about his music and which was the best track to ever diss him. Apparently, it was what Everlast said in one song about him that he found extremely ingenious, but that’s not to say that it was without reason that he got picked on.
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