The Artist Who I Am - 1660 Words

The artist who I will be focusing on for this assignment is Eminem. I find him interesting because he became really famous around 27 (my current age) just before the new millennium but is still considered highly popular, relevant and on top of the hip-hop world. His albums consistently go multi-platinum, even though some were panned by critics and fans alike. I find him to be an interesting story from what I have heard in general. His personality, drug use, controversies, near-death, and his continued relevance as an artist that appears to value youth into his forties are all points of interest. Although in today’s society, he is viewed as mainstream and widely accepted it wasn’t always that way. As a white/Caucasian artist in a predominately black music culture in the 1990’s (Allison, 2002), and following the exposure of Vanilla Ices street life as little more than fabrications and lies, people were always quick to embrace his music. 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