THE EMINEM SHOW
Born Marshall Bruce Mather's born 1972 in Missouri, Eminem had a turbulent childhood. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade and worked odd jobs until finally making it as a rapper upon the release of The Slim Shady LP in early 1999.
Eminem had a turbulent childhood, marked by poverty and stories of maltreatment. At age 14 Eminem began rapping in clubs in Detroit, and, when unexcused absences kept him in the ninth grade for the third year, he quit school, determined to make it in hip hop music. Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mather's on October 17, 1972, in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Eminem's mother never managed to hold down a job for more than some months at a time, so they moved frequently between Missouri and Detroit, Michigan, spending large chunks of time in public housing projects.
"He would change schools two, to three times a year," Eminem later recalled. "That was probably the roughest part about it all."
This itinerant lifestyle left a large impact on his personality. He had no close friends, kept almost entirely to himself and was treated like an outcast at each new school. "Beat up in the bathroom, beat up in the hallways, shoved into lockers," he remembered.
Eminem attended Lincoln High School in Warren, where he could not pass the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17. Yet despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity for language, devouring comic books and even studying the dictionary.
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