Q 01/05
A) Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr.
B) Marshall Bruce Mathers III
C) Curtis James Jackson III
D) Marshall Wayne Mathers
Answer · why
His stage name grew out of 'M&M', the tag he used when he began rapping at 14 with schoolfriend Mike Ruby.
Q 02/05
A) Kansas City
B) Springfield
C) Columbia
D) St. Joseph
Answer · why
He and his mother moved constantly before settling in Detroit when he was 12.
Q 03/05
A) 12
B) 14
C) 16
D) 18
Answer · why
They lived in a working-class, mostly Black neighbourhood, and he snuck into Osborn High School for lunchroom rap battles with Proof.
Q 04/05
A) Lincoln
B) Osborn
C) Cass Tech
D) Warren Central
Answer · why
He then worked jobs including one at a Little Caesar's Pizza in Warren to help his mother pay the bills.
Q 05/05
A) The Slim Shady EP
B) Soul Intent
C) Devil's Night
D) Infinite
Answer · why
By his own account it sold about 70 of the roughly 1,000 copies pressed; DJs told him to try rock and roll instead.
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