Eminem's Greatest Moments

Eminem's Greatest Moments

Hitting it Big

With early buzz thanks to the ‘Just Don’t Give A Fuck’ single’s independent release, Eminem’s career was set for controversy from the start. After singing with Dr Dre’s aftermath record label, his debut mainstream single was ‘My Name Is’, on which he introduced his offensively opinionated alter-ego Slim Shady. From the very beginning, Em played up both disgust at mainstream pop stars like Britney and Christina, while flirting with pop world by playing concerts on the MTV Awards and other Live shows.

In and Out of Court

From the very start of his career, Em has been no stranger to drama, While critics, other rappers and dissed family members have spoken out against him in the press, Em has also seen more than his fair share of inside of a court court room, after being sued for defamation by various people he insulted in his raps. Too top things off, he has been brought up on charges for weapons charges and even investigated by the US Secret Seervice thanks to a rap in which Em memtioned he wouldn’t mind seeing the president dead!

8 Mile

With no previous acting experience, there’s no way anyone could have predicted how great Em would be in the lead role of the semi-autobiographical movie, 8 mile. Covering the struggles of wannabe rapper Jimmy Rabbit (Eminem) in working class Detroit, 8 mile mimicked much of Em’s real life - the skanky girlfriend, the closs posse, the unstable mum - and gave his fans a glimpse of how hard he must have worked to get into the real world. 8 mile was a commerial and crtical success, and we all know why-it’s got that rare combination of a great story. Killer performances from the actors, and of course, some amazing music. In fact, th lead song from 8 mile, ‘lose yourself’, won an Oscar for the best song in the movie.

Fighting With Triumph The Insult Comic Dog at The MTV Awards

Defintley one of em’s craziest moments, his fight with Triumph The insult Comic Dog (a puppet) was certainly the sillest of all his feuds. Triumph was well known for his habbit dissing famous people, but em didn’t see the funny side when the puppet started hassing him at the MTV Awards in 2002. The two of then (remember one’s a puppet) came close to biffo as Em knocked him out of the way. Now, of course the two have made up, with em writing “ass like that” and singing it in the style of Triumph, and the puppet making a cameo apparence in the video, among a host of other puppets!

The Release of 'Stan'’

Before ‘Stan’, critics could still write Em as a lightweight, almost novelty rapper. Though he had huge success with The Slim Shady LP, he was seen as a trouble making rapper whose songs had no artitic merit - there was even talk of him being banned by many of the more conservating politicians in th US. Although it wasn’t the first single from his marshall mathers LP, Stan was a massive worldwide hit that demonstrated once and for all Em’s incredible writing and rapping talent. It also made a star out of UK pop star. Dido, whose song, ‘thank you’ was sampled in Stan. Dido also co-starred in the video, which featured the actor Devon Sawa as a fanatical Eminem fan writing a series of crazy letters to Eminem. It’s still a hugely powerful video and song!

Eminem The Flasher

Never one to hold back, Em has taken to responding to his critics over the years with more than words. The sight of Em dropping his pants and flashing his big white butt during concerts and interviews has become so common that we’re not even surprised when it happends anymore, and we don’t know if he’ll ever groe out of this habit of getting nude!

The Birth of HailieJade

Eminem and his ex - wife, soon to be wife, again Kim Mathers had a chaotic relationship from the start, and Kim even attempted suicide during their divorce proceedings and has been in and out of court thanks to bad behaviour and her drug issues. A number of Em’s songs are about Kim, including the notorious ‘97 Bonnie and Clyde’, in which Em writes about killing her off! Needless to say, Kim wasn’t too happy when she heard that song! On Christmas day, 1995, Eminem’s daughter Hailie Jade was born. Hailie has made a hudge difference to Em’s life, and his song ’mockingbird’ and ‘Hailie’s song’ are about her. When Ja Rule made s reference to Hailie in his song ‘Loose Change‘, protective dad Em totally freaked out and escalted he Ja’s feud, including having hailie do vocals on a tune called “Doe Rae Me”. it is because of Hailie that that em has done his best to keep the realishionship ship between Kim cilvil, and is probley the main reason why Kim and Em are back together.

D12 World

Some people lose their old friends when they get rich and famous. Not Eminem. In one of his collest moves by this awesome rapper, Em has never forgotten his original rapper crew, D12. Em and his five homies - Bizarre, Kin Artis, Swift, Kuniva and Proof - are called D12 because all six members have an alter ego. The band got together as a loose collective back in 1990, and band members Proof and Bizarre enjoyed modest success with their rapping, it was Eminem who broke out from the group, of course, but he agreed to formalise D12 as a band in 1999. They’ve now released two albums. Devils Night (with it’s hit song ‘urple Hills’, and D12 World, which included the smash single ‘my band’. the guys even played up the perception that that Em is the star of their group in the hilarious video for ‘my band’. the goup have been through so much together, and their current fame and popularty dosent mean they have forgotten the hard times. A former member of the crew, Bugs, died shortly before the band signed to Shady Records, but his last request that the talented rapper Swift join the guys was fulfilled. All the members of d12 now have a Bugs tattoo in remembrance. So what have d12 been up to? Well, Eminem hasn’t always had the time to tour with the others, so theyre been plaing club tours, including Austraila, and unfortunately copping critcism cos their most famous member isn’t on tour!

Eminem Watch

Ok, so we know where Em has been, but where is he now? The rapper has been decidendly quiet lately. Especially since we’re used to seeing him popping up so much in the press. Lately Eminem is unwell, and just left rehab, over his addiction to sleeping pills. Well since all this em’s being laying low, but with Curtain call and Trick Trick’s new album Eminem’s been in the studio a lot lately.