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Eminem recently told Yahoo Entertainment that he skipped the ceremony the first time around because he didn't think he had a chance of winning, and because he had just performed \"Lose Yourself\" at the Grammys a few weeks before.

\"The younger me,\" he added, \"didn't really feel like a show like that would understand me.\"

He also said it \"would have been crazy\" to accept an Oscar from Streisand on that night.

\"That to me shows how authentic and real that award is -- when you don't show up and you still win. That makes it very real to me,\" he said.

The rapper also denied reports that he refused to perform \"Lose Yourself\" on the Oscars because the Academy insisted he censor the song.

\"Oh no, that wasn't the case at all, because there's not even that many cuss words in it -- there's only a couple,\" he said.

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