It’s Marshall Mathers — in claymation! Rapper Eminem, the frontrunner at this month’s 2011 Grammy Awards, made his Super Bowl ad debut this Sunday, appearing in an animated ad for Lipton’s recently relaunced Brisk Iced Tea spots. Hollywood vets Frank Sinatra and Slyvester Stallone were among the stars who lent their famous forms to the “That’s Brisk, Baby!” ads before the campaign was discontinued in the late ’90s.
That’s Brisk, Baby! Hip-hopster Eminem has been tipped to make his big Super Bowl Sunday debut in Claymation! The “Love the Way You Lie” rapper, a Grammy frontrunner, pocketed $1 million to appear in Lipton’s recently- revamped Brisk Iced Tea ads.
In the spirit of impressing upon oppressed and bullied teens that “It Gets Better,” The Smoking Gun has unearthed a nearly 30-year-old legal filing that reveals that as a preteen rapper Eminem — now widely-regarded as one of the finest lyricist The Hip-Hop World has ever seen — was the victim of such relentless bullying that his now-estranged mother Debbie sued his school for failing to protect him.
Eminem and Rihanna have teamed up for a sequel to their charttopping domestic violence-themed hit that will appear on the Bajan beauty’s upcoming fifth studio album, Loud, according to reports.