He was born with the name Marshall Mathers lll, and I was actually shocked when I came to find out about the type of background that he came from.

His mother was just 15 when he was born, and nearly died while giving birth to him. When he was two months old, his abusive father left him and his mother to cope by themselves. His mother was also abusive, hitting him and shouting. His mother (Debbie) suffered from Munchausen by proxy syndrome, which is trying to seek attention and sympathy from people by pretending that others in your household are sick. This is usually mothers with their children, and this results in the mother trying to make the child sick by giving them unnecessary medicine's, starving them to try and make them skinny, keeping them off school so they can’t make friends, I think you get the picture. It’s a form of abuse towards the child.

She often threw him out of the house when they had arguments. She used to starve him sometimes, and sneak drugs into his food then force it down his throat. When he was 11 or 12, his stepbrother and bestfriend -Ronnie- committed suicide, she told Marshall that she wished he had died instead. He was bullied badly at school, shut up in lockers, beaten up; once so badly that he was put in a coma for a week. As a child, he lived and traveled a lot in a caravan, so he changed schools at least twice a year, not even enough time to make friends. At high school, he met his first proper friend, Proof, another rapper. At sixteen, he was already taking up multiple jobs to help pay the bills as his mother spent all their money on men and drugs.

In 1992, he married Kim Scott and in 1995 he had his daughter, Hailie. In 2002, they divorced for the first time after an incredibly abusive relationship. There is evidence to suggest that Kim was the abusive one, cheating on him behind his back, getting pregnant with another guy, and Marshall raised that child. Kim sued him and took Hailie away from him for few years. A few security guards claimed they saw Kim shout at him, call him useless and smack his head against a wall. His mother and childhood bully also sued him.

In 2006, they got back together for a short period of time then broke up again. Proof also died in 2006 as a victim of a shooting, and Marshall took his death hard. He started overdosing on drugs, to the point where he nearly lost his own life.

His mother had three other boys, and he basically had to raise them himself, as his mother clearly didn’t know how to raise children.

In his songs, he openly admitted some of his struggles, like fighting the devil for his soul (My Darling), murdering his ex-wife (Kim), revealing how fucked up his life is (My Name Is), and his mother’s abuse towards him and his siblings (Cleaning Out My Closet, My Mom, My Name Is) and how he is hurting inside due to his rubbish love life (Space Bound).

On top of all this, he was used and spat out by the industry. He admitted to being incredibly lonely, as he couldn’t go anywhere without security following him everywhere.

I hope he’s in a better place now.

Thanks for all the upvotes. I really appreciate it xoxo

edit: By the way, when I said “I hope he’s in a better place now” I meant mentally and his mental state. He is not dead, but alive and still releases music.

ANYWAY….during their performance of a song called “Rock Your Body” Justin F****** Timberlake proceeded to DISMANTLE her costume and expose her FRIGGIN’ breast—including her titty which was covered with a nipple shield—to a massive crowd of over 143 million people for literally HALF A SECOND. Nonetheless, It broke the record for most searched event over one day while simultaneously RUINING The career Janet very much deserved. People called it a wardrobe malfunction even to this day yet if you watched any related video, you’d see it was anything but.

Following the incident, Janet Jackson’s music, singles and videos were blacklisted by Viacom and it’s subsidiaries such as MTV from all their radio formats AND worldwide music channels. That’s why you barely—if at all—find any of her music anywhere but YouTube. Yes, CBS paid a fine of more than half a million dollars, get over it. Where was Justin when all of this was going down? Nobody knows but at the time, nobody cared. All the backlash went to Ms. Jackson at the time. Maybe it was because she was black, maybe it’s because of the world’s expectations of women or maybe it was because it was her nipple on display, I dunno but that don’t make it right