According to Billboard, Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest selling albums of the 2000s. 7th, and 40th best album of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard magazine. His albums The Eminem Show, The Marshall Mathers LP, and Encore (in order) ranked as the 3rd. In December 2009 Eminem was named the Artist of the Decade by Billboard magazine. Eminem has had 12 number one singles worldwide. Including his work with D12, Eminem has achieved nine #1 albums on the Billboard Top 200, 7 solo and 2 with D12. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the decade on the US Nielsen SoundScan, and has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide to date, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world.Įminem was ranked 82nd on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time.He was also named the Best Rapper Ever by Vibe magazine. Relapse Part 2 was due to be released in 2010, but scrapped it due to media and fans and so he decided to release his latest album Recovery. He released his first album since 2004's Encore, titled Relapse, on May 15, 2009. Eminem then went on hiatus after touring in 2005. "Lose Yourself" would go on to become the longest running #1 hip-hop single. In 2002, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself" from the film, 8 Mile, in which he also played the lead.
He then won the award again in 2010 for his album Relapse, giving him a total of 11 Grammys in his career. The Marshall Mathers LP and his third album, The Eminem Show, also won Grammy Awards, making Eminem the first artist to win Best Rap Album for three consecutive LPs. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling solo album in the United States history.
Eminem learned his trade while growing up in Detroit, United States, and quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label album, The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. Here are all the songs where Eminem raps about Kim, for better or for worse, though we recommend skipping this one if violence is not something you're up for reading about right now.Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem/Slim Shady is an American rapper and record producer. The couple has a daughter, Hailie, now 25, whose formative years spanned the worst of Eminem and Kim's relationship, and together they adopted Alaina, now 28, who was the daughter of Kim's late twin sister, and Whitney, who was Kim's biological daughter with her boyfriend Eric.ĭespite living an otherwise peaceful coexistence these days, Kim was in the news last month for a suicide attempt, suggesting the years of trauma may have made a lasting mark on her. The rapper has come under fire for years now about many of the lyrics he has written about her and their tumultuous marriage, and, though he has shown more remorse in recent years, many would-be fans are understandably unwilling to forgive him for the aggression and violence that permeated every song about her. The two were married from 1999 to 2001 and then rekindled their romance and marriage again for a brief period during 2006 before divorcing again later that year. Few relationships have ever been documented as publicly as the one between Eminem and his ex wife Kim.