RR Exclusive: Eminem Speaks On MTV Stunt And Robbery Rumors

Wednesday, June 03 2009 8:48 PM EST | Posted by: B.Dot | Posted in: Q&A
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Three days ago at the MTV Movie Awards, Sacha Baron Cohen caused a firestorm as “Bruno” when he landed ass first on Eminem. Many speculated for the days whether the stunt was staged or real, with everyone speaking except the man himself. Breaking his silence, Em spoke exclusively to Rap Radar about the entire “ordeal”.

Can you clear up the Bruno stunt at the MTV Awards? Was it staged or planned?
Sacha called me when we were in Europe and he had an idea to do something outrageous at the Movie Awards.  I’m a big fan of his work so I agreed to get involved with the gag.

If it wasn’t planned the way you agreed to, do you hold MTV or Sacha responsible and will you take any kind of action?

I’m thrilled that we pulled this off better than we rehearsed it.  It had so many people going “nuts” so to speak. Everyone was blowing me up about it.

After you left the ceremony, where did you go?

After the ceremony I went back to my hotel and laughed uncontrollably for about 3 hours. Especially after I saw it on air.

There is a rumor that you hotel room was robbed and theives got 60K and your laptop while you were at ceremony. Is that true and if so what would someone find on your computer?

The only thing was that I lost a Nike watch that we were looking for. The rest it is made-up like half the other stuff out there.

How do you think the show with Jay went and how did it feel performing “Renegade” again?
I love performing with Jay. Its the third time we’ve done the song together live and its always fun. It was an honor to share the stage with him again and to work with his band.

Comments (230)

  1. well says:

    the people who are saying that this is fake there is a link from his myspace page. why would he put a fake link of the incident? this is real. i know to most people that this was funny what happend to him. and i think it is a little amuseing but i really don’t like how people are calling him gay for this. these people just need to grow up and realize he was just trying to make people laugh. have you ever joked around with a freind and it can be seen as gay? we all do some things that are funny but can look gay at the same time.

  2. violent violet says:

    I think it was retarded and if some jackass shove his cheeks in my face i’d be pissed

  3. FBI says:

    i title it like this because it really doesnt matter that pple hate on him or praise him for this stunt, he still managed to get everyones attention which will in the end put him on top. if ppl say it ws a stupid publicity stunt tht lost all his credibility, think agin. the fact tht people are still talkign bout it is proof in itself tht eminem knows what he is doing and knows how to get the crowds attention. when he first came out baggin on everyone with his songs he got so much shit from everyone and look how far hes gotten since then?

  4. BronzDano says:

    After seeing the eminem s face in a ass stunt I immediatly laughed my ass off, I was a lil dissapointed that Em seemed SOOO pissed about it that he stormed out, I thought ” how childish, especially after progressing so far in his carrer at the expense of others” lets face it there is a lot of gay ineuendo sprinkled through out relapse as well as Em s ENTIRE catalog. But to find out that he WAS in on it, it just really gives me New_found respect for the man. I love his music, ok encore was horrible(sorry em)but the man is still a genius and dosn´t have to be perfect I respect the fact that he wasn´t afraid to experiment w/ that album and actually feel that he learned alot from it such as his whole sing-a-flow style he has damn near prefected on Relapse. Weird al yankovich asked Em for permission to release his own version of an Em track and was denied, and I thought that was rather hypocritical of him like I said Em has really ripped alot of peoples art as well as carriers to shreds, i.e vanilla ice, cage , cannibus, Brittney, limp biscut, everlast….the list goes on and on. I just thought He started to take himself way too seriously, after the Marshal mathers l.p. he started to become a gangster wanna be and, I really loved Em s music Back when he was just ” a corny lookin white-boy scrawny and always ornery”…This new stunt shows me tnat NOT ONLY was I wrong, but also that Ems gangster matamorphisis isn´t irreversable. THANK GOD!!!! Mad Props to Em & Sacha I hope to see more stuff between the two!

  5. u-neek says:

    Fuck all you haters!!!!!!Im from southwest detroit!All you jigs are just jealous of shady!!!!!!!!!

  6. 7346 says:

    Is this picture fake lookin to anyone else??

  7. crazy says:

    I fuckin love it eminem has done a movie you retard

  8. Sir Cicero says:

    When I first saw the whole ordel on MTV, I knew it was rigged.Everyone knows that Eminem, Slim Shady, Mr.8 Mile, would never let anyone put nuts in his face for free, at least I hope not, that would be fucked up if so. Eminem is a hell of an artist and knows how to get the peoples attention. I’m just glad to see the old Eminem back. Keep doing the damn thing Em.

  9. lil mike gibbs says:

    em dont sweat the dumb shit nigga u know wuz good make a neither cd so i can keep my head up hey nigga stay strong keep the faith fuck these stupid bitches yo fuck moby u feel me.

  10. DJB says:

    I totally thought it was real. That’s hilarious!!!

    Brilliant!

  11. shegottadonk says:

    the stunt was great. the mtv movie awards are always great 2 watch when em is gonna be on there, you never know what to expect! i agree em should do a movie w sbc it would be hilarious! as for all of the ppl tripping about the race thing, gahlee, get over yourselves, its 2009 not 1959.

  12. Cocksucking King says:

    Fuck eminem nigga i raped his honkey ass

  13. The-Inside says:

    Eminem and his people are trying to control what you think. It’s called spin. The truth was there before our eyes. Eminem comes out and says he was in on it. So now we’re all supposed take his word for it? And the media go ahead and report his explanation as the truth? C’mon people! He went back to his hotel and laughed for 3 hours? He and Sacha rehearsed the 69 earlier? Sacha doesn’t usually let his unsuspecting victims in on the prank – that’s the point. So now we are to believe that Eminem wanted Sacha’s ass and balls in his face on live TV in front of the world? What’s genius about that? So he planned on having everyone talking about a gay act the next day rather than his excellent live performance? And Dre was down with it too? I don’t think so people. You diehard fans are being manipulated. Too many people know what they saw and unfortunately Eminem will never recover from this.

  14. Representing Holland says:

    …to Marshall for again doing what only Marshall can do better than anyone.

    And indeed: He IS laughing his ass off at anyone critizising him and right he is.

    He worked his way up from nothing to everything by using all that is taboo, starting by his own very life.

    What have you done lately??

    It`s too bad that stupidity and ignorance aren`t physically painful sins, the world would be so much more beautiful and emptier if anyone being guilty of this would simply wither away and die.

    So anyone that violated this page by being guilty of these 2 sins; you know what to do ;)

    Marshall: it`s about time you got back up and reclaimed what has always been rightfully yours, now don`t ever stop again!

  15. Rograbbit says:

    I thought it was pretty funny-screw all da haters!!

  16. Cal says:

    Foolsthis stunt is Farrkin Mint. Peace

  17. GThang says:

    Em is an artist. And artist become other people. In other words, some of the things he writes about, are of other peoples experiences. Just as an actor or actress does a script. His rhymes are a combination of things, entertainment, self expression, etc. So Em is an advocate for Hip Hop, Actor & Comedian. How people interpret his rhymes, is up to them, the listeners.

  18. daddy rabbitt says:

    any guy who lets another guy put his nuts in his face is a faggot…no amount of money is worth nuts on your chin…

  19. White boy says:

    If you read through some of the posts, some saying whites are stupid, some saying blacks are stupid, but they all saying they same thing. and if you cant figure out what that is, well then im sorry.

    And i laughed at the Indian guy saying he has better things to do than post comments on a website when his was the longest.

    have a nice day

  20. mike says:

    wow everybodys actin crazy over a stunt ha it was so fuckin funny. Em is the best rapper alive and dumb shits he has done a movie 8 Mile by the way em need to do a comendy wish all the luck bro rotflmao do a better on at the next mtv awards

  21. melinda says:

    ya know i just have to say em you are one of the greatest rappers out there and i thank you for giving us music that we can relate to i know some of your songs i can relate to well you give me inspiration my brother loves you he wishes he could be just like you he has always had the dream but dont know how to achieve goals i guess. he just maxed out and well still hasnt left the little ghetto we live in i wish there was a way i could get some kind of advice from you to give to him but im sure that wont happen i understand u are one hell of a busy man anyway keep up the good work your wonderful and smokin hot hit me up im on your myspace

  22. melanie says:

    well i relli relli love eminem alot and no matter what he will always be great to me n liek he says in some of his songs when hes not rapping hes a person juss like us and when all tehse people always coming up to him we dotnt do taht to regular epople and we shouldnt juss cuase someones famous yes mayeb take ur time t say hello and yeh u love them like me and wanna rush right up but think of what they actually want for once….and yes em what happened was hillarious and clearly you are ok with it which is ok and you are a great father i hope life for you is well and i am on ur myspace:)

  23. shadysladie says:

    he’s awesome. that was very funny.

    it’s that simple. so everyone else, just shut up.

  24. TaMaRaa ~ says:

    I thought that MTV

    go out it was true that angry

    but that in your hotel

    3 hours you were laughing?

    jaja me happy to know that it was

    was not a joke or a joke?

    I thought he had been humiliated in front of many people tequiero

    atte: your biggest fan from (spain)

  25. Oceancitygirl says:

    Ok, I came on this site to see whether or not it was staged, to see if Marshall had a problem with it and how SBC dealt with it and whatnot. Instead, all I see is comments filled to the brim with anger and rage and intolerence?! Like, seriously, one, does it MATTER if you think whether or not he’s gay– it shouldn’t change your opinion of him anyways. On top of that, where the FUCK did race come into this?? It was a stunt, it was funny (if only to see people’s reactions to it), end of story. Why does that make Marshall anything other than a great hip-hop artist, and one of the best rappers out there? The color of our skin shouldn’t define what anyone has a right to, we all get three, and that’s it. There is, I’ll admit, a lot of white dominated fields in work and life and what have you, but it’s mostly white MEN. Women, black people, native americans (why were they brought into the race war anyways?), spanish, asian… whatever. It doesn’t matter. If we would all try and get over our own self-supposed superiority, I think the world would be a much better place.

    That being said– I think it’s stupid and sad that so many people brought race and gender orientation into something that was CLEARLY supposed to be a joke, whether he was in on it or not. Get over it.

  26. Gen says:

    I srsly thought that eminem was pissed the fxck off. But, that shxt was hysterical. Sacha and Em are geniuses :]

  27. LIL WAYNE says:

    DONOT SEEM NO STAGE ACT TO MEEEEEEE

    I HOTTER THAN A MOTHERFUCKER YES I AM A MOTHERFUCKER

  28. tyhuj says:

    u faggots eminem said it was planned so it was why the fuk would he lie u stupid fucks

  29. NECRO NEGRO NEGGAH says:

    yow
    neggah, yow skin choco friggin nut, ain’t gonna stop tiq’s bullshit, mota fucka!

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