Eminem Bravely Shows His Face On The Streets Of LA
Eminem, née Marshall Mathers, decided to venture out in public for the first time since he was humiliated on live, national TV Sunday night at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. As you may recall, Em was involved in a hilarious gag orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen and MTV (it remains to be seen if Eminem was in on the joke) that forced the rapper to get a faceful of Cohen’s bare ass. After storming out of the awards show, Em was nowhere to be seen … until yesterday. He met up with his BFF Travis Barker and the pair went shopping at Barker’s clothing store Famous Stars and Straps:
Perhaps Travis was trying to cheer up his friend with free swag or mebbe Em isn’t as pissed as we might’ve thought cuz he seemed just fine yesterday. I, personally, still contend that he was in on the joke to an extent … and wasn’t privy to just how far the gag would go. Then again, being the prankster that he is … Eminem is no stranger to using bare ass to get some laughs. Whatever the case may be, it looks like Eminem is over it already and can move on … but I wonder if we should be on the look-out for some retaliation.
[Photo credit: X17]
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June 2nd, 2009 at 7:19 am
There are reports that he was totally in on the gag.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:43 am
@Debi — Yes, there are also reports that he was not … I think he was partly in on the gag.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 am
I agree with Trent – I think he knew what was happening and had planned to walk-out – but didn’t know that Mr. Cohen would be bare assed.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:49 am
The LA times is reporting that MTV head writer Scott Aukerman blogged that it was staged.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/06/the-final-word-on-eminembruno-it-was-staged-writes-head-writer.html
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:34 am
Eminem’s new album is lame, and HE is lame. I wish he hadnt come out of retirement. I hate his sourpuss face.
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 am
i <3 eminem!
& i’ve read some reports saying he knew what was going on; som he partly knew what was going on..
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:07 am
something like that wouldnt make him hide.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:13 am
I think they told him that Bruno would stop and come down near him I would bet they didn’t tell him he was going to get Sacha’s bum in his face!! ;-)
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 am
Aww i didn’t recognize him without Bruno’s ass in his face =]
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
Well I guess what Jadedkitten wrote settles it. You could also totally see it was staged by the way Eminem acted his suprise as Bruno came down. He makes a really fake WTF face. On the MTV website there’s pictures of the incident everywhere which also makes it pretty clear it was staged :)
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:53 am
Nothing alleviates getting an ass in the face better than shopping. Queer.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I wanted to believe it was spontaneous. But the whole show was really well rehearsed and filled with advertising. Maybe I never noticed it before?
http://www.nme.com/news/eminem/45044
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Assuming he was in on it, why the walk-out? Was that supposed to be funny? Or manly? Staged or not staged doesn’t really matter. Either way, Em comes off as a humorless jack@ss.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm
also, he was wearing a microphone and i don’t know why else he wouldve been wearing one at that point in the show unless he was going to be saying something. and say something he did!
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
he still looks pissed. Maybe he now has PTSD. lol
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I think it was staged and they just wanted him to be in the media…because of his new album…
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 pm
who cares about him. what an effing baby to react that way. He can dish it out but cant take it. waste of space.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
He knew part of the joke, but not what ended up happening … it made him look stupid & humiliated and I don’t think Eminem would volunteer to come out of something looking second best.