Guys while I was doing some research for our video was planning to do for my new series
I found it something quite staggering this morning Eminem is
Scottish
Hello guys welcome to my brand new series here on YouTube Scottish stories
I have been thinking about doing this series for quite a very long time the cause of a number of reasons
First of all I'm Scottish, and I've got a lot to talk about I love Scotland
And I think it is so great to see lost people from around the world here on YouTube wanting to know more about Scotland
There's not enough information out there
Topics covered on this series will be wide and vast and will be open to you guys as well
So any suggestions you have for the series, please do let me know and of course as a very crude background I
selotaped a Scottish flag to my wall which alright or donna another reason?
I'm getting into the series as well is because I took a trip to America recently
I was on a trip of the us embassy in London
And it was a trip called exploring American values and one of the biggest things
I took away from that trip was the fact that so many americans that I met when I was over there had scottish
Ancestry and Scottish roots so many people were interested in the fact that I was scottish you wanted to know more about me
Where I came from so that they could kind of patch together their history with me some weird connection
I didn't realize that so many Americans have Scottish Cultural heritage roots
Family ties it is amazing to hear that so through the series
I want to talk more about the culture, and hopefully we can tie some loose ends together, so
Through the subject matter as I say I was doing some exploration on Scottish and American ties and I came across something
Really back to them which peaked my interest
By the eminem the legendary rapper from America is actually Scottish he will forever be a legend in my heart
Because of how I grew up when I was a teenager in Scotland growing up, not quite a rough neighbourhood
He was the first person. I really looked up to as an artist
I thought wow this guy is intelligent smart genius and he gets us and I just absolutely love them. I'm not kidding you I was
that flag just fall?
Think they thought he was a hero to me is huge a lot of the kids where I grew up as well
We knew every single lyric to every single one of his songs and it doesn't matter what he does in the future
He might never produce another record
He might never do in any good music again and indeed a lot of his last
Pieces haven't not great and a lot of quick opinion and myself included you know aisle eight the jealous stuff
But it does even matter because the stuff we put out in the beginning was just so good
He will forever be a legend. I was an obsessive family as a teenager of mmm. I'm not even kidding you
I shaved my head and when my hair grew back just enough
I dyed it with peroxide bleach blonde to look exactly like Eminem with the real slim shady please stand up
I really wish to find the photographs because there exists a whole graph somewhere of me with that side blonde peroxide mmM hair
But I do have some photos from my youth and I know that I look considerably more handsome right now
I once look like this and a lot of people that make the comparison at the time that I look like Eminem quite
Interesting fact considering what I'm about to tell you as soon as I found this little snippet of information Eminem was scottish
Quite Scottish ancestry at very least I have to dig in to further and find out more
I cannot take any of the credit for this information in research. This is all stuff. I found though
Thanks to some other people who have done the groundwork years ago
Actually there is a film company from the north of scotland called move on up, and they made a film called
Eminem's celtic connections
and the stories surrounding that
Film release which made it a lot of national newspapers explained is
What I am now looking at those the Eminem is from Detroit and America
And if you look back through his generations of people and his family line it gets really interesting
But the first thing that actually should be a giant giveaway before anything else is the fact that his name is Marshall Mathers
mathers the second name actually comes directly from Scotland a lot of people in North America can obviously trace the roots back to Scotland and
It's through their surnames you look for America, and you just see the amount of surnames that are actually there derived from Scotland
So on Eminem's father side there is a man called Peter mathers he was from Pennsylvania
He married a scottish woman, and then you have Ilsa McAllister
she was born in 1847 in Edinburgh my
Hometown my home state and she was in that direct line of descendants from eminem as well, 1847 has a long way back
Don't get me wrong perhaps. There is some kind of
Logic in the fact that mae images. Maybe we have some kind of similar bloodline he had relatives from Edinburgh in 1847
I mean that certainly whistles it down from the billions of people that exist on our to actually being from the same city
What that celtic connections?
Film did we discover the unbought there's mother and father sites here Scottish roots crew his family even though that might be from eighteen hundreds
I was probably the same as most Americans most Americans who have got Scottish background Scottish history scot roots
Trace the Roots quite Far back
It's not a recent thing the scots emigrated to America and 1800s largely and unfortunately I cannot find that movie online anywhere
I would love to watch it
If anybody can find a link or anything like that
Please do let me know because I'd love to see it and find out more about that
But that's so fascinating the program went as far as to get family creeper mmM
And trace it back
And that brings me to the next Scottish Edinburgh connection storytellers and all the performs fascinating to me and of course in Scotland
We have a lot of famous Storytellers Rabbie burns
You know Rabbie burns was the world famous poet he was a genius with his words
Now if Robbie burns was a life today idea see he would be the Modern-day Eminem
There's a definite connection between the likes of Rabbie burns, a famous Scottish Poet
Who shaped poetry are in the world and really put the Scottish language on the world Guide map?
Is something to be respected and cherished and then Eminem who basically brings modern their language and does incredible and genius things with it?
Storytellers report rate rap who that amazing genius things with the languages of the time and
Language like that is so powerful
It will travel through the ages, but I'd love to know what you guys think about that. That is just fascinating
I'd love to know more about your scottish roots if you have any and all that a lot of people here at watching who do
Have Scottish family. It's got his relatives Scottish backgrounds when did your relative emigrate do you know your Scottish family roots let me know
I'm really fascinated by all and it's going to make up a big part of this Scottish stories series
I'm running on my YouTube channel. I would love your participation. So please join in the conversation. That was the first episode
Thank you very much for joining, and have a good day
I'll speech again really soon with another episode and some more daily vlogs from here in brazil. They're coming up shark
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