Bursting out of Detroit in a whirlwind of controversy, hype and snarling
put-downs, Dr. Dre's protégé Eminem took the hip-hop world by storm in 1999 with
his major label debut The Slim Shady LP. Singles "My Name Is," "Guilty
Conscience" and "Forgot About Dre" gatecrashed the charts and instantly
introduced him as a celebrity-baiting, acerbic comic bound for superstardom. The
Marshall Mathers LP (2000) went even further, with "Stan" reaching number one in
the UK and showing a genuinely sharp talent far beyond the bad boy image.
Emerging from trailer park beginnings to enter freest...