Slim Shady lifetime
Slim Shady was born in St. Joseph, Missouri his mother was Debbie Briggs-Mathers. Debbie was only 15 when Eminem was born. Not long after Eminem was born, his father left the family. This wasn’t the end of a tough run for Marshal and his family - it was only just the beginning. His mom settled down in a house in Detroit. Slim was only almost 13 years old. The maximum time he spent at the one school was 4 months. Nobody knew he would see real celebrity news.
Marshal did pretty pretty good in school.School just wasn’t for him. So he left to work. He started getting a name for himself when he was 17, even though he got into the rap game when he was 14. Determined to prove everyone wrong, he forced himself to go on radio shows and participate in freestyle battles. In 1995, Marshall recorded his first album titled Infinite, which only sold about 1000 copies.
Having nothing to lose and in desperate need for money, wrote song about his life. Out of this came the Slim Shady Ep named after his alter ego. Unfortunately for Em, he lost due to a slip up. He battled for an hour throwing back every diss he was thrown and managed to get into the grand final. Furious that he had lost, Marshall didn’t even notice that he had been spotted by a few producers from interscope records, who got hold of his demo, Infinite. Dre eventually tracked him down, and recorded em’s second album, The Slim Shady EP then followed by The Slim shady LP, recorded in 19. Then in May 2000, Eminem worked with Dre again to record em’s third album, The Marshall Mathers LP. It featured artists such as Dre and the nice Dido, who sings the chorus for “Stan”. This album debuted at number 1 on the US albums chart, and won three Grammys and was the first hip-hop mixtape to ever be nominated.
2001 was a big year for Slim Shady. He branched out into the world of acting, filming with esteemed director Curtis Hanson. 8 mile was produced. Based on em’s own life, he played lead role of a character very much like himself, Jimmy Smith Jr. Jimmy is nicknamed “Rabbit” by his mother, Stephanie, played by Ems’ wife Kim. While filming “8mile”, he was busy during scenes making up the songs “Lose Yourself” and “8Mile”. “Lose Yourself” was named the underdog anthem of the year.
As well as his first movie “8Mile”, Slim released his 4 th album, Radio Item fired some of his usual attacks on the likes of lead singer of Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst. This one album alone had many hits, including Without Me, Cleanin Out My Closet, Sayin Goodbye to Hollywood, Sing For The Moment, Superman, and Business. He even sings on the album-on a song made especially for his daughter Hailie, the only girl in his life for whom he has respect for.
Musical career:
1 1992–1998: Early career and Infinite
2 1998–1999: The Slim Shady LP
3 2000–2001: The Marshall Mathers LP
4 2002–2003: The Eminem Show
5 2004–2005: Encore
6 2005–2008: Musical hiatus
7 2008–2009: Relapse and Relapse: Refill
8 2009–2010: Recovery