It seems like everywhere I look these days, another news article is screaming out yet another Eminem revelation. That’s because they’re all hacking up excerpts from his new autobiography, “The Way I Am”.

Reading about the new book on the Billboard website, I was intrigued with this line:

The book is 200-plus pages worth of text, behind-the-scenes photographs and reproductions of Eminem’s original lyric sheets — hotel stationery and other scraps of paper he used to scratch out partial verses of the songs that would make him famous.

I’ve highlighted the relevant piece - reproductions of his lyric sheets. OK, I’m happy to read the words and look at the various pictures of Marshall growing up, but how the hell do you do a reproduction of a lyric sheet? Find various bits of scrap paper and napkins and write it all out again?

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It sounds like Slim Shady might be coming out of his self-imposed retirement for a fifth album if reports from Entertainment Weekly are correct.

It’s been four years since Eminem’s last album Encore, and recently rumours have suggested that his health was suffering and that he may have had a minor heart attack due to becoming overweight.

Em’s apparently got some stuff on his mind, the kind of deep thoughts only an album full of scathing rap tracks would do justice to. In fairness, we thought he’d originally retired because all the dough from his record sales had taken away his bitterness and the bite that attracted us to Eminem in the first place!

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