EMINEM

     The music business, how eminem got into the music business from his
hard times living at home with his mother who was suffering from
Munchausen Syndrome which means she was making Marshall (Eminem)
take medicines he didnt need. First i will talk about eminems life when he was
a kid and his relationship with his mother and uncle Ronnie.
     Eminems father left him when he was only 6 months old and his mother
was sick and sort of retarded. Eminem was often left with his relative and he
became realy close with his uncle Ronnie who was about the same age as he
was, they became best friends.
     At the age of 13 eminem started writing his own lyrics and recording
his own raps. That is when he chose his nickname M&M and than later
changed it to Eminem. He began hustling money at school by rap battling.
This was great for him because he started rapping seriously and wrote his
lyrics and he got to know how other people think and how other people write
their lyrics and he learnd about all those peoples points of view and where
they come from.He than attends lincoln high school from 1986 to 1989 where
he met his highschool sweetheart and soon to be his future wife Kim Scott.
That is when he formed his first rap group Bassiment productions. He droped
out of school at age 17 after failing 9th grade 3 times.
     He than starts performing at open mic nights for a local radio station.
This was great for his career because it was the first time he acctualy could
get noticed by producers and other people that can help him out with his
career. This was another way for him to get his name to the public.
If eminem he just sat at home and dreamd about being a big rapper it wasnt
going to happen, but he worked for it he went out there he put his name out.
It was like he was his own personal manager and he hyped himself to
everyone and he put his name out so people can know who he is.
He was told that he was pretty good for a white guy. This is when eminem
decides that he wants to make rapping his career. In the summer of 92 Ronnie
visits eminem in detroit and eminem tells Ronnie all about his dreams and
how he wants to become a big rapper. Ronnie tells eminem that he wont
make it and to just give up but eminem was determind to make it. Eminem
starts rapping at Detroits biggest night club Saint Andrews the first time he
go onto the stage he was bood off but he didnt quit he kept going back every
and rapping. Eminem was soon invited to rap at detroits biggest radio station
WHYT. This was also great for his career because he got a taste of how hard
rapping infront of alot of people is and that not everyone is going to like him.
This was another way to get his name out into the public and get noticed by
someone.
     When eminems first cd came out called Infiniti it was just like a
and he was just trying to see how he wanted his rapping style to be. Right
from the begining he was already being compared to Naz and Jay Z. Eminem
was hurt by the response that Infiniti got and he later began working on the
Slim Shady EP. By presenting himself as himself eminems rap career took
off.      
     January of 97 Slim Shady was born, Slim Shady was eminems alterego.
After 10 months of performing at underground night clubs he was invited to
the 97 rap olymipics in Los Angeles. Battling for first place for 6 rounds and
than looses to Juice. Even though he was in 2nd place he gets noticed by a
producer Dr. Dre. Dr. Dre immediatly takes to liking eminem and signs him
to his label, Aftermath Records. Within a week eminem gets to work on his
album. On Feb. 23, 1999, The Slim Shady LP released. The album
debuts at number 2 on the Billboard charts. He wins Grammy Awards
for it and also the MTV awards: Best New Artist, Best Solo Hip Hop
Act, and Best Rap Performance. This album goes multi-platinum. In
September of 1999, Interscope Records gives Eminem his own record
label... Shady Records. Eminem and Kim get remarried, and buys a
large home for all of them. In April of 1999, Rolling Stone does a front
page article on him where he talks about his childhood. Eminem than later got
his own record label Shady records. Eminem made acouple albums with his
friends and group members D12. Later eminem met up with obie trice and
produced songs for Obie Trice and braught out his album Cheers. Eminem
later on signed rap star 50 cent and now 50 cent has his own label G unit
records and eminem is making money off all of 50 cents sales. Eminems label
is now one of the biggest and the most well known label out. It was good for
him to sign 50 cent because now 50 cents records label has artists Young
Buck, Lloyd Banks, YaYo and of coarse 50 cent him self. And off of all the
sales from Bucks album n Banks album 50 cent gets money and Eminem gets
money from 50 cent. I think the reason why Eminem made it so big is
because he was determind to make it and he went out there, he braught it
name out. He went to underground rap contests and night clubs to try to make
people notice him and it paid off when Dr. Dre noticed him and Dre hyped
Eminem to other people saying things like from the first time i saw him i
knew he had talent i just had to sign him. The song that Dr. Dre heard was
“ My name is” from his first album. Dre knew that if he signd eminem he was
going to be a big artist and he was going to be better than everyone. In my
opinion eminem is the best rapper right now, And one of the most hard
working. He had a movie called 8 mile which was like a story of his life and it
was about a guy named Rabbit who wanted to be a rapper and he would
go to under ground rap contests and perform and he wanted to make some
money to get studio time and record his album. The year that 8 mile came out
eminem made 28 million dallors that year. He was 1st place in the count
down of who made the most money that year. And now he has his own label
and his even making more money because of the sales of the other artists in
label. Eminem is known as the most talented rapper/producer out right now.
     Eminem came from a old broken down house and broke down family
he grew up with no father and hardly even was with his mother and when he
was it was alwayz fighting and argueing and his mom made him take
medicines he didnt need. Eminem came from moveing around droping out of
high school and dreaming to be a rapper to now being the biggest rapper.
He did this by working hard and not just sitting at home and dreaming of
being a rapper he acctualy went out and did something about it. I know alot
of people that want to be rappers but they dont try to get there name out
to the public they just sit at home write songs record them on there computer
and send them to there friends like thats going to change anything. Instead of
trying to get studio time or going to clubs and other places and asking if they
can perform and do gigs. Thats the way eminem did it, he went to
underground clubs, rap contests, radio stations trying to get people to notice
him and hoping that somone important notices him and it happend.
Eminem was and is a determind to be the best he can be. His not like those
commercial rappers that only rap about cars diamonds and girls but he
raps about his life and things his been through. I think the reason alot of
people like eminem is because he raps about things everyone can relate to,
not everyone can relate to having alot of cars and being rich after awhile of
listening to songs like that you get tired of it. But eminems lyrics are deep
and i think alot of kids out there can relate to eminems lyrics. That is how
eminem got into the business and made is way all the way up to the top.