Both albums also won the Best Rap Album Grammy Award, making Eminem the first artist to win such an award for three consecutive LPs. His next two releases, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002), were worldwide successes, each earning US Diamond certification in sales. The Slim Shady LP was a commercial success and earned the rapper his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.

Īfter his debut album Infinite (1996), Eminem rose to mainstream popularity in 1999 with his second album The Slim Shady LP. As of June 2014, he is the second best-selling male artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, the sixth-best overall selling artist in the United States, and the best-selling hip-hop artist, having sold 45,160,000 albums and 31 million digital singles. Eminem has sold more than 155 million albums and singles, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Including his work with D12 and Bad Meets Evil, Eminem has achieved ten number-one albums on the Billboard 200. The same magazine declared him The King of Hip Hop.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 83rd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States. In addition to his solo career, Eminem is a member of the group D12, as well as one half of the hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, alongside Royce da 5'9'.

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor.

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