...Rapper. Eminem was born as Marshall Bruce Mathers III on October 17, 1972 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He never knew his father, Marshall Mathers Jr., who abandoned the family when Eminem was still an infant and rebuffed all of his son's many attempts to contact him during his childhood. As a result, Eminem was raised by his mother, Deborah Mathers. She never managed to hold down a job for more than several months at a time, so they moved frequently between Missouri and Detroit, Michigan, spending large chunks of time in public housing projects. "I would change schools two, three times a year," Eminem later recalled. "That was probably the roughest part about it all." This itinerant lifestyle left a large impact on his personality. He had no close friends, kept almost entirely to himself and was treated like an outcast at each new school. "Beat up in the bathroom, beat up in the hallways, shoved into lockers," he remembered. Eminem has been scathingly critical of the way his mother raised him. Through his song lyrics, he has publicly accused her of being addicted to prescription drugs as well as subjecting him to emotional and physical abuse. However, Deborah Mathers has vehemently denied all such accusations, and in 1999 she filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against her son. They settled the case for $25,000. Eminem attended Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan, where he failed the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17. Despite being...
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...stage name Eminem and by his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor. In addition to his solo career, Eminem is a member of the group D12, as well as one half of the hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, alongside Royce da 5'9". Eminem is one of the world's best-selling music artists and is the best-selling artist of the 2000s.[2] He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone magazine which ranked him 82nd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[3] The same magazine declared him The King of Hip Hop.[4] Including his work with D12 and Bad Meets Evil, Eminem has achieved ten number-one albums on the Billboard 200. Eminem has sold more than 80 million albums and over 120 million singles worldwide.[5] As of March 2014, he is the second best selling male artist of the Nielsen Soundscan era and the sixth best overall selling artist in the United States, selling 44.91 million albums.[6] After releasing his debut album Infinite (1996), Eminem rose to mainstream popularity in 1999 with the release of his second album, The Slim Shady LP. The Slim Shady LP was a commercial success and earned the rapper his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. His next two releases, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002), were worldwide successes, each earning US Diamond certification in sales. Both albums also won the Best Rap Album Grammy Award, making Eminem the first...
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...Iconic Americans: Eminem Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on October 17, 1973. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Marshall would eventually become the “Eminem” we all know of today. America first really heard of Eminem in 1999 when he was becoming popular for being a white rapper. Marshall moved around in various states with his mother and eventually ended up living in Detroit when he was twelve. In high school, before dropping out in ninth grade, Marshall took up rapping. He joined a few groups: Basement Productions, D12, and the New Jacks. This is when he named himself Eminem. In 1997, he released his first solo album “Infinite.” Eminem’s new album was taken badly and he was earning a bad reputation being compared to other rappers. He got revenge on his critics when he won the “Freestyle Performer of the Year” award on the Wake Up Show, which gave him a boost with his determination to be successful. Also, in the Los Angeles’ annual Rap Olympics, Eminem finished as runner-up. In 1998, he released his album “The Slim Shady EP.” He named this album after himself because of his “dark side.” This album marked some hurtful attacks on his critics. His most popular song, “Just Don’t Give A Fuck,” got him guest appearances on MC Shabaam Sahddeq’s single, “Five Star Generals.” That song also got him onto Kid Rock’s “Devil Without a Cause” set. After this, Dr.Dre took in Eminem into his music and Records Company and acted as his co-producer. Dr. Dre was featured in...
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...Marshal Mathers, also known as Eminem, has been creating a stir in the music industry over the past few years. Many people feel affended and intimidated with him while he uses his freedom of speech and expresses himself. His rapping and hip hop lyrics are raw, explicic and very offending to many different types of people. There are many reasons for the type of music Eminem makes. There are many reasons why his music is the way it is. Eminem, A.K.A. Slim Shady, made his debut in 1998. Many people do not understand where Slim Shady comes from. As a child, he had no father, his mother was an alcoholic and a drug addict. Also Eminem moved back and forth from Kansas city to urban Detroit. While growing up, he was picked on and beaten by people all the time. He would get jumped and beat by his mother. All of these instances lead to the type of music he makes today. To add to all of this, his closest relative and best friend, comitted suicide when Slim was in his adolcence. The song I selected is off of Eminems most recent album, The Marshal Mathers LP, and it is titled “The Real Slim Shady”. I chose this song for many reasons. This song mocks the mainstream artists and songs of the time. He makes a pop song which becomes mainstream, in order to show everyone how easy it is to make pop music. Also, his lyrics rhyme and make sense and i think it is amazing how his signing and music just flows perfectly. Eminem has explicic lyrics which help to press the issue at hand...
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...Eminem and Women MUSI 1002 – FINAL PAPER, FALL 2014 December 2, 2014 In this day and age, the molding of children is one of if not the most important task of what a parent may have to face. Many parents have to experience the unpleasant task of having to filter between what to allow or not allow their innocent children to be exposed to. This is due to the fact that the media now plays a huge role on how a child will grow up and what a child will think is right and wrong. Factors such a famous celebrities and music play some of the most influential roles. This becomes a problem when music, such as Rap and Hip-Hop, portray certain issues and ideas in a very negative way (Watkins, 85); a way in which a child may completely misunderstand and therefore take away a very unhealthy idea of it. Not only can a genre be at fault in an instance like this, but also an artist who actually allows to put out such messages and ideas into the world. One of the most controversial topics in the Rap industry is the topic about women and how they should be portrayed. Eminem, an artist who is heavily criticized about his degrading and demoralizing of women in his lyrics and music videos, is an example of such artist (Hess, 490). He is very well known and also loved for his lyrics and music videos that represent women as sexual objects encourage domestic violence against women, and attack women of prestige and power within the social elite world. Eminem’s style of music consists of Rap. The...
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...Admiring Eminem Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, has had many achievements in his life, but life wasn't always good. Growing up in a poor trailer park in Warren Mich. He failed out of ninth grade, which led to him dropping out of high school. He tried to go back but couldn't do it, he just wanted to rap and to be a star one day. Over the years he freestyle in some local clubs and participated in some competitions. It wasn't until 1997 that he was recognized, he won the Wake Up Show Freestyle Performer of the Year from L.A. Djs Sway and Tech and earned second place in Rap Sheet magazine's "Rap Olympics," an annual freestyle rap competition. Then in 1998 he released The Slim Shady LP, his first known record. "Slim Shady is the evil side of me, the sarcastic foul-mouthed side of me," Eminem says during an interview with the Source. In 2000 he released his second cd, The Marshall Mathers LP. Eminem has been known as one of the most provocative, controversial rappers in contemporary pop music. A lot of people think he can get away with this because he is the first "legitimate" white rapper. "I'm white in a music started by black people. I'm not ignorant to the culture and I'm not trying to take anything away from the culture," he said in his defense. "But no one has a choice where they grew up or what color they are. If you're a kid or a ghetto kid you have no control over your circumstance. The only control you have is to get out of your situation...
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...Mr.DeLaVergne Music App. October 26, 2015 Biography The boy nobody gave a chance, born in Kansas Missouri, Eminem became a hip hop sensation. “Marshall Bruce Mathers lll was born on the 17th of October in the year of 1973.” (Eminem.net/biography/ Editors 2015) “Marshall better known as Eminem, wasn’t the type of guy you would think of as a rap sensation. As a young boy he was a poor kid and a child of a mother who was barely there for him. His mother constantly worked to support the family. It wasn’t until he hung out with his uncle Ronnie Polkingham introduced him to rap. Pretty soon he started rapping for a hobby and fell in love with the art form.” (Eminem.net/biography/ Editors 2015) He had a very rough childhood gorwing up but he managed...
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...Critical Argument Analysis Essay “Why Eminem Is Important” Eng 215 Think about what would happen if there was no Eminem? One less rapper is more than likely what you are thinking right? Well it is not just one less rapper. It would also be one less role model for those who really care about him. Eminem is an influence to the young life and even the adults. His songs are stories based on his life and things that he would have wanted to change or make different. Most of them are based on subjects that actually happened to him first hand. Some of the children growing up in this time and some adults face some of the same problems he faced. Therefore, Eminem is an influence who expresses his self in his own different style or character. His music is an influence because of its rhythmical story behind it. Take the song “Mockingbird” for example; it is a song of how Eminem’s daughter Hailie was growing up with her mom always on the news and her dad (Eminem) was always on the move. If you think about it, not everyone gets to see their parents’ everyday of the week. Some of the children’s parents may work different shifts at their job which makes it unable for the children to see them a lot or as much as they want and this was being expressed during the song “Mockingbird”. Hailie barely got the chance to see her dad or her mom and stayed with her “Crazy Uncle Laney”. It is true that some of his music can be somewhat violent and explicit...
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...Eminem – Lose Yourself After analyzing ‘Lose Yourself’ by Eminem, I’ve understood Eminem’s emotion in this song. He raps about taking a chance at success and being able to take it without anyone stopping him. He also refers to the movie 8 mile, where he failed his first chance and knew that his second opportunity he had to succeed. Analyzing the lyrics, with all the expression he has on him he’s starting to lose his desire and momentum of being an artist. At one point he says “A normal life is boring, but super stardom's close to post mortem” which means that having a normal life is boring, but being a superstar is almost being dead. Eminem feels like being a superstar is a lot of pressure and the expectation levels are very high because you need to keep producing content that is bigger and better which he said in this sentence “It only grows harder, only grows hotter”. He’s been through tough times in his career and tries his best to gain respect from other rappers in the industry. My final thoughts on this analysis would be that this song is about his tough times and what he goes through in his career and he truly does a great job expressing it in ‘Lose Yourself’. Everyone in life goes through tough situations and I can reflect on this when it comes to school grades. As I explained in the following paragraph “It only grows harder, only grows hotter” means you have to produce better content for better results is something I can reflect on. It’s never easy to get good...
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...When was in 7th grade, I primarily listened to pop and country music. During lunch, my friends and I were gathered around the lunch table, talking about the upcoming super bowl when my friend Tyler began to argue that Eminem should’ve been chosen for the halftime show performance. All my friends agreed with him, when I said, “who’s Eminem?” Everyone looked at me as if they had seen a ghost. After a moment of disbelief, I was given a crash course about his music. Even though I wasn’t into the rap genre, I decided to give it a chance. I Googled up his most popular songs and came upon on “Not Afraid”. I was blown away by the chorus and instantly hooked. I am always put into a trance from the fast rhythmic beat of this song. Whenever I listen to this song, it only makes my mood better. This songs takes those long horrible days and turns them into amazing and productive days. Even though I don’t dance, this song makes me bust a move every time I listen to it. Finally, this songs makes frees me from all the stressors in everyday life....
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...While writing about the various power players in history, I developed the theory that the source of their success could almost always be traced to one single skill or unique quality that separated them from others. For Napoleon, it was his remarkable ability to absorb a massive amount of detail and organize it in his mind. This allowed him to almost always know more than his rival generals about what was going on. After observing Fifty and talking to him about his past, I decided that the source of his power is his utter fearlessness. This quality does not manifest itself in yelling or obvious intimidation tactics. Any time Fifty acts that way in public it is pure theater. Behind the scenes, he is cool and calculating. His lack of fear is displayed in his attitude and his actions. He has seen and lived through too many dangerous encounters on the streets to be remotely fazed by anything in the corporate world. If a deal is not to his liking, he will walk away and not care. If he needs to play a little rough and dirty with an adversary, he goes at it without a second thought. He feels supreme confidence in himself. Living in a world where most people are generally timid and conservative, he always has the advantage of being willing to do more, to take risks, and to be unconventional. Coming from an environment in which he never expected to live past the age of twenty-five, he feels like he has nothing to lose, and this brings him tremendous...
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...Eminem the Role Model April Allen Bernard Bongang Eng 215 October 24, 2012 Eminem and His Importance A person’s past does not necessarily depict his or her future. Eminem is a perfect example of a how a person reacts to his or her past can create or destroy his or her future. Eminem grew up on the streets. He lived the hood life; scraping for pennies and scraps. He constantly argued with his drunken mother. He played the roles of father, mother, and brother to his younger sister. Eminem worked at jobs for little to nothing to help provide. As his life matured he battled with his daughter’s mother. This could have broken him down; for many it would have. Instead of lying around and creating self-pity for himself he went and made something of his self. The Music Eminem’s music is pure success. His success took hard work and effort, but with his dedication it took flight. He battled other individuals who were in the rap game, and Eminem’s quick emotional lyrics dropped them where they stood. Even the most street thug rappers could not compare to what Eminem brought to the stage. He poured his personal emotions and experiences into his music. People can relate to reality. Eminem’s music was a cold, harsh reality. His music expressed his struggles from day to day, not what he saw transpire in the streets amongst other individuals. His music, his lyrics, his reality was the reality for his listeners. Even the listeners who were not experiencing hardships of Eminem’s...
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...chest. That is exactly what Eminem wants to do in his hip-hop/rap song “Cleanin’ out my Closet.” In the music video, it portrays Eminem shoveling up the moist dirt and aggressively throwing it onto the ground. However, as Eminem is shoveling, the camera takes a sudden turn to where you are looking at everything from above. I first noticed the shape of a rectangle or what seems to be a grave. When first seeing the music video, I thought Eminem was burying his mother because of how much she physically abuses him, but I then thought to myself, it could be him destroying the provocative memories of his past and the hidden secrets that came with it. “Cleanin’ out my Closet” by Eminem displays the struggles of a young boy, and how he successfully overpowers them as he ages by revealing all of his hidden secrets. Growing up, Eminem moves back and forth between Detroit, Michigan, and Missouri due to his mother’s inability to keep a job (Eminem Par. 2). This constant moving and switching of schools at least twice a year are just two of the many obstacles Eminem has faced during his childhood. Being shoved into lockers and being brutally beaten in bathrooms and hallways is some of the things he remembers from his past. As he ages, Eminem writes his song “Cleanin’ out my Closet” which accuses his mother of being abusive and having addiction problems. Deborah Mathers, Eminem’s mother, sued him for 10 million dollars in 1999, denies all allegations that Eminem states, and resolves the situation...
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...chest. That is exactly what Eminem wants to do in his hip-hop/rap song “Cleanin’ out my Closet.” In the music video, it portrays Eminem shoveling up the moist dirt and aggressively throwing it onto the ground. However, as Eminem is shoveling, the camera takes a sudden turn to where you are looking at everything from above. I first noticed the shape of a rectangle or what seems to be a grave. When first seeing the music video, I thought Eminem was burying his mother because of how much she physically abuses him, but I then thought to myself, it could be him destroying the provocative memories of his past and the hidden secrets that came with it. “Cleanin’ out my Closet” by Eminem displays the struggles of a young boy, and how he successfully overpowers them as he ages by revealing all of his hidden secrets. Growing up, Eminem moves back and forth between Detroit, Michigan, and Missouri due to his mother’s inability to keep a job (Eminem Par. 2). This constant moving and switching of schools at least twice a year are just two of the many obstacles Eminem has faced during his childhood. Being shoved into lockers and being brutally beaten in bathrooms and hallways is some of the things he remembers from his past. As he ages, Eminem writes his song “Cleanin’ out my Closet” which accuses his mother of being abusive and having addiction problems. Deborah Mathers, Eminem’s mother, sued him for 10 million dollars in 1999, denies all allegations that Eminem states, and resolves the situation...
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...beat during a workout. That one song that helps make everything better. That one song that makes me lose my sense of reality, picks me up when I’m down, is “Stan” by Marshall Mathers (Eminem). “Stan” is by far one of Eminem’s greatest songs ever made, it’s one of the songs that made him so popular. I don’t listen to rap but I love listening to “Stan.” It’s one of the deepest songs written and produced by Eminem. This song goes really in-depth about love, suicide, depression, obsession, and murder. I am choosing to interpret this song so you can see it from my point of view. Stan, is the main character from the song he’s a crazy obsessed fan of Eminem. At one point in the song it shows Stan writing a letter to Eminem, he has pictures of Eminem plastered all over his wall. A second part that makes Stan so obsessed is he dyed his hair blond like Eminem’s in the song too. In the first few verses of the song this person “Stan” is a big fan of Eminem and pours his heart out into these letters he writes him. In the letters, he talks about how messed up his life was and still is and how they’re childhoods were so much alike. Including how they should become best friends and they were born from the ghetto, had abusive dads neglected as children’s, and so on. Stan basically explains why he loves Eminem so much, and why they should be together (as...
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