HeвЂ™d lost his closest friend and confidant to a couple of bullets. When Relapse finally dropped last year after a half-decade disappearing act, fans were famished.Д®minem was pushing 40. Not one song had the gnarled roots of anger or brazen honesty that drenched the best of EmвЂ™s first three albums. Even the frivolous songs were missing the deviant humor present in previous singles. His next album Encore was lazy, kicked off by an embarrassing single and followed up with songs that merely echoed what heвЂ™d accomplished with The Eminem Show. He stood at the edge of something truly amazing. It was followed later that year by the semi-autobiographical film 8 Mile, which earned Em an Oscar.ДЄnd of course, earlier this year, Eminem hit a career milestone when I wrote about him on Copyblogger. 'Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.ItвЂ™s been eight years since Marshall Mathers released The Eminem Show, the best-selling album of 2002. if you didn't let me get to you so much, you would take away all my ammo,' he says. 'I think throughout my career, I've said enough to piss enough people off. Still, he says, not everyone is going to like what he says. 'If two people care about each other or love each other, they should have the right to be equally miserable,' he says. His rhymes contain fewer public jabs at celebrities and he's even publicly stated support for gay marriage. Recovery showcases a more mature, more tolerant Eminem. 'There are a lot of rappers who have complicated rhyme schemes that are out today, that have been out over the years.' His lyrics have drawn comparisons to the work of great poets, but the rapper, while flattered, says it's strange for him to hear. He says he's turned the weaknesses he discussed on the album into strengths. 'You know, it just reminds me of how I was feeling and why I would never want to go back to that place.'Д®ven so, Eminem says that talking about his struggles - in songs like 'Going Through Changes' - has been empowering. 'When I first recorded the record and dumped it all out, it was a little difficult to listen back to,' he says. It's also one of his most personal and most honest. His latest release, Recovery, is being praised as one of his best yet. 'I felt like I did a lot of growing up, and I don't really feel like the last album really reflected where I was at mentally,' he says. He released an album called Relapse in 2009, but says it didn't reflect his new life of sobriety.

I knew I couldn't control it anymore.'Д®minem has been sober for just over two years. Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing. 'I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block. when I got home, I went right back to using again.'Дespite going back to drugs, the rapper says he was scared. 'I don't think I actually realized the totality of what had happened,' he says, 'so after I got out of the hospital. His drug habit intensified in recent years and even led to an overdose in December 2007. In an interview with Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz, Eminem says he struggled with addiction throughout his career. His new record is called Recovery, and it tells the story of a man coming to terms with his inner demons. He's won 11 Grammys and an Academy Award, and holds the record for the fastest-selling solo album in history. Throughout his career, Eminem's controversial work has attracted both criticism and accolades.

His name is Marshall Mathers, but he's better known as hip-hop musician Eminem. This song contains explicit language not suitable for all ages.

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