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Eminem
(A kontroversiell rapper)

Almost everybody have heard about Eminem or Marshall Mathers which is his real name. He are the greatest rapper in this days and his controversial songs are played all over the world. Almost everybody likes him. Why? That's a question that is hard to answer. A white rapper from Detroit in USA have concurred the world. Hear the Eminem Story!

Eminem had a very rough childhood. He and his drug using mother Debbie moved to Detroit when he was 12 years old. Eminem often had to switch schools, and that made it difficult for him to make friends,graduate and to stay out of trouble. When Eminem started with music he started to battle people with words instead of fight them with he's fists. But he got so tired of school that he finally dropped out. He had a couple of different jobs but he started to put more and more focus on the music. Eminems debut album Infinite was released in 1996. Even now people thought he raped very good. Eminem sad in an intervju that "Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be. How I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. Infinite wasn't any success, and he started to working on what would later become the Slim shady EP. The person how gave him the opportunity to make this album was Dr Dre, one of the worlds biggest producers. Dr Dre signed Eminem after he herd him freestyle on a radiostation in L.A. "It was an honour to hear the words out of Dr Dre´s mouth that he liked my shit" Eminem says. Cause when Eminem was growing up he used to listen to Dr Dre´s group N.W.A. He often used to dream of being Dr Dre, the biggest hiphop producer ever.

After the release of Slim Shady EP Eminem said " I made this album for me and it was to my satisfaktion, then i succeeded. If i didn´t then my producers were going to give up on the whole rap thing we were doing. I made some shit that I wanted to hear, The Slim Shady EP. I lashed out on everybody who talked hit about me". After the release of the Slim Shady EP 1999 his career really took of. The year after he released his third album The Marshall Mathers LP which became an ever bigger success than then the Slim Shady EP. Both The albums are very angry albums. He got very choking lyrics, he raps about killing people, raep teenage girls, take drugs, and teach kids to swear. Some titles on his songs are; "Just don't give a fuck"," Still don't give a fuck", and "Bitch please". Last year he dropped his fourth album " The Eminem show", that was his third platinum selling album. Nowadays Eminem has he's own Record company. Eminem is not just a great rapper, he is also a great actor. His first movie "8mile" is about his life, how he growed up and how he started with music. "8mile" became a huge success and both critics and audience loved the movie. In 8mile Eminems mother is played by Kim Basinger. So if you like Eminems music you got to admit that Eminem is one of the greatest rapper that ever picked up a mic.

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