| eminem 4 |
| Description: |
Early life
By most accounts, the Mathers family was poor.[citation needed] They moved constantly, during which Marshall and his mother often lived in public housing, mobile homes, and under the care of relatives.[citation needed] From time to time they also lived in their car, and in fact this is where Eminem's younger brother, Nathan Samra-Mathers, was born.[citation needed] During this time, Debbie Mathers was taking the prescription medications Vicodin and Valium; Marshall Mathers later claimed in numerous interviews and songs that his mother was abusing the drugs, to which she retaliated with a lawsuit pressing defamation charges (see below). In the song "Cleaning Out My Closet" (The Eminem Show, 2002), Mathers also accuses his mother of having a variety of Munchausen Syndrome, Munchausen's By Proxy, "my whole life i was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't." This was not the first time someone had suggested she had the disorder; a social worker had made similar comments in 1996.[citation needed] Marshall's uncle Ronald "Ronnie" Polkingharn, who was born three months before him on July 27, 1972[citation needed], introduced Mathers to hip-hop and the two were best friends. On December 14, 1991, 19-year-old Polkingharn committed suicide; "I read about your uncle Ronnie too, I'm sorry, I once.." - Stan. This event, Mathers has said, was devastating to him and to his entire extended family. Ronnie Nelson's older brother Steven suffered a stroke as a result of the stress.[citation needed] Mathers was so distraught he abandoned his musical career for a year.[citation needed] References to Ronnie's death appear in several songs, including "Stan," "Cleaning Out My Closet," "Mockingbird," "How Come," (by D12) and "My Dad's Gone Crazy." Mathers has a tattoo on his upper left arm that says "Ronnie R.I.P."
Before dropping out of Lincoln High School in Warren at the age of 17 after failing ninth grade three times[citation needed], Mathers made a number of significant acquaintances at the school, including Evan Perks, a three-time chess champion who was shot in a drive by[citation needed], the late rapper Proof, who was to become one of his closest friends, and future wife Kimberly Ann "Kim" Scott, with whom he soon developed a long-term relationship. When she became pregnant, Mathers started working on getting a record deal to support his new family; he discusses this in "Never 2 Far" (Infinite, 1996), saying "I got a baby on the way, I don't even got a car ... I still stay with my moms ... We gotta make some hit records or something [because] I'm tired of being broke." When the Infinite album failed to generate the revenue and acclaim he had hoped for, she ended their relationship, preventing him from seeing his newborn child, a daughter named Hailie Jade Scott (born December 25, 1995)[citation needed]; distraught, he attempted suicide with an overdose of Tylenol[citation needed]. After the attempt failed, he resumed his efforts to succeed in the music industry and reconcile with Kim. [4] He ultimately succeeded in doing both, marrying her on June 14, 1999, in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Mathers would go on to mention his daughter extensively in some of his songs, including "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" (The Slim Shady LP, 1999), which takes the form of a one-sided dialogue with Hailie, as well as "Hailie's Song" (The Eminem Show, 2002), "Mockingbird" (‘‘Encore’’, 2004), and "When I'm Gone" (Curtain Call: The Hits, 2005), all of which are proclamations of his love and dedication to her. In addition, he samples her voice in the track "My Dad's Gone Crazy" (The Eminem Show, 2002). |
| Date: |
24.11.2006 02:56 |
| Hits: |
213 |
| Downloads: |
6 |
| Rating: |
0.00 (0 Vote(s)) |
| File size: |
76.2 KB |
|
