How a 1975 Soul Deep Cut Launched the Career of a Future ‘Rap God’ Two Decades Later
In the very late 90s, a new rapper emerged, completely reinventing the game. Though he wasn’t the first white rapper to break into the mainstream, as Vanilla Ice had in 1990, he became the most prominent to do so. In 1997, an unknown rapper named Marshall Mathers, under the stage name Eminem, entered the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles. The winner took home $500, plus a new Rolex watch. […]