"Shut up bitch, I'm trying to talk": Eminem as a Misogynist

I have decided to address women-hatred (misogyny) within Eminem's music and lifestyle. Eminem is the rap artist most often attacked for his lyrical puns against females. However, I do not think that Eminem is specifically to blame for his expressions of misogyny. The rapper is simply aligning himself along the one of the general conventions of hip-hop music: the degradation of women.

Three questions I want to address in my scholarly analysis include:

1. From where did the male degradation of women stem from in hip-hop culture?
2. Is Eminem being "white" one of the reasons why he is attacked for his misogynistic lyrics more often than other rap/hip-hop artists? If so, why is it that the degradation of women in white culture receives a different response from society than the degradation of women in black or hispanic culture?
3. How is Eminem's past relationships with women reflected in his music? (More specifically, look into the track "Cleaning Out My Closet" where Eminem raps about burying his own mother, and "Kim" where he lyrically illustrates the killing of his wife.)

I have found several articles on the JSTOR database that go into depth about Black culture and the degradation of women (I can tie this into the fact that rap/hip-hop is a predominantly African American art form). I also know of a study that decodes Eminem's lyrics and records the amount of references Eminem has made against specific women or females in general.