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This document summarizes Eminem's early career struggles from 1988-1997, before he found fame. It describes how he formed groups with friends and released early tapes and albums that did not achieve commercial success. Eminem struggled financially, working minimum wage jobs and living in poverty. He developed an angry alter ego named Slim Shady to express his difficulties through his lyrics. After being fired from his job and evicted, Eminem entered a rap competition in 1997 where he was discovered by Interscope Records, who connected him with Dr. Dre.

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EMinem Carreer

This document summarizes Eminem's early career struggles from 1988-1997, before he found fame. It describes how he formed groups with friends and released early tapes and albums that did not achieve commercial success. Eminem struggled financially, working minimum wage jobs and living in poverty. He developed an angry alter ego named Slim Shady to express his difficulties through his lyrics. After being fired from his job and evicted, Eminem entered a rap competition in 1997 where he was discovered by Interscope Records, who connected him with Dr. Dre.

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1988–1997: Early career, Infinite and family struggles

Eminem and Proof performing in 1999

In 1988, he went by the stage name MC Double M and formed his first group New Jacks and made a
self-titled demo tape with DJ Butter Fingers.[1][28][29] In 1989, they later joined Bassmint
Productions who later changed their name to Soul Intent in 1992 with rapper Proof and other
childhood friends.[30] They released a self-titled EP in 1995 featuring Proof.[8] Eminem also made
his first music video appearance in 1992 in a song titled, "Do-Da-Dippity", by Champtown. Later in
1996, Eminem and Proof teamed up with four other rappers to form The Dirty Dozen (D12), who
released their first album Devil's Night in 2001.[15] Eminem had his first run-in with the law at age
20, when he was arrested for his involvement in a drive-by shooting with a paintball gun. The case
was dismissed when the victim did not appear in court.[14]

Eminem was soon signed to Jeff and Mark Bass's F.B.T. Productions and recorded his debut album
Infinite for their independent Web Entertainment label.[31] The album was a commercial failure
upon its release in 1996.[32] One lyrical subject of Infinite was his struggle to raise his newborn
daughter, Hailie Jade Scott Mathers, on little money. During this period, Eminem's rhyming style,
primarily inspired by rappers Nas, Esham and AZ, lacked the comically violent slant for which he later
became known.[33] Detroit disc jockeys largely ignored Infinite and the feedback Eminem did
receive ("Why don't you go into rock and roll?") led him to craft angrier, moodier tracks.[15] At this
time Eminem and Kim Scott lived in a crime-ridden neighborhood and their house was robbed
several times.[15] Eminem cooked and washed dishes for minimum wage at Gilbert's Lodge, a
family-style restaurant at St. Clair Shores.[34] His former boss described him as becoming a model
employee, as he worked 60 hours a week for six months after Hailie's birth.[14] He was fired shortly
before Christmas and later said, "It was, like, five days before Christmas, which is Hailie's birthday. I
had, like, forty dollars to get her something."[15] After the release of Infinite, his personal problems
and substance abuse culminated in a suicide attempt.[8] By March 1997 he was fired from Gilbert's
Lodge for the last time and lived in his mother's mobile home with Kim and Hailie.[14]

Eminem attracted more attention when he developed Slim Shady, a sadistic, violent alter ego. The
character allowed him to express his anger with lyrics about drugs, rape and murder.[14] In the
spring of 1997 he recorded his debut EP, the Slim Shady EP, which was released that winter by Web
Entertainment.[15] The EP, with frequent references to drug use, sexual acts, mental instability and
violence, also explored the more-serious themes of dealing with poverty and marital and family
difficulties and revealed his direct, self-deprecating response to criticism.[8] Hip hop magazine The
Source featured Eminem in its "Unsigned Hype" column in March 1998.[35]

After he was fired from his job and evicted from his home, Eminem went to Los Angeles to compete
in the 1997 Rap Olympics, an annual, nationwide battle rap competition. He placed second and an
Interscope Records intern in attendance called Dean Geistlinger asked Eminem for a copy of the Slim
Shady EP, which was then sent to company CEO Jimmy Iovine.[36] Iovine played the tape for record
producer Dr. Dre, founder of Aftermath Entertainment and founding member of hip hop group
N.W.A. Dre recalled, "In my entire career in the music industry, I have never found anything from a
demo tape or a CD. When Jimmy played this, I said, 'Find him. Now.'" He would later state on the
fourth and last episode of The Defiant Ones, "I was like: what the fuck!?, and who the fuck is that?"
expressing his shock towards Mathers' rapping talent. Although his associates criticized him for
hiring a white rapper, he was confident in his decision: "I don't give a fuck if you're purple; if you can
kick it, I'm working with you."[15] Eminem had idolized Dre since listening to N.W.A. as a teenager
and was nervous about working with him on an album: "I didn't want to be starstruck or kiss his ass
too much...I'm just a little white boy from Detroit. I had never seen stars let alone Dr. Dre."[37] He
became more comfortable working with Dre after a series of productive recording sessions.[38]

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