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to Michigan, and I was looking forward to going home. We were loading
the bus and, as I told you before, DT, Eminem’s road manager, and I were
always at odds. Our conflict was mainly due to putting Eminem’s safety at
risk. That night, we left Wisconsin to go to DC, and DT had left his tour
book behind without realizing it. Proof, Eminem’s hype man and a friend
of mine, told me that DT had written some negative things in that book
about me. He was taking notes about anything anyone did that he found
negative, and he had a lot of negative things written about everyone in
that book. He kept it as “evidence” of how everyone else was incompetent,
so that he could gain Slim’s confidence so that Slim would give him
comanagement. It justified a lot of his previous actions of undermining
Paul and a lot of other people. I didn’t turn the book in to Paul because
I didn’t want to appear as though I was trying to spill the beans on DT
because that seemed petty to me. Proof and I were the only ones who
knew what was in that book. All I did was gather the information that I
needed and make a mental note of it. From that point on, I watched DT
because I knew he was the conniving son of a bitch I always thought he
was. Later on, DT’s true colors showed themselves, and the other guys
saw that I was right about him in the first place. At one point, Paul came
and asked me how I felt about DT. Since they were firing DT, I told him
that I had read the negative things DT wrote about him, me, and a lot of
other people, and that if we weren’t going to work as a team I couldn’t be
comfortable under those circumstances because I knew I was doing my
job. That was probably the only time Paul and I were on the same page
and ever really communicated with each other.
May 20th
    Home, sweet home, and it felt good. I got to play with the kids and
see the wife, but little did I know that the 21st would be a day of drama.
I thought a simple trip to Grand Rapids would go smoothly, but I was
wrong. It was cool because I drove my own car to the venue rather than
ride with the rest of them. Slim did one of the dumbest things ever: he
had one of his mistresses stay with him an extra day. Now, everyone knows
a real playa wouldn’t play it that close. He was only two hours away from
home, in his home state, and he wanted to have one of his mistresses
stay with him, knowing how crazy Kim was! He underestimated Kim. Kim
told him she didn’t want to come to Grand Rapids, so he decided to have
his mistress, Kessia, a young lady from Florida, stay an extra day with
him. She was cool, and we regarded her as more than just a groupie, and
she was definitely more mentally stable than Kim. Of course, the first
thing I noticed was the mistake Slim made by still having Kessia there.
Everyone was trying to convince him to get rid of Kessia in case Kim
changed her mind and decided to come to Grand Rapids, which is exactly
what happened. So we had to hurry up and get Kessia on the first flight
out, and she understood because she knew about Kim, while, of course,
Kim didn’t know about her. Now the whole crew was on lie patrol just in
case Slim got caught up, which I didn’t like at all because Kim raises hell
as it is anyway since she hates the fact that Slim is always on the road.
She hates the fact that he has groupies, and she really doesn’t know how
to deal with Slim’s success. So Kim checked into the room, and the first
thing she noticed was a message for Slim on his phone. So, her being his
girlfriend and all, she decided to play the message. As luck would have
it, it was a lovey-dovey message from Kessia, saying how she misses him
and can’t wait to come see him again, etc. So Kim got pissed. I mean she
went through the roof! We got hip to her finding out ahead of time by the
crew manager while we were at a sound check. So Slim started the lie,
and we all put our heads together to come up with a lie