[Nehkara]

While doing some reading about his latest album Relapse that comes out on May 19th, I came across an AMAZING article about "Marshall Bruce Mathers III"/Eminem/Slim Shady.

If you have any interest in the man at all, give this a read:

Eminem: The fall and rise of a superstar

In one headline-grabbing endorsement, confirming him as the favourite cultural influence of the chattering classes, a white-haired Seamus Heaney declared him, in all seriousness, the saviour of modern poetry. "There is this guy Eminem," said the Nobel laureate. "He has created a sense of what is possible. He has sent a voltage around a generation. He has done this not just through his subversive attitude, but also his verbal energy."

Then, at the height of his remarkable fame, Eminem disappeared.

By the middle of 2008, with his career still on hold and his private life in turmoil, concerned fans feared that Eminem was going the way of Michael Jackson. Former associates in Detroit described him as "missing in action".

More worryingly, reports began suggesting that Eminem had begun to doubt his own abilities to "hear a hit". He seemed consumed by self-doubt and destined for retirement. Though only in his mid-thirties, headline writers dubbed him the Howard Hughes of hip-hop, and said he'd never rap again.

But they were wrong.

I, personally, am a fan.