Eminem the White Rapper

Eminem, known as the white rapper, entered the USA charts in 1999, his critics thought he wouldn’t make it but he showed them how with the release of the single Slim Shady named after his alter ego. Eminem has been a controversial character as have some of his songs and he doesn’t stop with his music – he carries this controversy through into his ink designs.

His design on his right arm “Marshal and Kim” was to show his love for his wife Kim, but unfortunately they are now divorced! On his left arm he has a tattoo dedicated to his best friend Proof who was shot dead in 2006.

Most of his tattoos are dedicated to people and times in his life. For example he has a tattoo on the top of his right arm called “Bonnie and Clyde”, and this is a picture of his daughter with the words Bonnie and Clyde underneath. The design is dedicated to his daughter Hailie Jade. It is thought he got the idea from the song “97 Bonnie and Clyde” as it was a song dedicated to Hailie. He also has another design for Hailie Jade further down his arm, he had this done in 1995, not long after his daughter was born.
He has a tattoo that represents the pain he went through when he broke up with Kim, this is a design of an open grave with a tombstone that reads KIM, below the tombstone it says “Rot in Pieces” – maybe the divorce was not entirely amicable!

One of his largest tattoos is his “Uncle Ronnie RIP”. He had this design out of respect to his uncle, Ronnie Pilkington who committed suicide in 1991. He was closest to his Uncle Ronnie out of all of his family and it was Ronnie who introduced the Rapper to Hip Hop at the tender age of nine. The tattoo is designed to show a mushroom and flames in front of a building and the eye of a woman overseeing everything. It is thought that the eye represents the girl his uncle killed himself over.

He does have one tattoo that is said to have no significance at all, it is a tribal tattoo on his left wrist, he is said to have had the tattoo when he was drunk.