Master of rhymes

"People say that the word 'orange' doesn't rhyme with anything, and that kind of pisses me off, because I can think of a lot of things that rhyme with orange [...] If you enunciate it and make it more than one syllable — or-ange — you could say, like, 'I put my or-ange four-inch door hinge in stor-age and ate por-ridge with Ge-orge.'"

-- EMINEM, talking to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes (source)

Last night football screwed up my DVR recordings, so it recorded 60 Minutes, a show I never watch. When I saw that Anderson Cooper interviewed Eminem, I was intrigued and watched it. Say what you want about Eminem's music, but he is an absolutely fascinating man. He grew up on the wrong side of 8 Mile in Detroit (for all you non-Michiganders, there is a large chunk of 8 Mile that is not Detroit and is a good area!), never graduated high school and got into drugs (he is now sober); yet he says something like this quote above and makes millions.

He told Anderson that he used to read the dictionary for fun, to enhance his vocabulary and words to rhyme. He has a box filled with scraps of papers with thoughts & ideas. He can rap so fast I can barely understand what he's saying. I'm just incredibly fascinated by his story. The fact that he chose to have that massive concert in Detroit with Jay-Z, and telling Anderson that it was his first concert sober.. that's amazing. I wish I could have gone to that concert. I don't listen to his music that regularly, but I appreciate it. Maybe it's because he's from Michigan, I'm not sure.  The 60 Minutes segment is definitely worth watching.