1. Attitude/Affect 11

WHEN my son Marshall - that's his name, not Eminem - first got into rap as a teenager he would wake me at 5am to ask me what words rhymed with what. I bought him a dictionary and it all went downhill from there.	[No Affect]
Because of what Marshall has written, to his fans I am the most hated^5A person on this planet.	5A. Non-authorial negative Affect. Although the emoter is not specified this can be retrieved from the context - generally some supposedly very large grouping of Eminem's fans do the `hating'.
I've been spat on^5B by kids in the supermarket.	5B. Could be taken as a behavioural indicator or sign of (non-authorial) negative Affect , similar to the famous biblical phrase, `Jesus wept'.
Yet I do know him, probably better than anyone, and I want to try and explain to his British fans - and all the parents who I know are horrified^6A by the lyrics to his songs - what makes my son tick.	6A. non-authorial negative Affect

As he starts his concert tour of Britain on Thursday I want people to understand that the hate-filled rapper on stage is Eminem and not my boy Marshall.

Basically, no one should take anything he says seriously - he doesn't mean it. He doesn't hate women or homosexuals and he's not violent.

He is making money out of negative issues because he could not make it as a rap star any other way. When he first started to write filthy lyrics I asked him why. His answer was the more foul he was the more people loved him. He didn't make money out of nice things. If he wrote a song about how much he loved his mother and little brother, he'd be laughed at.