# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esham
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:32:00.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esham"
name: "Esham"
slug: "esham"
description: "Esham Attica Smith, known mononymously as Esham, is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. Emerging as one of the first ever hip hop artists from Detroit, Esham released his debut studio album, Boomin' Words from Hell, in 1989 at the age of 16. Since then, he has gone on to release 21 full-length studio albums in total and is best known as a representative of the hip hop subgenre horrorcore. In 1992, he co-founded the horrorcore group Natas. He and his brother James Smith founded and ran the Detroit hip hop label Reel Life Productions."
tagline: "American rapper"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1973-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.78
  momentum:             0.5681084570690769
  historical:           12.38453066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/gothominc"
    handle:    "gothominc"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/eshamacidrap"
    handle:    "eshamacidrap"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1822570/"
    handle:    "nm1822570"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.acidrap.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/261609"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "اشام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esham"
    title: "Esham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/25bac939-a1ad-406f-9e00-584afd47dbfe"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1238828"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/87270"
    title: "Faith Esham"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump