Is good friends with rapper Eminem. Both battle-rapped against each
other while coming up in Detroit.
Years before he gained fame, as a listener of the Howard Stern show, he sent
in a song to Howard (a sort of song parody) that Howard ended up loving
and playing over and over. When became famous years later
Howard still remembered the song.
The cover art of his live album "Live Trucker" is an homage to the cover art of Bob Seger's "Live Bullet" album.
A libertarian Republican.
Ex-girlfriend Kelley Russell is the subject of his biographical song,
"Black Chick, White Guy".