Eminem's Accomplishments

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Music has been one of the biggest things in the entire world for decades, and is very influencial in our society today. A lot of people live with music being a huge factor in their personality, hobbies, even people they hang out with. The whole world is effected by groups or just one person who sings about something they believe in and stand for. An outstanding recording artist that truly deserves all his fame is Marshall Mathers, publicly known as "Eminem". There's a lot of people that wouldn't even consider him to be a recording artist because of how badly people can dislike different tastes in music, especially rap which is what Eminem mainly records. Sure he can be considered an amazing artist because of his talent, or his ability to get on a stage and perform …show more content…
He lived in a trailer house with his daugher and his mom, they barely had any money and were nearly evicted from their home. His father was a heavy alcoholic, who left him and his mother when he was barely two years old, and he had grown up with his mother trying to remarry on multiple occasions, but she never succeeded. Society beat them down like most people can't even imagine, but the most important thing that makes Eminem as good as he is today is his extreme motivation to keep pushing no matter what happens to him. His entire teenage life was based around being a social outcast and not really involving himself with a lot of people and working on becoming what he always wanted to be, a music artist. He never had it easy to begin with either, when he was trying to make a name for himself by competing with other artists, trying to win rap battles, everyone bashed him for being white and for being a bum. His motivation strived off of other people telling him he couldn't make anything of himself, along with his mom and friends who kept motivating him to keep trying because one day something is gonna happen to give him what he's been pushing

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