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Who Is Marshall Bruce Mathers Childhood

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Marshall Bruce Mathers, Slim Shady more known as Eminem was born 17th 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri. His father Marshall Mathers jr II abandoned him when he was 18 months old so his mother Deborah Nelson raised him alone.
Early in Marshall´s life he and his mother who only was 15 when she got Marshall bounced back and forth between Kansas City and Detroit. They lived in public house systems so they moved a lot and Marshall was forced to constantly change schools and start over from scratch in his social life. They lived in the poor part of the city in “black neighborhoods” and they didn't take it so kindly to new (or white) people. He was always an outsider, struggling to find friends and any safe place he could be in. He was also a target …show more content…

Marshall says that they survived just on welfare checks and money from lawsuits that she dreamed up and sometimes got lucky and got money for things she claims that company’s or someone have done/said. There´s evidence to support Marshall´s claims of his mother´s history, there are some papers of cases where she has tried to sue a plethora of people and organizations over minor incidents. A few years later in 2001 she tried to sue her son for defamation of character. She claims that her lawyer had it as an option and that he did it without her permission, and that she did not intend to sue her son. Marshall also has a younger brother, Nathan Mathers that´s today a small rapper, going by the name Nate Kane. Marshall has claimed that he practically raised Nathan himself and that his mother would abuse his little brother and constantly pretending he was ill. This has been confirmed by the fact that Deborah was diagnosed with Münchausen syndrome and had Nathan taken from her by social services. He made a song about this and how his mother threated them as kids, one of them is called “Cleaning Out My Closet” and came out 2002 that became a big hit. Marshall have done many big hits thru his years as a rapper, among he was rewarded the Oscar for his movie “8

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