The hip-hop community was far from immediately accepting of the moody white boy, but Mathers (who had adopted the stage name M&M, later modified to Eminem) remained unshakeable in his determination to establish himself - a determination that was edged towards desperation by the pregnancy of his girlfriend Kim in 1995.Īfter a period performing with The New Jacks, Eminem began to earn some recognition in Soul Intent through a small pressing of the single Fuckin' Backstabber b/w Biterphobia in 1995. High school proved to be a poor match for his temperament, and after failing the 9th grade three times he finally dropped out to focus fully on pursuing a career in music. An interest in rap emerged early in his life, and by the age of 14 he was making a serious effort to develop his rhyming skills. Extremely poor and constantly forced to move between various unpleasant living situations in Detroit and Kansas City, by all accounts Mathers had a throughly miserable childhood - the details of which have since become the subject of several of his songs. Joseph, Missouri, the future rapper's father abandoned his family less than a year later, leaving the still-teenaged mother to raise their son on her own. Unlike most of the other names in the former category, however, Eminem emerged from within the black scene that inspired him and has remained integrated within it, rather than creating a whitewashed " Pat Boone" version of hip-hop deliberately separated from its origins.īrought into the world as Marshal Mathers III in St.
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Like most of the latter group, the rapper's rise to fame has been riddled with controversies, personal crises and an inability to find a healthy way to deal with his sudden fame. Yet another white performer to adopt a black musical form and achieve massive popularity with the white youth market (a phenomenon perhaps most clearly demonstrated by the career of Elvis Presley), Eminem has also joined the list of artists to be transformed from public menace to respectable mainstream performer through the power of extravagant record sales (another move previously exemplified by Presley).