He began to make raps at the age of 14 under the pseudonym "M&M". Īfter getting a copy of the album Licensed to Ill, from the Beastie Boys group as a teenager, Marshall became interested in hip-hop. When he was 9, he was beaten up until he got unconcious and was hospitalized with a Cerebral hemorrhage. He was frequently bullied at school for his short height. He frequently had his house robbed, attempted to commit suicide multiple times, and had a rocky relationship with his mother. Eminem had a very troubled and unstable childhood. At age twelve, he and his mother Deborah had moved several times and lived in several towns and cities in Missouri (including Saint Joseph, Savannah, and Kansas City) before settling in Warren, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. His father abandoned his family when he was a year and a half old, and Marshall was raised only by his mother in poverty. His ancestry is diverse, including Scottish, Welsh, English, German, Swiss, Polish, and possibly Luxemburgish ancestors. He is the only son of Deborah Nelson Mathers-Briggs and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr. In 2009, Eminem was elected, in popular voting, the best rapper of all time by Vibe magazine, beating Tupac in the finals. Eminem has also sold more than 17 million downloads of his songs in the United States alone. According to the same Billboard, the rapper had two of the five best-selling albums between 20. Such a success made Eminem be recognized by the Billboard as the Artist of the Decade (2000-2009). He has 13 singles in the top position worldwide. Including work with D12, Eminem piles up 9 albums at the top of the Billboard Top 200, 7 solo (6 studio, 1 compilation) and 2 solo with D12. On a similar list, he was ranked 82nd by Rolling Stone magazine. Įminem was voted #79 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list. Recovery became the sixth album in-a-row by Eminem to start in the first position of the United States. Recovery was the best-selling album worldwide of 2010. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Eminem was the best selling artist of the 2000s in the United States and was the 30th best selling artist of all time in 2010, according to the ranking of the RIAA, with estimated sales of 220 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling music artists. Those rumors were ended with the release of Relapse on May 15, 2009. In 2004, rumors about the end of his career were announced after the release of Encore. "Lose Yourself" would become the single that for the longest time occupied the top spot of the hip-hop charts. In 2003, he won an Oscar for Best Original Song with " Lose Yourself." That song was featured in his film called 8 Mile. This made him the first artist to win the Best Rap Album of the Year award three times in a row.
The Marshall Mathers LP and his fourth album, The Eminem Show, also won the Grammy Awards. This made him known around the world, and helped publicize his record label, Shady Records, and his group, D12. His next work, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the best-selling solo album in U.S. He gained rapid popularity in 1999 with the release of the album The Slim Shady LP, which won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album that year. Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor.
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