Mathers was so distraught he abandoned his musical career for a year. Ronnie Nelson’s older brother Steven suffered a stroke as a result of the stress. This event, Mathers has said, devastated him and his entire extended family. On December 14, 1991, 19-year-old Polkingharn committed suicide. Marshall’s uncle Ronald “Ronnie” Polkingharn, who was born three months before him on July 27th,1972, introduced Mathers to hip-hop and the two were best friends. This was not the first time someone had suggested she had the disorder a social worker had made similar comments in 1996. In the song “Cleaning Out My Closet”, Mathers also accuses his mother of having a variety of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen’s By Proxy, “my whole life I was made to believe I was when I wasn’t”. During this time, Debbie Mathers was taking the prescription medications Vicodin and Diazepam|Valium Marshall Mathers later claimed in numerous interviews and songs that his mother was abusing the s, to which she retaliated with a lawsuit pressing defamation charges. From time to time they also lived in their car, and in fact this is where Eminem’s younger brother, Nathan Samra-Mathers, was born. They moved constantly, during which Marshall and his mother often lived in public housing, mobile homes, and under the care of relatives. Eminem has plans to release a album around December 2007.īy most accounts, the Mathers family was poor. On December 5, 2006, Shady Records released Eminem Presents The Re-Up, an album compiled in mix-tape format that features the Shady Records artist. In 2003 Eminem was named the second most powerful celebrity on the planet. Elton John has praised Eminem on many occasions claiming he is amongst legendary music stars such as Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix.Eminem is known to be the best selling music artist of the 21st century so far by MTV. Mathers has stated that he is taking a break from solo work, but contis to produce and collaborate with fellow Aftermath artists, as well as rappers under his Shady Records label. With the enormous success of his highly acclaimed album The Marshall Mathers LP and its subsequent nomination for four Grammy awards including Album of the Year, critics such as GLAAD denounced his lyrics as homophobic and misogynist, while others protested that it promoted violence. Mathers is also infamous for the controversy surrounding many of his lyrics. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has praised Mathers for his “verbal energy” and for arousing popular interest in poetry and lyrics. He is noted for his ability to change his vocal pace and style multiple times within one song without losing the beat. He signed him to his Aftermath Entertainment label, becoming a crossover sensation with his debut single “My Name Is”.Įminem has been described as “the Bix Beiderbecke of rap”. He got his big break when his rapping ability was discovered by pioneer rapper and producer Dr. Joseph, Missouri, though he was raised in Detroit, Michigan, around the East 8 Mile Road & Schoenherr intersection, the same neighborhood where he met his best friend Proof. Stage name Eminem or Slim Shady is an Academy and Grammy Award-Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his winning and honorary hip hop artist, record producer and occasional actor.
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