The star, who has sold millions of records thanks to his profanity-laden lyrics, insists he is a parent first and artist second around his daughters.
He told CNN’s Anderson Cooper: “Profanity around my house? No.
'I'm not saying there's not glimpses of me in the music, that there's not truth in…things that I say. But this is music, this is my art.
'I'm a parent. I have daughters. I mean, how would I really sound, as a person…walking around my house saying: ‘Bitch, pick this up’. You know what I mean?...I don't cuss.'
Asked By Cooper if he feels a sense of responsibility when his young fans use the language they hear him use in his songs, the rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, replied: 'I feel like it's your job to parent them. If you're the parent, be a parent.”
In the interview, Eminem also talks about his early years as the new kid in school who was always picked on, his rise to star rapper, despite his being a white man in a predominantly black medium, and the drug addiction that nearly cost him his career.