Eminem FActs(Younger years)

1. Schools that Eminem attended:
2. Dort Elementary School
3. Osborne Junior High School
4. Lincoln High School
5. Eminem dropped out of school after failing 9th grade 3 times, mainly because he skipped school too many times to battle kids on the street corners
6. He wanted to concentrate a lot more on his rap than school
7. Eminem's major influences growing up were his uncle, Ronnie; the Beastie Boys; LL Cool J; 2 Live Crew; Run DMC; and 3rd Bass
8. Eminem fell in love with rap when she 1st heard Ice-T's "Reckless" and started writing rhymes when he was 12 years old
9. Eminem would spend hours at night studying the dictionary so that he could expand his vocabulary for his raps
10. Eminem worked for a factory called Gibbs Machinery when he was 16.  He had a lot of odd jobs (sweeping floors, taking out the trash) and also worked at Little Ceaser's Pizza
11. Eminem was a short-order cook at a restaurant called Gilbert's Lodge in St. Claire Shores, Michigan.  Whenever he had some lyrics he needed to write down, he'd write them on some receipts.  When his friends came to eat, he would also rap things off the menu to them.
12. Eminem was really quiet at school and had a hard time making friends, but started becoming more social in the 8th grade
13. Eminem used to spend his free time watching TV and reading comic books
14. The 4 recorded dates for Eminem getting beat up by D'Angelo Bailey were:
15. October 15, 1981 -- Marshall go beat up, was bruised, got the wind knocked out of him, had nausea, abnormal sleepiness, and had injuries toward is lips and tongue.
16. November 14, 1981 -- Marshall suffered another beating during recess, and had sleeplessness, vomiting, nightmares, and antisocial behavior.
17. December 21, 1981 -- Marshall suffered yet another beating with injuries toward his face, head, back, and legs.
18. January 13, 1982 -- Marshall was intentionally hit with a snowball containing a heavy object, was mainly wounded severely while lying on the ground and eventually went into a coma and an intermittent loss of vision in his right eye and an intermittent loss of hearing.  (this info was based on official legal documents because the Mathers family tried to sue the school board, but lost.)
19. Eminem was 14 when he wrote his first rap song and he wrote it to LL Cool J's "I'm Bad"
20. Eminem says that D'Angelo was the biggest kid in school and he was the smallest.
21. Eminem started walking at 11 months
22. As a young boy, Eminem had a crush on Madonna
23. Eminem failed ninth grade before dropping out in 1989
24. When Eminem was younger, he would often come up with rhymes while trying to fall asleep.  In order to remember them, he used to write them on the wall above his bed in pencil.  Once, while he was truing to rub one of his rhymes off, he accidentally scraped the paint off