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On one of his numerous hit singles, controversial rapper Eminem, aka Slim Shady, asks: "Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Although he has sold over ten million albums worldwide and hit the headlines with a couple of very public arrests, even Eminem fans seem baffled as to who the man behind the music is. Debbie, Marshall and his younger half-brother Nathan, moved several times by the time Eminem dropped out of high school he had attended nearly 30 different schools before settling in a poor, predominantly Black neighbourhood in Detroit.

It was a world in which rap music became the one constant. As a youngster, Marshall was mocked for rapping.

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At the time his family thought he was undergoing an identity crisis, but his manager Phil Rosenberg saw his client's behaviour in a different light. I think it was just him assimilating," he said previously. The story of Eminem's arrival onto the music scene is now rap legend. Iovine loved the tape, sent it to rap icon Dr Dre, and Slim Shady was born.

Kim, Marshall's high-school sweetheart, gave birth to the couple's daughter Hailie Jade in The two were married four years later, but the relationship was far from stable and following Marshall's performance in a July gig in Detroit, Kim attempted suicide.