The album showed off Eminem's poetic talents as well as his emotional and artistic range. 'The Marshall Mathers LP' (2000)Įminem released his second studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP, in May 2000. Eminem's first single, "My Name Is," mixed a childish humor and energy with rampant profanity and flashes of violence - a potent and fascinating combination that felt different from anything else in rap. The heavily hyped record became an instant success, going on to sell over three million copies. In 1999, after two years of working with Dre, Eminem released The Slim Shady LP. Dre was so impressed that he signed Eminem to his Interscope Records label. Dre, the legendary rapper and former producer of Eminem's favorite rap group N.W.A.Īfter Eminem traveled to Los Angeles and became runner-up in the 1997 Rap Olympics MC Battle, Dre listened to the rapper's cassette in the basement of executive Jimmy Iovine's home. In 1997 Eminem released The Slim Shady EP, which was discovered by Dr. As much as any other individual artist, he is responsible for rap's transformation into a mainstream music genre. This period in Eminem's life-working odd jobs to make ends meet while participating in rap battles and desperately attempting to land a record contract-was later dramatized in Eminem's semi-autobiographical film from 2002, 8 Mile.Įminem went on to become one of the most acclaimed rappers in the genre's brief history. And it started to feel like, you know, maybe Marshall's gettin' a little respect." You know what I mean? He can't write what I'm writing right now. He recalled, "I finally found something that yeah, this kid over here, you know, he may have more chicks, and he may, you know, have better clothes, or whatever, but he can't do this like me. Eminem proved highly skilled at such verbal sparring and, despite his race, quickly became one of the most respected figures in Detroit's underground rap scene.
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Kim, who claimed that she didn't know her father and had been sexually abused by her stepfather, came to live with Eminem and his mother Deborah.Īlthough at the time rap music was almost exclusively produced by Black people, Eminem, who has pale white skin and bright blue eyes, nevertheless entered into the Detroit rap scene as a frequent competitor in rap "battles"-competitions in which two rappers take turns insulting the other through improvised rap lyrics. You know, somewhere, they'll be stored, like, locked away." Ex-Wife and DaughterĮminem was just 15 when he met 13-year-old Kim Ann Scott at a house party. I just felt like I wanna be able to have all of these words at my disposal, in my vocabulary at all times whenever I need to pull 'em out. "I found that no matter how bad I was at school, like, and no matter how low my grades might have been at some times, I always was good at English. Yet despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity for language, devouring comic books and even studying the dictionary. "Beat up in the bathroom, beat up in the hallways, shoved into lockers," he remembered.Įminem attended Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan, where he failed the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17. He had no close friends, kept almost entirely to himself and was treated like an outcast at each new school. This itinerant lifestyle left a large impact on his personality. "That was probably the roughest part about it all." "I would change schools two, three times a year," Eminem later recalled. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.” “There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act and they know they're an act. It's the music that I love and the music I respect.” “A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people.
But just know that 'Slim Shady' is hip-hop. But I think I've calmed down a bit.” “Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. Never even seen a picture of him.” “I'm not afraid to take a stand.” “Opportunity comes once in a lifetime.” “Anything I've ever said I certainly meant at the time. “There's obviously a limit to what people want to know, but I've pretty much put most of it out there.” “The emotions in a song, the anger, the aggression, have got to be legitimate.” “I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.” “My father? Never knew him.
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