Eminem Turns 47 Years Old Today
Happy Birthday to one of Hip-Hop’s greats, Eminem, the legend turned 47 today. Lets do a little recap of some of his accomplishments….
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, record executive, film producer, and actor. Many people consider him to beone of the best rapper of all time and Rolling Stone Magazine labeled him the “King of Hip Hop”….
After his debut album Infinite (1996) and the extended playSlim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre‘s Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP, which earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. His next two releases, 2000’s The Marshall Mathers LP and 2002’s The Eminem Show, were worldwide successes, with each being certified diamond in U.S. sales and both winning Best Rap Album Grammy Awards—making Eminem the first artist to win the award for three consecutive LPs. They were followed by Encore in 2004, which was another commercial success, but did not receive the amount of critical success his previous albums had received. Eminem went on hiatus after touring in 2005 partly due to a prescription drugaddiction. He released Relapse in 2009 and Recovery in 2010. Both won Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album and Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide, the second time he had the international best-selling album of the year (after The Eminem Show). Eminem’s eighth album, 2013’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2, won two Grammy Awards, including Best Rap Album; it expanded his record for the most wins in the category. These were followed by 2017’s Revival and 2018’s Kamikaze, the latter being the best-selling hip hop album of 2018.
With over 230 million records sold globally, Eminem is among the best-selling music artists of all time. He is the best-selling music artist in the United States in the 2000s. He has won numerous awards including fifteen Grammy Awards…. and the list goes on.
Happy 47th birthday to the legend and hopefully we get some new music from him soon….