Eminem - Eat it ( EMINEM FIRST SONG EVER ) 1988.
The song 'My Name is' made Eminem go from an underground rapper to a celebrity. Before the Slim Shady LP, when Dr. Dre and Eminem were in the studio, Dre asked Eminem to check out some samples. Within seconds Eminem started rhyming 'my name is, my name is' to the beat and that is how they produced the track.
As well as being the star's most successful song with 2.12 million combined sales (including 106 million streams), Lose Yourself was also the first rap track to ever win an Oscar for Best Original Song.
As an underground rapper Eminem released his debut solo album, Infinite in 1996. He gained mainstream popularity in 1999 after the release of his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP.
At age 14, Eminem began rapping with high-school friend Mike Ruby; they adopted the names "Manix" and "M&M", the latter evolving into "Eminem".
The major pioneers of rapping were Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Kurtis Blow, and the Cold Crush Brothers, whose Grandmaster Caz is controversially considered by some to be the true author of some of the strongest lyrics in “Rapper's Delight.” These early MCs and deejays constituted rap's old school.
8 Mile is a 2002 American biographical hip hop drama film written by Scott Silver and directed by Curtis Hanson. It stars Eminem in his film debut, alongside Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon, Anthony Mackie, and Kim Basinger.
The Sugar Hill Gang's 12-inch single "Rapper's Delight" - released in 1979 - became the first rap song to be played on the radio. The 15-minute song was edited down to six and a half minutes and reached Number 36 on the pop charts, making it the first hip-hop single to become a Top 40 chart hit.
Dre found the young rapper a beat, and Em began spitting right away, applying lyrics to what would eventually become 'The Real Slim Shady'.
And seemingly as an act of revenge, Jackson bought the rights to Eminem's whole music catalog just three years later. Jackson's partnership company Sony/ATV Famous Music - the company that owned the rapper's music - bought the catalog for a staggering $370 million.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records website, Eminem is the current record holder of the world's fastest rap on a hit single, which puts him at the top amongst the world's most renowned rap talents.
Eminem's US number one singles:
On the Billboard charts, Eminem has found it much more difficult to take the crown. Though the rapper has charted a massive 31 times in the charts' top ten, he has only achieved the top spot on five different occasions, most of which came in the latter part of his career.
“Stan,” a word originally coined by Eminem's 2000 single about a fan desperate to take the rapper's every word literally, has now been added to the Oxford American Dictionary.
Firstly, it is essential to understand that Eminem has never officially announced his retirement from music. While he has hinted at the possibility of retiring, he has not made a definitive statement.
In 2002, after Jackson released the compilation album Guess Who's Back?, he was discovered by Eminem and signed to Shady Records, under the aegis of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.
Unfortunately Eminem never met Tupac; he passed away before Eminem got the chance to meet him. Eminem did draw (in pen) a portrait of Tupac and wrote a letter to Afeni Shakur.. (Tupac's mother). The sentiments were condolences for her loss; and how much Tupac's music influenced Marshall Mathers.
1989: Queens duo MC Serch and Pete Nice debut as 3rd Bass, the first white rap act for whom whiteness is not at least in part an uproarious crossover gimmick.
Rap began in 1971, in the Bronx, with Kool Herc, who was from Jamaica. At block parties, Kool Herc would play two turntables by hand and manipulate the sound to create an entirely new sound, while he rapped the lyrics from the song he was playing.
Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area between speech, prose, poetry, and singing. The word, which predates the musical form, originally meant "to lightly strike", and is now used to describe quick speech or repartee. The word had been used in British English since the 16th century.
Kids may want to watch it because it has Eminem. The Swearing in Non Stop. I recommend this movie for 15 and up.
While 8 Mile is not strictly autobiographical, the film draws so much from his life (Eminem did indeed grow up near 8 Mile Road and participated in rap battles at a venue called the Shelter) that it's impossible to separate him from Jimmy Smith Jr., a rare moment of perfect synchronicity between an actor and their ...
There is nonstop profanity (including frequent use of "f--k," "motherf---er," and the "N" word), violence, drug references, and very explicit sexual references and situations. Characters vandalize and burn down an abandoned house, and a character accidentally shoots himself. There's a reference to child rape.