Another book about Eminem? My book is different…let me tell you why!

EMINEM AND THE DETROIT RAP SCENE:
“WHITE KID IN A BLACK WORLD OF MUSIC”

PUBLISHER: AMBER BOOKS www.amberbooks.com

DEAR HIP HOP LOVERS, PRESENT AND FUTURE,

MY BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ABOUT RAP SUPERMOGUL EMINEM HAS BEEN PUBLISHED BY AMBER BOOKS, I HAVE THE HONOR TO REPORT TO YOU.

BASICALLY, I WAS TRYING TO PUT THIS HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL LYRICAL GENIUS INTO THE CULTURAL CONTEXT – WHO IS HE AND WHERE DOES HE COME FROM?

TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS COULD NOT EVEN BE ATTEMPTED WITHOUT WRITING ABOUT DETROIT – BECAUSE EMINEM CAN NOT BE THOUGHT WITHOUT THE EXISTENCE OF MOTOR CITY. WHILE ON THE ONE HAND HE IS TOTALLY UNIQUE AS AN ARTIST, IT CANNOT BE DENIED THAT DETROIT’S FASCINATING MUSIC SCENE TURNED HIM INTO WHAT HE IS TODAY.

I HAVE BEEN A MUSIC AND BLACK ISSUES JOURNALIST FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, AND MY CHALLENGE WAS TO GET TO THE ESSENCE OF DETROIT SO I WOULD SEE THE REAL CHARACTER OF MARSHALL MATHERS III. THAT MEANT INTERVIEWING, SOMETIMES ARGUING, PERHAPS DISAGREEING AND SPENDING COUNTLESS HOURS WITH THE PEOPLE WHO EM ENCOUNTERED ON HIS WAY TO THE UNDISPUTED THRONE OF RAP.

HOWEVER, THERE ARE STILL NUMEROUS MISCONCEPTIONS, WELL, PERHAPS EVEN LIES OUT AND ABOUT CONCERNING MARSHALL. HE IS SO MUCH MORE THAN HIS IMAGE.

READ MY BOOK AND SOON I THINK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET TO KNOW HIM FROM A CLOSER, MORE PERSONAL ANGLE. BE PREPARED TO GET SURPRISED!