2 on the Billboard charts within weeks, and was 3 times platinium.In between albums, Eminem appeared on Dre’s Dr. Dre, and within the first hour, they had already started recording "My Name Is", and Dre agreed to produce his first album, the“Slim Shady LP”, scoring a massive hit with the single and video "My Name Is". Dre discovered his demo tape on the floor of Interscope label chief Jimmy Iovine’s garage, but the reality was that Eminem took second place in the freestyle category at 1997’s Rap Olympics MC Battle in Los Angeles and Iovine approached the rapper for a tape afterward.Įminem emerged in 1999 as one of the most controversial rappers to ever grace the genre. 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.His very first album was titled "Infinite" and sold less than a thousand.Īccording to legend, Dr. Drafting in a few other friends, the group became known as D-12, a six-member crew that supported one another as solo artists more than they collaborated. A rapper named Proof performed the B-side on the single and enjoyed working with Eminem so much that he asked him to start yet another group. He first joined the New Jacks, and then moved on to Soul Intent, who released Eminem’s first recorded single in 1995. At the age of 17 he actually made a name for himself as a rapper, becoming M& M (came from his initials M(arshall) M(athers)), which he would later respell as "Eminem".Then He found himself courted by several other rappers to start groups. 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.Eminem began performing at age 14, performing raps in the basement of his high school friend’s home. Marshall Bruce Mathers was born on the 17th October 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
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