Tracking an artist through their careers.

Eminem

Eminem first got into hip hop music at age 9 after his parents had left him in which they were in a band of their own. He heard his first hip hop rap at age 9 in which was called reckless featuring Ice-T. At age 14 Mathers began to start rapping with his friend Mike Ruby; they adopted the names "Manix" and "M&M" in which later evolved into Eminem. 

He used to sneak into different high schools and compete with students in rap battles during their lunch. On Saturday nights Eminem attended open mic rap battle competitions, in which he used his own raps, and to a lot of the audiences his versus did not make a lot of sense and the reason is that he had his own meanings hidden behind the words in which he knew only a certain amount of people could understand.

As Eminem's reputation begun to grow he was recruited by several rap groups to help him carry on growing; the first of these was the New Jacks. He was then signed to Jeff and Mark Bass' FBT Productions, in which they recorded his first debut album "Infinite". 

This album had a main subject which was telling audiences on how much struggle he had when he was raising his daughter on such little money. During this period Eminem's rhyming style, primarily inspired by rappers NAS and AZ, lacked the comically violent slant for which he would later be known. 

Eminem attracted more attention when he developed Slim Shady, a sadistic, violent alter ego. The character, "a drug-dealing, bloodthirsty thug who spits furious rhymes about murder, rape, drugs and living by the law of the urban jungle", allowed him to express his anger.In the spring of 1997 he recorded his debut EP, the slim shady EP, which was released that winter by Web Entertainment.

 Eminem went to Los Angeles to compete in the 1997 He placed second, and Interscope Records staff in attendance sent a copy of the Slim Shady EP to company CEO Jimmy Lovine. Lovine played the tape for record producer Dr.Dre founder of Aftermath Entertainment. He then release The Slim Shady LP in February 1999. The Marshall Mathers LP was released in May 2000. It sold 1,760,000 copies in its first week, breaking US records held by Snoop Dogg. 
Eminem even decided to make "The Eminem Show" which was released in May 2002. It was another success, reaching number one on the charts and selling over 1.332 million copies during its first full week.



His career also got bigger when he decided to create a film in which showed how his career took off and how he actually started to become well known. This film is called "8 Mile" and 8 Mile opened at #1 with $51,240,555 in its opening weekend, then the second highest opening for an R-rated movie in the U.S.The 8 Mile DVD, which was released on March 18, 2003, generated $75 million in sales and rentals in its first week, making it the biggest DVD debut ever for an R-rated movie and putting it in the all-time Top 10 for first week home video sales for a movie.




Eminem also grew his fan base when he started creating songs for the Call of Duty franchise, by doing this he opened up a wider fan base because there are a lot of users online which are huge fans of this franchise.

Eminem worked with the franchise previously, however when his album, "The Marshall Mathers LP 2" was released, the song "Survival" jumped to number 13 in the top charts to promote the multiplayer for the upcoming release of Call of Duty Ghosts.