Eminem never knew his father, Marshall Mathers Jr. As a result, Eminem was raised by his mother, Deborah Mathers. Eminem has been scathingly critical of the way his mother raised him.
Through his song lyrics, he has publicly accused her of being addicted to prescription drugs as well as subjecting him to emotional and physical abuse. In the book, she claims to have never exploited her son, and that her only concern was for her children. Eminem's mother never managed to hold down a job for more than several months at a time, so they moved frequently between Missouri and Detroit, Michigan, spending large chunks of time in public housing projects.
This itinerant lifestyle left a large impact on his personality. He had no close friends, kept almost entirely to himself and was treated like an outcast at each new school. Eminem attended Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan, where he failed the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of Yet despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity for language, devouring comic books and even studying the dictionary.
I just felt like I wanna be able to have all of these words at my disposal, in my vocabulary at all times whenever I need to pull 'em out. You know, somewhere, they'll be stored, like, locked away. Eminem was just 15 when he met year-old Kim Ann Scott at a house party. Kim, who claimed that she didn't know her father and had been sexually abused by her stepfather, came to live with Eminem and his mother Deborah.
Eminem and Kim soon began dating, but their relationship was turbulent from the start. Deborah threw the couple out when Eminem dropped out of school. In , the couple had a daughter named Hailie Jade Scott. The couple broke up and got back together many times, finally marrying just before Eminem left on his first major tour in They divorced in Kim and Eminem continued to maintain a tumultuous off-and-on relationship until remarrying in , then divorcing again several months later.
Following their second divorce, the exes began a protracted, ugly and highly public custody dispute over their daughter Hailie. Eminem has rapped about Hailie throughout his career, including on the song "Mockingbird" and throughout his album Revival.
Hailie graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in psychology and has become an Instagram influencer.
As a teenage dropout, Eminem found a way to express his passion for language, as well as to release his youthful anger, through the emerging musical genre of hip-hop. Although at the time rap music was almost exclusively produced by Black people, Eminem, who has pale white skin and bright blue eyes, nevertheless entered into the Detroit rap scene as a frequent competitor in rap "battles"—competitions in which two rappers take turns insulting the other through improvised rap lyrics.
Eminem proved highly skilled at such verbal sparring and, despite his race, quickly became one of the most respected figures in Detroit's underground rap scene. He recalled, "I finally found something that yeah, this kid over here, you know, he may have more chicks, and he may, you know, have better clothes, or whatever, but he can't do this like me.
You know what I mean? He can't write what I'm writing right now. And it started to feel like, you know, maybe Marshall's gettin' a little respect. There's no doubt people need to hear him. Some fans of the top-selling rapper said they get the entertainment value of Eminem's darkly sadistic raps, and they can also see the "humor" in his often-misogynist songs.
It depends on the way the lyrics are delivered," wrote year-old David Davies, a U. Davies stated, "Some people might not be able to see the humour in the lyrics, but if they don't like it, they don't have to listen to it.
Attempting to explain himself, Eminem said the Slim Shady "concept" represents two different parts of his personality. At one point, Eminem said Slim Shady had "killed" Eminem, resulting in an album that chronicled "death after death. The rapper said he hasn't really told his personal story on The Slim Shady LP, adding that he's saving that tale for his next release.
And as soon as they hear the next album, it's gonna explain why there's something wrong [with Slim Shady]. A playful video for his first single, "My Name Is" RealAudio excerpt , showcases Eminem portraying a number of sitcom-style characters. In the U. Sadly, millions of American girls and women have been assaulted by American boys and men.
Thousands of gays each year are bashed and harassed by young men. For these victims, this is not an academic debate about the differences between literalist and satirical art. It hits closer to home. What began as a tentative dance has become a passionate embrace.
In fact, he loves you. You know, underneath that gruff exterior, between the lines of those nasty lyrics, lies a tender heart that has been hurt, a good man who just needs more love and understanding. This is a myth that battered women have been fed for centuries! That his violence is her responsibility, that if only she loved him more, his abuse would stop. How could he? He loves his daughter! His defenders — including women — will utter some of the most discredited myths about abusive men as if they have special insight!
The fact is, most batterers are not one-dimensional ogres. We all know that heterosexual young guys are forever struggling to figure out what girls want. That girls want to be treated with dignity and respect? Girls and women, even those who have been coopted into Eminem-worship, want to be treated with respect. Eminem is popular with white audiences in large measure because the African American gangsta rap icon Dr.
Dre himself is one of the most misogynous and homophobic figures in the history of rap music. In other words, Eminem and Dre are modeling a perverse sort of interracial solidarity that comes at the expense of women. But Marshall Mathers, if he ever was an underdog, has long since crossed over into the role of bully. Unlike most bullies this side of right-wing talk radio, however, he has a very large microphone and now a screen presence.
One glaring similarity is the folklore that Mathers has actively constructed about his famously difficult childhood. Narcissistic batterers frequently paint themselves as the true victims. But it is not as well-known that batterer intervention counselors hear this excuse every single day from men who are in court-mandated programs for beating their girlfriends and wives.
She pushed my buttons and I just reacted. You deserve our empathy and support. But you have no right to pass on your pain to other people. Many people psychoanalyze him from a distance and argue that his problems with women stem from his stormy relationship with his mother.
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