Life story of Eminem - A.K.A Slim Shady (Life can be cruel but he withstood the difficulties of his life)
THE HARD LIFE OF EMINEM AND THE WILL TO NEVER GIVE UP NO MATTER WHAT, MADE HIM ACHIEVE EVERYTHING HE HAS NOWDAYS. Please read the blog to understand how rough it was for him to achieve everything.
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- Eminem was born from a poor and working class family in October 17, 1972 Marshall Bruce Mathers III just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. He never knew his father and his father abandoned him when he was just 3 years old and he was raised along with a younger half-brother by his mother, Debbie Mathers-Briggs, who moved the family to a predominately black neighborhood on the East side of Detroit when Mathers was 11.
- During his childhood, Eminem and Debbie shuttled between Michigan and Missouri, rarely staying in one house for more than a year or two and living primarily with family members. ... Eminem spent much of his youth in a working-class, primarily black, Detroit neighborhood.
- He changed schools 2-3 times a year, imagine how how rough that is.
- He was a shy kid in the school and got beaten up in bathroom,hallways, and ignored by black guys around the place the whole time.
- He was physically abused by a drug addicted mother wich turned him into a troubled child.
- At age 9, he was beaten so badly by a school bully that he spend over a week in a coma.
- After failling 9th grade thrice, he dropped out of school at 17, just with the hope of becoming the successful rapper.
- He entered the "Rap battles with a hope of trying to make a name for himself" where the goal was to make the cleverest rhymes and best insults to the guy your faced, saying lots of rhymed words just to prove you are better then him.
- His 1st few albums failed, wich got him under severe depression.
- At the age 23, he struggled to raise his newborn daughter called "Hailie" born in December 25th of 1995. He even had to wash dishes for a low salary to keep the house running and help his mother pay the bills.
- In 2006, he got a divorce from his childhood love wich further added to his deppresion.
- He slipped further into drug addiction and got overdosed wich nearly killed him.
- Then he realized the true value of life and thought of what whould have happened to his daughter if he had died, he started learning how not to be so angry and how to count his blessing instead.
- And then, he finally found his reason to live, wich made him the greatest rapper of all time.
- Dr. Dre found Eminem and asked him to work for Dre and make his albums.
- Working with Dr.Dre for him was like a dream coming true because he sold thousands of copies of his few first albums that he created working with Dr.Dre wich helped him reach a fame he never even though he could possible achieve.
- His 2000 album, "The Marshall Mathers LP", sold 1.76 million copies in the first week of release in the U.S., a record for a solo artist.
- On March 23, 2003 his song "Lose Yourself" from the film 8 Mile (2002) became the first rap song to win an Academy Award. He was not in attendance, and one of the song's co-writers, Luis Resto, accepted the Oscar on his behalf.
Here's one of the first interviews of the Eminem's life story.
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As he was becoming even more famous and developing his freedom of speech he also had help to make the own version of him talking about his life wich is an tremendous exaple to never give up no matter what life proves you with. Watch the video bellow:
Here's a 4 minute Video of Eminem Talking about his journey through life.
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There are couple more videos and interviews also documentaries like:
Eminem - The Glory Years [Documentary] [2005]
and
Eminem: King Of Hip Hop (Documentary) 2010
I've made the research myself and i know there is much more to tell about Eminem's biography, but i didnt want to make the blog to boring for the Steemians and my followers over here in @steemit.
This is my own @originalworks and i've done this to show every human that nothing is unreachable and everything can be achieved with a hard work and the will to never give up.
Keep up the journey of your life, have a purpose of living, practise your skills on whatever you feel you are good at.
Afterall "Practise makes perfect"
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STOPGreat article. However, some of the information is inaccurate. And my intention is not to ridicule your research. I just wanted to assist you with accurate information.
Jimmy Iovine, Interscope Records CEO, should be credited for discovering Eminem's music, then introducing it to Dr. Dre. If Jimmy never played Eminem's music, Dr. Dre would have never heard of Eminem. Also, that event was in 1997; so the chronlogy of the events listed is inaccurate.
Eminem's epiphany of defining his life purpose did not make him the greatest rapper. The reason he is arguably the greatest rapper is because of his passion of honing the art of rap. You don't become the greatest by epiphanies, but by hard work and practice. This motivation occured when Eminem created his alter ego, Slim Shady.
The reason working with Dr. Dre was a dream is because his favorite rap group was N.W.A. and Tupac. Your rationale for working with Dr. Dre was unforeseen at that moment.
Eminem's drug overdose occured in 2007, well beyond after meeting Dr. Dre in 1997. This occured years after his 2004 release, "Encore", and hence the title of his 2009 project, "Relapse", followed by the 2010 album, "Recovery".
Eminem was never restricted with his freedom of speech (he never had to develop freedom of speech). Since his first commerical album as "Slim Shady", he spoke freely regardless of the consequence. This controversy is partly the reason the public media gave him even more attention. Fortunately for him, we was also an exceptional songwriter.
His first few albums were not a failure. That's a very subjective situation. His earlier projects with Detroit's top battle emcees, Proof and D12, made a lot of noise locally. Perhaps his debut album, Infinite, acheived little commercial success, but once his next project, Slim Shady EP, was released it gained the attention of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. Success. In fact, Eminem was actually appreciated by the underground hip-hop audiences during his stinct as a battle rapper.
In addition to the previous comment, the so-called failure didn't give him severe depression. The negative response of his debut album, Infinite, actually angered him, which eventually created his alter ego, "Slim Shady". In other words, it motivated him. Severe depression would create the opposite result -- lack of motivation.
As a side note to consider: statistically, a lot of rappers during his era and prior, was raised poor without a father. In other words, his upbringing is not particularly an unique circumstance compared to his peers. Having said that, I'm not talking away his experiences of getting bullied and the abuse from his mother.
I hope that cleared up any misinformation. I encourage you to dig deeper with the research so that whatever you post is absolutely accurate, except of course if its based on subjective opinions.
Thaks but it was never my intention to make blog to long and i just wanted to cover few points of eminem's life and i didnt want to make blog boring for followers.
I also figured out that you have a problem with patience @scuzzy since you didnt read the blog till the end and therefore i mementioned these things.
If you readed those you would'' have been so mean.
Hey, yes I read to the end. The problem is you didn't do your research properly because the majority of your information was inaccurate and false. When you're doing research-based articles to be presented as truth, it must be factual and accurate. If your intention was to lie, then I apologize, you succeeded. You say "practice makes perfect"; I see you have a lot of practice to do.
If I didn't have patience, I wouldn't have written the post my friend. Please do not be offended. I was just trying to help.
Thanks for advices i appreciate it and i didnt get offended because i thanked you anyway noone of those i mentioned was a lie nor missinformation you could just have said that i didnt put them in a regular way and thats my bad and making the blog shorter made me avoid some stuff but it doesnt mean i didnt dig that deep
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