Music(Abby Romero)

Biography forEminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on the 17th October 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. His mother was 15 at the time she gave birth. Six months later his father left him., Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved back and forth from Kansas City and Detroit. He settled on the Eastside of Detroit when he was 12. Switching schools every two to three months made it difficult to make friends, graduate and to stay out of trouble. Being a rap fan for most of his life, Marshall began rapping at the early age of 4. Rhyming words together, battling schoolmates in the lunchroom made him happy. When he was 14 he was very serious about his rapping skills and when he turned 17 he came up with a name he could call him self M&M and later on re-spelled it as Eminem.The name 'Eminem' came from his initials M(arshall) M(athers). People started rejecting him as a rapper because of his race.Marshall grew an anger that flows through his music to this day. After failing the 9th grade three times in a row, he quit school, but says that he doesn't consider himself stupid but that people should'nt follow his example.His very first album was titled "Infinite".It was then that his daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott. Having nothing to lose at all, flat broke and not knowing where he would be living the next week, Marshall set out to rant about life in general, the set quickly caught the ear of hip-hop's difficult-to-please underground. What came out of this was the Slim Shady EP, the early work for the later Dr. Dre revised Slim Shady LP. Down to nearly his last dime, he went into the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles, basically hoping to win the $1,500 cash price which he badly needed. After battling for an hour and throwing back every race diss thrown at him, Marshall made it to second place losing in a slip up. Furious that he had lost, Marshall didn't even notice that he had been spotted. In the crowd were a few producers from Interscope, and they were handed a copy of the "Infinite" tape by way of a demo. Dr. Dre got to hear it and eventually tracked him down. The two instantly hit it off, recording four songs in the their first six hours of working - three which made it to his first LP. After the album was finished, Dr. Dre asked Marshall to come work with him on his new album. He helped produce several tracks and was on the best songs of the album. It won 3 Grammies and was the first rap album ever to be nominated "Album of the Year", selling more than 8 million records in the United States alone. He also stunned critics when he shot down all homophobic remarks by performing "Stan" with Elton John. Eminem made a movie called 8 Mile (2002), and has gone back and brought his friend with him; D-12. Though 2001 was a rough year for the rapper, being charged with weapon offenses, divorcing his wife, and almost going to prison, Marshall explains his life today in one word.
His hit list top 12
Lose yourself, Hailie’s song, Sing for the moment, Stan, Mocking Bird, Like Toy Soldiers, Without Me, When Im Gone, The Way I Am, The Real Shady, Cleanin Out My Closet, 8 Mile.

Hip Hop
Artists such as Eminem, OutKast, T.I., Kanye West, The Game, 50 Cent, Nelly, Nas, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, and Twin Creek Soldiers were among the dominant mainstream hip hop artists to have represented the Hip hop genre for the decade.

Rock
Rock remained popular in the beginning of the decade, despite the increasing popularity of hip-hop, but experienced a diminished presence on mainstream music charts by the end of the decade.

Alternative rock
Garage rock and post-punk revival
The White Stripes were one of the most successful emerging American rock acts of the decade.In the early 2000s, a new group of bands emerged into the mainstream which drew primary inspiration from post-punk and new wave and were variously characterised as part of a garage rock, post-punk or new wave revival.Nickelback has released seven number-one singles on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and has sold over 35 million records.After the first wave of post-grunge bands lost their popularity, bands like, Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback took post-grunge into the 21st century with considerable commercial success, abandoning most of the angst and anger of the original movement for more conventional anthems, narratives and romantic songs.

Hard rock and heavy metal
During the early 2000s a new wave of metal began with interest in the newly emerging genre nu metal and genres of a similar style such as rap metal and the later mainstream success rap rock. The popularity of nu metl music carried over from the late 1990s, where it was introduced by early work from bands such as Korn, Deftones, Slipknot and Coal Chamber, into the early 2000s with the similar genre, rap rock, bringing in a wave of monster-hit artists such as Evanescence, Staind, Papa Roach, and Disturbed.

Emo
Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American (2001) and Dashboard Confessional's The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (2003). The new emo had a far greater appeal amongst adolescents than its earlier incarnations. At the same time, use of the term emo expanded beyond the musical genre, becoming associated with fashion, a hairstyle and any music that expressed emotion. In recent years the term emo has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts such as Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance and disparate groups such as Paramore and Panic at the Disco, even when they protest the label.

Pop
Singer Britney Spears is the best selling female performer of the decade.Christina Aguilera is considered to be one of the best-selling female artist of the decade.Teen Pop became an extremely popular genre in the early 2000s with success of teenaged pop-singers Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, and Mandy Moore. This trend dissolved dramatically due to modern R&B and hip-hop influenced music that dominated throughout the middle of the decade. Britney Spears became eventually the decade's best-selling female artist selling over 85 million albums worldwide as well as the fifth best-selling artist in the U.S.In 2002, a new "teen pop rock" movement began. Avril Lavigne was arguably the first and lead artist to take this new direction in pop music, with hits such as "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi" at the beginning of the decade and "Girlfriend" at the end Lavigne leads this genre throughout all the decade worldwide, her contemporaries such stars as, Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton not far behind with their own success.Lady Gaga took the later part of the decade by storm. Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008.