After the release of his album Relapse, Eminem became the best selling rapper of all time. In the UK, Eminem is one of the best selling overseas artists ever having sold over 12.5 million records. According to Billboard, Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest selling albums of the 2000s. His albums The Eminem Show, The Marshall Mathers LP, and Encore (in order) ranked as the 3rd, 7th, and 40th best album of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard Magazine. In December, 2009 Eminem was named the Artist of the Decade by Billboard Magazine. Including his work with D12, Eminem has achieved eight #1 albums on the Billboard Top 200 and 12 number one singles worldwide. He was also named the Best Rapper Ever by Vibe magazine. Eminem was ranked 82nd on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the decade, and has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide to date, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. He released his first album since 2004's Encore, titled Relapse, on May 15, 2009. Eminem then went on hiatus after touring in 2005. "Lose Yourself" would go on to become the longest running #1 hip-hop single. In 2002, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Lose Yourself " from the film, 8 Mile, in which he also played the lead. He then won the award again in 2010 for his album Relapse, giving him a total of 11 Grammys in his career. The Marshall Mathers LP and his third album, The Eminem Show, also won Grammy Awards, making Eminem the first artist to win Best Rap Album for three consecutive LP's. He helped produce several tracks and was on the best songs of the album. Dre asked Marshall to come work with him on his new album. The two instantly hit it off, recording four songs in the their first six hours of working - three which made it to his first LP. Dre got to hear it and eventually tracked him down. In the crowd were a few producers from Interscope, and they were handed a copy of the "Infinite" tape by way of a demo. Dr. Furious that he had lost, Marshall didn't even notice that he had been spotted. After battling for an hour and throwing back every race diss thrown at him, Marshall made it to second place losing in a slip up. Down to nearly his last dime, he went into the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles, basically hoping to win the $1,500 cash price which he badly needed. What came out of this was the Slim Shady EP, the early work for the later Dr. Having nothing to lose at all, flat broke and not knowing where he would be living the next week, Marshall set out to rant about life in general, the set quickly caught the ear of hip-hop's difficult-to-please underground. It was then that his daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott.
His very first album was titled "Infinite" and, while the album sold less than a thousand copies, it was the gearing up stages for the rapper who became a millionaire. Forcing himself on radio shows, freestyle battles, Marshall threw himself head first into the rap game, where he was swallowed up most of the time. After failing the 9th grade for three times in a row, he quit school, but remarks that he doesn't consider himself stupid and doesn't advise that people should follow his example. Being rejected by most fellow rappers because of his race, Marshall grew an anger that flows through his music to this day. Rhyming words together, battling schoolmates in the lunchroom brought joy to what was otherwise a painful existence.Īt the age of 14, he began to get very serious about his rapping but it wasn't until he was 17 that he actually made a name for himself, becoming M& M, which he would later respell as "Eminem". Being a rap fan for most of his life, Marshall began rapping at the early age of 4. Switching schools every two to three months made it difficult to make friends, graduate and to stay out of trouble. He settled on the Eastside of Detroit when he was 12. Son of a fifteen-year-old mother at the time of his birth and a father who left six month later never to return, Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved back and forth from Kansas City and Detroit. Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on the 17th October 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
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