Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972), better known by his stage names Eminem and Slim Shady, is an Academy Award- and multiple Grammy Award-winning American rap artist. Having sold over seventy million albums worldwide, of_the_week.jhtml;jsessionid=GYCT1VPRA0ZFDQFIAIISFE4AVABBEIV0?article=30113358" target="_blank">Music-Artist of the Week-Eminem. MTV. Accessed June 29 2007. Eminem is one of the highest-selling musicians of the early 2000s, thus making him one of the highest-selling rap artists of all time. Eminem was discovered by rapper and producer _Dr. Dre, who later signed Eminem to his record label, Aftermath Entertainment.
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has praised Mathers for his "verbal energy" and for arousing popular interest in poetry and lyrics. Rapper Chuck D of the group Public Enemy and columnist L. Brent Bozell III have compared Eminem to Elvis Presley due to their perceptions of Eminem's music being countercultural and antiestablishment. Eminem is infamous for the controversy surrounding many of his lyrics. With the success of his highly acclaimed album, blank">All Music Guide Acclaim. AllMusicGuide. Accessed July 31 2007. _The Marshall Mathers LP and its subsequent nomination for four Grammy awards including Album of the Year, blank">Recording Academy Announces Grammy Nominations. CNN. Accessed June 31 2007. critics such as GLAAD denounced his lyrics as _homophobic and misogynist, while others claimed that it promoted violence. detail.php?id=3304" target="_blank">GLAAD: Eminem's Hate Lyrics. GLAAD. Accessed June 31 2007 In 2002, he starred in the semi-autobiographical movie _8 Mile.
