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Article: Everybody knows him as the most talented bad boy in rap today.(Eminem)
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- CosmoGirl!
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- April 1, 2003
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But it's possible that underneath his rough exterior; there lies a soft, romantic soul we haven't seen yet. So will the real marshall mathers please stand up?
When I first interviewed Eminem for Rolling Stone magazine back in 1998, it was months before his first major album, The Slim Shady LP, was even released. During that post-Vanilla Ice era, finding success as a white rapper was close to impossible. As Eminem explained it, "People have tried to play every white rapper that comes out like a gimmick." But even then, there was something very real about him that told me this white rapper was no gimmick--and it wasn't just because he clearly had extraordinary ...