
Eminem has also established his own channel, Shade 45, on Sirius XM Radio. Eminem has developed other ventures, including Shady Records, with manager Paul Rosenberg, which helped launch the careers of artists such as 50 Cent. He is also known for his collaborations with fellow Detroit-based rapper Royce da 5'9' the two are collectively known as Bad Meets Evil. In addition to his solo career, Eminem is an original member of the Midwest hip hop groups Soul Intent and D12. These were followed by 2017's Revival and 2018's Kamikaze, the latter being the best-selling hip hop album of 2018. Eminem's eighth album, 2013's The Marshall Mathers LP 2, won two Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Album it expanded his record for the most wins in that category and his Grammy total to 15. Both won Grammy Awards and Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide, the second time he had the international best-selling album of the year (after The Eminem Show). He released Relapse in 2009 and Recovery in 2010. Eminem went on hiatus after touring in 2005 partly due to a prescription drugaddiction. They were followed by Encore in 2004, another critical and commercial success. sales and both winning Best Rap Album Grammy Awards-making Eminem the first artist to win the award for three consecutive LPs. His next two releases, 2000's The Marshall Mathers LP and 2002's The Eminem Show, were worldwide successes, with each being certified diamond in U.S. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP, which earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. Īfter his debut album Infinite (1996) and the extended play Slim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. He is consistently cited as one of the greatest and most influential artists of all time in hip hop, with Rolling Stone placing him in its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and labeling him the 'King of Hip Hop'. The album was buoyed by the commercial success of the singles "My Name Is" and "Guilty Conscience" (the former helped by a striking, MTV-friendly video), and climbed to number 2 on the US album chart in March 1999.Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem ( / ˌ ɛ m ɪ ˈ n ɛ m/ often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, record executive, film producer, and actor. Parody or no parody, lyrics to tracks such as "97 Bonnie & Clyde" (which contained lines about killing the mother of his child) and frequent verbal outbursts about his mother were held by many, outside even the usual Christian moral majority, to be deeply irresponsible. Dre's beats featured prominently on The Slim Shady LP, a provocative feast of violent, twisted lyrics, with a moral outlook partially redeemed by Eminem's claim to be only "voicing" the thoughts of the Slim Shady character. Dre, who adopted the young rapper as his protege and acted as co-producer on Eminem's full-length debut. As a result, Eminem was signed to Aftermath Records by label boss Dr. The stand-out track, "Just Don't Give A fuck", became a highly popular underground hit, and led to guest appearances on MC Shabaam Sahddeq's "Five Star Generals" single and Kid Rock's Devil Without A Cause set. The following year's The Slim Shady EP, named after his sinister alter-ego, featured some vitriolic attacks on his detractors. His determination to succeed was given a boost by a prominent feature in Source's Unsigned Hype column, and he gained revenge on his former critics when he won the Wake Up Show's Freestyle Performer Of The Year award, and finished runner-up in Los Angeles' annual Rap Olympics.

Infinite was poorly received, however, with Eminem earning unfavourable comparisons to leading rappers such as Nas and AZ. The newly named Eminem released a raw debut album in 1997 through independent label FBT. He took up rapping in high school before dropping out in ninth grade, joining ad hoc groups Basement Productions, the New Jacks, and D12. Mathers endured an itinerant childhood, living with his mother in various states before eventually ending up in Detroit at the age of 12. This white rapper burst onto the US charts in 1999 with a controversial take on the horrorcore genre. Eminem, born Marshall Bruce Mathers III, 17 October 1973, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
