The Eminem Show: Slim Shady and Jimmy Kimmel flying 200 autoworkers to Hollywood
Slim Shady plays an assembly line worker in 8 Mile
Sure, thousands of auto workers may be losing their jobs, but don't think they've got nowhere to go. Following similar overtures made by Jay Leno and Michigan restauranteur A.J. O'Neil, Slim Shady will be putting on a free concert for Detroit's unemployed auto workers. But on top of playing for the downtrodden in his home town, Eminem will also be sayin' hello to Hollywood with 200 of his fellow Detroiters.
The concert is a joint effort between Slim (who played an assembly-line worker in the semi-autobiographical film 8 Mile) and Jimmy Kimmel, on whose show Eminem will be appearing and performing (presumably and somewhat ironically, in the Pontiac Garage). Kimmel and Matthers felt it was important to show the world how the Detroit 3 crisis is affecting "real people" while showing them a good time in the process. It'll be back to MoTown following the performance where Shady is scheduled to put on another exclusive show for auto workers in their natural habitat, where the entertained laid-off workers will hopefully be able to lose themselves in the music... at least for the evening.
[Source: USA Today | Image: Eli Reed/Universal Studios]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Beastage 5:03PM (5/13/2009)
Poor guys, not only many of them losing their jobs they have to listen to that?!
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macroceli 5:11PM (5/13/2009)
lol
tuxchown 6:02PM (5/13/2009)
Ah, wait, no way, you're kidding,
he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?
smak 8:01PM (5/13/2009)
And Dr. Dre said...
Nothing, you idiots, Dr. Dre's dead he's locked in my basement!
Mike 5:09PM (5/13/2009)
Good job Eminem! Anything helps these workers in these times. Looking forward to the new CD this weekend.
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Stumpy 5:43PM (5/13/2009)
I bet a lot of them would rather just have the $$ it costs to take them there and concert costs.
Still, very cool of Eminem and Jimmy.
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Duke 5:51PM (5/13/2009)
What's that old saying? Don't look a gift horse in the mouth!
Stumpy 6:33PM (5/13/2009)
I agree, free is better than nothing. Still, not sure how much Eminem angry lyrics are going to make people feel better. Unless it helps them to vent as well.
Rev 12:17AM (5/14/2009)
I'll take a gift horse, no thanks on the McRapper.
I believe reorganizing my sock drawer would probably take precedent over this event. Also my ice tray needs to be restocked.
Too bad Justin Timberlake couldn't make it. At least he CAN rap...
Nellydesign 12:16PM (5/14/2009)
You are actually saying that Timberlake can rap better than Eminem? I'm not even a rap fan and I know how asinine that statement is. I may not like most of his music from a genre standpoint but even I can see how talented Eminem is.
y2jmp 6:07PM (5/13/2009)
I am a huge eminem fan ... and if this can help those workers get away from all there problems for a while thats cool with me. And sure there problems will still be there but maybe the break will help them.
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Bigbuck17 6:12PM (5/13/2009)
That's nice of Eminem but I would rather go and see The Game,I like his music a lot more.
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Jason 6:43PM (5/13/2009)
Sadly, it's probably easier to find a job as a successful hip-hop artist than as an assembly line worker in a U.S. auto plant these days :-(
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Venom 7:13PM (5/13/2009)
That is pretty cool of Eminem and Jimmy Kimmel.
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Chris 7:14PM (5/13/2009)
Eminem sucks!
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Mike 7:21PM (5/13/2009)
yep Eminem sucks so bad hes sold tens of millions of records world wide. yep he must suck bad
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stm 7:43PM (5/13/2009)
Not too shabby, I mean it's free, right?
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tuna 9:45PM (5/13/2009)
How is this going to put food on the tables of those families for the next few months and pay for mortgages? Would've been better if they gave out jobs. Granted they can't do it for all laid-off workers, but at least for the most needy/vulnerable. Or how about going on a nation-wide tour to raise money for a rescue fund of sorts? Like Farm Aid and Live Aid?
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Really? 12:01AM (5/14/2009)
Wow, so it's now eminem's responsibility to provide jobs for the enemployed? We really have lost our compass as a society!
He's doing something he absolutely does not have to do, but you think he should hire them? To do what? Build him a tour bus?
Even if these 200 people still had their jobs and I bet most couldn't afford to fly out to LA to see a concert, this is an incredible gift that I am sure will be appreciated by all that get to attend.
iQuack 11:34PM (5/13/2009)
I feel sorry for ANYBODY who wants to work and can't find a job--or who loses a job. Still, it's important to remember that the UAW forced--under strike threats-- promises that Chrysler and GM can't keep.
The individual workers took what they could get, and who can blame them? But their avaricious union put those nice people where they are now.
Unions are parasites that ultimately kill their hosts!
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