Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mathers III just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. He never knew his father because he abandoned the family when Eminem was still an infant and rebuffed all of his son's many attempts to contact him during his childhood. 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. At the age of 14, he began to get very serious about his rapping but it wasn't until he was 17 that he actually made a name for himself.
Where & He got his name
He uses Eminem as his rap name because it represents his initials "M-and-M" - get it? Also, he sometimes uses the nickname Slim Shady to express his rougher, meaner alter-ego (the other side of his personality). After his debut album Infinite (1996) and the Slim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The …show more content…
The award was the first ever to have been presented to a rap artiste.This exceptional rap artiste was declared the ‘Emcee of the Year’ by popular website ‘HipHopDX’ in 2010, while ‘MTV’ named him the ‘Hottest MC.Three years later, in 2013, the rapper won the title of 'YouTube Music Awards Artist of the Year', which was being presented for the first time. The same year, he was named the 'Global Icon' at the 'MTV EMA Music Awards'.The following year, his'TheMarshall Mathers LP 2' won a 'Grammy' for the 'Best Rap Album', while the song 'The Monster', featuring Rihanna, bagged the award in the 'Best Rap/Sung Collaboration' category.This artist has won the ‘Grammy’ for almost all his albums, including 'The Slim Shady LP', 'The Marshall Mathers LP', 'The Eminem Show', 'Relapse' and 'Recovery’, receiving the honour fifteen