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Anderson Cooper Interviews Eminem
Anderson : You got beat up a lot as a kid?

Eminem : Yea, there was (.) a lot of instances that I'd [text]

Anderson : [text] You got beat up coming home from school

Eminem : Beat up in (sighs) bathroom beat up in the hallways (2) shoved into lockers (.) you know just for (.) you know for the most part man (.) you know just being the new kid

Eminem : Hip hop (.) has always been about bragging and boasting and I'm better than you at this and I'm better than you at that and I finally found something that, yea this kid over here (.) you know he may have (2) er more chicks like he may have better clothes or whatever but he can't do this like me (.) you know what I mean he can't write what I'm writing right now and it started to feel like (2) you know maybe Marshall is getting a lil' respect (giggles)

Anderson : Did you feed off the fact that (2) people (.) maybe underestimated you (.) or didn't respect you early on

Eminem : Oh, definitely definitely I think that er you know there was certainly like er er rebellious like YOUTHFUL RAGE kind of in me and there was also you know the fact of (2) the er (2) the no getting away from (.) fact that I am white (.) you know this is predominantly black music you know and people telling me ' you don't belong like you're not gonna succeed because you are this colour. ' Then you wanna show those people that you know (.) that you that you can and you
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