He is credited with popularizing hip-hop in Middle America and is widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time. While much of his transgressive work during the late s and early s made him a controversial figure, he came to be a representation of popular angst of the American underclass and has been cited as influencing many musical artists. His most successful songs on the U.
His next two releases, The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show , were worldwide successes and nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year , the latter becoming the best-selling album worldwide of After the release of his next album, Encore , Eminem went on hiatus, largely due to a prescription drug addiction.
He then released the U. Eminem starred in the musical drama film 8 Mile playing a dramatized version of himself. Eminem is among the best-selling music artists of all time , with estimated worldwide sales of over million records.
He was the best-selling music artist in the United States for the s, placing third for the s. He was the first artist to have ten albums consecutively debut at number one on the Billboard chart, [ 7 ] and has had five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot In , he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
His father abandoned his family when Eminem was a year and a half old, and Eminem was raised only by his mother, Debbie, in poverty. By the age of twelve, Eminem and his mother shuttled between states, rarely staying in one house for more than a year or two and mostly living with family members, moved several times and lived in St.
