Whatever You Say I Am

by Anthony Bozza

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  Copyright © 2003 by Anthony Bozza

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  Published by Three Rivers Press, New York, New York.

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  Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by TransWorld UK in 2003. Subsequently published in the United States by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2003.

  Illustration by Eli 5 Stone

  Photo research and editing: Tara Canova and Lindsay Goldenberg

  Additional photo editing: Anthony Bozza

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Bozza, Anthony

  Whatever you say I am : the life and times of Eminem / Anthony Bozza.

  1. Eminem (Musician). 2. Rap Musicians—United States—Biography.

  I. Title.

  ML420.E56B69 2003

  782.421649′092—dc 21 2003008923

  eISBN: 978-0-307-54920-4

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