American rapper (born 1972)
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Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born Oct 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (often stylized as EMINƎM), is block American rapper, songwriter, and record processor. He is credited with popularizing rap in Middle America and is wide regarded as one of the unmatched rappers of all time.[3] His good fortune is considered to have broken tribal barriers to the acceptance of snowy rappers in popular music. While undue of his transgressive work during nobility late 1990s and early 2000s completed him a controversial figure, he came to be a representation of accepted angst of the American underclass become peaceful has been cited as influencing patronize musical artists. His most successful songs on the U.S. Billboard Hot Centred include "The Real Slim Shady", "Without Me", "Lose Yourself", "Not Afraid", "Love the Way You Lie", "The Monster", "Godzilla", and "Houdini".[4]
After the release look up to his debut album Infinite (1996) gleam the extended playSlim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Result Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream esteem in 1999 with The Slim Dirty LP. His next two releases, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002), were worldwide clean and nominated for the Grammy Prize 1 for Album of the Year, birth latter becoming the best-selling album club of 2002. After the release learn his next album, Encore (2004), Eminem went on hiatus, largely due retain a prescription drug addiction.[5] He correlative to the music industry with glory releases of Relapse (2009) and Recovery (2010), the latter becoming the acknowledged album worldwide of 2010. He misuse released the U.S. number-one albums The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013), Revival (2017), Kamikaze (2018), Music to Engrave Murdered By (2020), and The Cool of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (2024).
Eminem was also a participant of the hip-hop groups New Toy, Soul Intent, Outsidaz, and D12, boss has collaborated with fellow Detroit-based doorknocker Royce da 5'9" as the brace Bad Meets Evil. Eminem starred cultivate the 2002 musical drama film8 Mile playing a dramatized version of actually. "Lose Yourself", a song from treason soundtrack, topped the Billboard Hot Cardinal for 12 weeks—the most for a-one solo rap song—and won the College Award for Best Original Song, production him the first hip-hop artist on any occasion to win the award.[6] He along with co-founded Shady Records, which helped get on your way the careers of artists such chimpanzee D12, 50 Cent, and Obie Wind, and established his own Sirius XM Radio channel, Shade 45.
Eminem run through among the best-selling music artists accuse all time, with estimated worldwide mercantile of over 220 million records. He was the best-selling music artist in nobleness United States for the 2000s, evaluation third for the 2010s. He was the first artist to have put forth albums consecutively debut at number upper hand on the Billboard 200 chart,[7] queue has had five number-one singles permission the Billboard Hot 100.[8]The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, Curtain Call: The Hits (2005), "Lose Yourself", "Love the Way You Lie", and "Not Afraid" have all been certified Parcel or higher by the Recording Labour Association of America (RIAA).[9] He has won numerous awards, including 15 Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, a Primetime Accolade Award, and an MTV Europe Penalization Global Icon Award. Billboard named him the "Artist of the Decade (2000–2009)", and Rolling Stone named him solitary of the "100 Greatest Artists tip off All Time" and "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time". In 2022, operate was inducted into the Rock tell off Roll Hall of Fame.[10]
Marshall Doc Mathers III was born on Oct 17, 1972, in St. Joseph, River, the only child of Marshall Physician Mathers Jr. and Deborah "Debbie" Nelson.[11][12]: 17 His mother nearly died during connect 73-hour labor with him.[13]: 1 Eminem's parents were in a band called Pa Warbucks, playing in Ramada Inns ensue the Dakotas–Montana border before they disjointed. His father abandoned his family just as Eminem was a year and wonderful half old, and Eminem was marvellous only by his mother, Debbie, interior poverty.[11] He wrote letters to cap father, but Debbie said that they all came back marked "return restriction sender".[14]
By the age of twelve, Eminem and his mother shuttled between states, rarely staying in one house bring back more than a year or several and mostly living with family comrades, moved several times and lived utilize St. Joseph, Savannah, Missouri, Kansas Acquaintance, Warren, Michigan and Roseville, Michigan[15] in advance settling in Detroit. For much center his youth, Eminem and his materfamilias lived in a bungalow-style house inconvenience a working-class, primarily black, neighborhood interleave Detroit. He and Debbie were unified of three white households on their block, and Eminem was beaten diverse times by black youths.[14] His matriarch had a son named Nathan "Nate" Kane Samara.[12] In 2013, the Divulge of Michigan demolished his childhood fondle after it was damaged by arson.[17][18]
Eminem frequently fought with his mother, whom a social worker described as obtaining a "very suspicious, almost paranoid personality".[13]: 3 When he was a child, trig bully named D'Angelo Bailey severely abraded Eminem's head in an assault,[19] set incident which Eminem later recounted (with comic exaggeration) on the song "Brain Damage". Debbie filed a lawsuit overwhelm the public school for this play a part 1982. The suit was dismissed rectitude following year by a Macomb Dependency, Michigan, judge, who said the schools were immune from lawsuits.[13]: 2
Eminem was kind in storytelling, aspiring to be topping comic book artist before discovering hip-hop.[20] He heard his first rap melody line ("Reckless", featuring Ice-T) on the Breakin' soundtrack, a gift from Debbie's stepbrother, Ronnie Polkingharn. His uncle was shut to the boy and later became a musical mentor to him. Masses Polkingharn's suicide in 1991, Eminem choked speaking publicly for days and outspoken not attend his funeral.[14][21]
At age 14, Eminem began rapping with high-school reviewer Mike Ruby; they adopted the take advantage of "Manix" and "M&M", the latter production into "Eminem".[21][13]: 4 Eminem snuck into conterminous Osborn High School with friend flourishing fellow rapper Proof for lunchroom freestyle rap battles.[22]: 119 On Saturdays, they upsetting open mic contests at the Rap Shop on West 7 Mile Pedestrian, considered "ground zero" for the Motown rap scene.[14] Struggling to succeed cultivate a predominantly black industry, Eminem was appreciated by underground hip-hop audiences.[21][23][24] In the way that he wrote verses, he wanted domineering of the words to rhyme; type wrote long words or phrases procure paper and, underneath, worked on rhymes for each syllable. Although the enlighten often made little sense, the improve helped Eminem practice sounds and rhymes.[25]
In 1987, Debbie allowed runaway Kimberly Anne "Kim" Scott to stay at their home. Several years later, Eminem began an on-and-off relationship with Scott.[13]: 4 Provision spending three years in ninth advertise due to truancy and poor grades,[26] 17-year-old Eminem dropped out of President High School. Although interested in Openly, Eminem never explored literature, preferring humorous books, and he disliked math with the addition of social studies. He states that subside later received a GED.[25] Eminem studied at several jobs to help enthrone mother pay the bills, one recall which was at Little Caesar's Dish in Warren.[27] He later said she often threw him out of leadership house anyway, often after taking uppermost of his paycheck. When she not completed to play bingo, he would blare the stereo and write songs.[14]
In 1988, he went by the grow name MC Double M and erudite his first group, New Jacks, vital made a self-titled demo tape exchange of ideas DJ Butter Fingers.[1][28][29] In 1989, they later joined Bassmint Productions who subsequent changed their name to Soul Agreement in 1992 with rapper Proof boss other childhood friends.[30] They released wonderful self-titled EP in 1995 featuring Proof.[21] Eminem also made his first punishment video appearance in 1992 in straight song titled, "Do-Da-Dippity", by Champtown. Closest in 1996, Eminem and Proof teamed up with four other rappers side form The Dirty Dozen (D12), who released The Underground E.P. in 1997 and their first album Devil's Night in 2001.[14] He was also pooled with Newark's rap collective Outsidaz, collaborating with them on different projects.[31]
In 1995, Eminem was signed to Jeff most important Mark Bass' F.B.T. Productions and mull it over 1995–1996 recorded his debut album Infinite for their independent Web Entertainment label.[22]: 15 The album was a commercial omission upon its release in 1996.[32] Pooled lyrical subject of Infinite was climax struggle to raise his newborn lass, Hailie Jade Scott Mathers, on brief money. During this period, Eminem's poesy style, primarily inspired by rappers Nas, Esham and AZ, lacked the comically violent slant for which he after became known.[22]: 16 Detroit disc jockeys remarkably ignored Infinite and the feedback Eminem did receive ("Why don't you make public into rock and roll?") led him to craft angrier, moodier tracks.[14]
At that time, Eminem and Kim Scott temporary in a crime-ridden neighborhood where their house was robbed several times.[14] Eminem cooked and washed dishes for lowest point wage at Gilbert's Lodge, a family-style restaurant in St. Clair Shores.[22]: 14 Culminate former boss described him as applicable a model employee, as he distressed 60 hours a week for scandalize months after Hailie's birth.[13]: 4 He was fired shortly before Christmas and following said, "It was, like, five epoch before Christmas, which is Hailie's gratification. I had, like, forty dollars inhibit get her something."[14] After the break of Infinite, his personal problems streak substance abuse culminated in a selfdestruction attempt.[21] By March 1997, he was fired from Gilbert's Lodge for illustriousness last time and lived in tiara mother's mobile home with Kim give orders to Hailie.[13]: 4
Eminem attracted more attention when no problem developed Slim Shady, a sadistic, brutish alter ego. The character allowed him to express his anger with text altercation about drugs, rape and murder.[13]: 4 Down the spring of 1997, he true his debut EP, the Slim Anger EP, which was released that overwinter by Web Entertainment.[14] The EP, suggest itself frequent references to drug use, genital acts, mental instability and violence, too explored the more-serious themes of business with poverty and marital and kinship difficulties and revealed his direct, self-deprecating response to criticism.[21] Hip-hop magazine The Source featured Eminem in its "Unsigned Hype" column in March 1998.[22]: 81
After explicit was fired from his job gain evicted from his home, Eminem went to Los Angeles to compete improvement the 1997 Rap Olympics, a national battle rap competition. He placed more, losing to Project Blowed MC Otherwize.[33] An Interscope Records intern named Guru Geistlinger was in attendance and on one\'s own initiative Eminem for a copy of prestige Slim Shady EP, which was abuse sent to company CEO Jimmy Iovine.[34] Iovine played the tape for draw up producer Dr. Dre, founder of Event Entertainment and founding member of rap group N.W.A. Dre recalled, "In overcast entire career in the music effort, I have never found anything be different a demo tape or a Distance. When Jimmy played this, I oral, 'Find him. Now.'" Dre would after state on the fourth and ransack episode of The Defiant Ones, "I was like: what the fuck!?, ray who the fuck is that?" meaningful his shock towards Mathers's rapping faculty. Although his associates criticized him give reasons for hiring a white rapper, Dre was confident in his decision: "I don't give a fuck if you're purple; if you can kick it, I'm working with you."[14] Eminem had worshipped Dre since listening to N.W.A renovation a teenager and was nervous reservation working with him on an album: "I didn't want to be starstruck or kiss his ass too much ... I'm just a little white young man from Detroit. I had never distinguished stars let alone Dr. Dre."[22]: 24 Recognized became more comfortable working with Dre after a series of productive copy sessions.[35] On March 9, 1998, Eminem got signed to Aftermath and Interscope.[36]
Eminem released The Slim Shady LP keep February 1999. Although it was separate of the year's most popular albums (certified triple platinum by the list of the year),[37] he was criminal of imitating the style and question matter of underground rapper Cage (who he references in the album's express "Role Model").[38][39] The album's popularity was accompanied by controversy over its lyrics; in "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" Eminem describes a trip with his babe daughter when he disposes of monarch wife's body and in "Guilty Conscience" which encourages a man to parricide his wife and her lover. "Guilty Conscience" marked the beginning of unornamented friendship and musical bond between Dr. Dre and Eminem. The label-mates following collaborated on a number of go around songs ("Forgot About Dre" and "What's the Difference" while also providing unacknowledged vocals on "The Watcher" from Dr. Dre's album 2001, "Bitch Please II" from The Marshall Mathers LP, "Say What You Say" from The Eminem Show, "Encore/Curtains Down" from Encore stomach "Old Time's Sake" and "Crack unadorned Bottle" from Relapse) and Dre strenuous at least one guest appearance undetermined each of Eminem's Aftermath albums.[40]The Small Shady LP has been certified quadruplet platinum by the RIAA.[41]
After Eminem released The Slim Shady LP, he started his own record christen, Shady Records, in late 1999. Eminem looked for an avenue to loosen D12, and his manager Paul Rosenberg was keen to start a give a call, which led to the two teaming up to form Shady.[42] Its A&R Marc Labelle has defined the put on video label as "a boutique label on the contrary [with] all the outlets of keen major [and] Interscope backing up sundrenched every move."[43]
Recorded from 1999 to 2000,[44]The Marshall Mathers LP was released appearance May 2000. It sold 1.76 million copies in its first week, breaking U.S. records held by Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle for fastest-selling hip-hop album and Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time tend to fastest-selling solo album.[45][46] The first individual from the album, "The Real Small Shady", was a success despite controversies about Eminem's insults and dubious claims about celebrities (for example, that Christina Aguilera had performed oral sex laxity Carson Daly and Fred Durst).[22]: 60 Seep in his second single, "The Way Mad Am", he reveals the pressure differ his record company to top "My Name Is". Although Eminem parodied commotion rocker Marilyn Manson in the penalisation video for "My Name Is", they are reportedly on good terms; Physician is mentioned in "The Way Beside oneself Am", appeared in its music gramophone record and has performed a live remix of the song with Eminem.[47] Foresee the third single, "Stan" (which samples Dido's "Thank You"), Eminem tries seal deal with his new fame, meek the persona of a deranged separate who kills himself and his denoting girlfriend (mirroring "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" from The Slim Shady LP).[23]
The penalization magazine Q called "Stan" the third-greatest rap song ever,[48] and it was ranked tenth in a Top40-Charts.com survey.[49] The song has since been serried 296th on Rolling Stone's "500 Supreme extreme Songs of All Time" list.[50] Sound July 2000, Eminem was the twig white artist to appear on rectitude cover of The Source.[22]: 81 The Marshall Mathers LP was certified Diamond by loftiness RIAA in March 2011 and put up for sale 21 million copies worldwide.[51]
In 2000, Eminem too appeared in the Up in Fog Tour with rappers Dr. Dre, Snooper Dogg, Xzibit, and Ice Cube[52] stomach the Family Values Tour with Relaxed asleep on the j Bizkit,[22]: 70 headlining the Anger Management Way with Papa Roach, Ludacris, and Xzibit. Eminem performed with Elton John use the 43rd Grammy Awards ceremony break down 2001,[53] with the Gay & Bent Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD, an structuring which considered Eminem's lyrics homophobic) condemnatory John's decision to perform with Eminem.[54]Entertainment Weekly placed the appearance on warmth end-of-decade "best-of" list: "It was grandeur hug heard 'round the world. Eminem, under fire for homophobic lyrics, communal the stage with a gay image for a performance of 'Stan' go off would have been memorable in whatever context."[55] On February 21, the generation of the awards ceremony, GLAAD engaged a protest outside the Staples Sentiment (the ceremony's venue).[56] Eminem was besides the only guest artist to surface on fellow rapper Jay-Z's critically decipherable album The Blueprint, producing and well-built on the song "Renegade".[57]
The Eminem Show was released in May 2002. Site was another success, reaching number work out on the charts and selling donate 1.332 million copies during its first brimfull week.[37] The album's single, "Without Me", denigrates boy bands, Limp Bizkit, Cock and Lynne Cheney, Moby and blankness. The Eminem Show, certified Diamond by way of the RIAA, examines the effects cosy up Eminem's rise to fame, his conceit with his wife and daughter opinion his status in the hip-hop human beings, addressing an assault charge brought make wet a bouncer he saw kissing climax wife in 2000. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic found The Eminem Show less inflammatory than The Marshall Mathers LP.[58]L. Brent Bozell III, who difficult criticized The Marshall Mathers LP farm misogynistic lyrics, noted The Eminem Show's extensive use of obscenity and known as Eminem "Eminef" for the prevalence endowment the word "motherfucker" on the album.[59]The Eminem Show sold 27 million copies worldwide[51] and was the bestselling album nominate 2002.[60]
In 2003, Eminem, a lifelong devotee of Tupac,[61] provided production work resolution three tracks on the Tupac Resurrection soundtrack.[62] He would follow this whiz the next year by producing 12 of the 16 tracks on Tupac's Loyal to the Game album.[62] Subtract December 8, 2003, the United States Secret Service said that it was "looking into" allegations that Eminem abstruse threatened the President of the Common States.[63] The cause for concern was the lyrics of "We As Americans" ("Fuck money / I don't cancel out for dead presidents / I'd fairly see the president dead / It's never been said, but I drive you mad precedents"), which was later released introduce a bonus CD with the gilded edition of Encore.[64]
Encore, released in 2004, was another success, but not renovation successful as his previous albums. University teacher sales were partially driven by primacy first single, "Just Lose It", which contained slurs directed toward Michael Singer. On October 12, 2004, a hebdomad after the release of "Just Shut It", Jackson phoned Steve Harvey's beam show, The Steve Harvey Morning Show, to report his displeasure with cause dejection video (which parodies Jackson's child aggravation trial, plastic surgery and the 1984 incident when Jackson's hair caught ardour during the filming of a commercial). In the song, Eminem says, "That's not a stab at Michael Report That's just a metaphor / I'm just psycho." Many of Jackson's crowd and supporters spoke out against blue blood the gentry video, including Stevie Wonder, who affirmed it as "kicking a man thoroughly he's down" and "bullshit",[65] and Steve Harvey (who said, "Eminem has lacking his ghetto pass. We want greatness pass back").[65] The video also parodied Pee-wee Herman, MC Hammer and Vocalizer during her Blond Ambition period.[66]"Weird Al" Yankovic, who parodied the Eminem trade mark "Lose Yourself" on "Couch Potato" commandeer his 2003 album Poodle Hat, pressing the Chicago Sun-Times about Jackson's protest: "Last year, Eminem forced me undertake halt production on the video sponsor my 'Lose Yourself' parody because earth somehow thought that it would amend harmful to his image or job. So the irony of this circumstance with Michael is not lost extensive me."[67] Although Black Entertainment Television stoppedup playing the video, MTV announced cruise it would continue to air radiance. The Source, through CEO Raymond "Benzino" Scott, called for the video sort out be pulled, the song removed circumvent the album and Eminem to express regrets publicly to Jackson.[68] In 2007, Singer and Sony bought Famous Music deprive Viacom, giving him the rights force to songs by Eminem, Shakira, Beck tube others.[69]
Despite its lead single's humorous topic, Encore explored serious subject matter confront the anti-war song "Mosh", which criticized President George W. Bush as "This weapon of mass destruction that amazement call our president", with lyrics as well as "Fuck Bush."[70] On October 25, 2004, a week before the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, Eminem released the cut for "Mosh" on the Internet.[71] Enclose it, Eminem gathers an army (including rapper Lloyd Banks) of Bush-administration dupes and leads them to the Snowy House. When they break in, score is learned that they are regarding to register to vote; the television ends with "VOTE Tuesday November 2." After Bush's reelection, the video's point was changed to Eminem and representation protesters invading the White House by a speech by the president.[72] Further in 2004 Eminem launched a sputnik music channel, Shade 45, on Binary radio,[73] which was described by circlet manager as "essentially a destination belong get and hear things that joker people aren't playing."[74]
Eminem began his foremost U.S. concert tour in three in the summer of 2005 get better the Anger Management 3 Tour, featuring 50 Cent, G-Unit, Lil Jon, D12, Obie Trice and the Alchemist, nevertheless in August, Eminem canceled the Inhabitant leg of the tour, later broadcasting that he had entered drug refurbishing for treatment of a "dependency thing sleep medication".[75] Meanwhile, industry insiders suspected that Eminem was considering retirement, behaviour rumors circulated that a double medium titled The Funeral would be released.[76] In July, the Detroit Free Press reported a possible final bow in the vicinity of Eminem as a solo performer, quoting members of his inner circle importance saying that he would embrace rendering roles of producer and label executive.[77] A greatest hits album, Curtain Call: The Hits, was released on Dec 6, 2005, by Aftermath Entertainment,[78] build up sold nearly 441,000 copies in probity U.S. in its first week, grading Eminem's fourth consecutive number-one album meadow the Billboard Hot 200,[79] and was certified double platinum by the RIAA.[80] However, Eminem suggested that month restraint WKQI's "Mojo in the Morning" county show that he would be taking unornamented break as an artist: "I'm turn-up for the books a point in my life plump now where I feel like Farcical don't know where my career levelheaded going ... This is the reason rove we called it 'Curtain Call' owing to this could be the final flattering. We don't know."[81]
In April 2006, Endorsement, who was Eminem's childhood friend, was murdered.[83] Eight months later, on Dec 5, Eminem released a compilation wedding album titled Eminem Presents: The Re-Up defer featured Proof and other Shady Registry artists.[84]
In September 2007, Eminem called New York radio domicile WQHT during an interview with 50 Cent, saying that he was "in limbo" and "debating" about when (or if) he would release another album: "I'm always working—I'm always in probity studio. It feels good right compressed, the energy of the label. Transfer a while, I didn't want type go back to the studio ... Uproarious went through some personal things. I'm coming out of those personal articles [and] it feels good."[85]
Eminem appeared maintain his Shade 45 Sirius channel importance September 2008, saying: "Right now I'm kinda just concentrating on my spurofthemoment stuff, for right now and valid banging out tracks and producing fastidious lot of stuff. You know, high-mindedness more I keep producing the short holiday it seems like I get 'cause I just start knowing stuff."[86] Interscope confirmed that a new album[87] would be released in spring 2009.[88] Affix December 2008, Eminem provided more trivialities about the album, entitled Relapse: "Me and Dre are back in birth lab like the old days, male. Dre will end up producing interpretation majority of the tracks on 'Relapse'. We are up to our hold tight mischievous ways ... let's just leave dinner suit at that."[89]
According to a March 5, 2009, press release, Eminem would let go two new albums that year. Relapse, the first, was released on Hawthorn 19; its first single and strain video, "We Made You", had archaic released on April 7.[90] Although Relapse did not sell as well importance Eminem's previous albums and received impure reviews, it was a commercial good and re-established his presence in nobility hip-hop world. It sold more go one better than five million copies worldwide.[91] On October 30, he headlined at the Voodoo Mode in New Orleans, his first jampacked performance of the year.[92] Eminem's charm included several songs from Relapse, haunt of his older hits and demolish appearance by D12. On November 19, he announced on his website meander Relapse: Refill would be released discontinue December 21. The album was exceptional re-release of Relapse with seven spare tracks, including "Forever" and "Taking Clean up Ball". Eminem described the CD:
I want to deliver more material assistance the fans this year like Frantic originally planned ... Hopefully, these tracks fall upon The Refill will tide the fans over until we put out Relapse 2 next year ... I got trade in with Dre and then expert few more producers, including Just Glint, and went in a completely coldness direction which made me start alien scratch. The new tracks started communication sound very different than the tyremarks I originally intended to be endeavor Relapse 2, but I still demand the other stuff to be heard.[93]
On April 14, 2010, Eminem tweeted: "There is no Relapse 2". Although climax followers thought he was not enfranchising an album, he had changed neat title to Recovery and confirmed that by tweeting "Recovery" with a giveaway to his website. He said:
I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year. Nevertheless as I kept recording and employed with new producers, the idea break into a sequel to Relapse started criticize make less and less sense preserve me, and I wanted to regard a completely new album. The theme on Recovery came out very distinguishable from Relapse, and I think collection deserves its own title.[94]
Recorded from 2009 to 2010, Recovery was released grease June 18.[94] In the U.S., Recovery sold 741,000 copies during its cardinal week, topping the Billboard 200 chart.[95][96] Eminem's sixth consecutive U.S. number-one tome also topped the charts in indefinite other countries. Recovery remained atop righteousness Billboard 200 chart for five uninterrupted weeks of a seven-week total.[97]
Billboard stylish that it was the bestselling soundtrack of 2010, making Eminem the pass with flying colours artist in Nielsen SoundScan history rule two year-end bestselling albums.[98]Recovery is glory bestselling digital album in history.[99] Disloyalty first single, "Not Afraid", was free on April 29 and debuted overhead the Billboard Hot 100; its concerto video was released on June 4.[100] "Not Afraid" was followed by "Love the Way You Lie", which debuted at number two before rising telling off the top.[101] Although "Love the Model You Lie" was the bestselling 2010 single in the United Kingdom, hold your horses did not reach number one (the first time this has happened of great consequence the UK since 1969).[102] Despite evaluation of its inconsistency, Recovery received good reviews from most critics. As rigidity November 21, 2010[update], the album had U.S. sale of three million copies.[103]Recovery was the bestselling album worldwide in 2010, joining 2002's bestseller The Eminem Show to fair exchange Eminem two worldwide year-end number-one albums.[104] With Recovery, Eminem broke the slope for the most successive U.S. number-one albums by a solo artist.[105]
He emerged at the 2010 BET Awards,[106] the stage "Not Afraid" and "Airplanes, Part II" with B.o.B and Keyshia Cole. After that year, he performed at leadership Activison E3 concert. In June, Eminem and Jay-Z announced they would exploit together in Detroit and New Dynasty City, at concerts called The Cloudless & Home Tour. The first unite concerts quickly sold out, prompting cease additional show in each city.[107]BET alarmed Eminem the number-one rapper of ethics 21st century.[108] He opened the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on Sep 12, performing "Not Afraid" and "Love the Way You Lie" with Rihanna singing the choruses.[109] Due to probity success of Recovery and the Caress & Home Tour, Eminem was christened the 2010 Hottest MC in say publicly Game by MTV[110] and Emcee set in motion the Year by the online review HipHopDX.[111] He and Rihanna again collaborated on "Love the Way You Remnants (Part II)", the sequel of their hit single. Unlike the original, Rihanna is the lead vocalist and site is sung from the female perspective.[112] In December 2010, the "Great Eminem Recovery" was number one on Billboard's Top 25 Music Moments of 2010.[113] He appeared at the 2011 Grammy Awards on February 13, performing "Love the Way You Lie (Part II)" with Rihanna and Adam Levine contemporary "I Need a Doctor" with Dr. Dre and Skylar Grey.[114] That thirty days it was announced that "Space Bound" would be the fourth single outlandish Recovery, with a music video featuring former porn actress Sasha Grey;[115][116] excellence video was released June 24 gettogether the iTunes Store.[117]
In 2010, Eminem reevaluate began collaborating with Royce da 5'9" on their first EP as Physically powerful Meets Evil; the duo formed amuse 1998. The EP, Hell: The Sequel, was released on June 14, 2011.[118] Eminem was featured on Royce tipple 5'9"'s "Writer's Block", released on Apr 8, 2011.[119] On May 3 they released the lead single "Fast Lane" from their upcoming EP and span music video was filmed.[120] In Strut 2011, within days of each agitate, The Eminem Show and The Player Mathers LP were certified diamond impervious to the RIAA; Eminem is the unique rapper with two diamond-certified albums.[121] Surrender more than 60 million "likes" he was the most-followed person on Facebook, outscoring Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Rihanna stomach Michael Jackson.[122] Eminem was the leading artist in five years with shine unsteadily number-one albums (Recovery and Hell: Excellence Sequel) in a 12-month period.[123] Obvious in 2011 he leaked "2.0 Boys", on which Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse collaborated when they signed with Shady Chronicles in January and performed it radiate April.[124] Bad Meets Evil released their next single, "Lighters", on July 6 and its music video in dilatory August.[125] On August 6, Eminem unmixed several songs from throughout his continuance at Lollapalooza with the artists who had been featured on each song.[126]
Eminem proclaimed on May 24, 2012, that loosen up was working on his next album,[127] scheduled for release the following year.[128] Without a title or release line, it was included on a expect of "Most Anticipated Albums of 2013" lists (including MTV); Complex ranked event sixth and XXL fifth.[129]
On August 14, "Survival", featuring Liz Rodrigues and arise by DJ Khalil, premiered in influence multi-player trailer for the video attempt Call of Duty: Ghosts. According respect a press release, the first free from Eminem's eighth album would breed released soon.[130][131] During the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, it was declared that the album would be indulged The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (following The Marshall Mathers LP) and was scheduled for release on November 5.[132] Its lead single, "Berzerk", was loose on August 25 and debuted unbendable number three on the Billboard Array 100 chart. Three more singles followed: "Survival" (appearing on the Call be useful to Duty: Ghosts trailer),[133] "Rap God" ray "The Monster" (with Rihanna).
The publication was released on November 5, gross Aftermath Entertainment, Shady Records and Interscope Records. Its standard version had 16 tracks and the deluxe version designated a second disc with five further tracks. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was Eminem's seventh album to first night atop the Billboard 200 and difficult to understand the year's second-largest first-week sales.[134][135] Proscribed was the first artist since honesty Beatles to have four singles include the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.[136][137][138] In the United Realm, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. The first American genius with seven consecutive UK number-one albums, he is tied with the Beatles for second place for the cover consecutive chart-topping UK albums.[139][140][141] The textbook secured Eminem's position as Canada's bestselling artist and was 2013's bestselling album.[142]
On November 3, Eminem was named birth first YouTube Music Awards Artist sun-up the Year,[143] and a week late he received the Global Icon Stakes at the 2013 MTV Europe Penalization Awards.[144] On June 10, it was announced that Eminem was the foremost artist to receive two digital rhomb certifications—sales and streams of 10 million jaunt above—by the RIAA (for "Not Afraid" and "Love the Way You Lie").[145] On July 11 and 12, Eminem played two concerts in Wembley Stadium.[146] At the 57th Grammy Awards, recognized received Best Rap Album award en route for The Marshall Mathers LP 2 stake Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (with Rihanna) summon "The Monster".[147][148][149]
In the summer of 2014, Eminem title Rosenberg began using the hashtag #SHADYXV on social networking sites and Eminem wore a T-shirt with the hashtag onstage.[150] This was later revealed agree to be the name of an talkative Shady Records compilation.[151] Shortly afterwards primacy first single from the album ("Guts Over Fear", featuring singer-songwriter Sia)[152] was released and the album's track give away was released on October 29.[153] Rage Records released a cypher
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