Lady Gaga accepts the award for Best New Artist from Eminem during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. (Photo : Getty Images/Christopher Polk)
A pastry chef from Troyes, France, showed his admiration for Detroit rapper Marshall Mathers III, 43, who is professionally known as Eminem, in a unique way. He dedicated an elaborate chocolate cake that measures 3 feet tall to the "Rap God" rapper.
"This work was an opportunity to bring together my two passions: hip-hop and pastry," Guillaume Carbonnot, 26, said in a statement released to Detroit News. The French pastry chef makes cakes and other desserts for L'Espace Sucré Chocolat.
A fan of Eminem since he was a teenager, Carbonnot said the Detroit rapper's music has "always followed and always inspired" him. He said one of the most beautiful moments of his life was on Aug. 22, 2013 when he attended Eminem's concert at the Stade de France in Paris.
It took Carbonnot 20 hours to assemble the chocolate cake that pays tribute to Eminem. With a boom box and 3-D microphone on top, the 3-feet chocolate speaker tower has the letter E on one side of the speaker with titles of Eminem songs written in it.
On the other side of the speaker is a cluster of tiny Eminem heads that were made of chocolate. According to Carbonnot, the heads were made from a mold that he crafted using an Eminem figure that he had had for more than 10 years.
In other news, records on American family history site Geni claim that Eminem is related to Welsh King Rhodri Mawr and Hywel Dda, a King of Deheubarth.
"If the genealogy is correct then it looks as though he is a descendant of Rhodri Mawr," Wales Online quoted Wynford Jones as saying. Jones worked on "DNA Cymru," a show on the Welsh-language channel S4C that traces Welsh ancestry.
Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Eminem is of Scottish, Swiss, English and German descent. The "Rap God" rapper spent much of his youth in a lower-middle-class and primarily African-American neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan.
In 2002, Eminem starred in "8 Mile" opposite Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Shannon and the late Brittany Murphy. He won Best Original Song at the Academy Awards 2003 for "Lose Yourself" from the soundtrack of the hip-hop film.
Watch the music video of "Lose Yourself" here:
