I was like, “OK.” I thanked Bizarre for looking out, went back to the hood and a couple weeks later, I got a call from my manager saying, “Shady might have dinner with you.” I sat down, had dinner with the CEO and that night I hung out with Em. It was a hot summer day and Eminem had just dropped The Marshall Mathers LP and I shot out there from the hood, jumped in the Regal, shot up there to the studio and spit for him from the passenger side of his car and gave him a CD and he was like, “Aight, I’ll holla.” But, I didn’t think anything of it.

So, one day Bizarre called me like, “Yo! Come spit for. Trice” and a few other records we had on vinyl, so we started getting them to DJ’s and they started getting a buzz, and Bizarre (of D12) was like, “Who is this n****?!” He called his manager and his management got in touch with me and so Bizarre and I was fam for a long time before we hooked it up. Obie Trice: No one really knew me when I put out “The Well Known Asshole,” “Mr. So let’s do a cheers to the Detroit rapper’s success!ī: I first heard you on “The Well Known Asshole/Gimme My Dat” back in ’99, four years later, you’re on Shady Records, doing things with Eminem. Now, with a new album dropping in September, dues paid, and his current Eminem-produced single “Got Some Teeth” getting major rotation, Obie is ready for a toast. Since then, Obie’s landed guest spots on albums such as D12’s D12 World, Eminem’s “8 Mile” soundtrack, and Green Lantern’s mixtapes, to name a few.

“Obie Trice, real name-no gimmick.” Those were the first words that most people might recall hearing from Obie Trice, seconds before Eminem’s “Without Me” anthem starts.

Real name no gimmicks