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Anthony Bozza has been giv­en unpre­ced­en­ted access to Eminem to write a second bio­graphy, Not Afraid: The Evol­u­tion of Eminem, cov­er­ing the last 15 years of his life.

Fol­low­ing his inter­na­tion­al best­seller, Whatever You Say I Am, Anthony’s second book on Eminem will cov­er the most fas­cin­at­ing part of the rapper’s career — the time he spent out of the pub­lic eye, his battle with addic­tion, his re-emer­gence onto the music scene, his per­son­al life, his polit­ic­al views and his tri­umphant return to the top. With unpre­ced­en­ted access and build­ing on dec­ades of research, Anthony’s book will be an intim­ate por­trait of an incred­ibly private man and an essen­tial gift for mil­lions of Eminem fans worldwide.

Anthony Bozza said, “My book gives a unique per­spect­ive on Eminem’s life and career, fea­tur­ing exclus­ive inter­views from Eminem’s closest friends and col­lab­or­at­ors includ­ing his man­ager, Paul Rosen­berg, his pro­du­cer, Mr. Port­er, Royce Da 5’9 and LL Cool J. Not Afraid is a can­did account of the man who became argu­ably the greatest and most influ­en­tial rap­per of all time.”

About Anthony Bozza

Anthony Bozza is a New York City-based author, journ­al­ist and host of the Winyl pod­cast. He’s a former Roll

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Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem by Anthony Bozza

Looking at itself through the Hollywood mirror, America in the early Nineties gazed at a repellent image. Everything seemed dumb or dumber. Music was, for white Americans at least, little better. When Kurt Cobain's death robbed grunge of its most earnest spokesman, the industry had only rap on offer, which even in its gangsta form had a vibrancy and wit that tired mainstream rock could not match. Rap was dominated by African Americans; a few whites were hyped, and failed.

Enter Eminem. A wised-up white rapper in a dumbed-down world, Eminem is everything America needs him to be, as even would-be censors will see after reading Anthony Bozza's book. Persevere: this is a slow starter. One breathless account of the star-struck author in a limo with Eminem dissing everyone would be enough. We get too many. The important thing about Eminem is that he turns this unpleasant normality into beats and rhymes which appeal to millions.

We also don't need the American Dream narrative in which the boy genius emerges from trailer-trash origins. The movie 8 Mile, and Eminem's lyrics, tell that tale, however mythologised. Bozza soon begins to work at the why and how of the story, discussing the origins and development of hip