What influenced Eminem to become a rapper?

Similar reasons why other rappers chose to rap, a stress reliver a way to open up and talk about the life they went through or have been through.

*Lil Rob has been through a lot in his life he was a member of the Surenos gang, grew up on the streets of Los Angeles & did what he had to do to survive he's realer than a lot of these rappers nowdays.