The Dark Side of Eminem

"The Dark Side of Eminem" contains Eminem's life during his beginning, his collapse, his re-birth, and his fulfillment of his prophecy of being a rap king. This book describes all of Eminem's significant life events that occurred and how these life long memories shaped him to be the talented musician he is. As the reader, you realize the amount of racial violence and descrimination, verbal and physical abuse, and hardships that Marshall Mathers had to suffer through. All of the these awful experiences is what fuels and creates Marshall to be the type of angry white trash superstar he is. The terrible occurrences is known as "The Dark Side Of Eminem". Born into an unstable, constantly moving home Eminem grew up with only his mother and as a child, he was always moving homes to stay with family members, Debbie's (Marshall's mom) boyfriends, or any other friends that would take the single mother and her baby under their roof. This book, in detail, explains to it's audience how Eminem's childhood contributed to the creation of his forever angry rhyming mind. The first chapter "Ground Zero", talks about how the area where he grew up was extremely racist, violent, crime-filled, and eighty percent African American. The book says how his hometown Detroit was a perfect location to raise a fatherless, angry, bullied, abused, poor, white trash honkey rap superstar."Since 1950, its population has shrunk my a million. Over 10,000 houses and 60,000 lots stand empty. A third of its citizens are beneath the poverty line. Many live in zones of hardcore unemployment, prospectless. In the Seventies and the Eighties, when the race lines of other American cities blurred, Detroit's hardened. It was de-industrialized, dead-beat. 8 Mile Road was the scar that showed its character." This book shows Eminem's experiences of being a toddler and adolescent in this dangerous and destroyed city is what had a contribution to his corrupted mind. With countless interviews and song-lyrics by Eminem, "The Dark Side Of Eminem" explains how each life-event helped fuel Eminem's want for revenge and constant search for a way out. This is a biography on the painful, the tough, and the battered and bruised side of Marshall Mathers, the dark side. It's a giant explanation on how this man built up enough drive and fuel to conquer all the struggles and challenges that have faced him through out his life. I recommend this book to anyone how enjoys to read about an underdog and his climb to the top of the mountain of success. This is all the evil, negative occurrences that Marshall Mathers took part in or had to suffer through, the road to his dream of success.