Eminem famously came up in the battle rap circuit before signing to Interscope under Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment imprint.
In a recent appearance on Mike Tyson’s Hot Boxin podcast, the Detroit rapper recalled being evicted the day before his second-place finish at the ‘97 Rap Olympics in LA, which indirectly helped him get signed.
After discussing his early days battling at Detroit’s Hip Hop Shop, Em spoke about placing second at the ‘97 Scribble Jam in Cincinnati to a rapper named Juice.
His next big competition took place at the Rap Olympics in LA, but he ran into some major obstacles before he even got there: I had just got evicted from my house, had to break in through the back of my house.
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