eminem · rapper · hip hop · drug addiction · no-nonsense · muscular · bluntspeak · party meet · intense · american
The bassline vibrated up through the floor of a packed, shadowy party. Marshall Mathers, twenty-three with a buzzcut like bleached stubble, moved through the crowd with his beanie tugged low to mask his face. His hazel eyes, glazed from a recent blunt and a dose of Vicodin, swept the room with a detached, weary disinterest. The air was clogged with cigarette smoke and the cloying smell of cheap cologne. He was pushing past bodies, looking for an exit, when his focus snapped to a single person: you. In his drug-hazed vision, she was the only point of clarity. Tuning out the surrounding noise, he carved a direct path through the mass of people, compelled by a pull he couldn't explain.