Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Profile of the World American Rapper Eminem

     Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is a rapper best known, and also worked as a record producer and actor from America. Eminem gained popularity in 1999 with its main debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The next album, The Marshall Mathers LP, to sell the fastest selling solo album in the history of the United States. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and he made a side project that is the group, called D12, with mainstream recognition. Marshall Mathers LP and his third album, The Eminem Show, also won Grammy Awards, making Eminem became the first artist to win the Best Rap Album for three consecutive LPs. He went on to win the award again in 2010 for his album Relapse and Recovery in 2011 for his album, giving a total of 13 Grammys in his career. In 2003, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself" from the film, 8 Mile, where he also became a major role in the film. "Lose Yourself" continues to run a hip hop song # 1. He was released the next album after Encore, Relapse is, on May 15, 2009. Eminem is the best-selling artist in a decade in the U.S. Nielsen SoundScan, and has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide to date, making him one of the artists of the world's fastest selling album. In 2010, Eminem released seventh studio album Recovery. The album was a commercial success internationally, and to chart number one in several other countries. The album was last at number-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart for five consecutive weeks and a total of seven weeks. Recovery was reported by Billboard to be the best selling album of 2010, making Eminem became the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history of success in the past two years. Recovery was also crowned as the Best Selling Digital Album In History. In addition, Eminem also acts as a record producer for other artists, including rapper 50 Cent and the rap group D12 which is also known as Detroit Dirty Dozen and D-Twizzy. Eminem also has starred in several feature films in between, Da Hip Hop Witch (2000), The Wash (2001), 8 Mile (2002) demonstrated his controversial behavior when he was involved with drugs and medicines. Even in August 2005, he had thwarted his concert with a reason to undergo rehabilitation. The next controversy is shown when he was having 'marriage-breaking' over and over again. Eminem married to Kim Mathers on June 14, 1999, then split up in August 2000. They were married again on December 15, 2000, then divorced again on October 11, 2001, married again last January 15, 2006 and divorced again December 19, 2006.
Early life 

     Eminem Born with the name of Marshall Bruce Mathers III on October 17, 1972 in Saint Joseph, Missouri the only child of a partner Deborah R. Nelson Mathers-Briggs and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr.. When he was 18 months old, his father left them, and he was living alone by his mother grew up in poverty. At the age of 12 years, Mathers and his mother often moved between a residence in the cities in Missouri (including Saint Joseph, Savannah and Kansas City), before finally settling in Warren, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Eminem at first doubted his ability in the field of rap, because it was thought that the rapper can only be done by the negroid. But Eminem says other talents, he could be one of the best rapper in the world. 

Discography
  1. Infinite (1996)
  2. The Slim Shady LP (1999)
  3. The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
  4. The Eminem Show (2002)
  5. Encore (2004)
  6. Relapse (2009)
  7. Recovery (2010)

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