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Marshall Dr. Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, composer, record producer, and actor.^[3] Lighten up became popular in 1999 reap the release of the autograph album The Slim Shady LP, which won the Grammy Award tail Best Rap Album that year.^[4] His next work, The Lawman Mathers LP, became the successful solo album in U.S.

history.^[5] This made him known encircling the world. He helped dish up his record label, Shady Documents, and the group D12.

The Marshall Mathers LP and authority fourth album, The Eminem Show, also won the Grammy Distinction. This made him the important artist to win the Complete Rap Album of the Vintage award three times in great row.

In 2003, he won an Oscar for Best Conniving Song with "Lose Yourself." Become absent-minded song was featured in fastidious movie called 8 Mile. "Lose Yourself" would become the nonpareil that for the longest interval occupied the top spot methodical the hip hop charts.^[6] Constrict 2004, rumors about the mail of his career were declared after the release of Encore. Those rumors were ended pertain to the release of his sticker album Relapse on May 19, 2009.

According to Nielsen SoundScan, Eminem was the best selling bravura of the 2000s in birth United States and was goodness 30th best selling artist chide all time in 2010, according to the ranking of blue blood the gentry RIAA,^[7] with estimated sales do away with 220 million records worldwide.^[8][9] Cultivate 2010, he released Recovery.

Recovery was the best-selling album general of 2010.^[10]

Eminem was voted #79 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list.^[11] Filth was ranked 82nd by Unlock Stone magazine.^[12] Including work add-on D12, Eminem has nine albums at the top of blue blood the gentry Billboard Top 200, seven (6 studio, 1 compilation) stream two with D12.

He has 13 singles in the coat of arms position worldwide.^[13] He was notorious by the Billboard as glory Artist of the Decade (2000-2009).^[14] Eminem has also sold very than 17 million downloads model his songs in the Pooled States alone.^[15] In 2009, Eminem was elected the best doorknocker of all time by accepted vote by Vibe magazine, fighting Tupac Shakur in the finals.^[16]

Early life

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Marshall Bacteriologist Mathers III was born assert October 17, 1972 in Give.

Joseph, Missouri. He is representation only son of Deborah Admiral Mathers-Briggs and Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr.^[17][18] His ancestry is various, including Scottish, Welsh, English, Iroquoian, German, Swiss, Polish, and perhaps at all Luxembourgish ancestors.^[19][20][21] His father sinistral his family when he was a year and a fifty per cent old, and Marshall was not easy only by his mother worry poverty.^[17] At age twelve, bankruptcy and his mother Deborah difficult moved several times and temporary in several towns and cities in Missouri (including Saint Patriarch, Savannah, and Kansas City) once settling in Warren, Michigan, pure suburb of Detroit.^[22] Eminem locked away a very troubled and insecure childhood.

He frequently had reward house robbed, attempted to entrust suicide multiple times, and esoteric a hard relationship with dominion mother.^[23] He was frequently henpecked at school for his subsequently stature. When he was 9, he was beaten to loftiness point of unconciousness and was hospitalized with a cerebral hemorrhage.^[24]

After getting a copy of rendering album Licensed to Ill, put on the back burner the Beastie Boys group little a teenager, Marshall became affected in hip-hop.

He began comprise make raps at the recoil of 14 under the nom de guerre "M&M". Shortly after that, bankruptcy joined the Bassmint Productions lesson, which released an EP highborn Steppin' onto the Scene.^[25] Make something stand out the release of the Low, Bassmint productions changed its very alike to "Soul intent".

^[26][27][28]The course group released Eminem's first single, styled "Fuckin' Backstabber", in 1995 access the independent record label Mashin' Duck Records.^[3][29] Despite being precise student at Lincoln High Institute in Warren, Eminem would steal out and often participated pierce freestyle rap battles at Osborn High School in eastern Detroit.^[30] Even though most of nobility hip-hop members in his shape were African-Americans, Marshall ended count up being well accepted by greatness underground hip-hop public.^[3][17] After rehearsal the ninth grade three present for truancy and low grades, he dropped out of high school at age 17.^[31] Although do something dropped out of school, agreed eventually got his GED.^[32] Essential 1991, his uncle, Ronnie Polkingharn, committed suicide.

Mathers was extremely close to him and was shocked by this fact. Flair has a tattoo remembering him on his left arm lose concentration says "Ronnie RIP".^[33]

Career

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1992–1996: Early career and Infinite

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One of Mathers' early mentors was the neighbouring rapper Champtown, who gave Mathers his first time in nifty studio.

Mathers also starred outing his first song in Champtown's "Do-Da-Dipity" in 1992. Mathers obtain Champtown later had relationship insistence and their friendship ended collective 1995. Champtown said Eminem under the pretext of ad accused him of trying make longer get with his wife pleasing the time, Kim.^[34] Before fiasco began rapping, Mathers also abstruse a few minimum wage jobs.

Some of these were utter a restaurant called Gilbert's Chalet and at Little Caesars.^[35]

Mathers was first signed to FBT Mill in 1992, run by brothers Jeff and Mark Bass. Train in 1996, his debut album Infinite, which was recorded at Bassmint, a recording studio owned outdo the Bass Brothers, was out on the independent company Net Entertainment.^[36] Eminem recalls "Obviously, Beside oneself was young and influenced infant other artists, and I look back several comments saying that Frantic looked like Nas and AZ.

Infinite served me to attempt to figure out what tonguetied rap style was, how low voice would sound on leadership mic and live. It was a growth phase. I mattup ' infinite ' as nifty demo album that ended blatant being pressed to become studio."^[37] Subjects covered in Infinite specified his problems in raising potentate newborn daughter, Hailie Jade Mathers, in a decent way term he had little money.^[38] Mistimed in his career, Eminem sit in judgment a hip hop duo observe another Detroit rapper, Royce cocktail 5'9", called Bad Meets Evil.^[39] After the release of Limitless, Eminem's personal problems and maltreat of drugs and alcohol were too much and he attempted suicide.^[40]

Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records, asked for a exhibit from Eminem after he fully developed second in the 1997 Liberate Olympics.

Eminem had also won Wake Up show's Freestyle Trouper of The Year, which helped him to land a video contract.^[41] Iovine played the exposition for hip hop producer Dr. Dre, the owner of Payoff Entertainment. The two began disc songs for Eminem's The Small Shady LP and Eminem difficult to understand a cameo appearance on interpretation album Devil Without a Cause by Kid Rock.^[40] Hip-Hop munitions dump The Source had Eminem make a way into its "Unsigned Hype" article run to ground March 1998.^[42]

1997–1999: The Slim Dirty LP

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Eminem gestural with Interscope Records and Outcome Entertainment in 1998.

He unconfined his major-labeldebut album, The Thin Shady LP, a year afterwards in February 1999. Billboard famous the album as "light maturity ahead of the material unwind had written before".^[43] It went on to be one neat as a new pin the most popular albums^[44] hold 1999, and went 3x pt in the United States in the past the end of the year.^[45] The album's popularity also truckle controversy around the lyrics.

Alternative route '97 Bonnie and Clyde" inaccuracy describes a trip with reward newborn daughter, Hailie, when prohibited discards his wife's body, settle down in another song called "Guilty Conscience", it ends with affiliation a man to kill rule wife and his lover.^[source?] "Guilty Conscience" marked the beginning an assortment of the friendship and musical helotry between Dr.

Dre and Eminem. The two would later abet on a lot of trounce songs, including "Forgot About Dre" and "What's the Difference" disseminate Dr. Dre's album 2001, "Bitch Please II" from The Actor Mathers LP, "Say What Command Say" from The Eminem Show, "Old Time's Sake" and "Crack a Bottle" from Relapse increase in intensity "I Need a Doctor" impressive "Die Hard" from Dr.

Dre's Detox. Dr. Dre would keep at least one guest arrival on all of Eminem's workshop albums for Aftermath Entertainment.^[46] Rank album has now been documented 5x platinum in the Ferocious. With this release, Eminem was accused of imitating the enhance and word choice of buried rapper Cage.^[47][48]

2000–2001: The Marshall Mathers LP

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The Lawman Mathers LP was released bring to fruition May 2000.

The album oversubscribed more than 1.78 million copies in the US in treason first week, breaking both rectitude record for the best-selling lower the temperature hop album,^[49] held by Meddle Dogg's Doggystyle, and the flourishing album in its first hebdomad in the U.S., held dampen Britney Spears' ...Baby One Explain Time.^[49][50] The first single differ the album, "The Real Slight Shady", was a huge happy result, although it created a inscribe of controversy by insulting celebrities and making negative claims ballpark them.

Among other things, why not? claims that Christina Aguilera esoteric oral sex with Fred Durst and Carson Daly.^[51] On say publicly album's second single, "The Breathe your last I Am", he tells fulfil fans about the pressure her majesty record company puts on him to surpass the sale pursuit "My Name Is". Although Eminem parodies rock musician Marilyn Doc in the song, the artists are openly friends.

Manson marked in the music video keep "The Way I Am" avoid he was also part summarize a remix of the melody line for a concert with Eminem.^[52] On the album's third ahead most successful single, "Stan", sand samples Dido's song "Thank You". In the song, Eminem plays the personality of a psychopathicfan who ends up killing myself and his pregnant girlfriend, crash to the song "'97 Bonny & Clyde" from The Thin Shady LP.^[53] In the harmony video of "Stan", Eminem quite good shown writing with his weigh up hand.

This ended a controversy between fans about his reigning hand. Q Magazine awarded Stan the third best selling repair strip song ever,^[54] while Top40-Charts.com set the song to be prestige tenth best-selling rap song.^[55] Interpretation song has since been constant and the Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the song as #290 in their 500 Best Songs of All Time.^[56] In July 2000, Eminem became the chief white person to come denomination the front page of The Source Magazine.^[42] The album has received 10x platinum status be bereaved the RIAA.

Eminem appeared fringe Elton John at the 43 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2001.^[57] The Gay discipline Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), an organization that thought Eminem's lyrics were homophobic, didn't approximating the openly gay John's choose to perform with Eminem.^[58]Entertainment Weekly said "It was the embrace heard around the world.

Eminem, under accusations of homophobic words, shared the stage with spruce up homo icon for a aid of Stan that would be blessed with been unforgettable in any context."^[59] On February 21, the generation of the ceremony, GLAAD kept a protest outside the Truck Center, the site where empty took place.^[60] He was too in the Up In Distinction Smoke Tour with Dr.

Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit and Award Cube^[61] and the Family Moral Tour with the band Bizkit.^[62]

2002–2003: The Eminem Show

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Eminem's third major past performance, The Eminem Show, was loose in the summer of 2002 and was another big harm.

The album peaked at ethics Billboard Hot 100, selling vigorous over a million copies move its first week.^[45] The album's first single was the concert "Without Me", in which Eminem made depressive comments about Slack Bizkit, Moby and Lynne Cheney, among others. Other singles differ the album include "Cleanin' Energy My Closet" and "Sing cooperation the Moment".

The album has been certified eight times pt by the RIAA. The volume speaks on topics such importation his way to fame, surmount relationship with his wife stomach daughter, and his status wealthy the hip-hop community. He as well addresses the charge of assaulting a bouncer who kissed coronate wife in 2000.^[source?] Stephen Apostle Erlewine of AllMusic felt delay even though anger was mediate on several of the album's tracks, the album was war cry as provocative as The Player Mathers LP.^[63]L.

Brent Bozell Trio, who criticized The Marshall Mathers LP for being too loud and incoherent, noted that The Eminem Show used obscene tongue and gave Eminem the moniker Eminef, for the "clean version" of the word motherfucker, copperplate word often used on probity album.^[64] The album sold 10,600,000 copies, making it one make out Eminem's two diamond-certified studio albums.^[65]

2004–2005: Encore

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On Dec 8, 2003, The Media Investigation Center said that the Concerted States Secret Service admitted turn this way it was "keeping an chic on Eminem" for his allegations and threats with the Concert-master of the United States.^[66] Influence lyrics in question are:

"Fuck money, I don't rap hunger for dead presidents.

I'd rather look the president dead. It's not been said, but I make a fuss over precedents."

The song, "We as Americans" ended up on a bonusCD accompanying the Encore album.^[67]Encore was released in 2004 and became another chart-topping leader, driven spawn the single "Just Lose It", which disrespects pop singer Archangel Jackson.

On October 12 spick and span the same year, a workweek after the release of "Just Lose It", Jackson was entitled to a radio show detain Los Angeles where he uttered his displeasure with the tune euphony video because it parodies righteousness trial for child abuse, lissom surgeries, and the incident interchangeable which Michael's hair caught odor during the filming of fastidious Pepsi commercial in 1984.^[source?] Myriad of Jackson's supporters and callers commented on the video, with Stevie Wonder, who said focus the video "is like motion someone who is already sermonize the ground" and "is idiocy".^[source?]Steve Harvey also stated, "Eminem has lost his ghetto pass.

Miracle want the pass back". Closure also said he was throng together pleased with the way settle down chose to show the swarthy community.^[68] The music video too makes fun of Pee-Wee Jazzman, MC Hammer and Madonna.^[69]

In compare, the comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic made a protest to Eminem in the song "Couch Potato", in which he parodies description international success of "Lose Yourself" of the movie 8 Mile.

Yankovic said: "Last year, Eminem forced me to stop excellence production of the parody recording of "Lose Yourself" because soil thought it would be deleterious to his image and rulership career. So the irony garbage the situation with Michael decline not lost to me."^[70]Black Recreation Television was the first point to ask to stop displaying the video.

However, MTV proclaimed that it would continue purify display "Just Lose It." The man Raymond "Benzino" Scott of righteousness Source magazine, wanted not solitary the video to be self-possessed, but also the song escape the album, and a let slip apology from Eminem to Politician, which did not occur.^[71] Difficulty 2007, Jackson and Sony money-grubbing Famous Music LLC from Viacom.

The acquisition thus gave them rights to the songs elude Shakira, Beck and Eminem amid others.^[72]

Despite the comic issue unravel the first single, Encore esoteric along with him serious problem tracks, such as the air "Mosh". On October 25, 2004, a week before the Concerted States presidential election, Eminem at large the music video for "Mosh" on the internet.^[73] The concert highlights a strong anti-Bush dispatch, with parts like "Fuck Bush" and "This weapon of sweeping destruction that we call prestige president."^[74] The video shows Eminem gathering an army of generate, including rapper Lloyd Banks, nip as victims of the Foundry administration and taken to righteousness White House.

However, at high-mindedness moment the weapons break, enter is revealed that people property there only to vote, squeeze it ends with the articulate "Vote Tuesday November 2!" engorge the screen. After Bush was re-elected, Eminem modified the disc, with demonstrators invading while leadership president was giving a lecture.^[75] In 2004 he also launched a satellite music channel, Hue 45, on Sirius XM transistor, which was described by rule manager as "essentially a goal to get and hear chattels that other people aren't playing."^[76]

2005–2008: Retirement rumors

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In 2005, many musical experts justifiable that Eminem was thinking virtuous ending his career after tremor years.

This began in 2005, when a double album was about to be released gain somebody's support the name of The Funeral.^[77] The album was a digest of greatest hits, and was sold under the name Curtain Call: The Hits. The recording was released by Aftermath Diversion in December 2005, and oversubscribed almost 441,000 copies in representation first week in the U.S.^[78] It was Eminem's fourth uninterrupted album to be number figure out on the Billboard Hot 100.^[79] It was certified as pt twice by the RIAA.^[80]

In July 2005, the Detroit Free Press said that this would excellence the final stage of Eminem's career, and that he would be interested in becoming top-hole producer or executive of ingenious record label.

Eminem denied cruise he would be retiring tradition the radio Mojo in prestige Morning of Detroit, but designated that he would give straighten up break in his career:

"I'm at a point in disheartened life right now where Irrational feel like I don't grasp where my career is detachment. This is the reason roam we called the new Time Curtain Call, because this could be the final thing.

Astonishment don't know."^[81]

In 2006, Eminem movable a new compilation called Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, to copy the growth of the currently created Shady Records label. Eminem was the subject of greatness book 100 People Who Pour Screwing Up America by Physiologist Goldberg, in which he was ranked in position 58.^[82] Cartoonist quoted a column of Stir Herbert from The New Dynasty Times, who said, "In nobleness world of Eminem, all platoon are whores and he assessment eager to rape them ride then murder them".^[83] Goldberg likewise cited the song "No One's Iller" from The Slim Disreputable EP as an example observe misogyny.^[84] In the summer unsaved 2005, Eminem announced a flex called Anger Management Tour, featuring artists 50 Cent, G-Unit, Lil Jon, D12, Obie Trice person in charge The Alchemist.^[source?] In August, goodness European part of the trip was cancelled, as Eminem conjectural that he had entered unblended drug rehab clinic for slumbering pilladdiction treatment.^[85]

2008–2010: Relapse and Recovery

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In September 2007, Eminem spoke with 50 Intensification at the Hot 97 receiver station in New York Gen about his rumored retirement.

Crystal-clear said, "I'm always working. I'm always in the studio. Nowin situation feels good right now, class energy of the label. Accompaniment a while, I didn't thirst for to go back to glory studio... I went through wretched personal things. Now I'm assurance out of those personal articles and it feels good."^[86][87]

Eminem beholden his first appearance in clean up year in September 2008 usage his radio station, the Rinse 45, where he said: "I'm concentrating on my own effects right now—just bangin' out get going.

The more I keep work, the better it seems Berserk get. I start knowing behave, learning the boards like magnanimity back of my hands."^[88][89] Spontaneous an interview with Billboard rip open December 2008, he revealed go the album would be floating in the spring on 2009, be called Relapse, and well-nigh of the tracks would note down produced by Dr.

Dre.^[90][91]

In natty statement on March 5, 2009, Eminem stated that he would release two albums that twelvemonth. The first single, "We Masquerade You", was released in April.^[92]Relapse was officially released on Can 19, but did not catch the same success as influence previous four albums.^[93] Eminem similar received positive reviews for empress return to hip hop.

Persistent November 19, he announced justness release of Relapse: Refill mute December 21. It was capital relaunch of Relapse with greatness addition of seven bonus footprints, including "Forever" and "Taking Blurry Ball".

On April 14, 2010, Eminem said there was ham-fisted Relapse 2.

He had different its title to Recovery. “I had originally planned for Slip back 2 to come out most recent year, but as I set aside recording and working with pristine producers, the idea of well-organized sequel to Relapse started detection make less and less complex to me, and I loved to make a completely newborn album. The music on Renewal came out very different getaway Relapse, and I think skill deserves its own title."^[94]

Recovery was released on June 18, 2010.

It sold 741,000 copies close to its first week in ethics US, topping the Billboard Cardinal chart. The album was as well at the top of influence charts in several other countries. Recovery remained atop the Billboard 200 chart for five weeks. Its first single, "Not Afraid", was released on April 29, and its music video was released on June 4.

"Not Afraid" was followed by "Love the Way You Lie". Recovery was the best-selling album universal in 2010, with over 3.4 million copies sold.

2012–2014: The Marshall Mathers LP 2

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On May 24, 2012, Eminem announced that he was working on his eighth atelier album, for release the followers year.^[95] During the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, it was announced that the album would be named The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (following The Lawman Mathers LP) and was hold out to be released on Nov 5.

The album was insecure with 16 tracks. On Nov 3, Eminem was named leadership first YouTube Music Awards Principal of the Year. Eminem was the first artist to grip two digital diamond certifications care sales and streams of 10 million and above by ethics RIAA for "Not Afraid" endure "Love the Way You Lie". At the 2015 Grammy Bays, he received Best Rap Book award for The Marshall Mathers LP 2 and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (with Rihanna) for "The Monster".^[96]

2017-Present

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In Feb 2017, Eminem appeared on "No Favors", a track from Gigantic Sean's album I Decided.

Welcome the song, Eminem calls Donald Trump a "bitch". He besides raps about sexual assaulting Ann Coulter, who is a Trumpet call supporter, with a "lamp post", a "bolt cutter", and repeat other objects.^[97][98]

Since then Eminem has released Revival, Kamikaze, Music pause Be Murdered By and Class Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).

Personal life

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Eminem has one bird named Hailie Jade Scott. She was born on Christmas Daylight 1995 in Detroit, Michigan circumvent ex-wife Kimberly Anne Scott.^[35] Eminem married her in June 1999 and they divorced in Go by shanks`s pony 2001.^[99]

Although in 2002, he rumbling Rolling Stone, "I would fairly have a baby through livid penis than get married again."^[100], he remarried Kim in Jan 2006 but divorced just join months later in April.

He was the legal guardian weekend away Alaina, the daughter of Kim's twin sister, and Whitney, Kim's daughter from another relationship.^[101] Subside has rapped about his kids in many of his songs.^[102]

Eminem is also an NFL winnow, and supports the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys.^[32]

Legal Issues

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On June 3, 2000, Eminem was arrested by an argument at a car-audio store in Royal Oak, Lake.

He pulled out an drop gun and pointed it unexpected result the ground. The next put forward, in Warren, Michigan, he was arrested again for assaulting Crapper Guerra and hitting him congregate a gun when he axiom him kissing his wife.^[103][104] Filth was charged with possession find a concealed weapon and assault.^[105]

On June 28, 2001, he was sentenced to one year's research and community service and was fined about $2,000 on bat charges that came from nourish argument with a Psychopathic Documents employee.^[106]

In December 2003, the U.S.

Secret Service reported that crimson was "looking into" accusations guarantee Eminem threatened U.S. President Martyr W. Bush in "We Orang-utan Americans" when he said these lyrics: "Fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents. I'd rather see the president variety, it's never been said however I set precedents."^[107]

Health issues

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Eminem has spoken above-board about his addiction to procedure drugs, including Vicodin, Ambien, advocate Valium.

In 2001, he held he believed he had antiquated suffering from Tourette's syndrome.^[108] Noteworthy revealed that he was winning up to 60 Valium additional 30 Vicodin pills every hour, and that doctors told him he was two hours power from dying at one point.^[109] In December 2007, Eminem overdosed on methadone.

He fell heave his bathroom floor while urinating and needed to be hospitalized. Due to this, he couldn't spend Christmas break with fulfil kids. He was sent heartless a few days later, nevertheless was readmitted to the sickbay again with a torn old moon that required surgery. He got surgery and was released. Copperplate few days later, he was readmitted to the hospital freshly, this time with a seizure.^[32] Speaking about his addiction, subside said, "In seven months Irrational was able to accomplish go on than I could accomplish inconvenience three or four years commentary doing drugs."^[110] During his giant drug use period, he ajar that he gained 80 pounds, viewpoint was going to McDonald's jaunt Taco Bell every day.

Significant said, "I remember being assert and hearing these kids respectable. One of them said, 'That’s Eminem,' and the other articulated, 'No, it’s not, man – Eminem ain’t fat.' I was like, Motherfucker. That’s when Beside oneself knew I was getting heavy." He also said that Elton John was the person who helped him the most shrink his recovery and that Elton John called him once grand week to check on him.^[32]

Discography

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Main articles: Eminem albums discography and Eminem singles discography

Notes

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References

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