"Shady Bizzness: " Life as Eminem's Bodyguard in an Industry of Paper Gangsters" (22 page)

Kim and Slim in a “Kodak moment” during the
first trip to Hawaii.

What is a Paper Gangster? It’s a person that uses his or her pen
as a weapon to seek the downfall of another individual. There are no
boundaries with a Paper Gangster, because the power of the pen allows
them to kill you again and again. The victim of a Paper Gangster usually
finds him or herself confined to the boundaries of the lines of a notebook
or a contract. Who are these Paper Gangsters? Most of them are rappers
who talk tough in the studio by dissing others on tracks. Later they wish
they could retract their statements, while they hired four bodyguards to
watch their backs.Who are the others? They are shady CPAs, shady lawyers,
and shady managers in the entertainment field. They claim to have their
client’s best interest at hand, but the only interest they have is the one
they withdraw from their client’s accounts in excessive amounts. Paper
Gangsters are epidemic. As soon you get rid of one, another spawns more
sickness in this industry. No matter how tough they talk and conniving
they may seem, their only weapon is a pen and nothing more.