Eminem Bio

Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born In Kansas City, Missouri on October 17th 1972. Mathers spent his life as a child between Kansas and Detroit. He started rapping at the age of four and participated in battles in the lunchroom at school.

He started getting more serious about his rapping as a teen and at the age of 17 he gave himself the name M&M (which was later changed to Eminem).

He had trouble getting respect and followers in the industry at first due to his race. His first album called 'Infinite' sold under one thousand copies. Because of the lack of respect from the industry toward the wrapper, he had to do ongoing freestyle rap battles and radio shows.

 On Christmas day in 1995 his girlfriend Kim Scott gave birth to their daughter Hailie Jade Scott in a very difficult time financially for the couple. Mathers decided to hit the underground rap scene very hard and entered the 1997 Rap Olympics hoping to win a $1500 prize. He slipped up in his freestyle and ended up winning second place but there was something even bigger coming his way. Mathers was discovered by Dr. Dre. They first produced 4 songs together and then continued working on complete albums.

The first album became the Marshall Mathers LP and won 3 Grammies. It was the first rap album ever to be nominated "Album of the Year" and sold over 8 million records in the United States alone.

Eminem then stunned fans & critics when he shot down all homophobic remarks by performing "Stan" with Elton John.

Since this Eminem has made a number of successful albums, nominated for awards and has even created a movie about the freestyle underground rap life. We hope he continues to create rap music in his own style.