Eminem conquered the listener in many ways by the fact that he did not hesitate to tell personal and even intimate stories from his life.
Including those that concerned his closest people. Let's remember them by name.
Mother
Deborah Nelson is probably the main irritant for our hero. Having encroached on the main American virtue - love for his own mother - he was known as the number one troublemaker in the United States. In his songs, the mother appears to be extremely alcohol and drug addicted, and in the film "8 Mile" her heroine has sex with a classmate of the protagonist. Deborah did not remain in debt and filed a lawsuit against her son - the amount of the claim was $ 10 million.
Quote from the song:"Mom, are you there? I love you. I didn't mean to hit you in the head with a shovel."
In the song "Role Model", Eminem violates almost all the norms of American morality (including speaking badly about his mother), and in 2009 he records a song that puts all the points in their relationship.
Father
Marshall Bruce Mathers. This is all we know about him: when his son was one and a half years old, the parent left the family, which the rapper still remembers to this day.
Quote from the song:"He left me and I don't even know if he kissed me goodbye. Even then I secretly hoped that this goat would die" (Cleanin Out My Closet)
"Cleanin Out My Closet" - a statement on the theme of all members of the Marshall family at once: got both the mother, and Kim, and the father.
Wife
He met his future wife Kim Eminem at the age of 15. At 27, he got married, then divorced and repeated the whole procedure again. In between, he got on the pages of the tabloids for rushing at his wife's boyfriend with a pistol, and at the same time attended court hearings, figuring out what he said about Kim in his songs that, having heard them, she tried to open her veins ...
Quote from the song:"For so long - bitch, for so long you hurt me! I don't want to continue living in this world without you" (Kim).
The very first song about Kim Marshall wrote for his debut album "Infinity": in it, he and his daughter are driving Kim's corpse in the car. The second is also related to the automotive theme: a very drunk character Eminem takes Kim into the night, promising to "return her in the trunk."
Daughter
Eminem is raising two daughters: in addition to Hayley Jade Mathers, Laney, the daughter of Kim's sister, is under his care. Haley herself is now 16 years old, the latest news about her was that she appeared on Twitter last year. There are no photographs of condoms there yet, but there are, for example, pictures with a bottle of vodka.
Quote from the song:"My God, I'm a father, and I'm so glad this girl's mom didn't have an abortion" (Hailey's Song).
On the album "The Eminem Show" there are two whole songs about Haley: in one of them, Marshall appears as a loving father, in the other, he sneers at the prevailing opinion of him as a drug addict and a dangerous pervert who should not be allowed to children.
Uncle
"Uncle Ronnie" was only two months older than Marshall himself and remained his best friend in childhood (it was he who gave the future rapper his first hip-hop album - the soundtrack to the film Breaking). When Marshall was 19 years old, Ronnie committed suicide. According to Eminem himself, he wanted to do the same, but then decided, on the contrary, to change something in his life. The name Ronnie is found only in a few of his songs; he is reluctant to talk about this topic.
Quote from the song:"Do you remember when Ronnie died, you said it was better it was me. So: for you I am deader than all the dead" (Cleanin "Out My Closet).
“I know about your uncle and I am sorry for you,” a fan writes to Emu in one of his most famous songs. In addition, Ronnie's name is mentioned in two or three tracks.
Everyone knows that records are set in professional sports, in the height of houses and the speed of vehicles. However, the desire to achieve outstanding quantitative indicators and fix them, oddly enough, is also present in modern culture.
In September 2014, the next version of the Guinness Book of Records was published. In addition to the usual achievements recorded in it, several well-known musicians got on the pages of the publication. Including - Shakira, Miley Cyrus, Metallica, Katy Perry and some others.
How many words does Eminem read per minute?
Eminem set a word-per-minute record when he sang the song "Rap Year" - the famous rapper in six minutes and four seconds pronounces one thousand five hundred and sixty words. So how many words per minute does Eminem read? The simplest calculation shows - 243.75 words!
However, Eminem's record for the speed of rap execution did not last long. Drum & Bass MC Harry Schott beat him. This achievement has not yet been recorded by experts. However, in six minutes and twenty-three seconds, while the track "Animal" lasts, its performer utters 1,771 words, which is 211 more than before. Harry Schott himself claims that he did not strive for special fame, he just tried to have fun ... as a result, he was an outstanding success. It is not known how true this is ... but Schott's excess of aplomb seems to be uncharacteristic.
The similarity of both tracks in terms of sound and tempo of performance is quite understandable: otherwise it is impossible to achieve such a speed of pronunciation. Let's hope that the performer will still be able to mobilize, tune in properly and surpass his opponent, creating a new record for the number of words per minute. But even if for some reason this does not work out, he will still be one of the most outstanding rapper recitative in the history of music!
The track, during which Eminem set a word-per-minute record last year, is part of The Marshall Mathers LP 2. This composition, according to one of the ratings, had the highest demand for no less than twenty weeks. The song was first performed back in 2013 at YouTube Music Awards 2013 and then at MTV EMA 2013. The average execution speed reaches 4.28 words per second.
Eminem and the word per minute record - video
You can convince yourself of the reality of such outstanding and stunning speech rates yourself by watching a short video:
On November 5, Eminem released The Marshall Mathers LP 2, a new album following the cult 2000 The Marshall Mathers LP. 14 years ago, the rapper became famous thanks to his alter ego Slim Shady - a fictional maniac who described his crimes in paints and wiped his feet on pop stars.
Since then, Eminem calmed down his ardor, remembered that his real name was Marshall Mathers, and pushed Shady into the background. But notoriety and scandals remained an important part of Eminem's story. And we remembered the 12 most shocking songs of the artist.
My name is
The opening track from Eminem's first big recording: the performer introduces himself to the public, incidentally saying that he doesn't know who of the Spice Girls he wants to sleep with. Because of the line "I just found out that my mom uses more drugs than me" Eminem sued his mother and paid her 25 thousand dollars. Ten years later, Marshall released the song My Mom, in which he brought the story to the point of absurdity: "My mom loved diazepam and other drugs, so I am like her."
Guilty Conscience
Album The Slim Shady LP (1999)
In Guilty Conscience, Eminem acts as an inner demon and pushes ordinary people into assorted sins. To robbing stores ("Nobody cares if you shoot the seller"), rape of drunken minors ("She will still pass out and forget how she got here") and the murder of unfaithful wives ("While you are at work, she has fun - here it is not even necessary slash down the throat, and cut off the head! "). Dr. Dre tries to dissuade the heroes of the song from rash acts, but in the end goes over to Eminem's side and invites the unfortunate husband to shoot his wife.
"97 Bonnie and Clyde
Album The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Eminem with daughter Hayley
Masterfully told story: Eminem drives his daughter to the beach to dispose of her mother's corpse ("Where is mom? She fell asleep in the trunk. Smells bad? We must have run over a skunk"). Eerie touch number one: the rapper constantly addresses his daughter, using childish words and intonations and literally on his fingers explaining to her what happened. At the end of the track, the wife goes to the bottom of the lake, and the father and daughter go to build sand castles. Eerie touch number two: the child's voice in the song belongs to Eminem's real daughter, Haley - the rapper told his wife that he would go with the child to the Chuck E. Cheese's diner, but in fact went to the studio.
The real slim shady
The Marshall Mathers LP lacked a hit single, and at the last moment Eminem and Dr. Dre made The Real Slim Shady - a pop song that makes fun of ... pop songs. Marshall went to all the prominent performers of the time, from Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera to Limp Bizkit. Will Smith got the most: at the 1999 MTV VMA ceremony, he boasted that he did not need to swear and be a gangster to be successful - in general, he openly admitted the commercial orientation of his music. Eminem said bluntly, “Will Smith doesn't have to swear to sell records. But I need it. So he went to ***, and you, too, go to ***. The Real Slim Shady has become one of Eminem's most successful songs. Key singles from the next three albums (Without Me, Just Lose It and We Made You) also criticized pop stars.
Kim
The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Eminem and his wife Kim during one of the peaceful periods of their marriage
A kind of prequel to 97 Bonnie & Clyde - if Eminem was trying to get rid of his wife's corpse there, then in the first two verses of Kim she is still alive. Perhaps this is the most shocking track of The Marshall Mathers LP - there are not even Slim Shady's typical jokes: during for five minutes, the rapper screams heart-rendingly, takes his wife out into the forest, and then slits her throat with a shout: “Bleed, bitch, bleed!” At the time of the release of the song, Kim Mathers was still Eminem's wife and, upon hearing her, tried to commit suicide by cutting the veins.
Criminal
The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
The same performance of a rapper and a pop legend
The final track The Marshall Mathers LP clearly clarifies the views of Slim Shady, Eminem's dark alter ego: “My words are like a serrated dagger - they will pierce your head, whether you are gay or lesbian, hermaphrodite or transvestite. Do I hate homosexuals? The answer is yes. " The American Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation criticized the song and said the rapper approves of violence against gays and lesbians. Eminem replied that these lines were written only to infuriate people, and a year later at the Grammy ceremony he sang the song Stan with Elton John.
Cleanin "Out My Closet
Album The Eminem Show (2002)
Eminem was never shy about telling listeners about his life, but he usually presented these stories on behalf of Slim Shady, mixing reality with fiction. In Cleanin "Out My Closet, the rapper moved away from his usual practice and told everything he thinks about his mother Deborah, without hiding behind masks." Hayley is growing, you should see her, she is beautiful. to your funeral, "is the least the rapper talks about. On the track Headlights from The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem apologizes to Deborah for everything he sang about her before.
We As Americans
Album Encore (2004)
Eminem's first political attacks appeared on the album The Eminem Show (in the video Without Me, the singer ran in a suit of Osama bin Laden), but they played in full force on Encore. The US Secret Service drew attention to the track We As Americans: in the line "I'd rather see the president dead" they saw a threat to the life of George W. Bush.
Insane
Album Relapse (2009)
On The Eminem Show and Encore, the insane Slim Shady often gave way to the serious Eminem. The maniac's grand comeback took place in 2009 on the album Relapse, which consisted almost entirely of shock content. For example, Insane is a song about how a fictional stepfather raped a rapper as a child at home, in a toilet, in a barn ... in general, everywhere. It makes no sense to look for the brightest quote from the track - every line here is as sickening as possible.
Stay wide awake
Album Relapse (2009)
A typical track from Relapse - Eminem devotes three verses in a row to a detailed description of the rapist's everyday life: he attacks a pregnant girl in Central Park, silently sneaks into the house of the next victim at night, and the third one waits in the basement. Knives with dull blades, scotch tape, an ax and even an umbrella are used - moreover, Eminem goes into such details that the lyrics of the song quickly cease to seem like a simple horror story. Fun fact: 14 of the 16 lines of the second verse are completely rhymed with each other.
Medicine ball
Album Relapse (2009)
This state of Christopher Reeve caused a lot of fun in Eminem.
By the time Relapse was released, everyone had known for a long time that Eminem could easily walk on any popular star - but few thought that he was ready to jump over graves. In the third verse of Medicine Ball, Slim Shady recalls actor Christopher Reeve ("Superman"), who spent the last nine years of his life in a wheelchair, paralyzed, and died in 2004. The rapper not only laughs at the deceased actor, but even parodies his voice, taking long tense breaths (Reeve practically could not breathe on his own - an electrostimulator was attached to his diaphragm).
I "m On Everything
Album Hell: The Sequel (Bad Meets Evil, 2011)
After the release of Relapse, Eminem said that he was tired of the shocking rap about maniacs, and released the super-successful emo disc Recovery, where he sang with Rihanna. However, a year later the rapper had a creative relapse: as a member of the duet Bad Meets Evil, he and his colleague Royce da 5 "9" "recorded Hell: The Sequel, where he brought Slim Shady back to life. The most hooligan release of the album is the second verse I." m On Everything: Eminem wakes up with a hangover, eats a pill with codeine, in a dead state goes to his dealer, crashes into a tree, and then combines clonazepam with marijuana and invites the listener to be more attentive to his girlfriend (“Watch her, after as we pump you with nonsense, we will deal with it "). Slim Shady at his best!
In 2014, New Zealand's ruling party released a campaign video. It featured a slightly modified melody from “Lose Yourself”. According to representatives, they bought the instrumental on the site - it was signed as "in the style of Eminem". The rapper's party has filed a lawsuit. The judge ruled in favor of the rapper and ordered the party to pay 400 thousand dollars.- White
Eminem is the most famous rapper in the world. However, he is white. On "White America," Marshall discusses how white has influenced his career. “When I was underground, no one gave a fuck I was white” (“When I was in the underground, everyone didn't care that I was white”) - he reads. The thought is that skin color has helped a lot in his career. “Nobody would listen to me if I were black” is one of the main thoughts of the song. As a result, the white guy in the black genre became the best-selling rapper in the world.
- Vicodin and Valium
Two pain relievers from a long list of Eminem's pill experience. He said that he began to use in small doses, but gradually gained momentum. The result was an overdose in 2007. “The first try of Vicodin is 'wow'. It was not just pleasant for me, I stopped feeling pain. I don't remember when this became a problem. I was getting better and better from the pills. People tried to explain to me that I was sick. Fucked them. It's not heroin or coke, ”Eminem said in How To Make Money Selling Drugs.
- "The Eighth Mile"
The cult film about battle rap with Eminem in the title role. The action takes place in Detroit. Marshall plays an aspiring rapper named B-Rabbit and his goal is to win a battle tournament reminiscent of the arcade mode of Mortal Kombat, and at the end meet with the local Shao Kahn. The soundtrack for the film was the track “Lose Yourself” - a song more important than which in the artist's career, perhaps, was not. She also brought Marshall an Oscar. The rapper skipped the awards ceremony because he did not believe in his own success.
- Gays
The rapper has repeatedly touched the LGBT community in his lines, and they wrote complaints about discrimination. The performance of Marshall on the same stage with Sir Elton John in 2001 did not help to relieve tension. The famous singer, by the way, greatly helped the rapper to overcome his addiction, and Eminem even gave him two diamond penis rings for his wedding. Payback came in 2009 at an MTV ceremony. Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, in the guise of his gay movie alter-ego Bruno, descended on a cable in a Cupid costume on Eminem sitting in the hall. Better to see once... Later, however, it became known that the trick was rigged. Eminem said that when he returned to the hotel, he laughed at this joke for several hours.
Later in an interview with the NY Times, the rapper explained that he has no dislike of gays and even supports same-sex marriage. “If two people love each other, then why not? I believe that everyone should have a chance to be equally unhappy. ” - said the artist.
- The Dirty Dozen
She is also a group D12 (dirty dozen). The group included Eminem and five of his high school friends. The collective was a trash-tent from the world of rap and read mainly about drugs, dirty sex and reprisals against haters. After the death of a member of the Proof group in 2006, the group's activity decreased. "Purple Pills" is one of the band's most famous songs. There were so many references to drugs and sex in it that it was shown on the radio in a censored version. So she changed the name to "Purple Hills". The particularly nasty Bizzare verse even had to be cut out completely.
In 2015, D12 (already in the format of the trio Swift, Bizarre and Kuniwa) came to the Cubana festival. There, Bizarre was shot in a bar fight.
Detroit
Eminem's hometown. From Marshall's stories, this is such a huge factory for the production of hopelessness. The city, which was the capital of the American car industry, experienced an economic crisis and an outflow of population in the 2000s, and went bankrupt in 2013. Marshall loves this place no matter what. “We will never turn our backs on you, because we are you. My home, ”he writes in a letter to Detroit.
In 2015, the song “Detroit Vs. Everybody ”, the city's rap anthem. It was read not only by Eminem, but also by fellow countrymen Royce Da 5'9 ”, Danny Brown and Big Sean. Later remixed with the rest of the Detroit lads.
- Dr. Dre
Doc and Marshall met by chance: in the garage of the director of Interscope Records, the Doctor found "Slim Shady EP" and became interested in the young talent. Eminem had already released his debut album "Infinite" by that time, which failed in sales. Marshall is depressed and hasn't rap for six months. Dre finds a rapper, and this is how their long-term collaboration begins.
Thanks to Dre, “Slim Shady EP” turns into a full-length “Slim Shady LP” that made Eminem a star. The success consolidated the video for the song “My Name Is” - the artist's first hit.
- "The Eminem Show"
Fourth studio album in 2002. This time is considered the peak of Marshall's creative form, and “Eminem Show” itself is, if not his best album, then very close to that. Eminem talked about serious things: racism, politics and the impact of music on society. At the same time, he remained the same embittered psycho, juggling rhymes and verbal ulcers. You can read about the disc in our material. - Fat Eminem
This is now Marshall in excellent physical shape, but in 2007 the rapper seriously recovered from his addiction to Vicodin and Valium. The drugs affected the stomach and he had to seize the pain. By that time, the rapper weighed 104 kilograms. Everything changed after the overdose. Marshall got out of rehab and decided to lose weight. He ran 27 kilometers a day and did the Madness program. ...
- "Infinite"
1996 debut album. The record was released with the expectation of Detroit rap radio stations, but the release was not needed by anyone there either. Rare reviewers who have reached the album accused Marshall of copying the style of Nas and AZ. In terms of themes, "Infinite" was very different from the rapper's subsequent albums. Marshall read about the desire to get rich, the difficulties of raising a little daughter, and love for his girlfriend Kim. On subsequent releases, the rapper will already begin to behave shockingly, lower the stars and wish Kim death.
- Kim
They met in the house of Marshall's mother - there were always street children in it. He was 15 at the time, she was 12. A few years later, the couple had a daughter, Haley. Over the next few years, Marshall and Kim's relationship got worse and worse.
Eminem dedicated three songs to Kim: “Searching”, “97 Bonnie & Clyde” and “Kim”. If the first is a declaration of love, then the last two are badibag in the literal sense of the word. In 97 Bonnie & Clyde, Marshall and his daughter dump Kim's dead body into a lake. To record the voice of his daughter, the rapper had to lie to his wife that he was just going to have a snack with her.
Little known fact: Eminem actually has three daughters - Hayley, Alaina and Whitney. Hayley is native, Alaina is adopted, but Whitney was born to Kim and her boyfriend Eric Hater, but later Marshall adopted her.
- Shady Records
A label founded by Eminem and his manager Paul Rosenberg in 1999. The first signers are the D12 group and the rapper Obie Trice. In 2002, the aspiring rapper 50 Cent came to the label. You know what happened to him next. He left the label in 2014.
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the label, a series of cartoons was released "ShadyXV Quinceañera"- cruel short films in the style of early Disney.
Shady Records' current lineup besides Eminem: D12, Slaughterhouse, Skylar Gray, Yelawolf, Westside & Conway, Boogie.
- Eminem
The name that everyone knows. But not everyone knows where it came from and what it means. At the beginning of his career, the rapper called himself M&M by the first letters of his first and last name. He later changed his stage name to Eminem. There is also a version that the rapper did this because of possible problems with the M & Ms company. Another fan theory is that Eminem means “Every Mom Is Nice Except Mine”. - Humor
Eminem is known for his funny videos: he will dress up as a superhero with a huge fake ass, then sarcastically walk over several celebrities, then parody Elvis or his own mother. This applies mainly to his character Slim Shady, since today's Eminem prefers to stay more serious in songs. To see Marshall's comedic talent, check out this selection of his highlights from interviews and evening shows.
Marshal Bruce Mathers III, aka Eminem, aka Slim Shady, aka Ken Caniff - American rapper, 83rd in the list of 100 Greatest Musicians of All Time, King of Hip-Hop and best-selling artist of the 2000s. His ten albums have climbed to number one on the Billboard 200, and in total, he has sold over 100 million albums.
Born October 17, 1972 in Missouri, in the town of St. Joseph. The father left his wife and child early and never saw his son again. The mother of the future Eminem, Debbie Nelson, pretty much traveled around the country before settling in the Negro suburb of Detroit - there was not enough money for anything better.
It was hard for a white child in a black school. One day, young Marshal was beaten in the toilet so that he fell into a coma for ten days. Led the beatings by DiAngelo Bailey - an absolutely frostbitten sixth grader thug. However, life has put everything in its place - in 2001, Bailey was a scavenger, and Eminem was a world star. The dim-witted scavenger decided that the song "Brain Damage", where Eminem described what was happening in those years, hurt some of his feelings, and filed a lawsuit. However, the judge, after hearing testimony in the spirit of "I did everything right, this white man should have been taught a lesson!", Dismissed the claim.
Eminem made a firm decision to become a rapper, and, overcoming many attacks, began to participate in battles. His best friend Proof gave him a lot of support. Together with him, Marshall recorded his first amateur release, with the group Soul Intent, followed by his first solo album "Infinite".
However, for Detroit at that time, another hip-hop album, and even from a white dude, was not needed by anyone. The failure discouraged the novice rapper, but did not stop it. In 1997, he released the mini-album "The Slim Shady EP", where his "double" - Slim Shady appeared for the first time, much more evil and aggressive, with a kind of dark humor, reading texts about violence and drug use. The lyrics themselves have become much better - complex and original rhymes have appeared, a message has appeared in the songs.
The record was noticed by one of the rapper's idols, who was delighted with it. With his help, the full version of the album was published, which brought Eminem his first glory. The clip was constantly shown on TV channels, sales broke all records.
American society was divided into several polar groups: some were delighted with the humor, accuracy and relevance of the lyrics of the new rap star, others, in particular, the gay and lesbian association, were shocked by the rudeness and aggression in Eminem's songs. In the future, American gays and lesbians will more than once sue him, organize protests, and accuse him of homophobia. He will have to speak out more than once on the issue of attitudes towards these groups of the population, and once even sing a duet with. In short, this attitude is conveyed by the phrase from the interview "Yes, I don't care!"
Throughout the 2000s, Eminem remained the most popular rapper in the world. Almost every new release, for example, songs like or (duet with Daido) almost 100% hit the top lines of the charts.
In 2002, the film "The Eight Mile" was released, which tells about the young years of the musician. For the song for this film, Eminem received an Oscar.
In 1999, Marshall married his high school love, Kimberly Ann Scott. The marriage turned out to be, if not unhappy, then very difficult. Before the wedding, their relationship lasted ten years, in 1995, four years before marriage, their daughter Haley was born. In 2000, Eminem received a two-year suspended sentence for assaulting a bar bouncer with whom his wife kissed in a parking lot. This was followed by a divorce, and in 2006 - a new wedding. This time, the marriage lasted even shorter - in the same year, they divorced again. 2006 turned out to be a difficult year for Eminem - in April his longtime friend Proof was killed in a shootout. Eminem dedicated two songs to his death: and.
