1. Eminem returned to the music industry with the releases of Relapse and Recovery, the latter becoming the best-selling album worldwide of 2010.
126 Facts About Eminem
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Eminem starred in the 2002 musical drama film 8 Mile, in which he played a dramatized version of himself.
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Eminem co-founded Shady Records, which helped launch the careers of artists such as D12,50 Cent, and Obie Trice.
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Eminem established his own Sirius XM Radio channel, Shade 45, and opened a restaurant, Mom's Spaghetti.
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Eminem was the first musical act to have ten albums consecutively debut at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and has had five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Eminem is one of the highest-certified music artists in the United States, with three of his albums and four of his singles being certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Eminem's accolades include 15 Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
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Eminem wrote letters to his father, but Debbie said that they all came back marked "return to sender".
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Eminem's mother had a son named Nathan "Nate" Kane Samara in 1986 with then-boyfriend Fred Samara.
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Eminem frequently fought with his mother, whom a social worker described as having a "very suspicious, almost paranoid personality".
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Eminem was interested in storytelling, aspiring to be a comic book artist before discovering hip-hop.
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Eminem heard his first rap song, "Reckless", on the Breakin' soundtrack, a gift from Debbie's half-brother, Ronnie Polkingharn.
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Eminem's uncle was close to the boy and later became a musical mentor to him.
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Eminem snuck into neighboring Osborn High School with friend and fellow rapper Proof for lunchroom freestyle rap battles.
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Several years later, Eminem began an on-and-off relationship with Scott.
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Eminem worked at several jobs to help his mother pay the bills, one of which was at Little Caesar's Pizza in Warren.
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Eminem later said she often threw him out of the house anyway, often after taking most of his paycheck.
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Eminem made his first music video appearance in 1992 in a song titled, "Do-Da-Dippity", by Champtown.
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Eminem was affiliated with Newark's rap collective Outsidaz, collaborating with them on different projects.
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Detroit disc jockeys largely ignored Infinite and the feedback Eminem did receive led him to craft angrier, moodier tracks.
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Eminem cooked and washed dishes for minimum wage at Gilbert's Lodge, a family-style restaurant in St Clair Shores.
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Eminem attracted more attention when he developed Slim Shady, a sadistic, violent alter ego.
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Eminem became more comfortable working with Dre after a series of productive recording sessions.
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On March 9,1998, Eminem got signed to Aftermath and Interscope.
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Eminem looked for an avenue to release D12, and his manager Paul Rosenberg was keen to start a label, which led to the two teaming up to form Shady.
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In July 2000, Eminem was the first white artist to appear on the cover of The Source.
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In 2000, Eminem appeared in the Up in Smoke Tour and the Family Values Tour, headlining the Anger Management Tour with Papa Roach, Ludacris, and Xzibit.
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Eminem performed with Elton John at the 43rd Grammy Awards ceremony in 2001.
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Eminem was the only guest artist to appear on fellow rapper Jay-Z's critically acclaimed album The Blueprint, producing and rapping on the song "Renegade".
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The Eminem Show, certified Diamond by the RIAA, examines the effects of Eminem's rise to fame, his relationship with his wife and daughter and his status in the hip-hop community, addressing an assault charge brought by a bouncer he saw kissing his wife in 2000.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic found The Eminem Show less inflammatory than The Marshall Mathers LP.
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Eminem would follow this up the next year by producing 12 of the 16 tracks on Tupac's Loyal to the Game album.
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On December 8,2003, the United States Secret Service said that it was "looking into" allegations that Eminem had threatened the President of the United States.
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The Source, through CEO Raymond "Benzino" Scott, called for the video to be pulled, the song removed from the album and Eminem to apologize publicly to Jackson.
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On October 25,2004, a week before the 2004 US Presidential election, Eminem released the video for "Mosh" on the Internet.
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Eminem began his first US concert tour in three years in the summer of 2005 with the Anger Management 3 Tour, but in August, he canceled the European leg of the tour, later announcing that he had entered drug rehabilitation for treatment of a "dependency on sleep medication".
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Meanwhile, industry insiders speculated that Eminem was considering retirement, while rumors circulated that a double album titled The Funeral would be released.
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In September 2007, Eminem called New York radio station WQHT during an interview with 50 Cent, saying that he was "in limbo" and "debating" about when he would release another album.
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Eminem's act included several songs from Relapse, many of his older hits and an appearance by D12.
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Recovery was the bestselling album worldwide in 2010, joining 2002's bestseller The Eminem Show to give Eminem two worldwide year-end number-one albums.
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In December 2010, the "Great Eminem Recovery" was number one on Billboards Top 25 Music Moments of 2010.
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Eminem was featured on Royce da 5'9's "Writer's Block", released on April 8,2011.
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In March 2011, within days of each other, The Eminem Show and The Marshall Mathers LP were certified diamond by the RIAA; Eminem is the only rapper with two diamond-certified albums.
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Eminem was the first artist in five years with two number-one albums in a 12-month period.
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Eminem was the first artist since the Beatles to have four singles in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.
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On November 3, Eminem was named the first YouTube Music Awards Artist of the Year, and a week later he received the Global Icon Award at the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards.
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Shady Records released a cypher to promote the album, in which Eminem did a seven-minute freestyle.
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The Official Eminem Box Set, a career-spanning, 10-disc vinyl box set, was released on March 12,2015.
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Eminem is the executive producer of the soundtrack on the sports drama Southpaw, with Shady Records.
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Eminem was the first interview of Zane Lowe in Beats 1.
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Eminem appeared on the public access show Only in Monroe, produced in Monroe, Michigan.
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In June 2015, it was revealed that Eminem would serve as the executive producer and music supervisor on the TV series Motor City whose premise was based upon the 2002 film Narc.
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On October 19,2016, Eminem released a new song called "Campaign Speech", a political hip-hop song and announced he was working on a new album.
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On November 17,2016, Eminem released a remastered version of 'Infinite' on his YouTube VEVO channel.
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On November 22,2016, Eminem released a trailer for a 10-minute short documentary called Partners in Rhyme: The True Story of Infinite.
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In February 2017, Eminem appeared on "No Favors", a track from Big Sean's album I Decided.
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Eminem ended the cypher by giving an ultimatum saying that Trump supporters cannot be his fans.
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Eminem collaborated with several artists throughout early 2019, including Boogie, Logic, Ed Sheeran, 50 Cent and Conway the Machine.
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On February 23,2019, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Eminem released a re-issue of The Slim Shady LP, including acapellas, instrumentals and radio edited versions of tracks from the album.
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On January 17,2020, Eminem released another surprise album Music to Be Murdered By.
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Subsequently, Eminem became the first artist to have ten consecutive albums debut at number one in the US and one of six artists to have released at least ten US number-one albums.
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The lyrics of "Unaccommodating", in which Eminem referenced the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, drew significant criticism, with many critics finding the lyrics objectionable.
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Eminem featured in a song with Polo G and Mozzy called "Last One Standing" by Skylar Grey for the soundtrack of the film Venom: Let There Be Carnage, released on September 30,2021.
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On February 13,2022, Eminem performed at the Super Bowl LVI halftime show alongside Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, and Mary J Blige.
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Eminem announced his second greatest hits album on July 11,2022, entitled Curtain Call 2, which is a sequel to his first compilation Curtain Call: The Hits.
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Eminem was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
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On June 28,2024, Eminem posted a teaser for the album's second single, titled "Tobey" and featuring fellow Detroit rappers Big Sean and BabyTron.
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Eminem featured on the track "Gunz N Smoke" from Snoop Dogg's album, Missionary, released in December 2024, alongside 50 Cent and production from Dr Dre.
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Eminem has cited several MCs as influencing his rapping style, including Esham, Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, Big Daddy Kane, Tupac Shakur, Newcleus, Ice-T, Mantronix, Melle Mel, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, Run-D.
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In How to Rap, Guerilla Black notes that Eminem studied other MCs to hone his rapping technique: "Eminem listened to everything and that's what made him one of the greats".
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Eminem is known to write most of his lyrics on paper, taking several days or a week to craft lyrics, being a "workaholic" and "stacking" vocals.
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Examples of hip-hop subgenres that Eminem's music has been described as include horrorcore, comedy hip-hop, and hardcore hip-hop.
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Eminem was the executive producer of D12's first two albums, Obie Trice's Cheers and Second Round's on Me and 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' and The Massacre.
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In 2004, Eminem was co-executive producer of 2Pac's posthumous album Loyal to the Game with Shakur's mother, Afeni.
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Eminem is considered unusual in structuring his songs around the lyrics, rather than writing to beats.
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Eminem uses alter egos in his songs for different rapping styles and subject matter, including Slim Shady and Ken Kaniff, among others.
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Some of Eminem's lyrics have been criticized for being homophobic, and an Australian politician attempted to ban him from the country.
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Eminem is a friend of openly gay singer Elton John, and publicly supports gay rights.
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Eminem is one of the best-selling artists in music history, easily the biggest crossover success ever seen in rap.
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Lennon and Eminem were both subjects of pickets and protests; they both wrote songs about troubled relationships with their mothers; they both wrote about their strange public lives with their wives; they both wrote about how much they loved their kids.
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Eminem tells stories in such a powerful and distinctive way.
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Eminem signed his Detroit collective, D12 and rapper Obie Trice to the label and signed 50 Cent in a 2002 joint venture with Dr Dre's Aftermath label.
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In 2005 Eminem signed another Atlanta rapper, Bobby Creekwater and West Coast rapper Cashis to Shady Records.
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The project began as a mixtape, but when Eminem found the material better than expected he released it as an album.
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Eminem established his own satellite radio channel, Shade 45, that plays uncut hip-hop.
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Eminem promoted the station in a 2004 mock national convention at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, in which Donald Trump endorsed him.
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On his album Revival, Eminem expressed his regret at having collaborated with Trump, rapping, "wish I would have spit on it before I went to shake his hand at the event".
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In 2023, Eminem announced the launch of a "Mom's Spaghetti" jarred pasta sauce.
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Eminem said it was a representation of growing up in Detroit rather than an account of his life.
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Eminem recorded several new songs for the soundtrack, including "Lose Yourself".
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Eminem was absent from the ceremony and co-composer Luis Resto accepted the award.
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Eminem voiced an aging, corrupt, AAVE-speaking police officer in the video game 50 Cent: Bulletproof and guested on the Comedy Central television show Crank Yankers and a Web cartoon, The Slim Shady Show.
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Eminem had a cameo appearance in the 2009 film Funny People.
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Eminem played himself in the Entourage season-seven finale "Lose Yourself".
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Eminem had a cameo appearance as himself in the 2014 film The Interview.
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Eminem established the Marshall Mathers Foundation to aid disadvantaged youth.
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Eminem appeared in two commercials which were shown during Super Bowl XLV.
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On November 21,2000, Eminem published Angry Blonde, a non-fiction book featuring a commentary of several of his own songs, along with several previously unpublished photographs.
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Eminem was married twice to Kimberly Anne Scott, whom he met in high school.
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Eminem filed for divorce almost three months later on April 5th, agreeing to joint custody of Hailie, with the divorce being finalized on December 19,2006.
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In early 2010, Eminem denied tabloid reports that he and Scott had renewed their romantic relationship.
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Eminem legally adopted and was given custody of his former sister-in-law's daughter Alaina Marie, as well as Scott's child from an affair, Stevie Laine.
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Eminem stated in 2002 that he had been dating singer Mariah Carey, though she later denied it.
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Eminem gave birth to Eminem's first grandchild, Elliot Marshall McClintock, on March 14,2025.
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Eminem has spoken publicly about his addiction to prescription drugs, including Vicodin, Ambien, and Valium.
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Eminem, was under doctors' care at Detroit-area hospitals for complications due to pneumonia.
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Eminem has since been released and is doing well recovering at home.
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In December 2007, Eminem was hospitalized after a methadone overdose.
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Eminem had first bought from a dealer who had told him it was "just like Vicodin, and easier on [your] liver".
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Eminem continued to buy more until he collapsed in his bathroom one night and was rushed to the hospital.
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Eminem tore the meniscus in his knee after falling asleep on his sofa, requiring surgery; after he returned home, he had a seizure.
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Eminem began to attend church meetings to get clean, but after he was asked for autographs he sought help from a rehabilitation counselor.
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Eminem woke up with Hughes standing behind him and Hughes said that he was there to kill Eminem.
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The week before the 2020 presidential election, Eminem approved his song "Lose Yourself" to be used in a campaign video for Joe Biden.
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Eminem endorsed Kamala Harris during the 2024 United States presidential election.
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Eminem is a Christian, and has rapped about his faith in a few songs.
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Eminem has had thirteen number-one albums on the Billboard 200: nine solo, two with D12 and one with Bad Meets Evil.
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Eminem was the bestselling music artist from 2000 to 2009 in the US according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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Eminem was the bestselling male music artist in the United States of the 2010s.
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Eminem has been included and ranked in several publications' lists.
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Eminem was ranked 9th on MTV's Greatest MCs of All Time list.
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Eminem was ranked 13th on MTV's 22 Greatest Voices in Music list and 79th on the VH1 100 Greatest Artists of All Time lists.
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Eminem was ranked 82nd on Rolling Stones "The Immortals" list.
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In 2015, Eminem was placed third on "The 10 Best Rappers of All Time" list by Billboard.
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In 2011, Eminem was labeled the "King of Hip-Hop" by Rolling Stone based on an analysis of album sales, chart positions, YouTube views, social media following, concert grosses, industry awards and critical ratings of solo rappers who released music from 2009 to the first half of 2011.
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Eminem was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022.