Is Eminem really white ? The Black Albinos

Quote of the week : "Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not" Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), best known by his stage name, Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, and songwriter. Eminem is from Detroit, Michigan, the blackest city in the united states of america. Coincidence ?

Eminem spent much of his youth in a lower-middle-class, primarily African-American Detroit neighborhood.

Eminem heard his first rap song ("Reckless", featuring Ice-T) at age nine, that's one of the reasons he decided to turn to rap. At age 14, he began rapping with high-school friend Mike Ruby; they adopted the names "Manix" and "M&M," which evolved into "Eminem". He than dropped out of Lincoln High School at age 17.

Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States. Eminem achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP; the commercially successful second album received 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 certified diamond in US sales. Both won Best Rap Album Grammy Awards, making Eminem the first artist to win the award for three consecutive LPs.

Our Worst Five :

5. Lame featurings

- Skylar Grey "C'mon let me ride" : The song is all wrong, and even the appearence of Eminem can't save it

- Pink "Here comes the weekend" : The good (Pink), the bad (Eminem) and the ugly (The song itself)

- Dr. Dre "I need a doctor" : Dr. Dre and Skylar Grey ... Not again

- D12 "My ballz" : "You'll never get the chance to touch my ballz, ballz, ballz, ballz, ballz, ballz, you'll never touch my.." Enough

- Kid Rock "F*ck Off" : Bad lyrics, bad rap, bad instru, kid sucks.

Sometimes Eminem turned out to be the american "Maitre Gims"

4. Homophobia and Sexism

It's been almost 20 years since Eminem released his first album, but he's still just as obsessed with encouraging violence — violence against women in particular. In Eminem's world, violence is a "punishment" for folks who piss him off and women who "disrespect him." (Posing the ultimate question: Can a woman ever disrespect a misogynist enough?) His latest album includes odes to killing women with machine guns, which is a violent upgrade from his year 2000 ideal of choking a "slut" to death. He was also called homophobic for some lyrics like in "Rap God" when he used "faggot" or "gay-looking".

3. Early Life

His dad left the family, moving to California, and had two other children after this. During his childhood Eminem and Debbie shuttled between Missouri and Michigan, rarely staying in one house for more than a year or two and living primarily with family members. As a teenager, Eminem wrote letters to his father; according to Debbie, all came back marked "Return to sender." Friends and family remember Eminem as a happy child, but "a bit of a loner" who was often bullied.

Eminem frequently fought with his mother, who was described by a social worker as having a "very suspicious, almost paranoid personality." Eminem worked at several jobs to help his mother pay the bills, later maintaining that she often threw him out of the house anyway. She left to play bingo with his money.

2. Blackiness

He comes from a strong African American background/culture, considering he grew up mostly in the rough streets of Detroit and the only people he was ever around to be influenced by were African American, shaping his culture and background. He is an Upside-Down Oreo.

1. Whiteness

Maybe Eminem feels black but the world tells him he is white and he believes he is white because he benefits from the "privileges" of looking white. Eminem has always been well aware of his position as a white rapper in a black dominated art. His first hit, “Slim Shady”, mocked people who were shocked by his whiteness, and while he is definitely no anti-racist advocate, he certainly demonstrates a clear understanding of what effect his whiteness has on his popularity, his acceptability, and the middle class reaction to his class and race infiltration of their world through music.

Slim Shady's too white to be black. 50 shades of white.