Filo.music | Eminem: how he came to become one of the best rappers in history

This Friday of long weekend we bring you the story of a rapper as skilled as controversial. Put on the turkey, prepare a fernet or assemble that one and play the Filo.música of Eminem.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on October 17, 1972 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States and “Reckless” by Ice T was the first rap song he heard thanks to his uncle Ronnie.At 14 he began rapping under the name “M & M”, which at 16 changed to MC Double M and ended up releasing a demo with his first group, In 1991 his uncle Ronnie took his own life leaving Eminem without one of his closest loved ones and causing him to lose his speech for several days. The following year, he was making his first appearance in a music video. By that time he had formed another group with Proof and friends entitled Soul Intent with which in 1995 they released an EP. A year after releasing this tape, Eminem signed with F.B.T. Productions and recorded his first album called “Infinite”. The truth is that the album was a failure in sales. At that time he worked as a cook and bachero in a local food for a minimum wage. But he felt defeated by how “Infinite” had fared and ended up trying to take his own life. With all that darkness he had inside he developed this alter ego called SLIM SHADY, which allowed him to express himself super raw and without hairs on the tongue. Under this AKA releases a self-titled EP that after finishing second in the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles would reach the right hands: those of Dr. Dre.Su successor, The Marshall Mathers LP, came out in 2000 and broke sales records installed by two heavyweights of music of that time: Snoop Dogg and Britney Spears. It was followed by THE EMINEM SHOW, a global success but at another level. Listen: In its first week it sold 1.3 BILLION copies and became the world’s best-selling album of 2002.The release of Eminem’s most successful album up to that point was accompanied by another mega hit: the movie 8 Mile. At this stage of achievement after achievement, came perhaps one of the least celebrated albums of Eminem’s career “Encore”. It took 4 years until he returned with “Relapse”, a new album, but in the middle he lost a battle with drugs and was “two hours” away from death according to doctors. In 2007, his worst time of addiction to painkillers, he consumed up to 90 pills a day. The murder of his childhood friend, rapper Proof in 2006 had worsened his condition leading to his overdose the following year. Later, he released “Recovery” with “Not Afraid” as one of his singles, which was followed by “The Marshall Mathers LP II” and “Revival”. This was attended by Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Pink and Alicia Keys as guests, which earned her a lot of criticism.” Music to be murdered by” released it without warning and in addition to having Ed Sheeran, Anderson Paak, and the late Juice WRLD, sampled Spinetta. The person responsible for my country being part of Eminem’s music was the producer The Alchemist who when he came to Lollapalooza with him in 2016 took a couple of albums and was crazy with the music here. Controversial, raw, controversial, always angry; tell him how you want, no one takes away from Eminem the rapped. 

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