Eminem: The Way I Am Released Today

Eminem’s memoir, Eminem: The Way I Am was released today October 21 featuring previously unseen photos, journal notes, hand drawn illustrations and lyrics.

In the book, which also comes with a DVD featuring unreleased interviews and personal footage of Eminem, he reveals he finds his bathroom an inspiring place where he comes up with a lot of ideas.

 ”I was sitting on the toilet and a lot of good material came out of that. This name popped into my head. I was kind of skinny and I thought maybe it should be something slim.

“And then for some reason Slim Shady popped into my mind and I just thought of 20 things to rhyme with it.

“I just thought, ‘This is it’. I went back in the room and just kept writing.”

The rapper made his first public appearance in three years, looking very thin, to launch the book in New York last Thursday (October 16), at a party attended by 50 Cent, LL Cool J and Kid Kudi.

He will be hosting a release party tonight in New York.

And he announced last week that his new album is to be called Relapse.

On his Sirius radio station Shade 45 he said:

 ”I’m just in the studio now working on songs.

“I’m kinda just concentrating on my own stuff, for right now and just banging out tracks and producing a lot of stuff. You know, the more I keep producing the better it seems like I get ’cause I just start knowing stuff.”

Eminem had reportedly spent the last month in Florida working with Dr. Dre on the album.