1. As a 9-year-old, he spent a week in a coma after being thrashed by a bully
2. Before he discovered his talent, Eminem wanted to be a comic book artist
3. Eminem came up with the idea of Slim Shady while he was in the toilet
4. Marshall Mathers gained a reputation for being the white boy who destroyed opponents in rap battles
5. He’s a workaholic and has been labelled a perfectionist by other musicians
6. When Dr Dre heard his tape for the very first time, he thought Eminem was an African-American artist
7. Eminem has sold 80 million-plus albums worldwide, making him one of the highest-selling artists of all time
8. He broke the Guinness Book of World Records with ‘Rap God’
9. He was sued by his mother for the song ‘My Name Is’
10. His wife attempted suicide after he performed Kim at a concert–a song in which he brutally murders her
FINALLY HE ACHIEVED
With global sales of over 220 million records, Eminem is one of the best-selling music artists of all time.[419] He has had ten number-one albums on the Billboard 200: seven solo, two with D12 and one with Bad Meets Evil.[420] He was the best-selling music artist from 2000 to 2009 in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan.[421] He was also the best-selling male music artist in the United States of the 2010s.[422] He has sold 47.4 million albums in the country[423] and 107.5 million singles in the US.[424] The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, "Lose Yourself", "Love the Way You Lie" and "Not Afraid" have all been certified Diamond or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[5] Eminem has over ten billion views of his music videos on his YouTube Vevo page,[425] and in 2014 Spotify named him the most-streamed music artist of all time.
Among Eminem's awards is 15 Grammy Awards,[149] eight American Music Awards and 17 Billboard Music Awards, Billboard named him the "Artist of the Decade (2000–2009)".[426] In 2013, he received the Global Icon Award at that year's MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony.[427] His success in 8 Mile saw him win the 2002 Academy Award for Best Original Song for his song "Lose Yourself", co-written with Jeff Bass and Luis Resto, making him the first rapper to receive the award.[428] He also won the MTV Movie & TV Awards for Best Actor in a Movie and Best Breakthrough Performance[429] and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Song for "Lose Yourself".[430]
Eminem has also been included and ranked in several publications' lists. Rolling Stone included him in its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.[404][431] He was ranked 9th on MTV's Greatest MCs of All Time list.[432][433] He was ranked 13th on MTV's 22 Greatest Voices in Music list[434] and 79th on the VH1 100 Greatest Artists of All Time lists.[435] He was ranked 82nd on Rolling Stone's "The Immortals" list.[436] In 2010, MTV Portugal ranked Eminem the 7th biggest icon in popular music history.[437] In 2012, The Source ranked him 6th on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time,[438] while About.com ranked him 7th on its list of the 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time (1987–2007).[439] In 2015, Eminem was placed third on "The 10 Best Rappers of All Time" list by Billboard.[440] In 2008, Vibe readers named Eminem the Best Rapper Alive.[441] In 2011, Eminem was labelled the "King of Hip-Hop" by Rolling Stone based on an analysis of album sales, chart positions, YouTube views, social media following, concert grosses, industry awards and critical ratings of solo rappers who released music from 2009 to the first half of 2011.
