Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972) in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. better known by his stage name Eminem, is a rapper best known, and also worked as a record producer and actor from America. Eminem gained popularity in 1999 with its main debut album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.The next album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became selling the fastest selling solo albums in the history of the United States. It took Eminem's increasing popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and he made a side project that is the group, called D12, with mainstream recognition. Marshall Mathers LP and third album, The Eminem Show, also won Grammy Awards, making Eminem became the first artist to win Best Rap Album for three consecutive LPs. He went on to win the award again in 2010 for his album on Relapse and Recovery in 2011 for his album, giving a total of 13 Grammys in his career.

Eminem is the only child of the couple Deborah R. Nelson Mathers-Briggs and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr.. When he was 18 months old, his father left them, and he was living alone by his mother grew up in poverty. At the age of 12 years, Mathers and his mother often moved residence between the towns in Missouri (including Saint Joseph, Savannah and Kansas City), before finally settling in Warren, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Eminem at first doubted his ability in the field of rap, because it was thought that rappers can only be done by the negroid. Yet another talent Eminem says he may be one of the best rappers in the world.
In 2003, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself" from the movie, 8 Mile, where he also became a major role in the movie. "Lose Yourself" continue to run a hip hop song # 1. He was released the next album after Encore, namely Relapse, on May 15, 2009. Eminem is the best selling artist in a decade in the U.S. Nielsen SoundScan, and has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide to date, making it one of the artist's fastest selling album worldwide.


In 2010, Eminem released seventh studio album Recovery. This album achieved commercial success internationally, and the chart number one in several other countries. The album was last at number-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart for five consecutive weeks and a total of seven weeks. Recovery was also reported by Billboard become the best selling album of 2010, making Eminem became the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history of success in the past two years. Recovery was also crowned as the Best Selling Digital Album In History.
In addition, Eminem also acts as a record producer for other artists, including rapper 50 Cent and the rap group D12 which is also known as Detroit's Dirty Dozen and D-Twizzy. Eminem also has starred in several movies in between, Da Hip Hop Witch (2000), The Wash (2001), 8 Mile (2002) demonstrated his controversial behavior when he was involved with drugs and medicines. Even in August 2005, he had thwarted his concert with a reason to undergo rehabilitation. The next controversy is shown when he was having 'marriage-break' over and over again.


Eminem married Kim Mathers on June 14, 1999, then split up in August 2000. They married again on December 15, 2000, then divorced again on October 11, 2001, married again last January 15, 2006 and divorced again December 19, 2006.

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