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Stage Name: Eminem
Birth Name: Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Genre: Rap (Rapper, Songwriter)
Date of Birth: Seventeenth of October, Nineteen Seventy Two
City/Town of Birth: Saint Joseph
State/Province of Birth: Missouri
Country of Birth: U.S.
Short Bio: Unlike the first solo white rapper to come to
prominence, Vanilla Ice, Eminem was a hit critically as well as
commercially. Most importantly, he is widely respected as a rapper
within the African American community, which lends credibility to
his talents in other cultures. It is interesting to note that Dr
Dre thought Eminem was black when he first heard him rapping on
tape. Not long after, Dr Dre agreed to collaborate on upcoming material
with Eminem, such as his debut album 'The Slim Shady LP'. It is
fair to say that Eminem became a cultural icon amongst a percentile
of young males, many of them white. Before then, rap had only been
a marginal genre in Europe and white America. Eminem certainly helped
promote the genre, helping to make it a mainstream style, and in
the US, close to the dominant genre of music. Eminem's debut movie
was '8 mile', a semi biographical work about a white trash rapper
from the slums of Detroit. It featured possible Eminem's best single,
Lose Yourself. As movie's starring music artists go, it was a resounding
commercial and critical success.
Songs: Guilty Conscience, The Way I Am, Stan, The Real Slim
Shady, Without Me.
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