Eminem Goes Satellite

Eminem will have his own channel on satellite radio starting this fall.

Sirius Satellite Radio said Monday that it has teamed up with the Detroit-area rapper — along with his label, Shady Records, and Interscope Records — to create "a cutting-edge hip-hop music and lifestyle channel."

Eminem's DJ Green Lantern will host a weekly show, while Eminem himself and other Shady Records artists also will host occasional shows that will include call-in segments.

The channel, which does not yet have a name, will feature hip-hop from across the spectrum, not just the two labels, the company said.

The rapper has been in the news lately mostly for litigation. In June, the rap magazine The Source was ordered to pay his legal fees for violating a federal court order not to publish full versions of the rapper's racially charged lyrics. U.S. District Judge Gerard Lynch had ruled in December that the First Amendment protects the rapper's "musical commentaries on life."

In May, another federal judge said Eminem's copyright infringement claims against Apple Computer over use of his song "Lose Yourself" in a commercial could go forward. Apple featured a 10-year-old boy singing the Oscar-winning theme song to the rapper's movie "8 Mile" in an ad on MTV for the computer company's iPod music player and iTunes music service.

However, not all decisions recently have gone Eminem's way. MTV had to edit out a shot of the rapper exposing his rear end to the audience at the 2004 Movie Awards before the show was broadcast in June. Eminem was performing a parody of Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose.

Eminem, born Marshall Mathers, is "one of the most controversial rappers to ever grace the genre," writes All Music Guide. The site calls him "the first Caucasian rapper to make a significant impact in years" and a "gift [record] producer."