Eminem Not Dead – Rapper Battles Fake Death Story, Again

LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Eminem is not dead. Eminem is battling a fake death report today featuring a fictitious hospital. The story, moreover, erroneously claims to have been authored by a reporter from a cable news network. This is, however, not the first time that the rapper has battled fake death reports in the last three years.

Currently, there are roughly a handful of erroneous death reports online striking the rapper. At least one of them originated from Global Associated aka Mediafetcher. In that report, the site erroneously claims that the rapper died “from a waverunner crash in Turks and Caicos.” Fake jet-ski crash stories are not new for Global which has previously used the same to kill off other rappers like Lil Wayne and 50 Cent.

This fake Global report, however, claims a peculiar crash. “Preliminary reports from Turks and Caicos Police officials indicate that the musician struck a concrete boat slip in a marina on Parrot Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands” claims the fake Global report.
Beside Global, however, another fake report is prompting confusion today. Global Daily erroneously claimed two days ago on July 24 that Eminem died in Los Angeles (and apparently Palo Alto simultaneously). While the article’s title claims the rapper died in “Los Angeles”, the article’s body claims he died inside “Palo Alto Memorial Hospital”. While the geography makes no sense, the hospital’s name is also problematic. There is no such “Palo Alto Memorial Hospital”, located in Palo Alto or Los Angeles.
Today is not the first time that the rapper has battled fake death reports. In August 2009, the rapper battled a fake death story. Months later, on December 25, 2009, a fake car crash report published online featured the musician with a dubious “Route 80″ tale from Global.
Eminem is not dead, nor is Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller, or Waka Flocka.

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EXCLUSIVE: Mom Says Eminem Was Shy Boy

Although her son has called her a horrible mother who drank and took drugs and deserves to burn in hell, rapper Eminem's mother doesn't take it to heart.

"He's got a persona to live up to, an image," his mother, Debbie Nelson, told Primetime's Jay Schadler.

Nelson says that she doesn't take her son's rage-filled lyrics literally. Even when he sings, "You selfish bitch, I hope you f---ing burn in hell for this s--t," she says it doesn't bother her. "That's just artistic expression," she said. "He's very sad on the inside. He is hurting a lot. And I can see it. I can see through my son. I know him like the back of my hand."

Her son's violent, resentful lyrics have also been good for his record sales, Nelson says. "The minute you start becoming destuctive and being different — you know, kill your mother, rape this one and kill that one — I mean, people love it. The more he went in that direction, I mean, he was selling just like crazy. I mean, everybody wanted more."

Nelson, who brought a $10 million defamation lawsuit against her son in 1999 but ended up settling out of court for a few thousand dollars, said she is sure he still loves her. Part of the reason he continues to say horrible things about her in his music, she said, is commercial: "He's got everybody else pulling him in different direction: managers, different people, telling him what to say. And money is power, you know."

Tough Times, But No Drugs or Alcohol, Mom Says

Nelson was just 17 when Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, was born. She admits the family went through some tough times. By the time Marshall was 2, she fled an abusive marriage and started a tough life as a single mother. "We'd get into homes, fix it up and they'd sell it out from under us, so it was kind of tough," she said. "I went from paycheck to paycheck."

But Nelson denies that she was the kind of mother depicted in her son's music. He has accused her in his lyrics of being an alcoholic, smoking marijuana and abusing prescription drugs — all of which she denies. "None of that is true," she said.

Eminem's reputation as a rapper is built around his raw depiction of grim realities in his life, including what he says was a difficult childhood with a bad mother. Nelson stops short of calling her son a liar, but insists that what she says is true. "That is what I'm saying, but I don't want to call him a fake," she said.

The rapper declined Primetime's request for an interview and chose not to respond to his mother's comments.

Nelson has said in the past that she is an excellent mother, but she conceded to Primetime that she would give herself only nine points out of ten as a mother, "because no one is perfect." In 1996, the Michigan Department of Social Services alleged that Nelson "exhibits ... almost paranoid personality" and accused her of abusing Marshall's younger brother, Nathan. He was temporarily removed from her custody but eventually returned under state supervision.

Says Eminem Was a 'Momma's Boy'

Nelson says her son was a shy, imaginitive boy when he was little, who loved play-acting at home and dressing up as Batman and Robin. "He was a Momma's boy. He always wanted to be with Mommy," she said.

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Exclusive: Eminem Talks New Album, Book

Eminem has revealed details of his long-awaited new album, "Relapse," in an exclusive interview with Billboard, conducted via email. The set is due next spring from Shady/Interscope.

Eminem is working on "Relapse" with longtime collaborator Dr. Dre, who put his own album, "Detox," on the backburner to help bring the project to completion.

"Me and Dre are back in the lab like the old days, man," Eminem says. "Just him banging away on tracks and me getting that little spark that makes me write to it. I don't have chemistry like that with anyone else as far as producers go -- not even close. Dre will end up producing the majority of the tracks on Relapse.' We are up to our old mischievous ways ... let's just leave it at that."

A handful of songs intended for "Relapse" have leaked online, most recently "Crack a Bottle," leaving Eminem "really heated. It wasn't close to finished, and it even has me doing guide vocals for Dre as a suggestion of how he could lay his verses down. It's like someone catches you peeping in your window before you got the Spider Man costume all zipped up! Nobody is supposed to see that. We are gonna finish it up though and get it out there how it's supposed to be."

Eminem also responded to producer Swizz Beats' recent comment that he'd submitted a track for the project described as a sequel to the hit single "Stan," telling Billboard, "I haven't worked with Swizz on this album.

"There isn't a 'Stan 2,' and there won't be," he says. "Stan drove his car off a bridge and I'm not writing a song as Stan's ghost. That would just be really corny."

While working on "Relapse," Eminem was also writing his autobiography, "The Way I Am," with Sacha Jenkins. The book has received favorable reviews and has spent time in the top 20 of the New York Times hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list.

"For me, writing an album is an entirely different process from making this book," he says. "The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain -- let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it. With the book, the process was much more spread out, like, 'Let's get you together with Sacha for a few hours next week. Let's go thru these photos and artwork, etc.' The book was a lot more of a focus here-and-there thing as opposed to music, which totally consumes me every second."

Eminem goes into great detail in "The Way I Am" about how much he was impacted by the 2006 shooting death of fellow Detroit rapper Proof, who was one of his best friends.

"Opening the book with Proof's chapter was real important for me," Eminem says. "Everything from my past moving into my future is marked by his passing. It's sort of like life when Proof was with us, and life after -- a real dividing factor. He means more to me than a book chapter could describe, but I'm glad I was able to put him first, like he did for me so many times."

As for Shady Records' 2009 roster, Eminem says 50 Cent's delayed "Before I Self Destruct" will be out in February. "He's still working on it and getting back together with me and Dre next week to finish up," he says. "I have a couple of tracks on there with him. It's sick."

Afterward, Ca$his will release the follow-up to his 2007 "County Hound EP." Says Eminem, "People are going to be surprised what he is capable of. I produced a bunch of records on there as well."

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LeBron James raps along to Eminem's "The Way I Am"

MIAMI -- NBA MVP LeBron James got into the mood for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against the BostonCeltics by rapping along to Eminem's 2000 hit "The Way I Am" in the Miami Heat's locker room.

If you're into the psychoanalysis thing, the verse in question happens to have a decidedly anti-media vibe. James has received criticism during the series for his lackluster play in the fourth quarter of a Game 5 loss but then stormed back to put together a 45-point performance in a Game 6 win at TD Garden to avoid elimination. Following Game 6, James promised that he "[wouldn't] regret" his Game 7 performance "win, lose or draw."

Here are the lyrics that James was rapping.

"Sometimes I just feel like my father, I hate to be bothered
With all of this nonsense it's constant
And, "Oh, it's his lyrical content -
- the song 'Guilty Conscience' has gotten such rotten responses"
And all of this controversy circles me
And it seems like the media immediately
Points a finger at me (finger at me)...
So I point one back at 'em, but not the index or pinkie
Or the ring or the thumb, it's the one you put up
When you don't give a [expletive], when you won't just put up
With the [expletive] they pull, 'cause they full of [expletive] too
When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up his school

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Eminem more popular than Obama

Believe it or not, according to a latest survey, rapper Eminem is more popular than American president Barack Obama

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In what way? Well, a known social network aggregator recently conducted a survey about the world’s most popular celebrity ‘dad’. Eminem (who has a 16-year-old daughter and has adopted two girls) came out on top of the list, beating the likes of Barack Obama and Homer Simpson.

He is very popular with the younger lot and does things which make him endearing to them. A couple of weeks back, he actively promoted a Nintendo game.

There you go, he likes kids. Only if his songs are tad more intelligible to children !

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Eminem calls into BET's 106 & Park! ::

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Eminem Tributes Nate Dogg, Performs “Stan” And “Space Bound” At Osheaga

A last-minute cancellation by Kid Cudi didn’t stop the Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal from making quite a splash this weekend — a record-breaking 38,000 fans turned out to see Eminem yesterday at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau, where they were treated to an hour-and-a-half set of MTV Video Music Award nominee’s greatest hits. The“Lighters” rapper also took a moment to pay homage to Nate Dogg, the Grammy-nominated G-funk crooner who died of a strokein March. Catch this tribute and Em’s performances of “Stan,” “Airplanes,” and the live-on-stage debut of “Space Bound” below

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