Eminem is looking for something beautiful

His real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers. But you know him as Eminem , a name he got by putting together the first letters of his first and last names, M and M. The 36-year-old rapper, record producer and actor started rapping when he was a teen living in Detroit in the US state of Michigan. He released his first big album, The Slim Shady LP, in 1999 and sold more than 75 million albums in the last ten years. Eminem’s sixth album, Relapse, was released last May and sold more than a million copies in its first week.

"Beautiful", from Relapse

If I could just get over this hump
But I need something to pull me out of this dump…
I may be done with rap…
I just hide behind the tears of a clown

If someone says they’re feeling down in the dumps, it means they’re feeling sad. Eminem is feeling so sad that he’s not sure if he wants to continue making music or not. He feels like a clown hiding behind their make-up so nobody sees how they really feel. Eminem has spent ten years making his fans happy. Maybe it’s time for him to make himself happy now instead.