Eminem

He also had a few major hit singles and albums as part of D12. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. He recently produced 2Pac's fifth posthumous album, Loyal to the Game. In 1988, "Indestructible" became their last charting single. Furthermore, his own records increasingly contain tracks produced by himself. Unusually, the Four Tops enjoyed a renaissance in 1981, with "When She Was My Girl". Besides D12's two albums, Devil's Night and D12 World, he also produced Obie Trice's Cheers as well as 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'. The hits continued througout the 1960s and early 1970s, including 1973's "Ain't No Woman Like The One I've Got", but had essentially ended with "Catfish" (1976).

Eminem is also active as a producer of rap records. Perhaps their most well-remembered song is 1966's "Reach Out, I'll Be There". He also owns a clothing line called "Shady Ltd." and runs the music label Shady Records with signed artists including 50 Cent, D12, DJ Green Lantern, Stat Quo, and Obie Trice. This was followed by a series of massively successful songs, including the number 1 hit "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honeybunch)", "Something About You", "Standing In The Shadows of Love", "Bernadette", and "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever". Eminem signed a deal with Sirius satellite radio to program a hip-hop oriented station called Shade 45, which debuted on October 28, 2004. Later that year their follow-up record, "Without The One You Love," barely made the charts. He has also lent his voice to the Crank Yankers show and a web cartoon called "The Slim Shady Show", which has since been pulled offline and is instead sold on DVD. In 1964, The Four Tops released their first hit, "Baby I Need Your Loving," a top ten record.

He recorded several new songs for the soundtrack, including "Lose Yourself," which won Eminem an Academy Award for Best Song. After brief, unsuccessful periods with Chess, Red Top, Riverside Records and Columbia Records, the Four Tops signed with Motown. Eminem made his Hollywood acting debut with the semi-autobiographical 8 Mile, released in November 2002. They changed their names to The Four Tops to avoid confusion with The Ames Brothers. On October 31, Eminem performed the song on Saturday Night Live, but some thought that he appeared to be lip-synching it. Payton had a cousin named Roquel Davis, a songwriter and occasional singer, who helped the group sign to Chess Records in 1956. After Bush won the election, the video's ending was changed to Eminem and the rioters invading while Bush was giving a speech. Stubbs and Abdul "Duke" Fakir met Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton in 1953 and began calling themselves The Four Aims.

However, once the army breaks in, it is revealed that they are there to simply register to vote, and the video ends with the words "VOTE Tuesday November 2" on the screen. Their sound was unique for having a deep-voiced lead singer, Levi Stubbs -- most groups of the time were fronted by a tenor. The video features Eminem gathering up an army of people presented as victims of the Bush administration and leading them to the White House. The Four Tops are an American musical group, who helped define the Motown sound of the 1960's. The song features a very strong anti-Bush message, with lyrics such as "fuck Bush" and "this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president". presidential election, 2004, Eminem released the video for his song titled "Mosh" on the Internet.

On October 26, 2004 a week before the U.S. So the irony of this situation with Michael is not lost on me.". On Jackson's protest, Yankovic himself told the Chicago Sun-Times, "Last year, Eminem forced me to halt production on the video for my 'Lose Yourself' parody because he somehow thought that it would be harmful to his image or career. Others dismissed "Just Lose It" as a tame Weird Al Yankovic-style knockoff [4] (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15126,00.html).

[3] (http://www.sohh.com/thewire/read.php?contentID=6321). [2] (http://www.mtv.com/onair/trl/top10/) The Source magazine, through its CEO Raymond "Benzino" Scott, wanted not only the video pulled, but the song off the album, and a public apology to Jackson from Eminem. MTV, however, announced it would continue airing the video and "Just Lose It" became the number-one requested video on Total Request Live for the week ending October 22. Black Entertainment Television was the first channel to stop airing the video.

We want the pass back." [1] (http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=3606). Harvey himself declared, "Eminem has lost his ghetto pass. In the video, Eminem also parodied Pee Wee Herman, MC Hammer, and a Blonde-Ambition-touring Madonna. The lyrics to "Just Lose It" also refer to Jackson's troubles.

On October 12, 2004, a week after the release of "Just Lose It," Eminem's first video and single off Encore, Michael Jackson called into the Los Angeles-based Steve Harvey radio show to report his displeasure with the video, which parodies Jackson's child-molestation accusations, his rhinoplasty, and an incident in which Jackson's hair caught on fire while he was filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984. The video contained various parodies, including that of the Janet Jackson 'incident', and of 50 Cent's "In Da Club" video. The controversial song was the band's sarcastic response to the media's frequent portrayal of D12 as Eminem's band, giving little to no credit to its other members. Then, in 2004, Eminem made the video "My Band" with D12.

The lyrics in question: Fuck money/I don't rap for dead presidents/ I'd rather see the president dead/ It's never been said, but I set precedents. On December 8, 2003, the United States Secret Service admitted it was "looking into" allegations that Mathers had threatened the President of the United States after the unreleased song "We as Americans" leaked onto the Internet. Mathers reportedly made the recording after breaking up with his black girlfriend. The 1988 cassette featured a younger Mathers performing a freestyle rap in which he made disparaging remarks about black women, calling them "stupid" in comparison to white women.

On November 19th, 2003 new controversy surrounded Eminem when a cassette tape was played during a press conference held by The Source magazine. It featured the single "Without Me", an apparent sequel to "The Real Slim Shady" in which he makes derogatory comments about boy bands, Moby, and Lynne Cheney, among others. Eminem's third major album, The Eminem Show was released in summer 2002. Another song, "Blow My Buzz", was on the soundtrack for the film The Wash (2001), in which Eminem had a cameo.

The album contained the single "Purple Pills". The album was certified multi-platinum. As one of six members of the rap group D12, Eminem appeared on the album Devil's Night, released in 2001. Eminem himself has written a book called Angry Blonde (2001), where he reveals the emotions and intent behind the lyrics in the Marshall Mathers LP, and describes his passion and approach to rapping.

Since Eminem's rapid ascent to fame, tell-all biographies of varying quality have been published, including Shady Bizzness by his former bodyguard Byron Williams. Though shocking a lot of people, this gesture failed to appease all of his critics. Though Mathers had always claimed that his lyrics were not meant to be taken seriously, and that he had nothing against homosexuals or women, the gay rights group GLAAD organized a boycott of the Grammys against Eminem. Mathers responded to this by singing "Stan" on-stage with openly-gay singer Elton John, ending the performance by hugging John to show that he didn't have anything against homosexuals. With the enormous popularity of Eminem's second album, the controversy surrounding Eminem grew even larger, especially when The Marshall Mathers LP was nominated for a Grammy for Album of the Year.

In the third single, "Stan" (which samples Dido's "Thank You"), Eminem attempts to deal with his new fame status, telling the story of a fan so obsessed with him that he winds up killing himself and his pregnant girlfriend, mirroring one of the songs on The Slim Shady LP. In the song, Eminem claims, among other things, that Christina Aguilera gave "head" (oral sex) to Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit) and Carson Daly (of MTV's Total Request Live). The first single released from the album, "The Real Slim Shady", created some buzz by trash-talking celebrities and spilling dubious gossip about them. The Marshall Mathers LP was released in May 2000, quickly selling 2 million copies.

Dre encouraging a man to murder his wife and her lover. Another song, "Guilty Conscience" ends with Eminem and Dr. In "97 Bonnie and Clyde", Eminem describes a trip with his infant daughter, disposing of the bodies of his wife, her lover and his son. With the album's enormous popularity came controversy surrounding many of the album's lyrics.

Once he joined Interscope, Eminem released The Slim Shady LP, which went on to be one of the most popular records of the year, going triple platinum. Dre agreed to sign him. Otherwize at the 1997 Rap Olympics MC battle, Dr. Though this did not directly lead to a recording contract, once Eminem won second place vs.

Dre found Eminem's demo on the garage floor of Jimmy Iovine, the Interscope label chief. It is said that Dr. Some people called him rap's "great white hope". He became famous in the hip-hop underground because of his distinctive, cartoonish style and the fact that he is white (a rarity in all rap, especially mainstream gangsta rap).

In 1996, he released his first independent album, named Infinite, following it up with The Slim Shady EP in 1997. His wife Kim gave birth to his daughter, Hailie Jade, on 25 December 1995. Interested in rap from a young age, Mathers began performing as early as thirteen, later gaining some popularity with a group, Soul Intent. Mathers was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri and spent most of his childhood moving back and forth between Saint Joseph and suburban Detroit, Michigan.

He is also infamous for the controversy surrounding many of his lyrics, which are said by critics to be homophobic, misogynistic and excessively violent. He is perhaps best known for being one of the few successful white rappers in the industry, not to mention one of the most critically acclaimed. Eminem is the stage name of Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), one of today's most controversial and popular hip hop musicians. 2'.

He has been recognized as a huge influence on the music industry, and there has been two songs written about him by Christian rapper KJ-52, called 'Dear Slim' and 'Dear Slim Pt. The backwards-E has become a logo for him, appearing prominently in his videos and stage set. The second E in his stage name is always shown reversed on his records since his second album "The Marshall Mathers LP". Eminem is a fan of fast food chain Taco Bell & Wendy's and frequently eats there while on tour and at home with his daughter and niece.

His performance of "The Real Slim Shady" and "The Way I Am" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards while leading a procession of Eminem-lookalikes from the street outside up to the stage, is regarded as one of the best performances on the VMA's. 2004 "Mockingbird" #1 US. 2004 "Like Toy Soldiers" #1 US; #1 UK #1 EU; #1 GER. 2004 "Encore" #25 US.

2004 "Just Lose It" #1 US; #1 UK; #1 GER; #1 EU. 2003 "Business" #6 UK; #15 GER. 2003 "Superman" #15 US. 2003 "Sing for the Moment" #8 US; #6 UK; #7 GER.

2002 "Lose Yourself" #1 US; #1 UK; #1 GER. 2002 "Cleanin' out My Closet" #4 US; #4 UK; #1 GER. 2002 "Without Me" #1 US; #1 UK. Dido) #1 US; #1 UK; #1 GER.

2000 "Stan" (feat. 2000 "The Way I Am" #58 US, #8 UK. 2000 "The Real Slim Shady" #4 US; #1 UK; #1 EU; #1 GE. Eminem) #21 US; #7 UK.

Dre feat. 2000 "Forgot about Dre" (Dr. Dre) #5 UK. Dr.

1999 "Guilty Conscience" (feat. 1999 "My Name Is..." #1 US; #2 UK. Encore (2004) #1 US (4x Platinum); #1 UK. 8 Mile Soundtrack (2002) #1 US (2x Platinum).

The Eminem Show (2002) #1 US (8X Platinum); #1 UK. The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) #1 US (9X Platinum); #1 UK. The Slim Shady LP (1999) #2 US (4X Platinum); #12 UK. The Slim Shady EP (1997).

Infinite (1996). Mockingbird. Like Toy Soldiers (samples "Toy Soldiers" by Martika). Mosh.

Just Lose It. Encore: