The album featured such immense hits as The Real Slim Shady, Stan (for chorus, Eminem sampled the young British female singer Dido's vocals) and The Way I Am. Some criticized the rapper for extremely aggressive lyrics, while the others, on the contrary, praised Eminem as the best white-skin rap singer. This scandal did not affect the sales of The Marshall Mathers, Eminem's second album, as it started on the first place in the American charts in May 2000. Just like the first record, this CD brought about controversial response. She claimed 10 million dollars for the moral damage the rapper had done to her. Eminem's songs terrified his mother and she brought an action against him for the rude utterances concerning her, made on The Slim Shady. The album immediately ran third in Billboard, which inspired Eminem to work hard on the following album's material.

Full of violence and obscene lyrics, this album turned out a commercial success thanks to tracks My Name Is and Guilty Conscience, which video versions never left MTV. The Slim Shady, the young man's debut long player, became a challenge to the society. Dre himself.Īs a result, Eminem was signed by Aftermath Records, a label owed by Dr. In spite of this failure, in a year, Eminem released a sarcastic and mocking short album called The Slim Shady Lp to feature his 'dark alter ego'. In 1996, Eminem recorded his demo Infinite that was left without much attention because of abundance of suchlike music in Detroit.

It is an extremely rare and hard-to-find record today due to the small number of copies released and the band's lack of financial support.

Eminem had his debut in 1995 as a member of Soul Intent. Aged 13, Marshall started writing and recording his own rap. These years of suffering later influenced Eminem's art works. In summer 1983, Marshall was beaten up so severely that he spent ten days in coma.

He found it hard to get used to new surroundings and had to change the school regularly. In the end, they settled down in Detroit. Marshall spent all his childhood moving from one place to another with his mother. When the baby was six months his father left the family. Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers) was born in 1972, in St.

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