Marshall Bruce Mathers III is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the D12 group and the hip-hop duo Bad Meets Evil. He is one of the best-selling music artists in the world, as well as the best-selling artist of the 2000s. He has been named one of the greatest musicians of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone, which placed Eminem at number 83 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists, as well as at number 91 on their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. The same magazine proclaimed him the King of Hip Hop. If you count the studio work of his bands, then Eminem has 13 albums that reached number one on the Billboard 200. As a solo artist, Eminem has sold over 100 million albums worldwide and over 107 million of his records and 44 million copies of his albums in America alone .
After releasing his independent debut album Infinite in 1996, Eminem achieved huge popularity in 1999 with the release of The Slim Shady LP on a major label. The LP earned Eminem his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. His next two records, The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show, also won a Grammy in the same category, making Eminem the first artist to win the award for best rap album three times in a row. This was followed by Encore in 2004 and a tour with him, after which Eminem took a creative break due to his drug addiction. On May 15, 2009, he released his first album in five years called Relapse. In 2010, the release of the seventh studio album Recovery took place, which was marked by worldwide success and was named the best-selling album of the year, like The Eminem Show in 2002. Eminem received a Grammy for both records - Relapse and Recovery. On November 5, 2013, Eminem released his eighth studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, also awarded a Grammy Award, which, in total, amounted to 15 awards throughout his career. On November 24, 2014, ShadyXV was released - the second compilation album by the American label Shady Records, released on Shady and Interscope. On December 15, 2017, Eminem released the album Revival, and six months later - Kamikaze, which was released without an announcement. In January 2020, Marshall similarly releases Music to Be Murdered By.
Eminem is involved in various activities: he has his own record label, which he runs with his manager Paul Rosenberg, and also has his own radio station Shade 45 on Sirius XM Radio. In 2002, Eminem starred in the semi-autobiographical hip-hop drama 8 Mile. He won the Academy Award for Best Song for a Film, becoming the first rap artist to win the award. He also appeared as a cameo in the films "Wash" (2001), "Funny People" (2009), "Interview" (2014) and the television series "Handsome".