History Main / Motorcity

* Anita Baker

Depending on who you ask, the city may be on the cusp of a rebirth, or completing the slide from DyingTown into GhostCity. The trend (unfortunately) seemed to move toward the latter, thanks mostly to the [[RefugeInAudacity almost surreal corruption]] of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler which resulted in smaller companies, with the requisite job and wage cutbacks. The new mayor, David Bing, is infinitely more competent (although that's hardly saying much), and the Big Three have returned to profitability and (more importantly) actually make good cars again, so [[TemptingFate things might get better]]. Maybe. Perhaps.

-->"I had to visit a bar on the Barbary Coast, it was a horrible place with some of the worst scum on the face of the earth. Worse than Detroit."
-->-- Stryker, ''{{Airplane}}''

* Music/{{Esham}} (born in New York City)

* Music/{{Esham}}

* Most of the {{Motown}} Records artists in the 1960s and '70s, including but not limited to the Four Tops, the Temptations, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
* {{Eminem}}(Warren)
* {{Esham}}
* PsychopathicRecords artists InsaneClownPosse, [[AnybodyKilla ABK]], BlazeYaDeadHomie and {{Twiztid}}.
* KidRock
* Uncle Kracker

* TheWhiteStripes
* {{Madonna}} (born in Bay City [116 miles to the north], but raised in Rochester Hills, a suburb in Oakland County)
* TedNugent
* {{Aaliyah}}
* ArethaFranklin
* BobSeger
* Mitch Ryder
* The {{MC5}}
* Iggy Pop and TheStooges

* Music/AliceCooper
* The "Belleville Three", Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, considered the founders of techno music

* {{Madonna}}
** Born in Bay City, actually (116 miles to the north), but raised in Rochester Hills, a suburb in Oakland County.

* AliceCooper

* ''{{Dreamgirls}}'', following the famous "Motown" music label and genre.

-->-- Stryker, "{{Airplane}}!"

* ''Detroit Rock City'' (I know movies occasionally take some geographic liberties, but this one took so many I almost literally got dizzy!)

Depending on who you ask, the city may be on the cusp of a rebirth, or completing the slide from DyingTown into GhostCity. The trend (unfortunately) seemed to move toward the latter, thanks mostly to the [[RefugeInAudacity almost surreal corruption]] of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler which resulted in smaller companies, with the requisite job and wage cutbacks. The new mayor, David Bing, is infinitely more competent (although that's hardly saying much), so [[TemptingFate things might get better]]. Maybe. Perhaps.

-->''"This city has no viable future." ''

-->''"Now, now, lay off Detroit. Them people is livin' in ''MadMax'' times."''
-->--Moe Szyslak, ''TheSimpsons''

-->'''''"NO! NO, NOT DETROIT! PLEASE!! NO!!! ANYTHING BUT THAT!!! NO!!! NO!!!"'''''
-->--Poor CIA Bastard, ''KentuckyFriedMovie''

-->Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools

-->Moe Szyslak, ''TheSimpsons''

-->Poor CIA Bastard, ''KentuckyFriedMovie''

* Most of the "Motown" artists in the 1960s-70s, including but not limited to the Four Tops, the Temptations, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.

-->Poor CIA Bastard, KentuckyFriedMovie

* ''Detroit187''

Depending on who you ask, the city may be on the cusp of a rebirth, or completing the slide from DyingTown into GhostCity. The trend (unfortunately) seemed to move toward the latter, thanks mostly to the [[BeyondTheImpossible almost surreal corruption]] of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler which resulted in smaller companies, with the requisite job and wage cutbacks. The new mayor, David Bing, is infinitely more competent (although that's hardly saying much), so [[TemptingFate things might get better]]. Maybe. Perhaps.

The metro Detroit area is home to a myriad of cultures and ethnicities, including one of the largest Arab populations in North America. It is also very economically-segregated but even more racially-segregated, with poorer minorities living in the city, the White working-class in the eastern suburbs, and the predominantly White and Asian-American upper-middle-class in the western suburbs and Grosse Pointe. The Detroit metro area ranks second in the nation in racial segregation, after Gary, Indiana.

* ''8 Mile''

Depending on who you ask, the city may be on the cusp of a rebirth, or completing the slide from DyingTown into GhostCity. The trend (unfortunately) seemed to move toward the latter, thanks mostly to the [[BeyondTheImpossible almost surreal corruption]] of [[strike:Mayor]] convicted felon Kwame Kilpatrick, and the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler which resulted in smaller companies, with the requisite job and wage cutbacks. The new mayor, David Bing, is infinitely more competent (although that's hardly saying much), so [[TemptingFate things might get better]]. Maybe. Perhaps.

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* Although frequent death threat recipient MichaelMoore isn't from Detroit, he's from Davison, a suburb of Flint, which is 66 miles from Detroit. It's only a part of the Motor City if you inflate Metro Detroit or use "Detroit" as a metonym for the auto industry.

* He may not sound like it, but James Lipton host of ''InsideTheActorsStudio'' was born and raised in Detroit.