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Eminem resurfaces in new role: memoirist

Eminem has been mostly silent and invisible for nearly four years after canceling a European tour to enter rehab and the murder of his best friend, the rapper Proof from D12. Now he has a new, visually driven memoir out

By Jon Caramanica  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

It seems like every day I get a little flakier

The medication is making my hands a little shakier

Hand me that 18-month-old baby to shake him up

It’ll only take me a

Second to choke his trachea

In one of the book’s most revealing sections, Eminem talks about how he happened upon his signature bottle-blond look, high on Ecstasy, around the time he was recording his first songs with Dr. Dre. It reads like a comic-book origin story, his new identity presaging a path of bad behavior to follow.

Now that he’s preparing to re-enter the music world, though, will the peroxide, and all that comes with it, return? “My hair is back to its natural color,” Eminem said. “I don’t think I’m going back to the dye.”

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