At home, on the streets, and in rock and roll history, Eminem started off as the outsider: the kid on welfare who moved from home to home; the victim of bullying who survived a brain haemorrhage; the white rapper trying to make it as a legitimate hip-hop act when there had been no precedent. The odds were stacked wholly against him, and yet he made it through a sheer force of will and the power of his unique artistic vision. 

The outsider became the insider as Eminem turned a lifetime’s worth of pain and anger into great art. His monstrous side became the cheeky alter-ego ‘Slim Shady’, his lyrics reflected on the tumult of his life in a style that some called Shakespearean. In fact, he changed the face of pop music (and music video) in the process. Through his decade-plus career, he has gone from being the exception to the rule to tearing up the rulebook completely.

The illustrated ebook, Eminem, Survivor tells his compelling, utterly unique tale; how he threaded all his issues into his boundary-pushing music; through his increasingly inventive music videos, his deeply autobiographical (and acclaimed) performance in 8 Mile, along with his lyrics which poked a much-needed finger of fun at the world of celebrity. The book provides an enthralling overview of his career via bite-sized chunks of text and career-defining pictures. ‘Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?’ Eminem once asked rhetorically. Well, you’ll find him here in the pages of this book.  

Inside Pages

Eminem: Survivor, a celebration of the skill and grit of one man, is packed with stunning photographs and design. Here are a couple of examples of how it looks on an iPad: