[Conskeeted7]

November 2, 2004 --

DOES any singer take the "live" in "Saturday Night Live" seriously? Just one week after Ashlee Simpson lip-synched on the show, Eminem was found guilty of the same crime. "He was singing 'Mosh' and you could tell he was lip-synching," said our source. "The track was just a bit ahead of his lips and he put the mike down at one point but the track kept going." Eminem's rep said he was merely trying to "duplicate the sound on his album. He had a vocal track on for double vocal effect [on the first song], to make it more powerful. Lots of hip-hop artists do that. Tupac [Shakur] did it."