Eminem - Did You Know?
July 31, 2018Music facts, music trivia, interesting stories and much more. Introducing the "Did You Know" page about American songwriter, rapper, record executive, record producer and actor, Eminem.
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Eminem (real name: Marshall Bruce Mathers III) is an American rapper, songwriter, record executive, record producervand actor.
He is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the U.S. and during his music career to this day, he scored 10 No.1 albums on the Billboard 200 and 5 No.1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Before Eminem was famous, he was a member of Detroit rap group, D12. He still records with them and even released an album with the band in 2001. Eminem is also the only rap artist that won best rap album 3 times.
When he won best rap album for the third time in 2004, instead of offering an acceptance speech, he decided to reel off a long list of rappers who inspired him. Some of the names on this list were LL Cool J, Run-D.M.C., Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and 2Pac.
Eminem has sold approximately 47.4 million albums and 107.5 million singles in the U.S. alone and 220 million records worldwide. This makes him among the world's best-selling artists of all time and is consistently cited as one of the greatest and most influential artists in any genre.
Eminem is also the only artist that had 8 albums consecutively topping the Billboard 200 on their debut. He is ranked on the 83rd spot on the lilst of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time which was made by Rolling Stone magazine, that also refer to him as the "King of Hip Hop".
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The song "Without Me" by Eminem is about how everything was boring and empty without Eminem, but he was now here to give people something to talk about.
In the song, Eminem takes shots at Limp Bizkit, the FCC, Chris Kirkpatrick and Moby. Eminem also compares himself to Elvis Presley, noting that both of them excelled in music styles that were dominated by black musicians.
Eminem points out that many of those who criticize him were fans of Elvis Presley, who did the same thing.
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