Eminem

He also had a few major hit singles and albums as part of D12. Overall, Front 242's new work continues to reveal new ideas in music to fellow musicians and fans alike. He recently produced 2Pac's fifth posthumous album, Loyal to the Game. Meanwhile their enthusiasm for side projects has continued, as Patrick Codenys started appearing with a new group called Red Sniper, Bresanutti started recording with a new group called Troisseure, and Codenys and Richard 23 formed a quasi-DJ project called Coder23 which is touring in late 2004 and early 2005 as the opening act for VNV Nation. Furthermore, his own records increasingly contain tracks produced by himself. They have also recently issued another re-release of their first album "Geography" on Alfa-Matrix, this time newly remastered personally by Bresanutti to surprisingly powerful effect, and with extra tracks and a second disc filled with very early material that had never before been released. Besides D12's two albums, Devil's Night and D12 World, he also produced Obie Trice's Cheers as well as 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'. They have made occasional appearances in Latin America and Europe, even being rejoined by Dirk Bergen for a reunion concert in Aarschot in 2004 under the original lineup of Bresanutti, Bergen, Codenys and De Meyer (kept secret until two days before the show).

Eminem is also active as a producer of rap records. tour showcasing the new material from "Still and Raw" and "Pulse", originally indicating that it would take place in autumn 2004, though that has been pushed back. He also owns a clothing line called "Shady Ltd." and runs the music label Shady Records with signed artists including 50 Cent, D12, DJ Green Lantern, Stat Quo, and Obie Trice. Front 242 also promised a new U.S. Eminem signed a deal with Sirius satellite radio to program a hip-hop oriented station called Shade 45, which debuted on October 28, 2004. The new releases also feature a much more emotional style from De Meyer than his previous Front 242 work, but which was presaged in his later recordings with C-Tec and particularly Cobalt 60 on its album "Twelve". He has also lent his voice to the Crank Yankers show and a web cartoon called "The Slim Shady Show", which has since been pulled offline and is instead sold on DVD. The style of the two new releases tends to be a little more mellow than some of their past work, and makes revelatory use of glitchy and bleepy notes, while it also introduces a whole new level of manipulating De Meyer's vocals to achieve novel effects of the human voice as musical instrument.

He recorded several new songs for the soundtrack, including "Lose Yourself," which won Eminem an Academy Award for Best Song. These represented another iteration of Front 242's explicitly stated goal of reinventing itself on almost every new album, as it has done through its history. Eminem made his Hollywood acting debut with the semi-autobiographical 8 Mile, released in November 2002. "Still and Raw" and the album "Pulse", released on XIIIBis Records in Europe and Metropolis in the U.S. On October 31, Eminem performed the song on Saturday Night Live, but some thought that he appeared to be lip-synching it. Then, 2002 and 2003 also saw the release of the long-awaited first new material from Front 242 proper in a decade: the E.P. After Bush won the election, the video's ending was changed to Eminem and the rioters invading while Bush was giving a speech. In 2002 and 2003, Morf released an album, an E.P., a double album, and a DVD/CD two-disc combo, on the Belgian record label Alfa-Matrix, and went on tour through the U.S.

However, once the army breaks in, it is revealed that they are there to simply register to vote, and the video ends with the words "VOTE Tuesday November 2" on the screen. Morf, a new guise for Bresanutti and Codenys along with vocalist Elko Blijweert. The video features Eminem gathering up an army of people presented as victims of the Bush administration and leading them to the White House. Within three months of "Speed Tribe" was the first release from Male or Female, a.k.a. The song features a very strong anti-Bush message, with lyrics such as "fuck Bush" and "this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president". The DVD was a collaboration with experimental documentary filmmakers Rod Chong and Sharon Matarazzo filming the 2001 24 Hour Le Mans, in which the racecars, clouds, rain and spectators are all used as impressionist elements of a visual backdrop for the music. presidential election, 2004, Eminem released the video for his song titled "Mosh" on the Internet. This began in August 2002 with the release of a DVD/CD two-disc set called "Speed Tribe", released by Dance.com.

On October 26, 2004 a week before the U.S. Then 2002 saw the beginning of a wave of new material from Bresanutti and Codenys, and then of Front 242 itself. So the irony of this situation with Michael is not lost on me.". However, they once again seemed to become only minimally active after 1998, making occasional appearances in Europe and Mexico, while Codenys recorded under the name Gaiden with Steve Stoll in 2001. On Jackson's protest, Yankovic himself told the Chicago Sun-Times, "Last year, Eminem forced me to halt production on the video for my 'Lose Yourself' parody because he somehow thought that it would be harmful to his image or career. Front 242 also indicated at this time that they were recording new material. Others dismissed "Just Lose It" as a tame Weird Al Yankovic-style knockoff [4] (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15126,00.html). with Metropolis Records.

[3] (http://www.sohh.com/thewire/read.php?contentID=6321). The new tour material was the subject of Front 242's new recording contract in the U.S. [2] (http://www.mtv.com/onair/trl/top10/) The Source magazine, through its CEO Raymond "Benzino" Scott, wanted not only the video pulled, but the song off the album, and a public apology to Jackson from Eminem. They acknowledged the influence of Prodigy and their "Fat of the Land" album in crafting the new, more techno style of Re:Boot. MTV, however, announced it would continue airing the video and "Just Lose It" became the number-one requested video on Total Request Live for the week ending October 22. The four core members of Front 242 regrouped in 1998 to compose radically reworked versions of many of their songs, which they then performed on their first tour in five years, appropriately called the Re:Boot tour. Black Entertainment Television was the first channel to stop airing the video. Meanwhile, Richard 23 recorded with the groups Holy Gang and later LeTschak.

We want the pass back." [1] (http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=3606). This was the start of a number of releases from Cobalt 60. Harvey himself declared, "Eminem has lost his ghetto pass. Dominique Lallement and Frederic Sebastien of Reims, France. In the video, Eminem also parodied Pee Wee Herman, MC Hammer, and a Blonde-Ambition-touring Madonna. 1996 also saw the debut album "Elemental" from Cobalt 60, which De Meyer formed with the members of Kriegbereit, i.e. The lyrics to "Just Lose It" also refer to Jackson's troubles. De Meyer also took over as vocalist for Birmingham 6 for their 1996 album "Error of Judgment".

On October 12, 2004, a week after the release of "Just Lose It," Eminem's first video and single off Encore, Michael Jackson called into the Los Angeles-based Steve Harvey radio show to report his displeasure with the video, which parodies Jackson's child-molestation accusations, his rhinoplasty, and an incident in which Jackson's hair caught on fire while he was filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984. After the departure of Sharp and the demise of the Cyber-Tec label, the remaining group continued working under the name C-Tec. The video contained various parodies, including that of the Janet Jackson 'incident', and of 50 Cent's "In Da Club" video. In 1995, De Meyer met Marc Heal of Cubanate at a Front Line Assembly concert, and the two of them collaborated along with Ged Denton and Jonathan Sharp, to record as Cyber-Tec Project for the new (and short-lived) Cyber-Tec record label. The controversial song was the band's sarcastic response to the media's frequent portrayal of D12 as Eminem's band, giving little to no credit to its other members. Earlier, Richard 23 had a side project as a member of Revolting Cocks, and De Meyer had a side project doing vocals for Bigod 20 for their debut single, "The Bog" in 1990. Then, in 2004, Eminem made the video "My Band" with D12. However, this period also saw a proliferation of side projects, an inordinate number of which involved De Meyer.

The lyrics in question: Fuck money/I don't rap for dead presidents/ I'd rather see the president dead/ It's never been said, but I set precedents. To the disappointment of many, the years following 06:21:03:11 Up Evil and 05:22:09:12 Off would be bereft of new material from Front 242 under any lineup, filled instead with a stream of live recordings and remixes. On December 8, 2003, the United States Secret Service admitted it was "looking into" allegations that Mathers had threatened the President of the United States after the unreleased song "We as Americans" leaked onto the Internet. commercials for the film "K2" were set to the Front 242 song "Moldavia", also from the album "Tyranny >For You<", although there was no Front 242 in the film itself. Mathers reportedly made the recording after breaking up with his black girlfriend. Also in 1992, the T.V. The 1988 cassette featured a younger Mathers performing a freestyle rap in which he made disparaging remarks about black women, calling them "stupid" in comparison to white women. is playing the Front 242 video for "Tragedy >For You<" from the album "Tyranny >For You<".

On November 19th, 2003 new controversy surrounded Eminem when a cassette tape was played during a press conference held by The Source magazine. to drown out the sound of Fonda calling for help; the T.V. It featured the single "Without Me", an apparent sequel to "The Real Slim Shady" in which he makes derogatory comments about boy bands, Moby, and Lynne Cheney, among others. A broader segment of the non-industrial-music-loving public was exposed to Front 242 in 1992 in the film "Single White Female" starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, when evil roommate Leigh ties up good roommate Fonda to a chair, and then turns the volume way up on the T.V. Eminem's third major album, The Eminem Show was released in summer 2002. 99 Kowalski is the assumed name of Kristin Kowalski, making a tradition out of Richard 23's idea of number-as-name. Another song, "Blow My Buzz", was on the soundtrack for the film The Wash (2001), in which Eminem had a cameo. On the other hand, a variety of new contributors were listed as members of Front 242 on these albums: Jean-Marc Pauly and Pierre Pauly on Up Evil, and 99 Kowalski and Eran Westwood on Off.

The album contained the single "Purple Pills". Neither of these albums had significant input from Richard 23, and 05:22:09:12 OFF only intermittently included their lead vocalist, Jean-Luc De Meyer. The album was certified multi-platinum. (The numbers correspond to letters, spelling "FUCK UP EVIL" and "EVIL OFF".) However at this point there were strains emerging, with the band members apparently having different artistic views about how to progress. As one of six members of the rap group D12, Eminem appeared on the album Devil's Night, released in 2001. 06:21:03:11 UP EVIL and 05:22:09:12 OFF were brilliant releases musically and once again showed that Front 242 did not need to follow existing trends to stay fresh and original, even using a female vocalist. Eminem himself has written a book called Angry Blonde (2001), where he reveals the emotions and intent behind the lyrics in the Marshall Mathers LP, and describes his passion and approach to rapping. Front 242's style shifted abruptly with each of their next two albums, released in rapid succession in 1993 (originally planned as a double-CD).

Since Eminem's rapid ascent to fame, tell-all biographies of varying quality have been published, including Shady Bizzness by his former bodyguard Byron Williams. This is the only known solo work from any of Front 242's members. Though shocking a lot of people, this gesture failed to appease all of his critics. Bresanutti also composed a solo half-hour atmospheric recording called Art and Strategy (or The Art Corporation) to play during viewings of the lithographs, and released this in a limited edition of 1,000 CD's. Though Mathers had always claimed that his lyrics were not meant to be taken seriously, and that he had nothing against homosexuals or women, the gay rights group GLAAD organized a boycott of the Grammys against Eminem. Mathers responded to this by singing "Stan" on-stage with openly-gay singer Elton John, ending the performance by hugging John to show that he didn't have anything against homosexuals. 1992 saw Bresanutti return his focus on combining graphic arts with music, with a tour of his lithographs to three U.S. galleries. With the enormous popularity of Eminem's second album, the controversy surrounding Eminem grew even larger, especially when The Marshall Mathers LP was nominated for a Grammy for Album of the Year. Sony/Epic also issued re-released versions of Front 242's five earlier albums, with several E.P.'s and singles consolidated as extra tracks on the albums.

In the third single, "Stan" (which samples Dido's "Thank You"), Eminem attempts to deal with his new fame status, telling the story of a fan so obsessed with him that he winds up killing himself and his pregnant girlfriend, mirroring one of the songs on The Slim Shady LP. Tyranny was also the first album they released under contract with a major corporate label, Sony/Epic, after the widespread popularity of "Front by Front". In the song, Eminem claims, among other things, that Christina Aguilera gave "head" (oral sex) to Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit) and Carson Daly (of MTV's Total Request Live). This album, like Front By Front was a huge success and it seemed as if the Frontmen could just go from strength to strength. The first single released from the album, "The Real Slim Shady", created some buzz by trash-talking celebrities and spilling dubious gossip about them. Tyranny >For You<, released in 1991, brought the world a much denser, multi-layered sound which would push them straight into the 1990s. The Marshall Mathers LP was released in May 2000, quickly selling 2 million copies. With the turn of the decade the band went through many changes.

Dre encouraging a man to murder his wife and her lover. They're too stupid!". Another song, "Guilty Conscience" ends with Eminem and Dr. In fact the complete opposite is true, with them famously saying that "Neo-nazis couldn't make the music we do. In "97 Bonnie and Clyde", Eminem describes a trip with his infant daughter, disposing of the bodies of his wife, her lover and his son. Possibly due to this rather in-your-face approach, they have often been falsely accused of being neo-nazis or extreme right-wing. With the album's enormous popularity came controversy surrounding many of the album's lyrics. As they put it, they were merely presenting the world around them as it was.

Once he joined Interscope, Eminem released The Slim Shady LP, which went on to be one of the most popular records of the year, going triple platinum. They would use militaristic samples, preachers and the TV as a source for inspiration, but refused to admit to having any message. Dre agreed to sign him. During these releases Front 242 also presented a style and imagery which was political in a decidedly apolitical style. Otherwize at the 1997 Rap Olympics MC battle, Dr. "Headhunter" is possibly one of the most popularly played and remixed songs of the entire genre. Though this did not directly lead to a recording contract, once Eminem won second place vs. By this point, Front 242 had developed a style of strong backbeats, slices, samples, and ominous vocals.

Dre found Eminem's demo on the garage floor of Jimmy Iovine, the Interscope label chief. Their popularity would reach even higher with the 1988 "Headhunter" single and video by Anton Corbijn, and its accompanying album Front By Front. It is said that Dr. The 1985 album BackCatalogue collected material from the group's earlier years, but their international breakthrough didn't occur until the release of Official Version in 1987, on the Red Rhino Europe label, followed by their "Official Warfare" tour in support of the album. Some people called him rap's "great white hope". This tour led to the creation of Revolting Cocks by Richard 23, Alain Jourgensen of Ministry and others. He became famous in the hip-hop underground because of his distinctive, cartoonish style and the fact that he is white (a rarity in all rap, especially mainstream gangsta rap). Front 242 signed with the legendary Wax Trax label in 1984, and started their first tour in the United States with Ministry.

In 1996, he released his first independent album, named Infinite, following it up with The Slim Shady EP in 1997. Front 242 was becoming the most popular musical group in Belgium; their next album, No Comment would cement the group's place in electronic music, and was the first to introduce the term "Electronic Body Music" in association with their sound. His wife Kim gave birth to his daughter, Hailie Jade, on 25 December 1995. Jonkheere was usually referred to by the name Richard 23. Interested in rap from a young age, Mathers began performing as early as thirteen, later gaining some popularity with a group, Soul Intent. In 1983, Dirk Bergen left the band to pursue graphic design full time, and Richard Jonckheere was admitted to the group as a loosely backing vocalist and charismatic stage presence. Mathers was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri and spent most of his childhood moving back and forth between Saint Joseph and suburban Detroit, Michigan. These first releases, while cited as influential by a number of other artists in the genre, were not as characteristically strong and hard-hitting as the group's later efforts.

He is also infamous for the controversy surrounding many of his lyrics, which are said by critics to be homophobic, misogynistic and excessively violent. Their next single, U-Men, would be released in 1982, followed by the band's first album Geography in 1983. He is perhaps best known for being one of the few successful white rappers in the industry, not to mention one of the most critically acclaimed. They also decided during this formative period never to use the regular waveform settings on their synthesizers, saying instead that creating the waveform itself for each note was part of the creative process. Eminem is the stage name of Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), one of today's most controversial and popular hip hop musicians. De Meyer also came to write almost all of the lyrics. 2'. Bresanutti, Codenys and De Meyer all took turns on vocals at first, until they settled on De Meyer as the lead vocalist; only recently have early recordings with Bresanutti on vocals been widely released.

He has been recognized as a huge influence on the music industry, and there has been two songs written about him by Christian rapper KJ-52, called 'Dear Slim' and 'Dear Slim Pt. Contact between Bresanutti and Codenys led the two duos to join together in 1982. The backwards-E has become a logo for him, appearing prominently in his videos and stage set. Codenys said his father received a lottery winning and shared enough of it with him so that he could buy a car, but he bought his first synthesizer instead. The second E in his stage name is always shown reversed on his records since his second album "The Marshall Mathers LP". Patrick Codenys and Jean-Luc De Meyer had separately formed a group called Under Viewer at about the same time. Eminem is a fan of fast food chain Taco Bell & Wendy's and frequently eats there while on tour and at home with his daughter and niece. The first single to be released was Principles, late in that year.

His performance of "The Real Slim Shady" and "The Way I Am" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards while leading a procession of Eminem-lookalikes from the street outside up to the stage, is regarded as one of the best performances on the VMA's. They were interested in creating both music and graphic design using emerging electronic tools, and reportedly decided on changing their name to Front 242 because the name had greater potential as a subject of graphic design. 2004 "Mockingbird" #1 US. Front 242 was created in 1981 in Aarschot, Belgium by Daniel Bresanutti and Dirk Bergen, who originally went by the name Prothese. 2004 "Like Toy Soldiers" #1 US; #1 UK #1 EU; #1 GER. It is perhaps no coincidence that Varese's great mark on the music world took place at the 1958 World Fair in Brussels, where Front 242 would work a few decades later. 2004 "Encore" #25 US. Going back earlier, these innovations can be seen as an extension of the work of Edgard Varese, the first significant composer to adopt electronic sources of sound as musical instruments, and who also used overwhelming percussion including with found objects.

2004 "Just Lose It" #1 US; #1 UK; #1 GER; #1 EU. The origin of Front 242 should be understood within the rise of industrial music, which originated in England in 1975 with the first performances of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. These revolutionary groups introduced elements of style later taken up by Front 242 such as electronic instrumentation, overwhelming percussion often with found objects, and looped samples of found soundbytes. 2003 "Business" #6 UK; #15 GER. Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. During their most active period (effectively ending in 1993 with the albums 06:21:03:11 UP EVIL and 05:22:09:12 OFF) they were influential to a number of other industrial and electronic artists, coining the term electronic body music (EBM) to describe their music. 2003 "Superman" #15 US. Coder 23 - Patrick Codenys, Richard 23. 2003 "Sing for the Moment" #8 US; #6 UK; #7 GER. Troissoeur - Daniel Bressanutti.

2002 "Lose Yourself" #1 US; #1 UK; #1 GER. Red Sniper - Patrick Codenys. 2002 "Cleanin' out My Closet" #4 US; #4 UK; #1 GER. Male or Female - Daniel Bressanutti, Patrick Codenys. 2002 "Without Me" #1 US; #1 UK. Gaiden - Patrick Codenys. Dido) #1 US; #1 UK; #1 GER. LaTchak - Richard 23.

2000 "Stan" (feat. Grisha Zeme - Daniel Bressanutti, Patrick Codenys. 2000 "The Way I Am" #58 US, #8 UK. Cobalt 60 - Jean-Luc De Meyer. 2000 "The Real Slim Shady" #4 US; #1 UK; #1 EU; #1 GE. C-Tec - Jean-Luc De Meyer. Eminem) #21 US; #7 UK. Cyber-Tec Project - Jean-Luc De Meyer.

Dre feat. Holy Gang - Richard 23. 2000 "Forgot about Dre" (Dr. The Art Corporation - Daniel Bressanutti. Dre) #5 UK. Birmingham 6 - Jean-Luc De Meyer. Dr. Bigod 20 - Jean-Luc De Meyer.

1999 "Guilty Conscience" (feat. Revolting Cocks - Richard 23. 1999 "My Name Is..." #1 US; #2 UK. Under Viewer - Patrick Codenys, Jean-Luc De Meyer. Encore (2004) #1 US (4x Platinum); #1 UK. Prothese - Daniel Bressanutti, Dirk Bergen. 8 Mile Soundtrack (2002) #1 US (2x Platinum). Still and Raw (e.p., 2003).

The Eminem Show (2002) #1 US (8X Platinum); #1 UK. Religion (e.p., 1993). The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) #1 US (9X Platinum); #1 UK. Angels Versus Animals (e.p., 1993). The Slim Shady LP (1999) #2 US (4X Platinum); #12 UK. Animal (single, 1993). The Slim Shady EP (1997). Mixed By Fear (e.p., 1991).

Infinite (1996). Rhythm of Time (single, 1991). Mockingbird. Tragedy (For You) (single, 1990). Like Toy Soldiers (samples "Toy Soldiers" by Martika). Never Stop! (e.p., 1989). Mosh. Headhunter (single, 1988).

Just Lose It. Masterhit (single, 1987). Encore: