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Marshall Mathers
Origin St. Joseph, Missouri
Years active 1996 - Present
Genre(s) Rap/Hip Hop
Label(s) Shady/Aftermath/Interscope
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972) is an American rapper best known by the stage name Eminem. He is one of today's most popular and controversial rappers, and a Grammy and Oscar-winner. He is of mostly Scottish-American descent, and currently lives in Metro Detroit. Discovered by rapper/producer Dr. Dre, Eminem is known as one of the most skillful and controversial rappers in the industry, becoming a crossover sensation with his debut single "My Name Is" while simultaneously earning respect from the hip-hop community for his lyrical talent. He is noted for his ability to change his own verbal pace (flow) and style multiple times within one song without losing the beat, and has been praised for his skill in alliteration and assonance. He is infamous for the controversy surrounding many of his lyrics. With the enormous success of his sophomore album The Marshall Mathers LP following its release in May 2000, and its subsequent nomination for four Grammy awards including Album of the Year, critics such as GLAAD denounced his lyrics as homophobic, while others complained that it was also extremely misogynistic and violent. In America he is the second-highest selling rapper of all time, behind Tupac Shakur, though the latter has had several posthumous albums released. However, Mathers currently stands at the top of worldwide sales for a rapper selling over 65 million records which was stated on his official site when announcing his greatest hits album.[citation needed]
While generally avoiding overtly political tones previously (or only mentioning them in passing), in late 2004 — just before the election — he released the song "Mosh," which harshly criticizes President George W. Bush and the media, and is also suggested to support the 9/11 Truth Movement. Encore, his fourth major-label album, was released later that year, but was considered by many to be a disappointment in comparison to his previous three albums and only sold half as many albums as The Eminem Show had. His latest release is Curtain Call: The Hits, a compilation which covers many of his past hit songs, and includes three new tracks. Mathers has stated that he is taking a break from solo work but is in no way retiring, as he continues to produce for and collaborate with Shady/Aftermath and G-Unit artists. His latest collaboration being with Trick-Trick, an up-and-coming Detroit rapper, in the song "Welcome 2 Detroit."
Early life
Mathers was born in St. Joseph, Missouri (near Kansas City) to parents Deborah "Debbie" Mathers-Briggs and Marshall Mathers Junior, and spent most of his childhood moving back and forth between Kansas City, and Metro Detroit, including Warren. His father had abandoned the family when Marshall was 15 months old, and the two have not had contact since, save some rejected attempts by his father to contact him after his rise to fame. Constantly moving from home to home, he frequently changed schools, often finding himself to be an outcast in the new communities, and frequently fell victim to bullying. On the song "Brain Damage," he recounted (in greatly exaggerated form) being assaulted in grade school by a classmate named D'Angelo Bailey. Bailey sued soon after the song was released[1], accusing Mathers of libel and privacy infringement; the suit was eventually dismissed in court.
By most accounts, the Mathers family was extremely poor, which was the primary reason for their constant moves, during which Marshall and his mother would often find themselves living in public housing, mobile homes, and under the care of relatives, such as his great-aunt Edna, whom he mentions in "Evil Deeds" (‘‘Encore’’). During this time, Debbie Mathers was legally taking the prescription drugs Vicodin and Valium; Mathers later claimed in numerous interviews and songs that his mother was abusing the drugs,[2] to which she retaliated with a lawsuit pressing defamation charges (see below). In the song "Cleaning Out My Closet" (The Eminem Show, 2002), Mathers also accuses his mother of having Munchausen syndrome by proxy, adding that "my whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't... it makes you sick to your stomach, doesn't it?" This was not the first time someone had suggested she had the disorder; a social worker had made similar comments following a 1996 investigation of her mistreatment of her second child, Nathan Samra-Mathers.
Before dropping out of Lincoln High School in Warren at the age of 17 (after failing ninth grade three times), Mathers made a number of significant acquaintances at the school. This included fellow rapper Proof, who was to become one of his closest friends, the Runyon Avenue Soldiers, and future wife Kimberly Ann "Kim" Scott, with whom he soon developed a long-term relationship. When she became pregnant, Mathers started working on getting a record deal to support his new family; He discusses this in "Never Far" (Infinite, 1996), saying "I got a baby on the way, I don't even got a car...I still stay with my moms...we gotta make some hit records or something [because] I'm tired of being broke..." When the Infinite album failed to generate the revenue and acclaim he had hoped for, she ended their relationship, preventing him from seeing his newborn child, a daughter named Hailey (born December 25, 1999); distraught, he attempted suicide with an overdose of Tylenol analgesics.
fInterested in rap from a young age, Mathers began performing as early as 13, later gaining some popularity with a group, Soul Intent. In 1996, he released his first independent album, named Infinite (of which he sold about 500 copies out of the back of his car.) The album received no airplay and a mixed critical response, with people claiming Eminem's rapping style sounded too similar to Nas and AZ. Drawing on the negative experiences of his life, in 1997 he followed Infinite with The Slim Shady EP demo, which saw his lyrics take a decidedly darker turn, in songs like "No One's Iller" and "Murder Murder," the latter in which he talks about having to commit crimes to feed his daughter. He became famous in the hip-hop underground because of his distinctive, cartoonish style and the fact that he was white in a predominantly black genre. Fellow rapper Snoop Dogg referred to him as rap's "great white American hope" in the song "Bitch Please II."
It is said that rap artist and producer Dr. Dre found Mathers' demo on Interscope Records president Jimmy Iovine's garage floor. While this did not directly lead to a recording contract, Dr. Dre agreed to sign Mathers when he won second place versus Otherwize at the 1997 Rap Olympics freestyle battle (this battle is often confused with his battle against MC Juice at a Scribble Jam tournament in the same year). Other sources state that an executive at the offices of Interscope handed the demo to Iovine who passed it to Dre, which resulted in a contract.
Entering the mainstream
Album cover of The Marshall Mathers LP (2000).
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Album cover of The Marshall Mathers LP (2000).
At Interscope, Mathers released The Slim Shady LP, which went on to be one of the most popular albums of 1999, going triple platinum by the end of the year. With the album's enormous popularity came controversy surrounding many of the album's lyrics. In "'97 Bonnie and Clyde", he describes a trip with his infant daughter, disposing of the body of his wife. Another song, "Guilty Conscience," ends with him encouraging a man to murder his wife and her lover.
The Marshall Mathers LP was released in May 2000, quickly selling 2 million copies. The first single released from the album, The Real Slim Shady, was a huge hit, thanks in part to the catchy rhythm and chorus line.

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The Marshall Mathers LP was released in May 2000, quickly selling 2 million copies. The first single released from the album, The Real Slim Shady, was a huge hit, thanks in part to the catchy rhythm and chorus line, "So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up, please stand up?" (adapted from the catch phrase of the TV quiz show To Tell the Truth). It also created some buzz by insulting celebrities and making dubious claims about them; he implies, among other things, that Christina Aguilera performed oral sex on Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit) and Carson Daly (of MTV's Total Request Live). In his second single, "The Way I Am," he reveals to his fans the pressures from his record company to top "My Name Is" and sell more records, and dismisses the alleged controversial link between music such as that of Marilyn Manson and shootings such as at Columbine High School as absurd, instead blaming the parents. In the third single, "Stan" (which samples Dido's "Thank You"), Eminem attempts to deal with his new-found fame, taking on the perspective of a deranged fan who kills himself and his pregnant girlfriend, mirroring one of the songs on The Slim Shady LP. It is now considered to be one of the classics of the genre.
Mathers has achieved six UK #1 singles beating any other rapper, and has also had the most #1 singles in the UK in the 21st century by an American artist.
Legal troubles
Mathers' rise to celebrity ushered the beginning of his numerous legal troubles. The first of these was his mother's lawsuit against him in September of that year. The lawsuit was motivated by comments on her drug use made in song My Name Is, specifically the lyric "Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to/I just found out my mom does more dope than I do," and similar accusations in numerous interviews. She refuted the statements and demanded more than $10 million in damages for defamation in two lawsuits. After rumors of Debbie dropping the suit, she reached a settlement with her son in 2001 for $25,000, with over $23,000 of it going to her former attorney, Fred Gibson, by a court order.[4] Debbie's request for reconsideration of the settlement was denied by a judge.[5] Mathers' resentful reflections on the case can be heard on the song "Marshall Mathers" (The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000) in the lyrics "my fuckin' bitch mom is suing for 10 million/ she must want a dollar for every pill I've been stealin'" and the self-censored line "your attorney Fred Gibson's a faggot."
With Mathers' rise to stardom, new disputes arose between him and his wife, centered around her dissatisfaction over the graphic fictional account of her husband murdering her and dumping her body in a lake in the songs "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" and "Kim" (The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000). The tension between the couple came to a boiling point when he witnessed her kissing another man, one John Guerrera, outside the Hot Rocks Café in Warren on June 4, 2000. Mathers threatened Guerrera with an unloaded 9 mm semi-automatic gun and allegedly proceeded to pistol-whip him.[6] Guerrera is mentioned in "Sing For The Moment" on The Eminem Show, in the line "you're full of shit too, Guerrera, that was a fist that hit you!" On the previous day, Mathers was allegedly involved in a heated dispute in Royal Oak, Michigan with Douglas Dail, an associate of the rap group Insane Clown Posse, with whom Mathers had an ongoing rivalry. On The Marshall Mathers LP, on the track "Marshall Mathers," Eminem calls ICP's Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent Jay "Faggot 2 Dope," and "Silent Gay," as well "you two little flaming faggots." Furthermore, a skit on this album features Mathers' character "Ken Keniff" (a stereotypically mincing, predatory homosexual) receiving oral sex from the ICP pair. During the confrontation, Mathers was observed to be holding a gun, which he kept pointed at the ground.[7] Being taken into police custody during the Hot Rocks Café incident, Mathers was charged with misdemeanor charges of brandishing a firearm in public, assault with a dangerous weapon, and two counts of concealed weapon possession, in two separate trials for the two incidents. After a plea bargain in the John Guerrera case, which concluded on April 10, 2001, Mathers pleaded guilty to weapon possession in exchange for the assault charges being dropped, receiving two years of probation,[8] and was ordered to pay $100,000 in damages at the conclusion of the case evaluation in 2002.[9] In the Dail case, he pleaded nolo contendere to the charges of firearm possession and brandishing, receiving one year of probation, enforced concurrently with the sentence from the first case.[10] He would later recount the former incident in the song "Soldier" (The Eminem Show, 2002) and the preceding interlude "The Kiss".
While the trials were in the beginning stages, things were only getting worse for Mathers, when on July 7, 2000, Kim attempted suicide in the couple's Sterling Heights, Michigan home by cutting her wrists. Mathers talks about this incident from Hailie's point of view in the song "When I'm Gone" from the CD Curtain Call: The Hits.[11] This prompted Marshall to file for divorce a few months later,[12] which was promptly countered by Kim with a lawsuit that sought to deny him custody of their daughter and $10 million in defamation damages.[13] Within weeks, however, they settled the lawsuit, and agreed to joint custody of their daughter, with Kim gaining physical custody, granting him "liberal visitation rights."[14] By the end of the year, the couple reconciled, agreeing to dismiss divorce claims and live together.[15] Mathers mentions her suicide attempt and the Hot Rocks Café incident on the Xzibit song "Don't Approach Me" (Restless, 2000).
The reconciliation, however, would not last, as she filed for divorce in 2001, which was finalized in October of that year, granting joint physical and legal custody of Hailie to both parties, as well as requiring Mathers to make child support payments.[16] There was further turbulence in their relationship when Kim was sentenced to two years of probation for felony cocaine possession in 2003. This was not her first such incident, as she had previously faced similar charges in 2001, although they were eventually dropped.[17] The incident was not to be her last, however, as she was sentenced to 30 days in jail in 2004, after failing a drug test for cocaine while still on probation.[18] Mathers makes numerous references to her cocaine use on the Encore album, including "mama developed a habit" in the songs "Puke" and "Mockingbird," respectively. Their relationship since their divorce was subject to many contradictory rumors and statements in his music and remained in an indecisive "on-again, off-again" state for a long time.

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