Complex Magazine's "The State of 15 Rappers' Careers When They Turned 30" EMINEM

-> Year He Turned 30: 2003
-> Number of Albums Released at the Time: 5

Eminem is one of the best-selling artists in music history, and that became wholly apparent as he entered his fourth decade. At 30, Em had just released The Eminem Show, another multi-platinum smash. Mostly produced by him, it showcased him effortlessly balancing Marshall Mathers and Slim Shady with a compelling delivery. The album went on to win him a third Grammy for Best Rap Album.

Outside of music, Eminem was beginning an acting career. But at the same time, he was battling a drugs habit that became uncontrollable. During the filming of8 Mile, his addiction to prescription pills grew. He toldRolling Stone in a 2011 interview, “We were doing 16 hours on the set, and you had a certain window where you had to sleep. One day somebody gave me an Ambien, and it knocked me the fuck out. I was like, 'I need this all the time.'

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Complex Magazine's "The 50 Best Guest Verses of All Time": Eminem

50 Cent says Eminem collaboration is possible and he mentions never-before-released "Relapse 2" songs.

"My favorite music from that period (2009 when Eminem's 'Relapse' was released) was on 'Relapse 2,' but it never came out,"...."He ended up going to 'Recovery' because he didn’t like the response he got from 'Relapse."

"We got probably enough material around that we could probably put out an EP or something like that - me and him did just over the years."

Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP ranks at #6 on Complex Magazine's "The 50 Greatest Sophomore Albums in Hip-Hop History".

A common theme for sophomore albums is to focus on the artist's struggles with the pressures of fame and fortune following their newfound success. For Eminem, this went beyond the standard cliches of paparazzi and groupies—it was him against the world. The focal point is "Stan," the tragic tale of an obsessed fan that is taken to such extremes and so vividly described that it has become forever embedded into pop culture to the point where "Stan" is now a slang term itself.

The intensity of the vocal performances on tracks like "The Way I Am," the dizzying flows of "Criminal," and the disturbingly vivid anger of "Kim" all demonstrate what a powerful lyricist Marshall had developed into since his major label debut (we're ignoring Infinite for the purposes of this list, and we're sure Em wouldn't begrudge the fact). Based on the raw emotion and technique alone, this is Eminem's most complete body of work.

Rap Radar ranks Slaughterhouse's "Welcome to: Our House" at #10 on their list of "2012's 10 Best Albums".

You wanna be one of the illest MCs? Well go out there and prove it. On your own. Then get with 3 other ill MCs and prove it. On y’all own. Then maybe you’ll get signed by one of the greatest MCs. Eminem is all over Slaughterhouse’s Shady debut and he ain’t got no worries. After spitting alongside the crew on the title track, Marshall gets raunchy on “Throw That” and goes crazy on “Asylum”. But it’s Joe Budden, Royce Da 5'9",Joell Ortiz and Crooked I that are still the true stars here. They stomp in on the exciting “Hammer Dance”, shake the woofers on “Get Up” and pour out their souls on the album’s best moment, “Goodbye”. You wanna shine on the mic device? Well there’s strength in numbers, muthafuckas.

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