The fact is that Eminem has not died. No Eminem is not dead in 2010, and no Eminem has not died in a car wreck. The “Eminem is dead” rumors are out on the internet again, and it doesn’t seem like this is something that is going to end anytime soon. For some reason there are a couple of web sites that want everyone to believe that Eminem has died. The Detroit rapper is doing just fine though, and it’s starting to get sad that people are falling for the rumors that these sites are spreading. It’s simply a way to draw attention to them, and in a way it has succeeded because many people on the internet tend to believe everything they read.
Eminem has a new album coming out pretty soon, and actually has a re-release of his album ‘Relapse‘ on store shelves right now. It could stand to reason that someone in his camp is spreading these rumors in order to keep the rapper in the headlines, and the free press might even lead to more album sales. It wouldn’t be the first time that someone in the industry or a publicist leaked information to the press or a web site that was intended to get the name of their artist into the news. Hopefully it’s not true in this instance, because that would be seriously crossing the line when it comes to press leaks.
It’s also starting to seem like people don’t need to search the internet when a celebrity death rumor is milling around. Next time you hear that someone with the celebrity status of Eminem has died, shoot on over to TMZ to find your information, because they are going to be the first web site to know the details. You can believe that something as big as this headline would also be over all the national news feeds as well. We won’t be linking to the sites that are faking these “death stories”, because we aren’t going to give them any additional traffic. Eminem is alive and well, and he is probably working on music to issue to the public in the near future. It’s tiring that these things keep hitting the internet, and maybe it’s time that there was some serious legislation put in place to curtail it.
