Marshall Bruce Mathers (born October 17, 1972),[1] better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.Eminem was
born Marshall Bruce Mathers on October 17, 1972 in Saint Joseph, Missour.At 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 rejected by most fellow rappers because of his race, Marshall grew an anger
that flows through his music to this day. 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. He says that it just wasn’t for him. 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. 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. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album,
The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo
album in United States history.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 LPs. He then won the award again in 2010 for his album Relapse, giving him a total of 11 Grammys in his career.
In 2003, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself" from the film, 8 Mile, in which he also played the lead. "Lose Yourself" would
go on to become the longest running No. 1 hip hop single.Eminem is the best-selling artist of the decade on the US Nielsen SoundScan and has sold more
than 80 million albums worldwide to date, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. In 2010, Eminem released his seventh studio album
Recovery. It became Eminem's sixth consecutive number-one album in the US and achieved international commercial success, charting at number one in several other
countries.Eminem was ranked 79th on the VH1 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time. He was also ranked 82nd on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists
of All Time. He was also named the Best Rapper Alive by Vibe magazine in 2008. Including his work with D12, Eminem has achieved nine No. 1 albums on the
Billboard Top 200, 7 solo (6 studio albums, 1 compilation) and 2 with D12. Eminem has had 13 number one singles worldwide. In December 2009, Eminem was named the
Artist of the Decade by Billboard magazine.[12] His albums The Eminem Show, The Marshall Mathers LP, and Encore (in order) ranked as the 3rd,7th and
40th best-selling albums of the 2000–2009 decade by Billboard magazine. Also according to Billboard, Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest
selling albums of the 2000s.Although he had a brief cameo in the 2001 film, The Wash, Eminem made his official Hollywood acting debut with the semi-autobiographical
8 Mile, released in November 2002. He has said the movie is not an account of his life, but a representation of growing up in Detroit.Eminem has participated in
various voice acting roles. Some of these include the video game 50 Cent: Bulletproof, where he voices an aging corrupt police officer who speaks in Ebonics and
guest spots on the Comedy Central television show Crank Yankers, and a web cartoon called The Slim ShadOn October 21, 2008, Eminem released a tell-all autobiography
entitled The Way I Am, which details his struggles with poverty, drugs, fame, heartbreak and depression, along with stories about his rise to fame and commentary on
past controversies. This book also contains some of the original lyric sheets from songs such as "Stan" and "The Real Slim Shady.
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