Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Marshall Bruce Mathers III akaberekwa musi waGumiguru 17, 1972, muSt. Joseph, Missouri, ndiye oga mwana waMarshall Bruce Mathers Jr. naDeborah Rae "Debbie" (née Nelson). Ane dzinza reEngland, reScotland, reGermany, reSwitzerland, rePoland neLuxembourg. Amai vake vakapotsa vafa pavakamubereka kwemaawa 73. Vabereki vaEminem vaiva muboka rainzi Daddy Warbucks, vachitamba muRamada Inns pamuganhu weDakota neMontana vasati vaparadzana. Baba vaEminem, vanotaurwa nezita rake repakati Bruce, vakasiya mhuri, vakatamira kuCalifornia uye vakava nevamwe vana vaviri: Michael naSarah. Debbie gare gare akava nomwanakomana Nathan "Nate" Kane Samara. Munguva yehuduku hwake, Eminem naDebbie vaifamba pakati peMichigan neMissouri, kashoma kugara mumba imwe chete kweanopfuura gore kana maviri uye vachirarama kunyanya nenhengo dzemhuri. MuMissouri, vaigara munzvimbo dzinoverengeka, kusanganisira St. Joseph, Savannah, uye Kansas City. Semudiki, Eminem akanyora tsamba kuna baba vake, avo Debbie akataura kuti vese vakadzoka vakanyorwa kuti "dzokera kumutumiri". Shamwari nemhuri vanoyeuka Eminem somwana anofara, asi "munhu ari oga" uyo aiwanzotambudzwa. Mumwe anodheerera, D'Angelo Bailey, akakuvadza zvakanyanya musoro waEminem mukurwiswa (kunotaurwa murwiyo rwake "Brain Damage"); Debbie akamhan'arira chikoro muna 1982, icho chakarambwa gore rakatevera nekuti mutongi weMacomb County (Mich.) akati zvikoro zvaive zvisina mhosva. Eminem akapedza nguva yakawanda youduku hwake munharaunda yevatema yeDetroit yaigara vanhu vanoshanda. Iye naDebbie vakanga vari mumwe wemhuri nhatu dzevachena vaiva muimba yavo, uye Eminem akarohwa nevechiduku vatema kanoverengeka. Somwana aifarira kutaura nyaya, achida kuva muimbi wemabhuku enyambo asati awana hip hop. Eminem akanzwa rwiyo rwake rwekutanga rwekurova ("Kusava nehanya", neIce-T) paBreakin'soundtrack, chipo chinobva kuna Ronnie Polkinghorn mukoma waDebbie, uyo aive padyo naye uye akazova chipangamazano wake wemimhanzi. Apo Polkinghorn akazviuraya muna 1991, Eminem akarega kutaura kwamazuva uye haana kupinda mariro ake.  Mubvunzo: Mathers akaberekwa rini?
Gumiguru 17, 1972