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August 31, 2002 - Several sites had reviewed from last night's MTV Video Music Awards, with thoughts on Shakira, American Idol, Guns N' Roses, Eminem vs. Moby / Eminem vs. Triumph, Michael Jackson, the TLC Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes tribute, and Jimmy Fallon's antics. Check out articles from Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel, Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker, TV Guide's Daniel R Coleridge, and Katrillion.com's Valerie Nome.

August 31, 2002 - Mr. Nasty Simon Cowell weighed in on the Video Music Awards to Extra TV on Friday. While giving good marks to Pink and Eminem, he wasn't so kind to Michael Jackson. The 'American Idol' judge's comments on Slim? "I think he's a genius because he understood totally this thing about white teenager boys wanting to be black. You know, he just got it." Watch the clip here.

August 31, 2002 - Everyone was wanting to hear what Moby had to say following his dust-up with Eminem at the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday. Moby wrote on his official website, "So, I, uh, guess that I have to write something about the Eminem/VMA debacle. Hmmm.... well, what should i write? The truth? The truth is that I honestly, in all sincerity, thought that the whole Eminem thing was done in some semblance of humor until Eminem called me a pussy (that was off camera) and then threatened to beat me up. Ah well." Read more.

August 31, 2002 - MTV News spoke with *NSYNC's Chris Kirkpatrick on the Eminem vs. Moby fued that he was sitting in the middle of at last night's MTV Video Music Awards, but managed to not get his ass kicked, as Slim rapped in 'Without Me'. Chris said, "I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends? They should just make fun of me." As for bandmate Justin Timberlake's debut solo performance, Chris commented, "I'm just right behind him usually. Now I get to sit in front of him and watch. It was a good time. He's got a great thing going." Read more.

August 31, 2002 - Tons of photos from last night's Video Music Awards are on the net today, including shots of *NSYNC, Enrique Iglesias with girlfriend Anna Kournikova, Avril Lavigne, Eminem, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Christina Milian, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Justin Guarini, Kelly Clarkson, Ludacris, Kylie Minogue, Michael Jackson, Shakira, Willa Ford, and more. Check out photos from Yahoo, WireImagecom, GlobePhotos, GettyImages, and LFI (PressRoom, Arrivals1, Arrivals2, and Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs Party).

August 31, 2002 - Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com gave thoughts on last night's MTV Video Music Awards. Friedman writes, "The MTV Video Music Awards are like Mardi Gras, Fourth of July and Halloween all rolled into one. The music is mostly awful, the so-called artists are forgettable. But the show! The show is a wonderment! It's full of so many simultaneous excesses -- like the godawful Shakira belly-dancing, and Justin Timberlake's failed attempt to launch his solo career, and Eminem insulting Moby -- that you can't take it seriously. You just to have to enjoy it." Read more, including Roger's report from Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs' self-proclaimed Greatest Party Ever at Cipriani here.

August 31, 2002 - MTV News has a backstage report from Thursday's MTV Video Music Awards, which includes news that Christina Aguilera and Eminem shared some time together which at initial glance could have easily been construed as an argument, but once the two finished their animated chat, they shared a quick embrace. "Now that's an MTV moment," exclaimed an applauding Brandy. Read more.

August 31, 2002 - Triumph the Insult Comic Dog issued a statement to his fans on his official website Friday, following his near bust-up with Eminem at the Video Music Awards on Thursday. "I would like all of you to know that I am fine, that the scuffle at the MTV awards involving Eminem, Moby and Eminem's trusty friend who threw my pooping paper in the air did not result in permanent injury," Triumph assured fans. "As soon as Christina Aguilera came out, I licked myself as a test and my pink thing was perfectly functional. You will be glad to know that Moby also licked himself and all systems were go. Read more.

August 30, 2002 - Eminem took home the big prize of the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday. Slim nabbed the Video of the Year award for 'Without Me' and told the crowd, "Wow. Whoo! The big one. Y'all ought to excuse me. I been going to some anger management classes. MTV, thank you so much, thank you to all my fans. Thank you everybody who supported me from day one. I don't know what else to say. Thank you."

August 30, 2002 - After thumbing his nose at Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday, Eminem received another jolt when he was presented with the Best Male Video by Christina Aguilera. Eminem got rattled even more though during his acceptance speech, when he took another cheap shot at Moby, drawing a bunch of boos. Read more.

August 30, 2002 - The stars of 'Jackass The Movie' Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, and Bam presented the Best Rap Video award to Eminem for 'Without Me' at the MTV Video Music Awards on Thursday. Slim was pretty impressed with the award being stapled to one of the guys, who was bleeding. Eminem said, "Did you staple yourself, man? This guy is really bleeding. What's up, man? What's up? All right. First off I want to start off by saying that I'm taking this home for rap period. Second of all, I'm taking this home for my whole Shady Records family, D-12, 50 Cent, Haley we have another trophy to put in the case, baby. I love you."

August 30, 2002 - AllHipHop.com reports Eminem's new video for 'White America' is coming under controversy for making references to the Columbine Shooting in April of 1999, in which 15 people were killed. The lyrics in the song have parents of the victims of the Columbine shooting outraged, including Darrell Scott, who lost his daughter Rachel in the shooting spree. Scott compared Slim to Charles Manson in an interview with CNN's Bill Hemmer saying, "Eminem represents an influence on the lives of young people. And we really need to take a long look at the influences that come across the media and entertainment." Read more.

August 29, 2002 - After eight weeks away from the top slot, 'The Eminem Show' moved 172,000 copies this past week, according to SoundScan, to reclaim the #1 spot from Nelly's 'Nellyville', which sold 162,000 copies. It is the sixth week in all that 'The Eminem Show' has topped the charts. Meanwhile, the debut of Clipse got the #4 spot with 'Lord Willin'', and Angie Martinez grabbing #11 with her new one, 'Animal House'. Read more.

August 29, 2002 - TV Guide had seven silly questions for *NSYNC's Chris Kirkpatrick, including one asking if there's a fued between he and Eminem after Slim's 'Without Me' diss. "There's no feud," Chris said. "I'm a big fan. Like he said, 'Kirkpatrick' just rhymed with 'get your ass kicked,' so I think that worked out in my favor. I've got the album." Read more.

August 29, 2002 - Chris Kirkpatrick spoke with 104.7 KISS FM earlier today and was asked again about the Eminem diss in 'Without Me'. The *NSYNC star explained, "Well, you know, it's always funny because, you know, we go out clubbing a lot, we go to parties, and every time that song comes on, it's like the whole club comes to me. And, like, waits, like I'm gonna go up to the DJ, 'Hey, could you mute that one part? I'm really kind of, like, upset about that.'" Read more.

August 29, 2002 - The Telegraph reports a sex attack on a nine-year-old boy by a boy three years his senior may have been inspired by the sordid lyrics of a Eminem's 'Ken Kaniff (Skit)' track, a court was told. The jury was played a recording of the Eminem track after William Baker, prosecuting, said: "One possibility is that the 12-year-old boy [now 13] in adolescence heard the track and thought it would be a good idea to make someone do that to him." Read more on the story here and read on for the lyrics to 'Ken Kaniff (Skit)'.

August 28, 2002 - The new Lycos 50 is out today and Britney Spears retains her pop dominance in the #5 spot. 'American Idol' makes its top 10 debut at #8, Eminem jumps to #14, Avril Lavigne reverses her freefall to hit the #18 spot, Shakira holds at #25, and Jennifer Lopez got the #35 spot, jumping two spots. Read more.

August 28, 2002 - MTV News has details on Eminem's Video Music Award nominated 'Without Me' from the video's director Joseph Kahn. "It was first pitched to me as a more 'serious' Eminem video," said Kahn. "We were initially going to make some sort of slick-looking video with movie-like production values. Eminem was going to just look cool, and in no way was he going to wear a silly costume or make a fool out of himself. Oops." Read more.

August 28, 2002 - Gideon Yago and Iann Robinson of MTV News spoke with Extra TV about this Thursday's MTV Video Music Awards to get their picks for who will walk home with a moon man. For Video of the Year, the two are betting big on Eminem's 'Without Me'. Gideon says, "Obviously the front runner on this one is going to be Eminem because he's performing at our show and the kids just love his records." Iann adds, "He's going to take everything. I wouldn't be surprised if Eminem didn't win Best Female Video." Watch the clip here.

August 27, 2002 - The Eminem interview with Blender magazine has been posted online. In it, Slim talks about the weapons charges he dealt with, and what convinced him he had to carry a 9-mm handgun. "I was like, 'I'm not walking around with security. Who the fu** am I? The president? My security just stabbed me in the back. You see where security gets you? Fu** that. I’m a grown man. I’m a father. Who the fu** is going to protect my daughter if her own father can't?'" The comment seems to be targetted at Byron Williams, Eminem's fired bodyguard, who put out a book and did a lot of press afterwards. "I was irrational," Slim admits. "I was acting like a kid. I was literally in fear for my life — of somebody punking me, somebody snuffing me from behind. The truth is, I acted like an idiot." Read more.

August 24, 2002 - Ted Casablanca has details on the Eminem private party at Baby's at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, where he occupied the VIP section with Lara Flynn Boyle, Christina Applegate, and Taryn Manning. Despite Slim's music being played to a hoppin' dance floor, Eminem himself never did any dancing himself, instead surrounding himself with gigantic bodyguards. Read more.

August 24, 2002 - TeenMusic.com (WENN) reports Eminem insists that he'll remain single and won't have any more kids besides Hailie. "I'm a father before anything," he said. "I'm a father before I pick up the mic. I'm a father before I'm Eminem. I'm not looking for a new woman." He added, "No more kids. I'm good with Hailie. I'll spoil her and give her everything I never had. I have other family members that I take care of and want to take care of, but as far as kids, I'm cool. No more, one is enough." Read more.

August 22, 2002 - The Sun reports critics are talking that Eminem's '8 Mile' could be worthy of acting's top prize. "I was amazed at how good it was. He can really act," said a source. "This could get him an Oscar." Meanwhile, his co-star and reported lover Brittany Murphy commented, "Listen to one of his CDs, he plays a number of characters. If a man can do all that, then he can do it ten times better than most people when the camera’s there." Read more.

August 22, 2002 - The New York Post reports the Eminem starring, Curtis Hanson directed '8 Mile' will premiere as a "work in progress" at next month's Toronto Film Festival.

August 22, 2002 - Cindy Adams of the New York Post reports that Prince Williams' favorite pop artist is Eminem.

August 21, 2002 - This week RollingStone.com have begun featuring the entire Eminem track 'White America', which is perhaps Slim's most controversial video/song to date that likely won't be making it onto MTV. Watch the video here.

August 20, 2002 - Eminem's new film '8 Mile' is featured in Entertainment Weekly's Fall Movie Preview. Director Curtis Hanson had great things to say about Slim's debut film role. "I've worked with novices before, but not in a starring role," says Hanson. "He knew literally nothing about the process. But he's the definition of the term 'quick study.'" Read more.

August 19, 2002 - The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that before his show at the Thomas & Mack on Saturday night, Eminem was spotted working out at the Spa Club at Canyon Ranch (The Venetian) under the watchful eyes of two massive bodyguards.

August 18, 2002 - Tony Hicks of the Contra Costa Times reviewed the Anger Management Tour at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View last Sunday (August 11), concluding that the elaborate stage Eminem brought with him was overdone. "Eminem's show could foretell 21st century concerts," Hicks said. "As bands ratchet up the stage show, with better technology, more on-stage distractions, and bigger and more elaborate video presentations, performers will get lost amid all the distraction. That happened Sunday. If Eminem indeed put on a great show, not everybody saw it." Read more.

August 14, 2002 - Uncle Kracker spoke with CDNow.com's Corey Levitan about his high school days freestyle rapping with Emimem near Detroit. "Him and his friends would come in their pickup trucks, take me to their basement, and we'd do freestyle rap sessions and record them." So was Eminem any good on the mic back then? "He was always awesome," Kracker insists. "Even back then, that kid was rapping tongue-twisters and shit, you know? And he's always been very artistic. He'd sit around and draw pictures and sh**." Read more.

August 13, 2002 - MTV News spoke to the eventual winner of the ebay auction for Eminem's purple 1999 Ford Mustang convertible. Turns out the winner can't even drive the car, since she's only 12-years-old. Courtney Wittenbern, a resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, still will put the car to use though. "I'll just sit in the garage and listen to music [in the car] and wash it," she said. Her father Roger commented, "I think Eminem's great. Especially in the last couple of albums he's made himself a little bit more kid-friendly. I thought that was really important." Read more.

August 13, 2002 - MTV's Total Request Live played a news clip of Sway talking with Eminem about his upcoming film '8 Mile', that has some talking Oscar for Slim. Sway also quizzed Slim about rumored relationships with two co-stars in the film. Read on for a transcript.

August 13, 2002 - Public Enemy's Chuck D commented on Eminem being the new Elvis for this generation to Newsday's Glenn Gamboa. "Eminem is the new Elvis because, number one, he had the respect for black music that Elvis had," Chuck D said. "I think he's courteous and sympathetic to black music, and, unfortunately, he's more sympathetic to black music than many black artists themselves." Read more of his comments on Slim here and additional comments on Elvis himself here.

August 10, 2002 - Two hip-hop fans debate the merits of Eminem in a column on Metro Active. Jim Harrington is a music writer and digs Eminem, period. Metro music editor Todd Inoue is a hip-hop fan from way back (circa 1979) and respects Em's microphone skills but can name 10 MCs who are better. And he loves playing devil's advocate. Read more.

August 9, 2002 - rapdirt.com's last poll asking if you thought Jermaine Dupri will get any big name rappers to take his side in the Em, Dre, Xzibit & Obie beef had about 2/3 of you saying no. An equal number thought he could get Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs or at least the window-ledge hating Erick Sermon to back him. Check out more on the poll here.

August 8, 2002 - Access Hollywood played a preview of Eminem's upcoming movie '8 Mile' on Wednesday and asked the film's producer Brian Grazer if people will be surprised by Slim's performance. "I think they will see the charisma," she said. "I think they'll be surprised by his discipline. You see it on the screen. He's got a lot of restraint, but at the same time intensity. The movie feels really real." Grazer adds the film isn't about Eminem's life, though there are some similarities. "It's about this kid who reaches a place where he can make a left turn or a right turn," he said. "Which we all face in life sometimes. And he's almost manipulated into that left turn, you know. And he makes the right choice and proves to be triumphant."

August 8, 2002 - Launch.com reports that Moby addressed his fued with Eminem at the Area:2 festival stop Tuesday (August 6) in the Detroit, Michigan. During his encore, he saluted Detroit as the birthplace of techno, and then introduced his club hit, "I Feel It," as "something I wrote eight or nine years ago, which made Eminem's dis particularly hurt, that no one listens to techno. It took me two, three months of intense therapy to get over that dis." Read more.

August 8, 2002 - Moby again sounded off on the controversy he's in with Eminem after he saw a headline in Rolling Stone that said 'Eminem Kills Moby'. Moby said on his official website Tuesday, "Well, uh... I'm assuming that they meant this in the figurative sense, seeing as I still seem to be alive. I guess I should write something about Eminem and his ongoing attacks on me. Well, do you want my honest opinion? The truth is that I think that the whole thing is kind of funny. I'm still offended by the misogyny and homophobia in his lyrics, but I'm certainly not offended by his attacks against me." Read more.

August 7, 2002 - The New York Post reports Eminem and "GGW" founder Joe Francis hit the Hamptons beaches last weekend to film some exhibitionist East End-ettes for the latest in the 'Girls Gone Wild' video series. Francis tells Steppin' Out magazine, "I think the hip-hop community is very sexual and edgy. They don't seem to have a problem with us or our content." He says Tommy Lee and Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath also looked into the hosting gig, but were turned down. "Who cares about Tommy Lee?" Francis snickered. "We only want the best of the best. That's why we got Eminem."

August 6, 2002 - Launch.com reports Reverend Paul Scott says he's worried that the white influence on rap music, such as that from Eminem, will weaken the hip hop culture. Scott said, "Malcolm X once said that when you have a cup of coffee that is too black and too strong you add cream to make it weak, and the thing that used to wake up now puts you to sleep." Read more.

August 6, 2002 - Jim Derogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times reviewed the Anger Management Tour stop on Thursday night when it pulled into a sold-out Allstate Arena. Derogatis writes of the Eminem set, "The reliance on gimmickry at the expense of music is starting to seem very tired indeed, as when he urged the crowd to join in cursing out his mother and when he tortured Moby in effigy. Neither target seemed worthy of such bile, and to believe that any of this anger was real and not just part of the show is to think that pro wrestling isn't carefully staged, either." Read more.

August 5, 2002 - Isaac Guzman of the Vancouver Province gave readers a lyric guide to Eminem's latest album 'The Eminem Show'. Guzman explained the history behind the disses of Moby and *NSYNC's Chris Kirkpatrick in 'Without Me', the gun arrests referenced in 'Cleaning Out My Closet', his beef with the FCC in 'White America', and more. Check it out here.

August 5, 2002 - Greg Kot of Metromix reviewed the Eminem show at the Anger Management Tour at the Allstate Arena on Friday. Kot writes, "Perhaps Eminem senses that his career could stand another shot of controversy. The headliner's grand entrance was the most striking moment in what was otherwise a visually and sonically lackluster show. Though his Detroit compatriots D-12 filled the stage with commotion midway through the set, they brought little to the table as rappers." Read more.

August 2, 2002 - TeenMusic.com (WENN) reports Eminem claims his bad behavior during concerts is specifically designed as a satire, to humiliate his critics when they assume it's for real. "On stage I'm the average small-minded, conservative American who rejects anything that is different," he said. "I like taking on this role in order to show people just how ridiculous they are. Some people just don't understand me and they take my irony at face value."

August 2, 2002 - The Chicago Sun-Times reports that in addition to Eminem's scheduled appearance at Vision after his concert in Chicago Thursday night, the people at Rouge are looking forward to greeting Slim at their bash, featuring Ludacris as their headliner.

August 1, 2002 -  The Chicago Sun Times reports Vision nightclub at 640 N. Dearborn in the Windy City is hosting the post-concert party Thursday night for Eminem's Anger Management tour, and Slim's people insist he will be there--joined by his entourage of DJs, including Green Lantern.

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