- Eminem had a hard life filled with poverty and abuse.
- At age 14 he started rapping in clubs in his hometown of Detroit.
- unexcused absences held him in the ninth grade for three years then he finally dropped out.
- when he placed second in the 1997 rap Olympics he drew the attention of Dr. Dre.
- he released his second CD "The Slim Shady LP" and it went multiplatinum and won two grammys.
- in 2000 he released "The Marshall Mathers LP" the fastest selling CD in rap history.
- Eminem stopped rapping for a period of time because his friend was shot and killed outside of a night club in Detroit.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem)
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I saw this article on Kn'aan (sp?) and how he perceives rap...I thought you might find it interesting. There is a also a podcast that you can blog about in your next post:
ReplyDelete"The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image," he says. "Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that. The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful."
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/06/147807814/knaan-a-song-more-beautiful-than-silence
I agree with the point of how certain rappers have troubled lives and lived in poverty for a while because most that I know of is true in their lives.
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