ABOUT EMINEM
10 Most Amazing Facts About The King Of Hip Hop Eminem
Eminem has attained a position of eminence in the American cultural scene. He has broken the preconceived notions and tread new grounds. Love him or hate him, facts about Eminem says a lot about the person committed to accomplishing his dream, defying odds in the process. The American rapper and songwriter is known as the King of Hip-Hop, he has several achievements to his credit, these can be obtained by browsing the net but here we offer you interesting insights about the man who has become an icon.
1. Eminem was so severely bullied in public school that his mother sued the local school board for “failing to sufficiently protect her child”
9-year-old Marshall Mathers aka Eminem did not have a smooth time during
his elementary schooling (He studied at Dort Elementary School), he was
constantly plagued by bullies who split his lips and knocked the wind
out of him. On a snowy day in 1982, one of the bullies, DeAngelo Bailey
hit him in the face with a snowball laden with a heavy object while
playing “King of the Hill.” The bully followed it with a sound beating
resulting in temporary loss of vision and concussion. Enraged mother of
Marshall Mathers sued the Detroit school board for not sufficiently
protecting her child
2. Before he became a rapper, Eminem’s true dream was to become a comic book artist.
Rapping was not on the horizon for the young boy growing up in Detroit,
deeply interested in story-telling, Eminem intended to have a career as a
comic book artist. Lingering influence of “comic artist”can be seen in
various animated threads throughout his career, including his Slim Shady
Show series and the “Mosh”video.
3. When Eminem was 20, he was arrested for a drive-by shooting with a paintball gun. The case was dropped when the victim did not show up in court.
Eminem did not always keep a good company and had numerous close brushes
with the law. He was apprehended by the police when he and his friends
shot at a police car with their paintball gun. But the rapper was not
the one who shot at the car, his friend did. The case was dismissed when
the alleged victim did not show up for the hearing
4. Eminem used the word “Nigga” only once in his song Criminal, but he decided to censor it.
Over the course of a long, successful career, Eminem has dissed several
celebrities such as Moby, limp Bizkit, Micheal Jackson, Christina
Aguilera. Sometime’s he dissed them to get even and at other times he
took them on because their name’s rhymed with his lyrics, however, he
has remained unapologetic about throwing shades on them. But there is
an exception to every rule, Eminem voluntarily bleeped the word “Nigga”
from his record because he did not want that word in his song
5. Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met: Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.
Matt Damon was not the first choice for Elysium, Neill Blomkamp, the
director of the movie approached Eminem for the role of Max Da Costa.
Eminem was interested, but he wanted the movie to be shot in his
hometown, the two studios (Media Rights Capital & Tristar Pictures)
refused and the role went to Matt.
6. In the early days of iTunes, Universal Music Group used to deduct artists’ iTunes royalties, claiming costs for “packaging” and “breakage” on digital downloads, until Eminem sued them.
Numerous singers who had not foreseen the boom in digital music sales were cheated of their digital royalties by music companies until Eminem through FBT Productions sued the music giant Universal music for the unpaid digital royalties. The lawsuit happened when FBT Production realized that Universal Music was claiming digital downloads as the “distribution arrangement”, which have lower royalty rates, whereas digital downloads should rightfully come under the “license” arrangement as the music company was not doing any packaging that would cause breakage in the downloads
7. Eminem’s song ‘Rap God’ is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most words in a song (1,560 words in 6:04 minutes at an average of 4.28 words per second).
Rap God released in October 2013 holds the record for having most words in a song. A particular verse of the song was sung in supersonic speed featuring a whopping 97 words in 15 seconds- an average of 6.5 words per second!
8. Eminem was once near the Top 30 in the highest scoring Donkey Kong games in the world.
No one knew Eminem was an ardent video game fiend. On December 3rd,
2009, Eminem surprised the gamer community when he proudly tweeted his
highest Donkey Kong (a Nintendo game) score. The scores were that of an
above average player. Four months later on March 30th, 2010, he shocked
everyone with a new score of 465,800 – close to the top 30 on twin
galaxies Leaderboard.
9. The band D12 planned to find the 12 best rappers of Detroit but found only 6, so they created alter-egos in order to have 12. That’s when Eminem came up with Slim Shady.
D12 is a hip-hop group formed by Eminem and his friends in the late 90s.’ They wanted to be named as “Dirty Dozen” but as the name was already taken by a Jazz group, they settled for D12. D12 was initially supposed to be a band of 12 rappers, but they could only find six rapper’s, so they decided to split their personalities and create six alter ego’s taking the full contingent to 12. Slim Shady was one of the characters created as a alter ego to Eminem
10. The hip-hop mastermind, Eminem, is three people in one; Slim Shady, Eminem, and Marshall Mathers are three different persona’s reflecting various facets of the same individual.
The hip-hop king is three people in one. There is Eminem, a best-selling
artist of the last decade and a cultural icon who has 9 number one
albums. Marshall Mathers, a shy, introverted individual hidden inside
Eminem. He makes an occasional foray to spill out some emotional demons.
And then there is Slim Shady the guy with an attitude, outrageous, and
always on the offensive spouting the harsh truths or controversial
opinion’s and putting people’s backs up.
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