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.
