Eminem (born, Marshall Bruce Mathers III in October 17, 1972 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA), is one of today's virtually all controversial & popular rappers. He presently sleep in Clinton Charter Township, Michigan in the outskirts of Detroit.

Brought to fame by rapper & producer Dr. Dre, Eminem is perhaps best known for being one of the most successful rappers in the industry. He is noted for his ability to vary his have verbal pace ("flow") & style multiple days in 1 song forgoing losing a beat. He is besides ill-famed for the tilt surrounding numerous of his lyrics. Critics keep close at hand accused him of existence homophobic, misogynistic and excessively violent, though his actions (such as trend lines for the Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and Boys and Girls Club, and performing by owning creative person Elton John) may indicate otherwise. In the song "Mosh", Eminem speaks retired against a Iraq conflict, violence and President George W. Bush. Eminem besides speaks retired against violence amongst rappers by owning his remaking of Toy Soldiers, & he supports a Leary Fire Fighters Foundation. Although Eminem doesn't assume himself the activist or even political creative person he did keep close at hand his have Hip Hop Political Convention within response to the national political conventions held in 2004. Eminem's protégé, 50 Cent, reached superstardom in 2003.

Before Eminem
Within his teens, Marshall Mathers was referred to as Thousand&M (for his initials), which he later changed to 'Eminem'.

Early life and career
Mathers was innate in St. Joseph, MO (near Kansas City), a single child to a father who left his mom and him, and spent most of his childhood moving back and forth between Kansas City and suburban Detroit where he became friends with Runyan Avenue Soldiers.

Concerned around rap from either the immature age, Mathers began performing when early when long dozen, late gaining the few popularity sustaining a class action, Soul Intent. His married woman Kim gave birth to his girl, Hailie Jade, on 25 December, 1995. Within 1996, he freed his foremost independent album, known as Infinite (of which he sold about D copies away from a back of his car), resulting it higher by having The Slim Shady EP (produced by a Bass Brothers) in 1997. He became noted in a hip-hop underground because of his distinctive, cartoonish style & the fact that he is white (a rarity all told rap, especially mainstream gangsta rap). Occasionally humans known as him rap's "great white hope". Sustaining his storytelling way of expressing rap, he became known in the underground when "The White Shadow". Matrimonial problems, but, well-nigh derailed his career, whenever, when arguing by having his married woman, he attempted to destroy himself by overdosing by using pills. A suicide attempt failed, however encouraged him to rededicate himself to "The Slim Shady EP" demonstration.

These are said that rap creative person & producer Dr. Dre found Eminem's demo on the garage floor of Jimmy Iovine, the Interscope label chief. Though this did non directly lead to the recording contract, Dr. Dre agreed to sign him whenever Eminem won 2nd place vs. Otherwize at the 1997 Rap Olympics MC battle. More sources state that an executive at the agents of Interscope handed a demonstration to Iovine world health organization passed it to Dre, which resulted inside a contract.

Entering the mainstream

Another time he joined Interscope, Eminem freed The Slim Shady LP, which went on to exist as one of a virtually all popular records of 1999, going triple platinum by the end of the month. By having a album's tremendous popularity come contention surrounding numbers of of the album's lyrics. Around "97 Bonnie and Clyde", Eminem describes the hike sustaining his child girl, disposing of the body of his married woman. A second song, "Guilty Conscience" ceases by owning Eminem and Dr. Dre encouraging a man to murder his wife and her lover.

The Marshall Mathers LP was released within Might 2000, quickly selling 2 million copies. A foremost individual freed from either a album, The Real Slim Shady, was a smash -- thanks inside section to the catchy rhythm & chorus, "Won't the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?" (altered from either a catchphrase of the TV quiz indicate To Tell the Truth). It besides created a bit of buzz by trash-talking celebrities & spilling dubious gossip just about the children. In the song, Eminem claims, among more items, that Christina Aguilera gave "head" (oral sex) to Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit) and Carson Daly (of MTV's Total Request Live). Within his 2nd individual, "The Way I Am", he attempts to downplay a alleged controversial hyperlink between music like that of Marilyn Manson and shootings such as at Columbine High School. In the third individual, "Stan" (which samples Dido's "Thank You"), Eminem tries to treat sustaining his higher to date-encountered fame, telling a story of a fan therefore obsessed by using Eminem that a fan winds up killing himself & his pregnant girlfriend, mirroring one of the songs on The Slim Shady LP.

Themes and Topics

The big a share of Eminem's popularity is his separation from either a across-abundance of "pop-rap", where rhymes seldom isolated from either bragging astir money & jewellery "bling", convenient cars "whips" using massive rims "22's", vast parties & constant casual sex. Instead, Eminem's songs usually choose deeper anger, thoughts, questions, & statements just about his life you bet he is treated. Most common topics come...

His mother & childhood Being white around the nigrify business His ex-ex Kim or even disgust by having groupies/dating Raising his girl & niece America & the government Poking fun at celebrities & Pop America

Controversy

By having a tremendous popularity of Eminem's 2nd album, a tilt surrounding Eminem grew potentially big, especially whenever A Marshall Mathers LP was nominated for the Grammy for Album of the Year. Though Mathers got universally claimed that his lyrics were non intended to exist as taken seriously, & that he got nothing against gay or even women, a gay rights class action GLAAD organized a boycott of the Grammys against Eminem. Mathers responded to this by singing "Stan" in-stage by having epicene singer Elton John, ending the performance by hugging John to show that he didn't use anything against homo. Though it shocked a great deal of humans, this gesture failed to appease completely of his critics.

Since Eminem's rapid ascent to fame, tell-completely life story of varying quality use been published, including Shady Bizzness by his former bodyguard Byron Williams. Eminem himself has written the book known as Angry Blonde, released within 2000, where he reveals a emotions & intent behind a lyrics in the Marshall Mathers LP, & describes his passion for & approach to rapping.

When one of sextuplet members of the rap class action D12, Eminem appeared on the album ''Devil's Night, freed within 2001. A album was qualified multi-platinum. A album contained a lone Purple Pills, renamed Purple Hills for radio play. An additional song, Blow Our Buzz, was on the soundtrack for the film A Do'' (2001), where Eminem got the cameo.

Eminem's third major album, A Eminem Indicate was freed around summertime 2002. It featured a only "Without Me", an apparent sequel to "The Real Slim Shady" where he makes derogative comments all about son elastic, *NSYNC's Chris Kirkpatrick, Limp Bizkit, Moby, and Lynne Cheney, among others.

In November 19, 2003 new controversy surrounded Eminem after the cassette tape was played when you took the news conference held by The Source magazine. the cassette featured Mathers performing a freestyle rap in which he made derogative remarks just about black women, calling the babies "dumb chicks" compared to to white women & claimed it is sole fallowing money. More racial slurs & remarks were on a tape, including the have of the word "nigger". Mathers claimed he mass produced a recording fallowing breaking higher sustaining his melanise girlfriend inside 1988, but A Source claimed a tapes were recorded within 1994, & old friends of Eminem's claimed he never got the nigrify girlfriend. A ordeal would late prevent higher by having Eminem filing a case against The Source for alleged infringement of copyright. Benzino is currently feuding with Eminem (see Benzino and The Source on the on-going feud with Eminem).

In December 8, 2003, the United States Secret Service admitted it was "looking into" allegations that Mathers experienced threatened a President of the United States after the unreleased song "We as Americans" (since involved in Encore) leaked onto the Internet. A lyrics around wonder: ''Fuck money/ I personally don't rap for dead presidents/ I personally'd like look at a president dead/ It's never been said, however I personally placed precedents.

So, within 2004, Eminem made a streaming video My Band'' with D12. A controversial song was a band's sarcastic response to the media's frequent portrayal of D-12 when Eminem's band, liberal little or even there are no credit to its more members. A cd contained various parodies, including that of the Janet Jackson 'incident', and of 50 Cent's "In Da Club" video.

In October 12, 2004, a week fallowing a release of Just Lose It, Eminem's first cd & lone off Encore, Michael Jackson called into the Los Angeles-depending Steve Harvey radio show to report his displeasure sustaining a streaming videos, which parodies Jackson's tyke-molestation accusations, his rhinoplasty, and an incident where Jackson's hair caught afire when he was filming the Pepsi commercial around 1984. A lyrics to Upright Break down as well refer to Jackson's troubles. In the streaming video, Eminem too parodied Pee Wee Herman, MC Hammer, and the Blonde-Ambition-touring Madonna. Harvey himself declared, "Eminem has lost his ghetto pass. We want the pass back." [http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=3606]

Black Entertainment Television was a number one channel to prevent airing the streaming. MTV, nonetheless, announced it would prove my point airing a streaming & Upright Break down became a total-1 requested streaming in Total Request Live for the week ending October 22. The Source magazine, through its CEO Raymond "Benzino" Scott, wanted not lone the streaming videos pulled, however a song off a album, & a public apology to Jackson from either Eminem [http://www.sohh.com/thewire/read.php?contentID=6321].

Others dismissed Good Break down as a tame "Weird Al" Yankovic-style knockoff [http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15126,00.html]. On Jackson's protest, Yankovic, world health organization parodied a Eminem song Lose Yourself in the track entitled Couch Potato on his 2003 album Poodle Hat, himself told the Chicago Sun-Times, "Last year, Eminem forced me to halt production on the video for my 'Lose Yourself' parody because he somehow thought that it would be harmful to his image or career. So the irony of this situation with Michael is not lost on me".

In October 26 2004 a week before the U.S. presidential election, 2004, Eminem released the video for his song titled "Mosh" on the Internet. the song features a super hard anti-Bush message, with lyrics such as "fuck Bush" and "this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president". A cd features Eminem gathering higher an army of population presented when people of the Bush administration & leading the children to the White House. Yet, another time a army breaks inside, these are revealed that it is there to only register to vote, & a streaming finishes by using a words "VOTE Tuesday November 2" on the screen. Fallowing Bush won a election, a streaming's ending was changed to Eminem & the protesters invading spell Bush was generating a speech. In October 31, Eminem performed the song in Saturday Night Live, but a bit of thought that he appeared to exist as lip-synching it only the week fallowing Ashlee Simpson was caught lip-synching her performance on the program. None of a publicity helped the album still, which saw its sales stall at Quartet.7 million copies. Skillful for more creative person, however dispatch dramatically from either his retiring 2 hits.

Within summertime 2005, Mathers commence his foremost U.S. concert start around triplet years, a Anger Management Triplet Tour, featuring Lil' Jon, 50 Cent and G-Unit, D-12, Obie Trice, The Alchemist, and others. Around August 2005, Eminem canceled the European leg of the tour & later on announced that he experienced entered drug rehabilitation for professional assistance for the "dependency on sleep medication". [http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050819/en_music_eo/17184].

At the equivalent instance when he was typing rehab, his auntie & uncle, Jack & Betty Schmitt, sued Mathers, charging that he got renege the promise to build a $350,000 home for the children & supply the babies sustaining money for the home's upkeep. A few claimed that Mathers got saved a home inside his title, and so issued the babies eviction orders.

Eminem has processed several enemies within music, e.g. Ja Rule, Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.

Other works and ventures

Eminem mass produced his Hollywood acting debut with a semi-autobiographical 8 Mile, released within November 2002. He recorded many newly songs for the soundtrack, including "Lose Yourself," which won Eminem an Academy Award for Best Song; it was not performed at a ceremony, reportedly because ABC wanted him to perform an emended version. He has besides lent his voice to the Crank Yankers show and the web cartoon known as "The Slim Shady Show", which has since been pulled offline & is instead sold in DVD.

Eminem has likewise been linked to "Songs of Hope" by U2 & supported a Boys & Girls Club of America and the Leary Fire Fighters Foundation by having various return donated to these stimulates. Witharound 2004, he held the political convention of his have in New York City, in response to the National Republican Convention. In the song Mosh, Eminem expresses his trend lines for Western troops, however speaks against a Iraq war and the Bush administration. Eminem was too mass produced an honorary priest per Raelians Religious Movement, a cult whose beliefs come centered as much as aliens. Additionally, he has raised Helps & more STD awareness inside the total of songs describing septic population getting promiscuous sex by using many partners.

Shady Records

Dr. Dre's leading protégé succeeded around multi-platinum record sales. Eminem was granted his have record label. He & his manager Paul Rosenberg created Shady Records around 2000. Eminem experienced signed his right-selling creative person, 50 Cent, to the roster. His have Detroit collective D12 and rapper Obie Trice were also signed to the label. Around 2003, Eminem and Dr. Dre sign Atlanta rapper Stat Quo to the roster. DJ Green Lantern, the previous deejay for Eminem, was signed to Shady Records until a dispute using 50 Cent forced him to depart from either a label, & he is no hanker associated using Eminem. The Alchemist is now officially Eminem's tour deejay. Inside 2005, Eminem officially signed an additional Atlanta rapper called Bobby Creekwater to his label.

Eminem signed the treat using Sirius satellite radio to program the rap-oriented statiin known as Shade 45, which debuted on October 28, 2004. He as well owns the wearable line known as "Shady Ltd."

Eminem as a producer

Eminem is likewise active as a producer of rap records. Besides existence a executive producer of D12's two albums, ''Devil's Night and D12 World'', he has also produced numerous tracks on Obie Trice's Cheers as well as 50 Cent's ''Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre''. Moreover, his have records progressively contain tracks by himself. He recently produced a few tracks in 2Pac's fifth posthumous album, Loyal To The Game, with 2Pac's mother, Afeni Shakur.

Retiring Slim Shady

Inside 2005, some industry insiders come speculating that Eminem is shopping for concluding his rapping career fallowing 5 years & many multi-platinum albums. Speculation began inside early 2005 just about the double disc album to become freed late that month, titled The Funeral. A rapper himself has non confirmed any one rumour, which speculate that a album would revisit a various personas Eminem has portrayed when laying every to rest.

Around July 2005, a Detroit Free Press broke news of a [http://www.freep.com/entertainment/music/encore15e_20050715.htm potential final bow] for Eminem as a solo performing artist, quoting members of his in circle world health organization said that he might start to fully embrace a role of producer & label executive. A Yours free! Click, Eminem's hometown paper, wrote that a with competence coroneted Encore album would now have when his final solo album.

Deep in Eminem's inner circle there exists talk that a rapper is planning in retiring fallowing he concludes his Anger Management Tour inside Detroit. A understanding for his retirement is to focus inside acting, spending instance by having his girl & niece, & sir thomas more in his increasing popularity in production. Eminem & his manager Paul Rosenburg likewise when their representatives may non comment on the situation. This might not mean his retirement from either rapping entirely, when he will swell however contribute to numbers of of his Shady Record creative person projects likewise when Dr. Dre's imaginable Detox album.

Eminem recently announced via MTV News that he does not project in retiring presently, though he is planning in ingesting the break to develop music. He is however uncertain whether the second album is freed, however his career has non are to a good prevent. A star is continuing to function away from a spotlight, including producing Redman album 'Red No more Untamed'. A track 'We C Dead Humans' features raps from either a late creative person, Large Pun, Large L & Notorious Heavy.

Still, when he entered rehab around 2005 for dependency in sleep medication, numerous come speculating that he might utilize this event to lay down his mic.

At "Anger Management" inside Madison Square Garden & Atlanta's HiFi Buys Amphitheater he openly announced that he is non retiring & indicates this completely upright gossip by saying a moon is attend crash into a Globe as a further believable rumour. Yet, numerous however speculate that he is retiring & a announcement at Madison Square Garden was lone a ploy to distract the fans.

Eminem has fuelled speculation that he plans to retire by announcing the release of a career retrospective. A greatest hits collection 'Curtain Call for' is placed to exist as freed in December Five, & might feature "at least two" recently songs additionally to hits like 'Stan', 'A Way We are', 'Our Title Is' & 'Lose Yourself', based on data from a his Aftermath/Interscope label.

Eminem in D12
Within 2001, Eminem brought D12 in to the rap scene and too became the member of D12. Within 2001, D12 freed their hit debut album entitled ''Devil's Nighttime''. A 1st only freed slay of the album was "Purple Pills," an ode to recreational drug use. A version of the song freed on the radio & music television was heavy rewritten to dislodge lot of the song's offensive nature & severity, and retitled "Purple Hills." When a foremost lone was a massive hit, the album's 2nd lone, "Fight Music," wwhen non as successful. A select few use attributed this to the emotional vary stimulated inside American society due to the September 11, 2001 attacks. Fallowing their debut, D12 took Triad years within hiatus from either a studio, late regrouping to releasing their second-year album, D12 World, in 2004, which featured a popular hit lone release "My Band." A more members of D12 keep around too appeared when guests in a lot of Eminem's albums since A Marshall Mathers LP.

Music videos
A Slim Shady LP: Just Don't Give The Fuck Role Model My Name Is... Guilty Conscience

Dr. Dre 2001 (using Dr Dre): Forgot All about Dre

A Marshall Mathers LP: The Real Slim Shady The Way I Am Stan (samples "Thank You" by Dido)

''Devil's Nighttime (sustaining D12): Shit In You Purple Hills (or even Purple Pills, a album version) Fight Music

A Eminem Indicate:'' Without Me Cleanin' Out My Closet White America Sing for the Moment (samples "Dream On" by Aerosmith) Superman (on 8 Mile DVD only) Business (live performance)

Eighter from decatur Mile O.S.T.: Lose Yourself

D12 Globe (by owning D12): My Band 40 Oz. How Come Git Up U R A One

Encore: Just Lose It Mosh Like Toy Soldiers (samples "Toy Soldiers" by Martika) Mockingbird Ass Like That

Discography

Albums and EPs
Infinite (1996) The Slim Shady EP (1997) The Slim Shady LP (1999) #2 US (4x Atomic number 78); #12 UK (Atomic number 78) The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) #1 US (Eight weeks) (9x Atomic number 78); #1 UK (6x Atomic number 78) ''D12 Devil's Night (2001) The Eminem Show (2002) #1 US (Sextet weeks) (8x Atomic number 78); #1 UK (4x Atomic number 78) 8 Mile Soundtrack (album productiin, and rapping on 5 of the tracks - 2002) #1 U.s. (Quaternary weeks) (4x Atomic number 78); #1 UK (compilation chart) (Gold) D12 World (2004) Encore (2004) #1 US (4x Pt); #1 UK (3x Pt) Curtain Call'' (2005)

Popular Bootleg Releases
Straight From either A Research laboratory LP (2003) Eminem's Back (2004)

Singles
'From either A Slim Shady LP:' 1999 "My Name Is..." #36 US; #2 UK 1999 "Guilty Conscience" (featuring Dr. Dre) #5 UK 1999 "Guilty Conscience / I'm Shady" (featuring Dr. Dre) 1999 "Role Model / Cum On Everybody"

'From either A Marshall Mathers LP: 2000 "The Real Slim Shady" #4 US; #1 UK 2000 "The Way I Am" #58 US; #8 UK 2000 "Stan" (featuring Dido) #51 US; #1 UK 2000 "B**** Please II" (featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit & Nate Dogg

From either A Eminem Indicate: 2002 "Without Me" #2 US; #1' UK - Gold certification 2002 "Cleanin' Out My Closet" #4 US; #4 UK

'From either Eighter Mile Soundtrack: 2002 "Lose Yourself" #1 (12 weeks) United states of america; #1' UK - Silver certification

'From either A Eminem Indicate: 2003 "Sing for the Moment" #14 US; #6 UK 2003 "Superman" #15 US 2003 "Business" #6 UK

From either Encore: 2004 "Just Lose It" #6 US; #1' UK - Platinum certification 2004 "Encore" (featuring Dr. Dre and 50 Cent) #25 US; UK (To be released) 2004 "Like Toy Soldiers" #34 US; #1 UK - Gold certification 2004 "Mockingbird" #11 US; #4 UK; #14 Potty - Platinum certification 2005 "Ass Like That" #6The states; #4 UK; #7 May; #11 AUS 2005 "Crazy in Love"

Guest appearances
'From either Shyhalude / 3hree6ix5ive (by OldWorlDisorder feat. Eminem)

'From Dr. Dre 2001 (by Dr. Dre): 2000 "Forgot about Dre" (Dr. Dre featuring Eminem) #25 U.s.a.; #7 UK

Non-album only:' 2001 "Scary Movies" (Bad Meets Evil featuring Eminem/Royce) #63 UK

'From Black trash autobiography (by Sticky Fingaz): 2001 "What in case I personally was Whiten" (Sticky Fingaz featuring Eminem)

From Rock City 2.0'' (by Royce Da 5'9"):''' 2002 "Rock City" (Royce Da Little phoebe'Nina from carolina" featuring Eminem)

'From Get Rich or Die Tryin' (by 50 Cent): 2003 Patiently Waiting (50 Cent featuring Eminem)

From Tupac: Resurrection (OST) (by 2Pac): 2004 "1 Day at once" (2Pac with Eminem featuring Tha Outlawz) #80 US

From The Documentary (by The Game):' 2005 "You Own't" (The Game featuring Eminem)

Also:

2005 "Welcome to Detroit City" (Trick Trick featuring Eminem)

He also had a few major hit singles and albums as part of D12.

Movies
Da Hip-Hop Witch (2000) (Appearance) The Wash (2001) (Appearance) 8 Mile (2002)

Children
Hailie Jade Scott is the daughter of Eminem and his ex-wife Kimberly Ann Scott. She was born on December 25, 1995. The songs "Mockingbird" on Eminem's album Encore and "Hailie's Song" on The Eminem Show are dedicated to her. Hailie joins her father in the hook for "Our Pop's No more Crazy." She also features prominently in a number of his other songs, most notably in "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" on The Slim Shady LP, which is a fictional account of Eminem dumping the dead body of his wife into a lake, accompanied by Hailie.

Alaina Mathers is Eminem's adopted daughter. She is eleven years old. The daughter of his ex-wife Kim's twin sister, Eminem has custody of his niece and is raising her as Hailie's sister (in reality they are cousins). She is also referenced in the song "Mockingbird" on Encore, as "Lainie".

Nathan Mathers is Eminem's little brother. Eminem is the legal guardian of Nathan.

Trivia
The second E in his stage name is always shown reversed on his records since his second album The Marshall Mathers LP. The backwards-E has become a logo for him, appearing prominently in his videos and stage set.

He has been recognized as a huge influence on the music industry, and two songs have been written about him by Christian rapper KJ-52, fittingly titled "Dear Slim" and "Dear Slim Pt. Ii". He is also one of the few artists who have been parodied twice by "That Christian Parody Band," ApologetiX, who parodied "Lose Yourself" ("Look Yourself") and "The Real Slim Shady" ("The Real Sin Savior").

Eminem is left-handed. This can be seen in a scene in 8 Mile where he is sitting on a bus with a pencil in his left hand, as well as in several of the promotional posters for the film, which depict him writing lyrics with his left hand.

Eminem's rap group "D12" which arguably means "Detroit Xii" or "A Contaminated Pack" has only 6 members. Many people are often confused by the number. It is "Dozen" because each of the 6 members of the group has two rap names or "personas." (For example, "Eminem" and "Slim Shady").

When Dr. Dre first heard a recording of Eminem rapping, he thought that Eminem was black.

Eminem has been awarded a grand total of 9 Grammy awards.

Eminem was number 6 on VH1's 50 greatest hip hop artists of all time.

Eminem won a Best Song Oscar for his song "Lose Yourself" from the movie 8 Mile.

Eminem wears glasses. This can be seen in some of his interviews, as well as on the music video for "Mockingbird".

Eminem's manager, Paul Rosenberg (who is featured prominently in several skits on Eminem's solo releases), was once a rapper known as "Paul Bunyan".

Eminem's height: 5'8" (One.73 m)

Eminem seems to exist as the fan of Crank Yankers; they were involved around his streaming video "Ass Like That". He has lent his voice to a indicate many days, & experienced one of the puppets, Favorite ED, carrier "Eminem's Special Hits".