


With the rise in popularity, controversial debates about the rapper's lyrics began. The album received four platinum awards on Novemfor more than four million units sold in the United States. The Slim Shady LP was released in February 1999 and reached number 2 on the American Billboard charts. Infinite did not attract particular attention from buyers, only 250 units were sold. In the same year he recorded his debut album Infinite with FBT Productions, which was released in an edition of a thousand cassettes and 100 vinyl records and was mostly used by Eminem as a demo to introduce itself to publishers. In 1996 he met his future manager Paul Rosenberg, a former rapper and aspiring lawyer. The couple also adopted Scott's niece Alaina after her parents were killed in an accident. On December 25, 1995, Mathers' and Scott's daughter Hailie Jade was born. , the manufacturer of the candy M & M’s, and called himself Eminem. In 1995, Eminem gave up his stage name "M & M", which had been used until then, in order to avoid legal problems with Mars Inc. The group later renamed themselves "Soul Intent" and released their first single "Fuckin 'Backstabber" in 1995 on Mashin' Duck Records.

In 1992 Marshall Mathers was signed to the Detroit label FBT Productions by the brothers Mark and Jeff Bass and joined the rap crew "Bassmint Productions" (consisting of Proof, Chaos Kid, Manics, DJ Buttafingas and M & M). This tragic incident had a big impact on Eminem, as his uncle had been a role model, father substitute and friend for him. In 1991 Mathers' uncle Ronnie Polkinghorn shot himself with a sawed-off shotgun. After high school, he made a living doing a variety of temporary jobs and moved frequently, mostly because he couldn't pay the rent. After repeating ninth grade twice due to poor grades and absenteeism, Eminem dropped out at the age of 17. At the age of 15 he met his future wife Kimberly Ann Scott, called Kim, know. There he was able to make a name for himself as an underground rapper. Under the pseudonym "M & M" Mathers began rapping himself at the age of 14 and often took part in freestyle battles at Osborn High School. Įminem's half-uncle Ronald "Ronnie" Polkinghorn, who was only a few months older than Eminem, got him excited about rap. Here he spent his youth as a white man in an area predominantly inhabited by Afro-Americans. At the age of 12, Mathers and his mother moved to Warren, a crime-ridden suburb of Detroit, Michigan. Deborah Mathers sued the school, but the case was dropped a year later. He also suffered temporary loss of vision and hearing. This has been called "the new" often victims of bullying at school - early 1982 was Marshall after a particularly savage beating attack of a fellow student for five days with cerebral hemorrhage in coma. The family moved often, which resulted in the young Marshall Mathers changing schools several times. According to Eminem, his mother, who was only 17 at birth, was a drug addict, violent and also suffered (mentioned in the songs Cleanin 'Out My Closet, My Mom and Baby ) from Munchausen Deputy Syndrome, a form of child abuse that causes mothers to suffer from illness invent and pretend your child. However, the father left the family when Eminem was three months old. His parents Marshall Bruce Mathers II and Deborah "Debbie" Briggs married in 1972. Joseph in the US state of Missouri, where he also spent the first years of his life. Eminem was born in 1972 as Marshall Bruce Mathers III in St.
