Did You Know...

• When writing his raps, Eminem starts from the corner of the page and goes down instead of on the lines
• Em cuts his own hair
• The gothic-style bracelet tattoo on his wrist is in honor of Bugz, a former D12 member who passed away, and Em got it while drunk
• Hailie came up with the line in My Dad's Gone Crazy where she says, "Somebody please help him!" while Eminem was mixing Soldier
• Em used to take Hailie to Chuck E. Cheeses every Friday (whether or not he still does I don't know)
• He used to watch Hey Arnold, Spongebob, Dora the Explorer and the Powerpuff Girls with Hailie (whether he still does or not I don't know, but I think they probably still watch most of them except Dora)
• The first time he met Dido was the Stan video
• He wishes he had a Taco Bell in his backyard
• His shoe size is 10 1/2
• Besides Laney, he has another niece, Amy, and a nephew, Adam
• South Park and Tom Green make him laugh like crazy
• The song in the background of "The Kiss" (track 6 skit on The Eminem Show) is called "Everyone's Lookin' At Me"
• He weighs 163 lbs
• He is left handed
• He is 5'9"
• 8 Mile came out on November 8, 2002
• Eminem and Hailie have cat named Tigger
• Kim cheated on Eminem with Eric Hartter and had his child, a baby girl named Whitney who now lives with Eminem
• Eminem's brother, Nate Briggs, lives with him
• 50 Cent and D12 are signed under Shady Records
• DMX is one of his favorite rappers
• Eminem was sued by his mother for lyrical content referring to her for $25,000
• Em used to work at Gilbert's Lodge
• Before he heard rap, Em wanted to be a comic book artist
• Ronnie introduced Em to his first rap song, from the Breakin' soundtrack
• Eminem used to listen to raps and rock back and forth, he used to hum and not realize that it's loud enough for others to hear (I've heard he still does today), he used to write raps on whatever he could find including his hand and sometimes in the air with his finger
• His teachers used to think he was retarded (most likely the idea for the song "I'm Retarded"
• His favorite drink is Mountain Dew
• Eminem was embarrassed to release Hailie's Song at first -- he was going to keep it for Hailie to listen to when she got older but Dre showed it to two female friends who cried and convinced Em to release it
• For some reason, Eminem's niece Alaina is also known as Amanda and Amy...soon to be figured out
• His musical influences are LL Cool J, Ice-T, NWA and Run DMC
• He is a perfectionist
• His favorite color is baby blue
• He still gets stage fright
• Besides Taco Bell, some of Em's favorite restaurants are McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's
• Em likes to play basketball, but can't now because everyone knows him and walks up to him
• Em likes to shop at K-Mart
• He listens to almost all hip-hop
• He also likes No Doubt and Alanis Morissette (however you spell that, I think I got it right)
• His favorite movies are How High?, Orange County and The Matrix (Matrix being his #1)
• He has arcade games at his house (Dig Dug, Ms. Pacman and Popeye)
• Ice-T's "Reckless" was the first rap Em ever heard
• He used to spend hours at night studying the dictionary to improve his rhymes
• He failed ninth grade three times, then dropped out of school
• He had been wanting to sample "Dream On" by Aerosmith and Proof reminded him -- that song is now in "Sing For the Moment"
• "Brain Damage" is a true story -- Em claims that sometimes he still sees a white dot in his right eye
• He got the idea for the second verse of "Guilty Conscience" from the movie "Animal House"
• Em and Dido never met until the Stan video and the first time they performed the song was on Saturday Night Live
• The background music for the song "Kim" was on a 1983 episode of "Growing Pains"
• Paul Rosenburg has been his manager since 1995
• He gave Paul one of his Grammys
• Kim has a twin sister named Dawn
• Em and Kim used to live in all black neighborhoods and get beat up -- Em even got shot once