Released: January 1, 1999

[Dialogue: Eminem and Ariel]
*Ends off Brain Damage snippet and instrumental plays through*
**Dial tone**

(Hello?)
Hi, this is Ariel?
(This is)
This is Marshall
(Listen, I'm in a serious-)
Don't hang up!
God... Are you gonna leave me too?
Ariel... Hi (What's up with you?)
I'm sorry, I'm s- (What’s your nationality?)
I'm sorry, uh-I'm a-I'm a white male
Single now,sorry, what should I do, Ariel?
Are you gonna leave me too?
Everybody's left me (If I'm gonna leave you?)
Yes (Tell me, what's up with you?)
I'm sorry, I-I, you know?
She comes in, from work late
(Your girlfriend?)
She comes in at late last night, okay?
I don't know where she's at
All I know is that she's got these little, like
Red marks on her neck
I'm like "Are those hickeys?"
"No, these aren't hickeys" I'm like
"You've been fooling around, I can't have it you"
She's done this to me before
I wish you could just, help me, like
I don't know, I'm-I'm kinda horny
(Huh? I'm listening) I've got candles lit
(What?) Candles, I've got candles, and got
The music playing, like a-- Can you hear it?
The music? (What do you think [?])
The mu-the music... oh, sorry (Just tell me why)
I don't know, I'm just horny
I need it-I don't know
I don't know if I need to just, like, jack off
Or like have sex with my girlfriend when she comes
I don't know anymore, you know? I'm just
(Relax) What? (You Know what? I think you're going crazy, 'kay?)
(Just take a bomb, okay, and go to sleep)
(And stop calling people and crying) A bomb?
(Uhuh) You want me to swallow a bomb, Ariel?
You want me to kill myself, right here, on national TV?!
(National TV? What's wrong with you? *stuttering and laughing* whats wrong with your mind? You're going through it )
I-I'm what? I don't understand, is that Spanish or something?
I don't understand, what are you-
You know, I'm just an English regular guy, I'm a white kid, okay?
I grow up, you know
I don't know, oh my god... You know what?
If you're not gonna jack me off, you fucking slut
You can suck my dick, you fucking whore

Eminem

A legendary hip-hop icon who started as an underground battle rapper in Detroit, Marshall “Eminem” Bruce Mathers III (1972 – present) has developed a career full of controversy, wild swings, and some of the most noteworthy raps in the history of the genre.

Eminem has broken countless barriers, shifting and impacting the culture in several ways. In June 2017, “Stan” was added into the Oxford Dictionary, and in 2019, to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. He was the first rapper to win the Grammy Award for Best Album for three consecutive albums. “Rap God” set the Guinness World Record for most words in a song. He was also the first rapper to win an Oscar. His albums The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show became certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2011, making him one of the few artists to have more than one Diamond album. This has helped him become the highest selling hip-hop artist of all time. In January 2020, with his 11th studio album Music to Be Murdered By debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200, Eminem became the first artist in history to have 10 consecutive #1 debuts.

Produced and co-signed by Dr. Dre, Em had an unprecedented run of success from 1999 up until 2003, releasing three well-reviewed multi-platinum albums, stealing the show on countless collaborations, and even starred in a hit movie. However, it all came crashing down around 2004, when a string of problems ranging from drug dependence to depression to the tragic death of best friend Deshaun “Proof” Holton in 2006 led to a long hiatus from music and a pair of what were, by his own admission, sub-par albums.