Slim Shady - Eminem.
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Who is Eminem?
Eminem is Slim Shady and Slim Shady is Eminem. You may find this strange but it's most definatly true. Both men are aliases, and products of the over - active imagination of Marshall Bruce Mathers III.
The Birth of a Legend.
Let's backtrack to October 1974, when the young Marshall Bruce Mathers III entered thew world in which he would later rise to fame. Mum Debbie was still a teenager, and with his father flitting the scene when he was five or six months old, the boy faced an unpromicing future. When Marshall was five the family moved to Detroit, but Marshall was bullied by the local hildren so they moved back to Kansas City where he was born. They returned to detroit again when he was eleven, but then his little brother Nathan came along.
2We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job," Eminem said. "We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in - six months is the longest we ever lived anywhere." For that reason, Marshall went to six different schools in one year and ended up failing his ninth grade three times, "but not necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldnt deal with it."
Rap music was his release from the tensions of every day life. He'd go to friends houses and rap, or stay in his room all day, standing by the mirror and miming songs, "trying on different clothes, trying to look cool."
Marshall shook the schoolyard dust off his feet as soon as he legaly could - but not before he'd been picked on by the local tough guys. One guy two years older used to beat him up reagularly, "and then, one day, a couple of kids ran up to e and rammed me into a snow bank, gave me cerebral concussion - I was in a coma for a week." The event, like so many in Marshall's childhood, would prvide him with a future song subject - the best possable revenge.
 Lil' Marshall!

Ronnie.
A key early influence was his uncle Ronnie, who was more like a big brother to him. Ronnie knew alot about music and introduced Marshall to hip-hop when he was around nine years old. Then it was on to Ice-T, LL Cool J and the Fat Boys. "I was facinated. When LL first came out with 'I'm Bad', I wanted to do it, to rhyme. Standing in front of a mirror, I wanted to be like LL." Sadlay, his ncle Ronnie committed suicide, and that's a memory that still upsets him. In particular, he wishes he could have talked to him before he died to find out what was on his mind. When he died, Marshall didn't talk for days, and coudn't even bring himself to go to his funeral.


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