Eminem burst onto the music scene with his single “My Name Is” from the album “The Slim Shady LP” in 1999. The song and the album both went on to win Grammy Awards. This started a long-running career, and by 2021, Eminem earned 15 total Grammys. Plus, an Academy Award. His song “Lose Yourself” won Best Original Song for the film “8 Mile,” Variety reported.

One of the features that most notably stood out for Eminem was his race — a white rapper. But his lyrical content also intrigued and disturbed listeners. Eminem’s “obscenity-strewn, gleefully violent, spastic, hilarious and demented rhymes” led him from Detroit to working with Dr. Dre in California, per Rolling Stone. And while his shock rap created plenty of controversies, fans loved Eminem’s skills. “It could all be considered attention-grabbing for the sake of maintaining a fruitful career — if it weren’t so technically impressive,” Billboard noted. For this reason, the publication considered Eminem to be the third-best rapper of all time.

As shocking as Eminem’s lyrics are, the details of his personal life are just as surprising. From a traumatic experience as a kid to the unbelievable rise through rap’s underground, Eminem jumped from the amateurs to the pros like few others. But along the way, the rapper struggled with the pressures of fame, both personally and against other musicians. This is the untold truth of Eminem.