After more than a decade in the game Eminem endures as one of the most popular celebrities. The worlds most successful rapper continues to break records in the modern era recently reinventing himself after a drug overdose to hold his own against viral sensations like Lady Gaga & Justin Bieber. Controversy is one quality that Marshall Mathers III has never failed to deliver in spades. From his fledgling rhymes with New Jacks & D-12 through to Billboard chart-busting epics like My Name Is" " The Way I Am" & " Stan" his body of recorded work has been an exercise in lyrical genius satirical wit & enjoyably gratuitous offensiveness. This book examines for the first time the entire oeuvre of the immensely gifted poet & street culture purveyor that is Eminem. This is the definitive critical study of the man dubbed by Newsweek as "the most compelling figure in all of pop music": its a quest for the visceral troubled raison detre of Eminem."