Over the years Baba Kahn has conquered every mission and accomplished every goal he has set for himself in the entertainment industry. Baba’s background as a deejay is quite impressive and encompasses an extensive array of projects and shows. He has acquired both experience and fame deejaying in nightclubs, on radio and television, in addition to opening up for music artists at various concerts. Baba Kahn’s radio experience includes a 3 hour mix show on WBLK 93.7FM called ‘Wreckshop Radio’. He earned this opportunity by producing a hot mix tape demo for the radio station’s Program Director. Soon after, he was introducing mainstream audiences to urban music across Toronto, thus creating a whole new market for the urban ear. The show lasted 4 years and was number one in it’s timeslot for majority of the time it was on. He also had mix shows on AM 530 Flava’ Street, CHRY 105.5 FM Partners n’ Crime and online with icebergmedia. You can currently catch him on his live-to-air broadcasts on Z103.5FM and FLOW 93.5FM.

Baba Kahn’s television experience includes deejaying on BET’s (Black Entertainment Television) first live taping in Toronto for a Halloween Special which aired October 31st, 1998. He also deejayed and appeared on BET’s Caribana television special which featured Destiny’s Child and many others in August 2000. Baba Kahn has also made several appearances on Electric Circus (2001, 2002,2003) along with NBA XL (2003) and is always appearing on MuchMusic’s Urban Shows from as far back as Da’ Mix (1997,1998, 1999) to Vibe (2002, 2003) DownLow (2002,2003), IshStyle-CFMT (2004, 2005, 2006), VOLT (2006), Studio 2-TVO (2006), CTV News (2006) and Canada AM (2006).

Baba Kahn has shared the stage with top performers from Canada and the US such as: Run DMC, Montel Jordan, Busta Rhymes, Destiny’s Child, Tamia, Funk Master Flex, 112, Kardinal Offishal, Faith Evans, Next, Bubba Sparxxx, DJ AM, and Jazzy Jeff.

As co-owner of Soul Shock Marketing Group, Baba has created some of Canadas most unforgettable weekly and special event club nights. He lists the success of this venture as a team effort (the company has grown to include 2 full-time and 12 part-time staff members), and credits it for allowing him to keep his ear to the street, while providing more exposure for him as a DJ and all-around entertainer.

The next challenge on the horizon for Baba is the launch of Scratch Lab DJ Institute, which is set to open January 2006. Five years in the making, Baba describes the school as a labor of love, and hopes it will be a step towards legitimizing DJing as a career. The school boasts some of the countrys best DJs as teachers, including DMC Champion DJ Grouch, Starting From Scratch, and Jr.Flo. Classes include Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels, and also focuses on tricks, mixing, and other areas of DJing. Baba Kahn has far exceeded the expectations of his peers and fans. His love of music has enabled him to represent the Canadian music industry, and urban music in particular with class. He is a diverse, steadfast and a flawless performer who creates success where ever he goes. Baba Kahn . Canada’s Most Celebrated Club DJ.

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This is in no small way thanks to the diverse musical influences that the five members of missFlag bring to the band – from jazz to classical, fusion to rock, the music of missFlag is testament to the musical education the members of the band went through before finding each other.

But perhaps it’s not the musical range and diversity that finds missFlag on the verge of their international breakthrough – rather, it’s the message of hope and self-belief that can be found throughout each song on their debut album ‘To Infinity’. Reaching out to the world from Jerusalem and surrounded by everyday conflict that most other bands could never understand, missFlag refuse to be drawn into any political statements, and instead share their hope through music that we can all live as one.

From sublime anthems such as the beautiful ‘Run’, with its belief that even the poorest relationship can be saved, to the live favourite in waiting that is ‘Let It Show’, missFlag show they can stand beside such luminaries as Coldplay and Snow Patrol and not be overshadowed. For further proof of missFlag’s place in the indie world, you only need to listen to ‘Hidden Thieves’, perhaps their signature song, and one that shows the range in song-writing strength the band possess.

With ‘To Infinity’ in their back pocket and North America in particular beginning to pick up on them, missFlag are now ready to step from out of the shadows and take their place amongst the established bands of the genre. It’s been a long and often difficult road, but the end destination is finally in sight.

Within the last year missFlag have toured the US extensively. The reaction of the press to missFlag and their performances has been very exciting:

L.A Times (second feature): “This pop band from Israel is starting to make waves with the catchy song “Hidden Thieves” getting airtime on KCRW and elsewhere. It’s not hard to understand, as the group’s urgent, heartfelt pop has the potential for reaching a large audience. Ohad Eilam’s voice and Gil Assayas’ piano are the essential stitches to a fabric that incorporates diverse chord changes and tempos, but always resolving into memorable choruses.”

Boston Globe: “missFlag brings a beautifully shambling sensibility to the epic chord changes and winsome melodies.”

L.A Times (first feature): “This band from Israel covers some of the same ground as Coldplay with the kind of sing-along choruses that could appeal to a large audience. Singer Ohad Eilam has an accessible sincerity and, in “Hidden Thieves,” when the keening guitar enters on the final chorus, providing a diversion from the center of focus (the piano) one can imagine a concert hall of swaying bodies.”

Jerusalem Post: “With star-quality songs, stage presence and musicianship. Someday you’ll be able to say you saw missFlag ‘back when’.”

Since May 2007 missFlag have been featured on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic”, the internationally influential music show on National Public Radio. With a national following on air and a worldwide following online, MBE’s DJ Nic Harcourt chose missFlag’s “Hidden Thieves” for heavy rotation on the show, launching it into the top slot of songs played on the station. Airplay on MBE is highly competitive, receiving submissions of over 500 songs per week.

During September 2007 DJ Nic Harcourt also chose missFlag for a highly coveted live in-studio performance from MBE’s Los Angeles studio, which included an interview with missFlag’s lead singer Ohad Eilam. During the interview, Harcourt observed, “There is a sincerity in their original songs that makes them stand out,” complimenting the band on being, “so sweet, yet hungry – a great combination for a band trying to make it here in the U.S.”

In December 2007 missFlag’s song “Fortune” was selected as KCRW’s Top Tune.

Band Members
Tommy & Shlomo Woof

Gil Assayas Keyboards

Assa Bukelman Lead Guitar

Assaf Krauss Drums

Shai Saadia Bass

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Micheal Jackson had a far reaching affect than any of the great musicians like Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and was instrumental in creating a loyal global fan base not only for his music, but for English music as a whole. He was a genius not only in making music but coming up with original videos like Thriller, Billie Jeans, Black or White. There is no parallel to him in dance moves even today.

People usually ascribe immortality to celebrities like Micheal Jackson and such an event becomes hard to believe or even downright shocking. Micheal Jackson’s death is a great loss to Music and he will be remembered along with other artists who went too soon like Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Layne Steeley. The King has left the building.

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Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 — September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a promising actor and a social activist. Most of Shakur’s songs are about growing up amid violence and hardship in ghettos, racism, problems in society and conflicts with other rappers. Shakur’s work is known for advocating political, economic, social and racial equality, as well as his raw descriptions of violence, drug and alcohol abuse and conflicts with the law. Shakur was initially a roadie and backup dancer for the alternative hip hop group Digital Underground. Shakur’s debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, gained critical recognition and backlash for its controversial lyrics.

Shakur became the target of lawsuits and experienced other legal problems. He was later shot five times and robbed in the lobby of a recording studio in New York City. Following the event, Shakur grew suspicious that other figures in the rap industry had prior knowledge of the incident and did not warn him; the controversy helped spark the East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur was later convicted of sexual abuse. After serving eleven months of his sentence he was released from prison on an appeal financed by Marion “Suge” Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records. In exchange for Suge’s assistance, Shakur agreed to release three albums under the Death Row label.

On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He died six days later of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest at the University Medical Center.

MTV ranked him at #2 on their list of The Greatest MCs of All Time

Studio Albums

Filmography

Documentaries

Shakur’s life has been recognized in big and small documentaries each trying capture the many different events during his short lifetime, most notably the Academy Award-nominated Tupac: Resurrection, released in 2003.

• 1997: Tupac Shakur: Thug Immortal
• 1997: Tupac Shakur: Words Never Die (TV)
• 2001: Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake…
• 2001: Welcome to Deathrow
• 2002: Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel: The Life of an Outlaw
• 2002: Biggie & Tupac
• 2002: Tha Westside
• 2003: 2Pac 4 Ever
• 2003: Tupac: Resurrection
• 2004: Tupac vs.
• 2004: Tupac: The Hip Hop Genius (TV)
• 2006: So Many Years, So Many Tears
• 2007: Tupac: Assassination

Audioslave was an American hard rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of ex-Soundgarden frontman and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello (lead guitar), Tim Commerford (bass and backing vocals) and Brad Wilk (drums). Critics initially described Audioslave as an amalgamation of Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden, but by the band’s second album, Out of Exile, noted that it had established a separate identity.

The band’s trademark sound was created by blending 1970s hard rock with 1990s grunge. Moreover, Morello incorporated his well-known, unconventional guitar solos into this mix. As with Rage Against the Machine, the band prided themselves on the fact that all sounds on their albums were produced using only guitar, bass, drums and vocals; no samples were ever used.

After Audioslave released three successful albums, received three Grammy nominations, and became the first American rock band to perform an open-air concert in Cuba, Cornell issued a statement in February 2007 that he was permanently leaving the band “due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences”. As the other three members were busy with the Rage Against the Machine reunion, and Morello and Cornell had each released solo albums in 2007, Audioslave was officially disbanded.

History

Formation (2000–2001)

Audioslave’s history dates back to October 18, 2000, when lead vocalist Zack de la Rocha announced he was leaving Rage Against the Machine. This led to the band’s break-up, but the remaining three members of the band decided to stay together and announced plans to continue with a new vocalist. Several vocalists jammed with the three, including B-Real of Cypress Hill, but they did not want another rapper or anybody who sounded like de la Rocha. Music producer and friend Rick Rubin later suggested that they jam with Chris Cornell, the ex-frontman of Soundgarden. Rubin also persuaded the three of them to go into group therapy with performance coach Phil Towle after the break-up.^[6] Rubin was confident that with the right new voice Rage Against the Machine had the potential to become a better band; he believed “it could turn into a Yardbirds-into-Led Zeppelin scenario”. Commerford later credited Rubin for being the catalyst that brought Audioslave together, he called him “the angel at the crossroads because if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be here today”.

The chemistry between Cornell and the other three was immediately apparent; as Morello described: “He stepped to the microphone and sang the song and I couldn’t believe it. It didn’t just sound good. It didn’t sound great. It sounded transcendent. And … when there is an irreplaceable chemistry from the first moment, you can’t deny it.” The quartet wrote 21 songs during 19 days of rehearsal, and began working in the studio in late May 2001 with Rubin as producer, while sorting out the label and management issues.

Name

The original idea for the band’s name was “Civilian”, but it was dropped when members found out that it was already taken. Morello later discredited the story, contradicting Commerford and Cornell,^[9][10] and commented that “Civilian” was merely a rumor circulating at the time; he stated: “The band has only ever had one name and that is Audioslave.” Morello described the origin of the “Audioslave” name to LAUNCHcast as follows:

That was Chris’ suggestion that sort of came to him in a vision. We’re all on the two-way pagers, and Chris one night said, “I got it. It’s Audioslave.” We were all, like, “All right, fantastic.”… To paraphrase Elvis Costello, talking about band names is like dancing about architecture—there’s just no point in it because the band name becomes the music and the people.

After the name was announced, it emerged that it was already being used by an unsigned band from Liverpool. The two bands worked out a settlement, with Audioslave paying $30,000 in a deal that allowed each band to use the name. To avoid confusion, the Liverpool band would rename themselves The Most Terrifying Thing.

The name was mocked by critics due to its uninspired nature, and was regarded as one of the worst in contemporary rock music, or even of all time. Pitchfork Media called it the “most asinine bandname of the year”, while Spin magazine chided it as “one of the dumbest band names in recent rock history”.

Audioslave (2002–2003)

On March 19, 2002 Audioslave was confirmed for the seventh annual Ozzfest, even though at that time the band had no official name or release date for their debut album. A few days later, reports surfaced that the band broke up, before they had played for a public audience. Cornell’s manager confirmed that the frontman had left the band, with no explanation given.

Under the name “Civilian” (or “The Civilian Project”), 13 rough rehearsal demo tracks were leaked onto peer-to-peer filesharing networks in May 2002. According to Morello, the band was frustrated because the songs were not in their finished form and in some cases, “weren’t even the same lyrics, guitar solos, performances of any kind”.

Initial rumors suggested that Cornell took issue with having two managers actively involved in the project (Jim Guerinot of Rebel Waltz represented Cornell, and Peter Mensch of Q Prime handled Rage Against the Machine). According to the band, however, the split was not triggered by personal conflicts, but by their quarreling managers. After the mixing of the album was finished, roughly six weeks later, the group reformed and simultaneously fired their former management companies and hired another, The Firm. Their previous labels, Epic and Interscope, settled their differences by agreeing to alternate who released the band’s albums.

The band divulged their official name and launched their web site in early September. The first single, “Cochise”, was posted online in late September, and was on radio in early October. Critics praised Cornell’s vocal style, a distinct departure from the rapping of de la Rocha,^] and found that “the former members of RATM have gone and done a Paul Weller, retreating from the ground they broke back into the sounds that inspired them”. Music video director Mark Romanek shot a video for “Cochise”, which shows the band playing atop an under-construction tower in the midst of a giant fireworks display providing all the lighting. The firework explosions during filming prompted fears of a terrorist attack among residents living near Los Angeles’ Sepulveda Dam, the shooting location.

The self-titled debut album, Audioslave, was released on November 19, 2002 and entered the Billboard 200 chart at number seven after selling 162,000 copies in its first week. It was certified gold by the RIAA within a month of release, and by 2006 achieved triple platinum status. It is the most successful Audioslave album to date, having sold more than three million copies in the United States alone.

Despite its commercial success, Audioslave received mixed reviews. Some critics lambasted the group’s effort as uninspired, and predictable. Pitchfork Media praised Cornell’s voice, but criticized virtually every other aspect of the album, deeming the lyrics “complete gibberish” and Rubin’s production “a synthesized rock-like product that emits no heat”. Other critics, however praised the supergroup’s style reminiscent of 1970s rock and compared it to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, saying they added much-needed sound and style to contemporary mainstream rock.

Audioslave made their live debut on November 25, 2002, performing a brief concert on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City, for the Late Show with David Letterman. This was the first time any band had appeared on Letterman’s marquee.^[37] That year’s KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas was their first official paying concert, where the band played on the first night, December 7, 2002, after giving a secret club show the night before.^[38] Towards the end of the band’s six song set, Cornell told the audience, “These guys saved my life this year”,^[39] and the show ended with his band mates hugging him.^[40] Afterwards, asked to expand on his comments, he would only say that he had dragged the trio “through a trail of shit” in the past months.

During this time, there was a rumor that Cornell had checked himself into drug rehabilitation. He later confirmed it in an interview with Metal Hammer that was conducted from a clinic payphone.^[10] In a San Diego CityBEAT article, Cornell explained that he went through “a horrible personal crisis” during the making of the first record, staying in rehab for two months and separating from his wife.^[41] He credited Morello, Commerford and Wilk with helping him rebound from the difficult period. He dismissed the rumors about being in rehab for OxyContin or heroin, but when asked, only offered, “Various things. I’m not picky. Mainly for drinking.”

“Like a Stone”, the second single from Audioslave, was released in early 2003. It was the highest-charting single from the album, peaking at number one on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts. It was certified gold by the RIAA, making it Audioslave’s most successful single ever.^[30] The music video for the third single, “Show Me How to Live”, was banned from MTV, reportedly because it shows the band in a high-speed car chase running police cars and motorcycles off the road.^[44] The band’s first DVD, Audioslave, was released on July 29, 2003.

The band toured extensively worldwide in 2003, gaining positive reviews for their live performances,including at the revived Lollapalooza.

Out of Exile (2004–2005)

In 2004, Audioslave was among the nominees for the 46th Grammy Awards: “Like a Stone” was nominated for “Best Hard Rock Performance” and Audioslave for “Best Rock Album”. They spent the rest of 2004 on break from touring, and working on the second album. This gave Morello time to concentrate on his solo project, The Nightwatchman, and also take an active part in political activities. Cornell had time to focus on his personal life; after his divorce from his first wife was finalized, he married Vicky Karayiannis, a Paris-based publicist he met during Audioslave’s first European tour.

Work on a new album had started in 2003 during the Lollapalooza tour, and continued at the end of the year when band members entered the studio. Aside from writing new material, the band also had some leftover songs from the Audioslave sessions; according to Morello, they had “almost another album’s worth of stuff [already done]“. “Be Yourself”, the first single from the still-untitled album, was heavily panned by critics, who felt it was “limp and the lyrics are bland and directionless”. Nevertheless, it reached number one on the Mainstream and Modern Rock charts.

In April 2005 the band launched a club tour, which lasted until late May. Although on previous tours Audioslave occasionally played cover songs, they deliberately avoided playing their former bands’ songs to avoid using those songs as a “crutch” to “help sell and break Audioslave”, as their aim was to establish the band as an “independent entity”. After achieving that goal, they thought it was “time to own those histories”, and began performing a selection of the two bands’ most popular songs on the tour.

The second single, “Your Time Has Come” was released through a unique promotion, lasting one week, which involved radio listeners around the world. Radio stations were asked to post a link on their web sites to a special timed-out download of the song. Once one million people clicked on the link, the song was unlocked and became downloadable by all one million.

On May 6, 2005, Audioslave played a free show in Havana, Cuba, in front of an estimated 50,000 people at the La Tribuna Antiimperialista José Martí (José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribunal) venue, which was purpose-built in 2000 for mass protests against the U.S. government. Audioslave became the first American rock group to perform an open-air concert in the communist country of Cuba. The band traveled to Havana—bringing along their camera crew—on May 4 to spend two days visiting historic sites and interacting with Cuban musicians and youngsters. Morello and the rest of the band insisted that the trip was not to make a political statement, but to take part in a musical cultural exchange. Cornell commented: “Hopefully, this concert will help to open the musical borders between our two countries.”^[54] The trip was organized with the joint authorization of the United States Department of the Treasury and the Instituto Cubano de la Musica (Cuban Institute of Music), as travel by US citizens to Cuba is restricted, but the authorization arrived so late that the band had to cancel and postpone several confirmed dates of their US tour. The 26-song set concert — which included several Soundgarden and Rage Against The Machine songs — was the longest the band had ever played.

Out of Exile was released internationally on May 23, 2005, then a day later in the U.S. It debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, the only Audioslave album to reach this position. The following week, however, it dropped to number three, with a 62 percent sales decrease^[56]—consequently reaching platinum.^[57] Cornell admitted to writing his most personal songs ever on this album, influenced by the positive changes in his life since 2002. He also described the album as more varied than the debut and relying less on heavy guitar riffs.

The album was received more favorably than Audioslave’s debut; critics noted Cornell’s stronger vocals, likely the result of quitting smoking and drinking,^[59] and pointed out that Out Of Exile is “the sound of a band coming into its own”.^[60] Allmusic, which gave Audioslave a lukewarm review, praised the album as “lean, hard, strong, and memorable”.^[61] The lyrics, however, were still a common complaint, musicOMH.com wrote that Cornell’s lyrics “continue to border on the ridiculous”; ^[62] The album’s softer, slower approach was frequently criticized as well.

Following the album’s release, the band embarked on a European tour, performed at the Live 8 benefit concert in Berlin on July 2, 2005, and played their first North American headlining arena tour from late September to November 2005. The music video for “Doesn’t Remind Me”, the third single from Out of Exile, was posted online in September 2005. Audioslave’s second DVD, Live in Cuba, featuring the concert in Havana, was released on October 11, 2005. It was certified platinum in less than two months.

Revelations and breakup (2006–2007)

In December 2005, Audioslave received its third Grammy nomination at the 48th Grammy Awards in the “Best Hard Rock Performance” category for “Doesn’t Remind Me”. Audioslave began recording their next album; Cornell had already expressed his desire to make “an album every year or year-and-a-half” even before Out of Exile was released. In early July 2005, after the conclusion of the European tour, the band returned to the studio to write new songs; Morello said their aim was to “blur the lines between rehearsing, recording and touring”. The actual recording began in January 2006, with plans to release the album in June.^[67] This time, the band chose Out of Exile’s mixer, Brendan O’Brien as producer.

Audioslave had 20 songs written and recorded 16 of those in only three weeks. However, the album’s release date was postponed to early September, and the band cancelled their previously announced European tour, to have a new album to support, when they embarked on touring. The first single off the album, “Original Fire”, was made available online on Audioslave’s official website for free streaming in early July.

News about Cornell’s departure emerged in July 2006, when insiders stated that after the third album he would split for a solo career. The singer immediately denied the rumors, stating “We hear rumors that Audioslave is breaking up all the time. … I always just ignore [them]“. In the same interview, he also discussed his intentions to record a new solo album, the second in seven years, before the end of August.

A special marketing campaign preceded the new album’s release in August, when the art concept was featured on Google Earth as a fictional utopian island, Audioslave Nation, created in the South Pacific. Several songs from the upcoming album appeared on movie and video game soundtracks; “Wide Awake” and “Shape of Things to Come” were featured in Miami Vice, while “Revelations” was on the soundtrack of Madden NFL 07. Revelations was released on September 5, 2006. The album entered the Billboard 200 at #2 and sold 142,000 copies during its first week of release. It became the band’s least commercially successful album; dropping even faster than Out of Exile, its sales were down 65 percent the following week, achieving gold certification a month later. The album showed funk, soul and R&B influences that were non-existent for the band before; Morello referred to the new sound as “Led Zeppelin Meets Earth, Wind & Fire”. Additionally, several songs took a more overtly liberal political stance than previous Audioslave releases.

The album received a similar critical response to Out of Exile with the majority of reviewers praising the band’s integrity on the record. The new funk and soul influences were also welcomed favorably, Allmusic called the album Audioslave’s “most colorful, diverse, and consistent record yet”.^[75] Many others, however, saw it as “just another rock record”, and musically not much different from the previous album.

Cornell decided to delay the Revelations tour until 2007, because he wanted to “let the album come out for awhile” and also concentrate on his second solo album.^[78] The rest of the band went along; Morello also revealed his plans to release his debut solo album in early 2007. The second, and final single from the album, “Revelations” was released in October 2006 with an accompanying music video a month later.

On January 22, 2007, Rage Against the Machine was announced to reunite for one show only, at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, on April 29, 2007. Less than a month later, on February 15, 2007, Cornell officially announced his departure from Audioslave, issuing this statement:

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavors.

He stated that, as far as he was concerned, Audioslave had disbanded, and that a greatest hits collection would be issued in the future, because of label commitments.^[79] The New York Post reported that according to sources the split was not about “irresolvable personality conflicts” but about the money, a friend of Cornell said: “Chris was unhappy with the financial arrangement within the group—he wrote all the music, yet the other three bandmates took an equal share in the multimillion-dollar publishing rights.”

Morello has said that he never officially heard and “still haven’t heard” from Cornell that he was leaving the group. Cornell countered: “Tom and I did have communications about the fact that I was gonna go make a record, and that I was tired of what ended up seeming like political negotiations toward how we were gonna do Audioslave business and getting nowhere with it.”^[82] He also added that this process of “doing Audioslave business” led him to go solo.

Cornell admits that he has not spoken to the other members of Audioslave since the breakup. He has said that the breakup was not about money, but that he was just not getting along with the other members during their later years. Said Cornell, “Getting along as people is one thing. Getting along as a group of people that can work together in a band situation…We weren’t particularly getting along well, no. Bands work in a way where everyone at some point has to have a similar idea of how you do things…Three albums into it, it started to seem like our interests weren’t as conjoined anymore.”

The game Shaun White Snowboarding featured the song ‘Gasoline’ as part of the soundtrack, from the album ‘Audioslave’.^[84] However, this song is not included on the official compilation soundtrack.

Musical style and influences

By combining hard rock with grunge, Audioslave created a distinctive sound.^[85] This mix was driven by Cornell’s wide vocal range, Morello’s ‘innovative’ guitar solos and the rhythm section of Wilk and Commerford. Morello, although stating he “never felt musically limited” in Rage Against the Machine, did say that he had “a lot more scope to explore with Audioslave” and a “wider musical territory”.^[88] This meant that the instrumentalists had the opportunity to write slow and melodic songs, something they had not done before.

As opposed to de la Rocha’s lyrics, Cornell’s were mostly apolitical; Morello referred to them as “haunted, existential poetry”. They were characterized by his cryptic approach, often dealing with themes of existentialism, love, hedonism,^[90] spirituality and Christianity.^[89] Critics were not often impressed with Cornell’s lyrical work; its detractors usually deemed his songs clichéd and meaningless.

Audioslave’s first two albums drew influences from 1970s hard rock such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and from the members’ previous bands (the grunge of Soundgarden and the funk metal of Rage Against the Machine). For Revelations, which was influenced by 1960s and 70s funk, soul and R&B music, Morello used vintage guitars and amplifiers, and Cornell adopted his “seventies funk and R&B-flavor vocals”. The guitarist also cited Sly & the Family Stone, James Brown and Funkadelic as a reason for the funk overtones on the album.

Just as Rage Against the Machine did, Audioslave also included the statement “All sounds made by guitar, bass, drums, and vocals” in their albums’ booklets as Morello’s guitar work often caused listeners to believe that the band used samples, synthesizer effects or different turntable techniques to produce certain sounds.

Songwriting and recording process

All of Audioslave’s lyrics were written by Cornell, while all four members—as a band—were credited with writing the music. Their songwriting process was described by Wilk as “more collaborative” and “satisfying” than Rage Against the Machine’s, which was “a battle creatively”. Cornell also felt the same way; he saw Soundgarden’s songwriting method inferior to Audioslave’s. Rick Rubin, producer of the band’s first two albums, was also lauded as “a great collaborative partner” and was likened to “the fifth Beatle” by Tom Morello.

The time spent on songwriting by the band was always short. They wrote 21 songs in 19 days for the first album, and exceeded that rate for the second album by having a song or sometimes two written every day. This method was adopted for the third album as well.

Cornell’s battle with drug addiction and alcoholism was a defining factor in the writing and recording process of the debut album. The singer admitted that he was “never able to write effectively” while drinking,^[99] and attended rehab after recording Audioslave. Although Morello stated that Revelations was “the first record [Cornell] didn’t smoke, drink or take drugs through the recording”, he later corrected his statement by saying: “Chris was stone sober during the making of our Out of Exile album. Chris was also sober during the making of Revelations and prior to recording he gave up smoking as well.”^[100]

Politics

While Rage Against the Machine’s music was politically influenced, Audioslave’s originally was not. Cornell stated he did not want to become the new singer of Rage Against the Machine or any political band, but he would play benefits the other band members wanted to play. Despite his reluctance to write political lyrics, he himself never discounted the possibility; he already touched upon political issues in Audioslave’s “Set It Off”—a song inspired by 1999’s WTO riots (the “Battle of Seattle“)—then later wrote an anti-war song, “Sound of a Gun”, and what Morello called “the most political song Audioslave’s ever written”, “Wide Awake” for Revelations. “Wide Awake” was an attack on the Bush administration’s failure to act over the consequences of Hurricane Katrina.

The band was openly anti-Bush and against the Iraq War from the beginning; on March 17, 2003, only hours after President Bush announced plans to invade Iraq, the band performed live in Hollywood with messages reading “How many Iraqis per gallon?” and “Somewhere in Texas, a Village is Missing an Idiot”, scrolled across the stage. The music video for “Doesn’t Remind Me” was also critical of the Iraq war.

During the time of the second album’s release several politically-charged Rage Against the Machine songs resurfaced in Audioslave’s live set. Although the members committed to not making political statements during their Cuba tour, Commerford stated in an interview that the concert made Audioslave more politically active than Rage Against the Machine ever was.^[105] While in Cuba, Cornell said that he takes “every aspect of human life” into consideration, when it comes to writing lyrics, and that he would write about the experience in a song, or more songs. This culminated in the political influences on Revelations, although he did not write about Cuba specifically. He asserted that he felt Audioslave can be a band like U2, which is “not overtly political, but Bono gets a lot done”. That year, the band played at two more concerts organized to raise political awareness: Live 8, which aimed to end global poverty, and the Hurricane Katrina benefit concert, ReAct Now: Music & Relief.

Audioslave was prominently involved in the Axis of Justice, a non-profit organization formed by Tom Morello and System of a Down’s Serj Tankian to “bring together musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice”. Axis of Justice tents were set up at almost every Audioslave show, and with the exception of Commerford all band members appeared on the Concert Series Volume 1 CD/DVD charity album released in 2004.

Discography

• Audioslave (2002)
• Out of Exile (2005)
• Revelations (2006)

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Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known by his primary stage name Eminem, or by his alter-ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer and actor. Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling hip hop album in history. It brought Eminem increased popularity, including his own record label, Shady Records, and brought his group project D12 into mainstream recognition. The Marshall Mathers LP and his third album, The Eminem Show, also won Grammy Awards, and in 2002, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for a song in the film 8 Mile, in which he also played the lead. Eminem has developed into one of the most popular rappers of all-time, then went on hiatus after touring in 2005. He is planning on releasing his first album since 2004, Relapse, on May 19, 2009.

Early life and first releases

Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, the son of Deborah Mathers-Briggs and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr. Shortly after his birth, his father abandoned his family. Until he was twelve, Marshall Mathers and his mother often moved between St. Joseph; Kansas City, Missouri and Warren, Michigan, a Detroit suburb. As a teenager, Mathers became interested in hip hop, performing amateur raps at age fourteen under the pseudonym “M&M” and joining the group Soul Intent around 1995, when his first single was released. Although a student at Lincoln High School in Warren, he frequently participated in freestyle battles at Osborn High School across town, gaining the approval of underground hip hop audiences. After repeating the ninth grade twice due to truancy, he dropped out of high school at age 17.

Since 1992, Mathers had been signed to FBT Productions, run by brothers Jeff and Mark Bass. Mathers also held a minimum-wage job of cooking and dishwashing at the restaurant Gilbert’s Lodge at St. Clair Shores for some time. In 1996, his debut album Infinite, which was recorded at the Bassment, a recording studio owned by the Bass Brothers, was released under their independent label Web Entertainment. Eminem recalls: “Obviously, I was young and influenced by other artists, and I got a lot of feedback saying that I sounded like Nas and AZ. Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.” Subjects covered in Infinite included his struggles with raising his newborn daughter Hailie Jade Scott while on limited funds. Early in his career, Eminem collaborated with fellow Detroit MC Royce da 5′9″ under the stage name Bad Meets Evil.

With the release of The Slim Shady EP, Mathers was accused of imitating the style and subject matter of underground rapper Cage. While promoting the EP, Mathers approached Insane Clown Posse member Joseph Bruce and handed him a flyer which implied that the group would make an appearance at the EP’s release party. Bruce refused to appear because Mathers had not previously approached him for permission to use the group’s name in this way. Taking Bruce’s response as a personal offense, Mathers subsequently attacked the group in radio interviews. Barbs between Insane Clown Posse and Eminem continued.

Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Interscope Records, requested a demo tape of Eminem’s after Eminem won second place at the 1997 Rap Olympics. Iovine played the tape for record producer Dr. Dre, founder of Aftermath Entertainment. The two began recording tracks for Eminem’s upcoming major-label debut The Slim Shady LP, and Eminem made a guest performance on the album Devil Without a Cause by Kid Rock.^[1] Hip-hop magazine The Source featured Eminem in its “Unsigned Hype” column in March 1998.

1999: The Slim Shady LP

According to Billboard Magazine, at this point in his life Eminem had “realized his musical ambitions were the only way to escape his unhappy life”. After being signed to Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records in 1998, Eminem released in 1999 his first major studio album, The Slim Shady LP, heavily based on the production by Dr. Dre. The album was, according to the same Billboard article, “brutal” and “light years ahead of the material he had been writing beforehand.” It went on to be one of the most popular albums of 1999, going triple platinum by the end of the year. With the album’s popularity came controversy surrounding many of the album’s lyrics. In “‘97 Bonnie and Clyde”, he describes a trip with his infant daughter, disposing of the body of his wife. Another song, “Guilty Conscience”, ends with his encouraging a man to murder his wife and her lover. “Guilty Conscience” marked the beginning of the powerful friendship and musical bond that Dr. Dre and Eminem would share. The two label-mates would later collaborate on a line of hit songs, including “Forgot About Dre” and “What’s the Difference” from Dr. Dre’s album 2001, “Bitch Please II” from The Marshall Mathers LP, “Say What You Say” from The Eminem Show and “Encore/Curtains Down” from Encore. Thus, Dr. Dre would go on to make at least one guest appearance on all of Eminem’s studio albums under the label Aftermath.

2000–2001: The Marshall Mathers LP

The Marshall Mathers LP was released in May 2000. It went on to sell 1.76 million copies in its first week, breaking the records set by Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle as the fastest-selling hip hop album and Britney Spears’ …Baby One More Time as the fastest-selling solo album in the United States.^[2][20] The first single released from the album, “The Real Slim Shady”, was a success and created some controversy by insulting celebrities and making dubious claims about them; he states, among other things, that Christina Aguilera performed oral sex on Fred Durst and Carson Daly. In his second single, “The Way I Am”, he reveals to his fans the pressures from his record company to top “My Name Is” and sell more records. Although Eminem had parodied shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the video “My Name Is”, the artists are on good terms. They have performed a remix of the song “The Way I Am” together in concert. In the third single, “Stan” (which samples Dido’s “Thank You”), Eminem attempts to deal with his new-found fame, taking on the persona of a deranged fan who kills himself and his pregnant girlfriend, mirroring “‘97 Bonnie & Clyde” on The Slim Shady LP. Q magazine named “Stan” the third-greatest rap song of all time, and the song came tenth in a similar survey conducted by Top40-Charts.com. The song has since become highly acclaimed and was ranked 290th in Rolling Stone magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. In July 2000, Eminem became the first white person to be featured on the cover of The Source magazine.

Music tours that he participated in for 2001 included the Up In Smoke Tour with rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, and Ice Cube and Family Values Tour with the band Limp Bizkit.

2002–2003: The Eminem Show

Eminem’s third major album, The Eminem Show, was released in summer 2002 and proved to be another hit for the rapper reaching number one on the charts and selling well over 1 million copies in its first week of release. It featured the single “Without Me”, an apparent sequel to “The Real Slim Shady”, in which he makes derogatory comments about boy bands, Limp Bizkit, Moby, and Lynne Cheney, among others. The album reflected on the impact of his rise to fame, his relationship with his wife and daughter, and his status in the hip-hop community. He also addresses the charges he faced over assaulting a bouncer he saw kissing his wife in 2000. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic felt that while there was clear anger present on several tracks, this album was considerably less inflammatory than The Marshall Mathers LP. However, L. Brent Bozell III, who previously criticized The Marshall Mathers LP for perceived misogynistic lyrics in the album, noted The Eminem Show for its extensive use of obscene language, giving Eminem a nickname of “Eminef” for the bowdlerization of motherfucker, an obscenity prevalent in the album.

2004: Encore

On December 8, 2003, the United States Secret Service admitted it was “looking into” allegations that Eminem had threatened the President of the United States. The lyrics in question: “Fuck money / I don’t rap for dead presidents / I’d rather see the president dead / It’s never been said, but I set precedents…”. The song in question, titled “We As Americans”, was being recorded possibly for Encore but wound up on a bonus CD accompanying the album instead.

The year 2004 saw the release of Eminem’s fourth major album, Encore. The album was another chart-topper, as it was driven by the single “Just Lose It”, notable for being disrespectful towards Michael Jackson. On October 12, 2004, a week after the release of “Just Lose It”, Eminem’s first single off Encore, Michael Jackson called into the Los Angeles-based Steve Harvey radio show to report his displeasure with the video, which parodies Jackson’s child molestation trial, plastic surgery, and an incident in which Jackson’s hair caught on fire while filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984. The lyrics to “Just Lose It” refer to Jackson’s legal troubles, however he does state in his song “…and that’s not a stab at Michael/That’s just a metaphor/I’m just psycho…”. Many of Jackson’s supporters and friends spoke out about the video, including Stevie Wonder, who called the video “kicking a man while he’s down” and “bullshit”,^[32] and Steve Harvey who declared, “Eminem has lost his ghetto pass. We want the pass back.”^[32] In the video, Eminem parodied Pee Wee Herman, MC Hammer, and a Blonde-Ambition-touring Madonna.

Regarding Jackson’s protest, “Weird Al” Yankovic, who parodied the Eminem song “Lose Yourself” on a track titled “Couch Potato” on his 2003 album Poodle Hat, told the Chicago Sun-Times, “Last year, Eminem forced me to halt production on the video for my “Lose Yourself” parody because he somehow thought that it would be harmful to his image or career. So the irony of this situation with Michael is not lost on me”.^[34] Black Entertainment Television was the first channel to stop airing the video. MTV, however, announced it would continue airing the video. The Source, through its CEO Raymond “Benzino” Scott, wanted not only the video to be pulled, but the song off the album, and a public apology to Jackson from Eminem. In 2007 Jackson and Sony bought Famous Music LLC from Viacom. This deal gave him the rights to songs by Eminem, Shakira and Beck amongst others. Despite the comedic theme of the lead single, Encore had its fair share of serious subject matter, including the anti-war track “Mosh”. On October 25, 2004, a week before the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, Eminem released the video for “Mosh” on the Internet. The song featured a very strong anti-Bush message, with lyrics such as “fuck Bush” and “this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president.” The video features Eminem gathering up an army of people, including rapper Lloyd Banks, presented as victims of the Bush administration and leading them to the White House. However, once the army breaks in, it is revealed that they are there to simply register to vote, and the video ends with the words “VOTE Tuesday November 2″ on the screen. After Bush won the election, the video’s ending was changed to Eminem and the protesters invading while Bush was giving a speech.

2005–2008: Hiatus

In 2005, some industry insiders speculated that Eminem was considering ending his rapping career after six years and several multi-platinum albums. Speculation began in early 2005 about a double-disc album to be released late that year, rumored to be titled The Funeral.^[40] The album manifested itself as a greatest hits album under the name Curtain Call: The Hits, and was released on December 6, 2005 under Aftermath Entertainment. In July 2005, the Detroit Free Press broke news of a potential final bow for Eminem as a solo performer, quoting members of his inside circle who said that he will begin to fully embrace the role of producer and label executive. On the same day of the release of the compilation album, Eminem denied that he was retiring on Detroit-based WKQI’s “Mojo in the Morning” radio show, but implied that he would at least be taking a break as an artist, saying “I’m at a point in my life right now where I feel like I don’t know where my career is going… This is the reason that we called it ‘Curtain Call,’ because this could be the final thing. We don’t know.”

That year, Eminem was a subject of criticism in conservative Bernard Goldberg’s book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, being ranked at #58.^[42] Goldberg cited a 2001 column by Bob Herbert of The New York Times claiming, “In Eminem’s world, all women are whores and he is eager to rape and murder them.”^[43] The Eminem song “No One’s Iller” from The Slim Shady EP was used by Goldberg as an example of misogyny in his music.

In summer 2005, Eminem embarked on his first U.S. concert run in three years, the Anger Management 3 Tour, featuring 50 Cent, G-Unit, Lil’ Jon, D12, Obie Trice, The Alchemist, and others. In August 2005, Eminem canceled the European leg of the tour and subsequently announced that he had entered drug rehabilitation for treatment for a “dependency on sleep medication”.

2009: Relapse and Relapse 2

In September 2007, Eminem called into New York radio station Hot 97 during a 50 Cent interview and said he was “in limbo” and “debating” about when and if he would release another album. He said, “I’m always working — I’m always in the studio. It feels good right now, the energy of the label. For a while, I didn’t want to go back to the studio … I went through some personal things. I’m coming out of those personal things [and] it feels good.”

Eminem made an appearance on Shade 45 in September 2008 in which he said, “Right now I’m kinda just concentrating on my own stuff, for right now and just banging out tracks and producing a lot of stuff. You know, the more I keep producing the better it seems like I get ’cause I just start knowing stuff.”^[47] It was around this time that Interscope finally confirmed the existence of a new Eminem album,^[48] with Spring 2009 later being stated as the period span in which the album is due. In December 2008, he gave more details on the album, which he recently reported was being titled Relapse. He said, “Me and Dre are back in the lab like the old days, man. Dre will end up producing the majority of the tracks on Relapse. We are up to our old mischievous ways … let’s just leave it at that.”

In March 2009, Eminem reported in a press release that he would be releasing two new albums this year. The first album, Relapse, is set for release on May 19, while the first official single and it’s music video are set for release on April 7. The second album, Relapse 2 doesn’t have a set release date yet, but Eminem is currently in the studio working on the album, and it should be released in the second half of this year. Eminem said in the press release, “we were on such a roll; we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre. Putting out Relapse 2 will let everyone get all of the best stuff.”

Other projects

D12

Around the time of recording Infinite, Eminem and rappers Proof and Kon Artis gathered the group of rappers now collectively in the group D12, short for “Detroit Twelve” or “Dirty Dozen”, performing in the manner of the multi-man group Wu-Tang Clan.^[53] In 2001, Eminem brought his rap group, D12, to the popular music scene, and the group’s debut album Devil’s Night came out that year.^[54] The first single released off of the album was “Shit on You”, followed by “Purple Pills”, an ode to recreational drug use. For radio and television, the censored version “Pills” was heavily rewritten to remove many of the song’s references to drugs and sex and was renamed “Purple Hills”. While that single was a hit, the album’s second single, “Fight Music”, was not as successful.

After their debut, D12 took a three-year break from the studio, later regrouping to release their second album, D12 World, in 2004, which featured the popular hit single release “My Band”.^[54] In April 2006 D12 member Deshaun “Proof” Holton was killed in a club brawl involving U.S. military veteran Keith Bender Jr, who was killed by Proof. The eruption is suspected to have been due to an argument over a game of pool. Proof was then allegedly shot by the bouncer Mario Etheridge, Bender’s cousin. He was then taken by private vehicle to St. John Health’s Conner Creek Campus, an outpatient emergency treatment site, and was pronounced dead on arrival shortly thereafter. Eminem and fellow Detroit Shady Records artist Obie Trice spoke at the funeral.

D12 member Bizarre said that Eminem is not featured on his new album Blue Cheese & Coney Island because “he’s busy doing his thing”.^[57] In a December 2007 interview with the website DefSounds.com, Bizarre confirmed that the group is working on its third studio album, tentatively titled The Ambition, which he said was “halfway finished” at the time of the interview. Producers include Dr. Dre, Eminem, Luis Resto, and Hi-Tek.

Featurings and productions

Although he typically collaborates with various rappers under Aftermath Entertainment and Shady Records, such as Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, D12, Eminem has collaborated with many other artists, including, Redman, Kid Rock, DMX, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Method Man, The Notorious B.I.G., Jadakiss, Fat Joe, Sticky Fingaz, T.I. and others.

Eminem rapped a verse in a live performance of Busta Rhymes’ “Touch It” remix at the 2006 BET Music Awards on June 27, 2006. Eminem was featured on Akon’s single “Smack That” which appeared on Akon’s album Konvicted.

Eminem is also an active rap producer. Besides being the executive producer of D12’s two albums, Devil’s Night and D12 World, he has executive produced Obie Trice’s Cheers and Second Round’s on Me as well as 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and The Massacre. In addition, Eminem has produced and appeared on several songs by other famous rappers, such as Jadakiss’ “Welcome To D-Block”, Jay-Z’s “Renagade” and “Moment of Clarity” Lloyd Banks’ “Warrior Part 2″, and “Hands Up”, Tony Yayo’s “Drama Setter”, Trick Trick’s “Welcome 2 Detroit”, and Xzibit’s “My Name” and “Don’t Approach Me”. Most of The Eminem Show was produced by Eminem himself, with co-production from longtime collaborator Jeff Bass.^[61] He split the production with Dr. Dre on Encore. In 2004, Eminem was the Executive Producer of 2Pac’s posthumous album Loyal to the Game with 2Pac’s mother Afeni Shakur. He produced the UK #1 single “Ghetto Gospel” which featured Elton John. He has produced “The Cross” off Nas’s album God’s Son.^[64] On August 15, 2006, Obie Trice released Second Round’s on Me. Eminem produced 8 tracks on the album. He was featured in the song “There They Go”. Eminem has produced some tracks on the new Trick Trick album, The Villain; he’s featured in “Who Want It”.

Shady Records

As Eminem succeeded in multi-platinum record sales, Interscope granted him his own record label. He and his manager Paul Rosenberg created Shady Records in late 2000. He followed this by signing his own Detroit collective D12 and rapper Obie Trice to the label. In 2002, Eminem signed 50 Cent through a joint venture between Shady and Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label. In 2003, Eminem and Dr. Dre signed on Atlanta rapper Stat Quo to the Shady/Aftermath roster. DJ Green Lantern, the former DJ for Eminem, was signed to Shady Records until a dispute related to the 50 Cent and Jadakiss feud forced him to depart from the label; he is no longer associated with Eminem. The Alchemist is now officially Eminem’s tour DJ. In 2005, Eminem signed another Atlanta rapper, Bobby Creekwater, to his label along with West Coast rapper Cashis.

On December 5, 2006, Shady Records released compilation album entitled Eminem Presents: the Re-Up. It started out as a mixtape but Eminem found that the material was better than expected and released it as a full album. It was meant to help launch the new artists under the roster, like Stat Quo, Cashis and Bobby Creekwater.

Acting career

Although he had a brief cameo in the 2001 film The Wash, Eminem made his official Hollywood acting debut with the semi-autobiographical 8 Mile, released in November 2002. He has said the movie is not an account of his life, but a representation of growing up in Detroit. He recorded several new songs for the soundtrack, including “Lose Yourself”, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2003. However, the song was not performed at the ceremony, due to Eminem’s absence at the ceremony. His collaborator Luis Resto, who co-wrote the song, accepted the award.

Eminem has participated in various voice acting roles. Some of these include the video game 50 Cent: Bulletproof, where he voices an aging corrupt police officer that speaks in Ebonics and guest spots on the Comedy Central television show Crank Yankers, and a web cartoon called The Slim Shady Show, which has since been pulled off-line and is instead sold on DVD.

Eminem will star in the upcoming film Have Gun – Will Travel in which he will play the protagonist bounty hunter “Paladin”. He will be involved in either the soundtrack or scoring.^[70] He was also in the running for the part of David Rice in 2008’s film Jumper after Tom Sturridge was dropped just 2 weeks before filming. Concerns over not having a more prominent actor prompted the director, Doug Liman, to consider other actors for the role. Hayden Christensen was eventually chosen over Eminem.

Memoir

On October 21, 2008, Eminem released a tell-all autobiography titled The Way I Am, which details his struggles with poverty, drugs, fame, heartbreak and depression, along with stories about his rise to fame and commentary on past controversies.

Personal life

Family

Marshall Mathers has often been subject of much scrutiny as a rapper as well in his personal life. Kimberley Anne Scott is the doubly divorced ex-wife of Mathers. The couple met in high school, beginning their on-and-off relationship in 1989 and getting married by 1999; however they then divorced in 2001. In 2000, Scott attempted suicide and sued the rapper for defamation after he depicted her violent death in his song “Kim”. They remarried in 2006 but divorced again less than three months later, agreeing to share custody of their daughter, Hailie Jade Scott. Hailie Scott has often been referenced or featured on various songs of Eminem, such as “‘97 Bonnie & Clyde“, “Hailie’s Song”, “My Dad’s Gone Crazy“, “Mockingbird”, “Forgot About Dre”, “Cleaning Out My Closet” and “When I’m Gone”. She was born on December 25, 1995. As well, Alaina is Marshall Mathers’s adopted daughter from Kim Scott’s sister.

Legal troubles

In 1999 Mathers’ mother sued him for an around US$ 10 million over alleged slander about her in his lyrics regarding The Slim Shady LP; she won about US$1,600 in damages in 2001.

Mathers was arrested on June 3, 2000 during an altercation at a car audio store in Royal Oak, Michigan, with Douglas Dail, where he pulled out an unloaded gun and kept it pointed at the ground. The following day, in Warren, Michigan, he allegedly saw his then wife, Kim, kiss bouncer John Guerrera in the parking lot of the Hot Rock Café and assaulted him. He was given two years probation for both the episodes.

In the summer of 2001, Mathers’ legal troubles continued, as he was given probation on weapons charges that stemmed from an argument with an employee of Psychopathic Records, giving him a fine around $2,000 as well as several hours of community service.

Drug dependence

His group-mate Proof from D12 stated that Mathers “sobered up” in 2002 from drug and alcohol dependence. However, he did turn to Zolpidem sleeping pills for relief from sleeping troubles. This caused Mathers to cancel the European leg of the Anger Management Tour in August 2005 and eventually go into rehab for treatment for a “dependency on sleep medication”.

Discography

• 1996: Infinite
• 1999: The Slim Shady LP
• 2000: The Marshall Mathers LP
• 2002: The Eminem Show
• 2004: Encore
• 2009: Relapse
• 2009: Relapse 2^[82]

Filmography

• 2000: Da Hip Hop Witch, himself
• 2001: The Wash, Chris
• 2002: 8 Mile, Jimmy “B. Rabbit” Smith, Jr.
• 2010: Have Gun – Will Travel, Paladin

Awards

While Eminem has won many Grammy Awards, been praised for having “verbal energy”, high quality of lyricism and been ranked at #9 on MTV’s list of The Greatest MCs of All Time, #13 on the MTV’s “22 Greatest Voices in Music” and #82 on Rolling Stone’s “The Immortals”. He has often been infamous for the controversy surrounding many of these lyrics, including allegations of glorifying homophobia, misogyny, and violence. In 2008, the readers of Vibe Magazine voted him “The Best Rapper Alive”.

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Mraz is of Czech descent through his grandfather who moved to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1915. His surname is Czech for “frost.” He attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, for a short time, studying musical theater before moving to San Diego.

Studio albums

• Waiting for My Rocket to Come (2002)
• Mr. A–Z (2005)
• We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. (2008)

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Jay-Z’s crowning achievement, his debut album Reasonable Doubt, is ranked by Rolling Stone as #248 on their “500 Greatest Albums of All Time“. His critically acclaimed album, The Blueprint, was written in only two days. After announcing his retirement from recording music in 2003, he returned in late 2006 with the album Kingdom Come, which sold 680,000 copies in its first week, Jay-Z’s highest-selling album in a one-week period. MTV named him number one on their list of the greatest MCs of all time. The New York Times announced in April of 2008 that Jay-Z is on the verge of a partnership with Live Nation for $150 million — among the most expensive contracts ever awarded to a musician. Carter married Beyoncé Knowles on April 4, 2008 (source Wikipedia)