Press Release: Eminem and the Detroit Rap Scene-White Kid in a Black Music World
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EMINEM
AND THE
DETROIT RAP SCENE:
WHITE KID
IN A BLACK MUSIC WORLD
ISABELLE
ESLING
COLOSSUS
BOOKS
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Amber Communications Group, Inc.'s imprint Colossus Books has published EMINEM
and the Detroit Rap Scene: White Kid in a Black Music World.
With never
before seen photos and interviews and dedicated to the memory of Big Proof, the
founder of D12 and Eminem, Eminem and
the Detroit Rap Scene: White Kid in a Black Music World will take you deep into
the heart of the Detroit Ghetto with Eminem, long before D12 and the Aftermath
with D12.
If you want
to understand Eminem, you have to understand where he comes from. You can't even begin to think about Eminem
without mentioning Detroit and the Detroit Rap Scene; Eminem and the Detroit Rap Scene: White Kid in
a Black Music World will bring you to the people, the rappers, the Detroit
ghetto, the early years, that inspired him and made him become the person he is
now.
I loved
Kaos and Mystro, Awesome Dre, Proof, Smiley, Prince Vince, Jo to the D, Detroit
Box, AWOL, DmW, a lot of local stuff. Awesome Dre’s ‘ Master Of Philology’,
Merciless Amir’s ‘ A Day Without A Rhyme’ and Prince Vince’s ‘ Changes’ were
some of my favorites. It made me feel
proud to be from the D and made the possibilities of making some noise out of
the city seem more realistic. I think I
owe a lot to the foundation they all laid, for sure. (Eminem).
Coming from
a poor background in Detroit, Eminem struggled hard while being underground and
made his own way to become a superstar. His life story is far from being a
fairy tale. Bullied at school, experiencing reverse racism on a daily basis,
coming from a dysfunctional family with a drug dependant history; Marshall Mathers carried the dream to become
a rapper: A dream that was so huge and
seemed so foolish, that neither his teachers, his family, nobody...except Big
Proof, and then Dr. Dre would take him seriously.
Growing up
on the black side of 8 Mile in Detroit, the young boy totally integrated into
the culture and focused on the same musical interest as his friends. Eminem also lived on the other side of 8 Mile
in Detroit, where he had a bunch of poor white friends as well. Experiencing both sides of the ghetto
provided Eminem with treasured bridges to both cultures.
With over
100 million albums sold worldwide, and Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, American
Music Awards, ASCAP Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Gold and Platinum
Albums, under his belt, Eminem is one of the best-selling rap artists
ever. Discovered by legendary record
producer Dr. Dre, Eminem was signed to Dre's Aftermath Entertainment Record
Label in 1999 and he brought along his D12 rap group members and other Detroit
rappers, all who would go on to have their own record deals and sell Gold and
Platinum Albums.
EMINEM and
the Detroit Rap Scene: White Kid in a Black Music World chapters include: “The
Detroit Hip Hop Scene”; “The Dirty Dozen – The Story Behind the D12 Group”;
“Eminem’s Artistic Evolution"; “White Kid in a Black Music World".
Eminem and
the Detroit Rap Scene: White Kid in a Black Music World was written by Isabelle
Esling a graduate of the University of Metz, France, where she studied Liberal
Arts and Languages. Ms. Esling has been
teaching foreign languages in public and private schools as a German and French
teacher.
With a deep
passion for writing and music, black music in particular, Ms. Esling discovered
Eminem in 2001 and has been enthusiastic about his career and music ever
since. In 2003 Gavin Sheridan, a
technical writer and professional blogger offered Ms. Esling a position as a
contributing writer for his blog.
In 2005
with Gavins help Ms. Esling started the Eminem blog, www.theeminemblog.com/
where she
has internationally discussed and written about Eminem, the Detroit Rap Scene
and other Hip Hop related subjects.
Isabelle Esling has interviewed many important Detroit artists such as
Dina Rae, DJ Butter, Big Proof of D12 and many others. The Eminem Blog has gained her a worldwide
audience of readers and she has contributed to numerous Hip Hop websites such
as Music Mouth UK, Detroit Rap.com, Michigan Bands and D Townie. In 2011 Ms. Esling
was signed to Amber Communications Group, Inc.
Ms.
Esling's challenge was to get to the essence of the Detroit ghetto and its
rappers, so that she could find the real character of Marshall Mathers
III. That meant interviewing, sometimes
arguing, perhaps disagreeing and spending countless hours with the people who
Eminem grew up with and encountered on his way to the undisputed throne of rap.
Isabelle
Esling was born in Saint Avold, a little French town near the German
border. She currently resides in London,
England and can be reached for interviews at mathildeesling@yahoo.com .
http://31third.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/music-reviews-by-isabelle-esling.html www.theeminemblog.com/
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ESLING
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