Marshall Mathers (Eminem) was born on 17th October 1972. His farther abandoned him and his mother when he was only a few months old. As being raised by his mother she could not get a job and struggled to pay for them both. He moved from school to school and was bullied from being young. Every time he started a new school the kids would see him as an outcast. He got beat up in the hallway, the bathrooms and shoved in lockers at every school he went to. He accused his mum of being addicted to prescription drugs and subjecting himself for physical and emotional abuse. However his mother denied all such accutions and in 1999 she filled a $10 million defamation lawsuit against her son. They settled the case for $25,000.
He attended Lincoln High school in Warren , Michigan, were he failed the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17. Despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity for laungage, devouring comic books and studying the dictionary. " I found that no matter how bad I was at school, at no matter how low my grades might have been at some times, I always was good at English... I just felt like I wanna be able to have all of these words at my disposal, In my vocabulary at all times when ever I need to pull 'em out. You know, somewhere, they'll be stored, like, locked away."
As a teenage dropout, Eminem found a way to express his passion for language, as well as to release his youthful anger, through the emerging musical genre of hip-hop. He identified with the nihilistic rage of late-1980s and early-1990s rap music, and he was especially taken with N.W.A., the popular and highly controversial gangster rap crew from Los Angeles.
Although at the time rap music was almost exclusively produced by black people, Eminem, who has pale white skin and bright blue eyes, nevertheless entered into the Detroit rap scene as a frequent competitor in rap "battles"—competitions in which two rappers take turns insulting the other through improvised rap lyrics. Eminem proved highly skilled at such verbal sparring and, despite his race, quickly became one of the most respected figures in Detroit's underground rap scene.
It started to feel like, you know, maybe Marshall's gettin' a little respect." Mathers assumed the stage name M&M, a playful reference to his initials, which he later began writing phonetically as "Eminem." This period in Eminem's life—working odd jobs to make ends meet while participating in rap battles and desperately attempting to land a record contract—was later dramatized in Eminem's semi-autobiographical film, 8 Mile.
It was also during this period that Eminem began dating Kim Ann Scott, and in 1995 the couple had a daughter named Hailie Jade Scott. Inspired by the birth of his daughter to make a living as a rapper, in 1996, Eminem released his first independent rap album, Infinite. Though the album displayed flashes of his verbal prowess, biting wit and flair for storytelling, the low-budget record failed to turn a profit or attract more than local attention.
