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Real Name: Marshall Bruce Mathers III Education: Place Of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA |
A protégé of Dr. Dre, rapper Eminem emerged in 1999 as one of the
most controversial rappers to ever grace the genre. Using his biting wit and incredible skills to vent on everything from his
unhappy childhood to his contempt for the mainstream media, his success became the biggest crossover
success the genre had seen since Dre's solo debut seven years earlier.
The controversy over his lyrics was the best publicity any musician could afford, and being the first Caucasian rapper to make a significant impact in years ...
The average rapper wouldn't be able to grace the pages of Rap Pages, VIBE, Rolling Stone, Spin, The Source,
URB and Stress and go on a national tour months before their major-label debut album is released. Then again,
Eminem isn't an average rapper. He's phenomenal.
The impending release of the The Slim Shady LP, his first set on Aftermath/Interscope Records, already has underground hip-hop heads fiending for Eminem.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III, 17 October 1973, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, although 1972 is also listed
by some sources. This white rapper burst onto the US charts in 1999 with a controversial take on the
horrorcore genre. Mathers endured an itinerant childhood, living with his mother in various states
before eventually ending up in Detroit at the age of 12.
He took up rapping in high school before dropping out in ninth grade, joining ad hoc groups Basement Productions ...
