Eminem
– Marshall Mathers
Marshall Bruce Mathers is known by two stage names more than
his actual name which is: Eminem and slim shady, Marshall was born on the 17th
October 1972 and was raised in St Joseph
Missouri United States and moved to Detroit Michigan United States. When Eminem
was younger he didn’t know what hip hop was until his uncle Ronnie introduced
it to him at the age of 14 but before he started going into the music industry,
he seen himself as a bit of a story tell and wanted to be came a comic book
writer. Since Eminem has been out he has had 8 albums released and 14 films,
the film most people would recognise is 8 mile which is based on his starting
out career.
When Eminem was starting out not a lot of other rappers
liked what he was rapping about which coursed a lot of rap battles most of the
rappers in hip hop are from a different race and didn’t see that white people
could rap as well as them, there is song that says what happened to Eminem when
all of it kicked off when one of the rappers was saying stuff about Eminem‘s
daughter and that Eminem stabbed him when he didn’t. Eminem was addicted to prescription
pills which lead him to go to rehab because he was so depend on them, through
being on the drugs he became suicidal "I
just wasn't taking care of myself, at times I wanted to just give it up."
I think Eminem is a really good artist as through-out his
songs he raps about how he would like to change his life for the better and
wished he never got hooked on the prescription drugs because all he wanted was
a better life for his two daughters which is described in songs such as
“mocking bird”, “when im gone” all these two songs are about his him wanting to
change his life around and wishing his children had a better life than he did
growing up.
In the hip-hop world most artist rap about money, drugs, sex
but what makes Eminem so different is that he raps about his life and what
happened and how it made him feel, how he wants to change it if he could.
Eminem raps about his life as a way to show he is his own person and he does
follow other rappers. When he first started out there was only one person who
believed in him was his mentor Dr Dre and the more Eminem started rapping the
more Nas and Jay-Z didn’t like it and
started saying stiff about Eminem and his family which started a battle against
to hip-hop gangs which led to a murder. Naz and Jay-Z though it would be clever
to start a battle war against Eminem and rap about his family then once they
finished 50cent though well if they could do it then I could and carried it on,
but once the violence kicked in after the whole rapping ‘about Haile’s name in
a song’ Eminem just lost it because in hip-hop you never mention anyone’s
family otherwise its classed as personal, in the end 50 started rapping about
stopping the battle before someone got hurt which turned out to be one of
Eminem’s and Dr Dre’s gang members by getting shot and that’s when Eminem said
enough is enough.
Interview on Eminem
I think these questions have backed up my point from above
that Eminem does want to change his life and if he could he would for the
better as he was on drugs before and now is clean and has been for ages.
Does Slim Shady,
your raping and killing alter ego, still exist? Or have you split with him?
Shady still exists. But I don’t think the subjects on this
record call for, you know, bring the chainsaws and axes out and murder everyone
on this record. There was so much stuff like that off the last record that I
felt like I was starting to run it into the ground. I think consciously I went
in a different direction with this record.
Do you regret
having written so many songs that refer to women as “bitches” and “hos” who
exist solely for your pleasure?
Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the
time. But I think I’ve calmed down a bit. My overall look on things is a lot
more mature than it used to be.
How do you stay
sober?
My kids, and also I see a rehab counsellor once a week. I’ve
been clean for two years.
‘But the overdose
scared him. Early last year he hospitalized himself, went through rehab and
started the full 12-step program of a recovering addict, complete with
meetings, a sponsor and a therapist. Mr Mather’s, 36, says he has stayed sober
since April 20, 2008.’ This is another example of my opinion of why he is a
good artist because it’s proving that he would want to change his life and what
he sings is true.
Looking back at what I have
wrote and what I have read Eminem is extremely different compared to other
rappers he says how his life really is like now and back to him growing up. The
other reason why he is different from other rappers is that he raps about his
life and not money and girls in a non respected way.
