Okay... so it was a doll. In this obvious swipe at Michael Jackson, Eminem is courting the London press. Read on...


Eminem Dangles Doll in Jackson Imitation
Wed Jun 25,11:26 AM ET Add Entertainment - AP to My Yahoo!

LONDON - The real Slim Shady stood up and made fun of Michael Jackson (news) by dangling a baby doll over a hotel balcony.

Rapper Eminem also wore a surgical mask over his face Tuesday in an obvious swipe at Jackson, who dangled his baby, Prince Michael II, over a balcony railing in Berlin in November.

Eminem, who was staying at the Art House Hotel in Glasgow, went further than Jackson by tossing the doll into the air and catching it.

"Empersonator," said a headline in the Daily Mirror tabloid, which published three photos. The New York Post's front page blared: "Oh baby! Eminem does his best Jacko."

Scotland's Daily Record tabloid said the incident occurred as fans and photographers gathered outside the hotel before Eminem's concert in the city Tuesday.

Eminem, whose nickname is Slim Shady, is on a British tour but has kept a low-profile between shows.

The Daily Record said he took over 50 rooms at the hotel for his entourage.

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(edited to add photo.... )
[This message was edited Thu Jun 26 9:55:11 PDT 2003 by June7]

It's kind of funny but talk about "Love Me Daddy".


Eminem: I haven't been in the news in like a day. I hate amenity! I need a publicity stunt! 50, are they still playing both our songs on every fucking radio station in America? Good. Still, I better put myself back in the public eye! Can't risk anything!

I love Eminem!

Oh man the photos are sooo funny - I laughed so hard milk came out my nose.

anybody have a link?

Eminem is serious...I mean..anytime CNN got the goods on u? Thats where I heard about this first

Gotta love him, although I don't like his music that much...

Em is in Scotland? Why the fuck didn't I know that

Actually I just checked his website and he's playing Dublin tonight. Doh! I missed it...

ian said:

moderators who say 'fuck'...where is this world going to...

i love him lol

That's hysterical.

Post a link somobody...I wanna see pictures!

Many years from now Eminem will just be a footnote in musical history while Michael Jackson will still be a revalant topic.

PhilG said:

if you say so.

hey wait a second! it has been many years since michael jackson has been musically relevant!!

--gm--

Here's the first photo I could find of this incident... You got to admit, it's pretty funny, and I'm a huge MJ fan... but, Michael puts himself into these situations. People gotta learn to laugh at shit



Here's the story that went along with it:

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Eminem Pulls a Jacko
Wed Jun 25, 9:45 PM ET Add Entertainment - E! Online to My Yahoo!
By Joal Ryan

Eminem's latest celeb target: Michael Jackson.

The people-displeasin' rapper, who has provoked Mariah Carey, dissed Christina Aguilera and denied "Weird Al" Yankovic, spoofed Jacko Tuesday in Scotland, dangling a fake baby from a hotel window.

Any resemblance between Eminem (news - web sites)'s antics and Jacko's scandalous ones in Berlin last November (in which a real baby was the dangled object) was purely intentional.

"It's an obvious joke," a spokesperson for the hip-hopster told E! News Daily on Wednesday. "It's obvious what he's poking fun at. He has people outside hotels where ever he goes and he was just having some fun."

Upping the fun quotient: Eminem, wearing a Jacko-esque surgical mask, didn't just dangle his dollie at the ArtHouse Hotel in Glasgow; he tossed the thing up in the air.

Showing concern for the action figure, Mr. Mathers caught the blonde-haired babe before it could fall to the unforgiving pavement--one story below.

Then he raised his fist and doffed his disguise.

For the record, Jackson was wearing his trademark red shirt, but not his trademark surgical mask, when he appeared at the window of his hotel room last fall and held out blanket-covered son Prince Michael II, aka Blanket, to his cheering fans--four stories below.

Although Jacko took heat from media pundits over his dubious display of parenting tactics, the Pop Oddity insisted his child was never at risk and that he merely wanted to show off lil' Blanket's "spirit."

Eminem appears to have just been showing off his snarky spirit.

The 8 Mile star currently is many miles away from his Stateside home, on the road in the United Kingdom with his Anger Management Tour.

He endeared himself to fans in a U.K. show Monday night, taking off a necklace and handing it a fan in the front row. The British tabs said Eminem announced the piece was worth $450,000. The rapper's rep said it wasn't worth that much, and that the tabs invented the six-figure figure. (The rep also noted the necklace wasn't exactly a Cracker Jack throwaway, either.)

Jackson's camp, meanwhile, declined to comment Wednesday on the Oscar-winning rapper's satirical skills.

Eminem, who previously has ripped the likes of Aguilera in song, is fresh off tiffs with Carey and Yankovic.

Last month, Carey accused the Slim Shady one of acting "a little bit girly" for reportedly threatening to go public with phone messages she left on his machine. (Eminem, who has claimed the two briefly dated, denied he intended to sample the songbird's words.)

As for Yankovic, the musical funnyman expressed disappointment that Eminem blocked him from filming a music video for his latest opus, "Couch Potato," a reworked version of the 8 Mile hit, "Lose Yourself."

Eminem's rep said, at the time, that the rapper didn't mind "Weird Al" messing with the song's lyrics, but that he wanted to preserve its image.

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That sucks, cuz I would've loved to have seen that Weird Al take on "Lose Yourself" in video...

GeneMohawk said:

Revelant in the sense of Musical history & material produced. Eminem is good for what , a couple more albums tops?

PhilG said:

if he has two or three more albums come out he will have had as many as michael jackson has so far in his 20 years plus solo career... am i correct?

remember they said the same thing about madonna when she came out.

--gm--

GeneMohawk said:

eminem is no madonna or michael jackson. what has he changed or originated?

imnotsayinthisjust2bnasty said:

Cheesy reputations of white rappers (i.e. vanilla ice)
[This message was edited Thu Jun 26 11:08:10 PDT 2003 by purplegypsy]

purplegypsy said:

well, yeah LOL he did do that purplegypsy.

if you listened to any amount of rap, you have to realize that eminem is quite original in his delivery and his choice of topics (i think he is a FANTASTIC lyricist). whether you like it or not, you HAVE to acknowledge that. madonna? hell... we don't even need to go there--we all know that she has proven to be an innovator, and is constantly making challenging music (whether you agree with it or not--i don't care for the new cd myself). michael?? well... in my opinion he USED to make good stuff... thriller and bad were groundbreaking lps obviously... but now it seems to me that he is stuck in his dangerous era and hasn't really grown much since then. i think his new stuff (as well as dangerous did) sounds cold, mechanical, and VERY calculated. of course, this is just one man's opinion on the subject though.

--gm--

GeneMohawk said:

I just don't believe he has the longevity of somebody of the stature of MJ. Michael started his career when he was what 10 or 11? I still think MJ is capable of making a killer album in the future though.

I went to see him in concert on Monday and I have to say, I was impressed. He's a good entertainer. It was a show, not a concert.

PhilG said:

i hope you're right... i would like to see him rise again. he needs to find someone that can squash all his NINCOMPOOPERY in public situations though for this to happen...public perception of him is at an all time low right now, guess the only place he can go is up!

--gm--

I think Em is testing some waters.

The boy bands have all broken up. There's no one really to target there. Em makes his PR $$ off of being a rebel. In order to do that he has to attack "the establishment."

Unfortunately Eminem has BECOME the establishment. He's one of (if not) thee biggest selling artist over the last couple of years.

And so Eminem is casting his eye on already ESTABLISHED artists in the media.

I just think its interesting that this young "boy" from Detroit, that promotes himself as being 'white' and yet also 'from the streets'...

is picking a black man whose art helped put Detroit on the map (Motown, hello!?!?) to target.

June7 said:

Actually, it should have read:

"Marshall Mathers, III, whose nicknames are Eminem and Slim Shady, is on a a British...yadda yadda yadda"

Let's get technical y'all!

PhilG said:

I can't wait till Eminem fucks up and gets caught with some
dudes dick in his ass,he's a retard

JAMIESTARR said:

Give it time, give it time...

CDHTUNE said:

Jacskon's from Gary indiana not detroit,and for the record Motown records was on tha map way before the Jackson's joined.

Finess said:

Finess. Being from Detroit, I'm VERY aware that Mike isn't. I said his ART helped, not HIM.

Secondly, yes it was ON the map waay before then, but he was a part of what PUT IT there. One of Mike's most well known television appearances was on ... MOTOWN 25.

I suppose now you'll also remind me that there were people doing the moonwalk long before Michael did it, right?

thanks though.

C

thedoorkeeper said:

You were drinking milk at the time, right...?
(Or else you should see somebody about that!)