3.1 Influences, style and rapping technique.2.10 2020–present: Music to Be Murdered By and Super Bowl LVI.2.6 2009–2012: Recovery and Bad Meets Evil reunion.2.4 2003–2007: Production work, Encore and musical hiatus.2.3 1999–2003: The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show.2.2 1997–1999: Introduction of Slim Shady, The Slim Shady LP and rise to success.2.1 1988–1997: Early career, Infinite and family struggles. Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on October 17, 1972, in St. Joseph, Missouri, the only child of Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. He is of English, Scottish, German, German Swiss, Polish and Luxembourgish ancestry. His mother nearly died during her 73-hour labor with him.
Eminem's parents were in a band called Daddy Warbucks, playing in Ramada Inns along the Dakotas– Montana border before they separated. Eminem's father, Bruce Jr., left the family, moving to California after having two other children: Michael and Sarah. His mother, Debbie, later had a son named Nathan 'Nate' Kane Samara.
