Eminem
...they will find a nice person. It's only when he's backed into a corner that he retaliates. He's one of the most controversial singers out there today. You don't have to like him but you can't ignore him. Eminem, (Em), a.k.a., Slim Shady, a.k.a. Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in Kansas City, Missouri but he and his mother shuttled back and forth between Missouri and Michigan, rarely staying in one house more then a year or two. Marshall has never met his father to this day because his parents split and his dad moved to California. They finally settled down in Detroit, Michigan when Marshall was eleven. They moved to the east side of Detroit when he was twelve, switching schools every two to three months, making it difficult for Marshall to make friends, stay out of trouble, and graduate. The East Side is a largely black, low-middle class Detroit neighborhood. They were the only white family on their block. After failing the ninth grade for the third time, he finally gave up and dropped out of school. (www.eminem.com/bibliograghy, 1) Marshall has had it rough from the beginning but things only got worst when he and his mother moved to the "black" side of Detroit. There was bound to be some confrontations and obstacles in his path. One of his worst nemeses of high school was a black guy named D'Anglio Bailey, although no one called him that. One day he came into the bathroom when Eminem was urinating and D' Anglio beat the crap out of him, Em urinated all over himself. He's the bully that gets the broomstick in the song "brain damage". But the thing that really hurt him was one day during recess in the winter; Em was taunting a younger friend of D'Anglio. He came running from the other side of the playground and hit Em so hard into the snow bank that he blanked out. Em was sent home and his ear started to bleed and he was taken to the hospital. He had a cerebral...
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