One bully, D’Angelo Bailey, severely injured Eminem’s head in an assault [Debbie filed a lawsuit against the school in 1982, which was dismissed the following year because the Macomb County, Michigan judge said the schools were immune from lawsuits.Įminem spent much of his youth in a working-class, primarily black, Detroit neighborhood.He and Debbie were one of three white households on their block, and Eminem was beaten by black youths several times. [As a child he was interested in storytelling, aspiring to be a comic-book artist before discovering hip hop.Įminem heard his first rap song (“Reckless”, featuring Ice-T) on the Breakin’ soundtrack, a gift from Debbie’s half-brother Ronnie Polkingharn, who was close to him and later became a musical mentor to him. Concordantly, the best thing about MMLPII (besides the technicality of Rap God, and the left hook of Bad Guy) is that it prompted me to revisit the original Marshall. It represents the definite creative apex of his career. When Polkingharn committed suicide in 1991, Eminem stopped speaking for days and did not attend his funeral.Įminem’s home life was seldom stable he frequently fought with his mother, whom a social worker described as having a “very suspicious, almost paranoid personality”. All of Em’s releases since have been marred in some way: Even its only worthy successor, The Eminem Show, strayed just a bit too far into pop sentimentality.
When her son became famous, Debbie was unimpressed by suggestions that she was a less-than-ideal mother, contending that she sheltered him and was responsible for his success. In 1987, Debbie allowed runaway Kimberly Anne “Kim” Scott to stay at their home several years later, Eminem began an on-and-off relationship with Scott. [Īfter spending three years in ninth grade due to truancy and poor grades, he dropped out of Lincoln High School at age 17. Although he was interested in English, he never explored literature (preferring comic books) and disliked math and social studies.
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