Eminem BiographyEminem, born Marshall
Bruce Mathers III, 17 October 1973, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. This white
rapper burst onto the US charts in 1999 with a controversial take on the
horrorcore genre. Mathers endured an itinerant childhood, living with his mother
in various states before eventually ending up in Detroit at the age of 12. He
took up rapping in high school before dropping out in ninth grade, joining ad
hoc groups Basement Productions, the New Jacks, and D12.newly named Eminem
released a raw debut album in 1997 through independent label FBT. Infinite was
poorly received, however, with Eminem earning unfavourable comparisons to
leading rappers such as Nas and AZ.
