A Great Recovery
Marshall Bruce Mathers III, also known as Eminem, is an American rapper from Detroit. He was born in 1972, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Marshall is known to be a former member of D-12 and Royce da 5’9”, two famous hip-hop groups. Eminem is the best-selling rapper in the US and rated as one of the top 100 best rapper. The artist sold almost 50 billion albums in the States, a million album around the world and is still active in the music industry until today. He suffered from his childhood; his father left right after his birth and found himself under the care of his mother. He did not experience a good childhood considering the fact that he moved several times a year because of his mother’s lack of capability of keeping a job. As a result, his social life became non-existent. Which begs the question; is there a possibility that Eminem is Narcissistic? The artist did start off in the music industry as Slim Shady who portrayed traits of narcissism, but it brought him success in his music career. However, after he hit rock bottom he turned into a charismatic role model.
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Howard Owens from Blogcritics wrote an article, Narcissism is What Eminem Has to Show, which confirms the idea by stating the following: “Eminem's enemy list, however, would make Nixon jealous. His persecutors include his mother, father, parents of his fans, his fans, lawyers, cops, any other women he's ever met, other entertainers, critics, journalists… the list seems endless. The only blameless person seems to be Eminem himself.” (Owens,