Marshall Mathers was still going by MC Double M in 1991. That was the year Nathan Feuerstein was born into a broken home in the small town of Gladwin, Michigan—about 150 miles north of Detroit. But by the time Feuerstein was a pre-teen, Mathers had firmly cemented his fast-rapping, maniacal alter-ego, Eminem. Slim Shady was a huge influence on the younger Michigander, who is now better known by his stage name NF. Like Eminiem, NF spits at a breakneck clip and uses his music to vent about his own psychological and physical traumas. NF dropped his fourth full-length album, The Search, in June.
NF
Sat, 8pm, $43+
San Jose Civic
