Sweethearts since high school, things quickly soured for Eminem and Kim Mathers after they married in 1999. The next year, the rapper included the tune “Kim” on his Marshall Mathers EP – and it was certainly no love song. After accusing her of cheating on him, the lyrics depict Em choking Kim to death (“B---h bleed! B---h bleed!” he yells on the track) and then driving back home to their daughter Hailie Jade with her dead body in his trunk. (Kim ...
It’s safe to say Eminem was no mama’s boy. Although Debbie Nelson raised her son as a single mother, the rapper has had very little respect for her. In his 1999 hit single, "My Name Is," he rapped, "I just found out my mom does more dope than I do." (She sued him for $10 million for the slam, but only got $1,600 after settling and lawyer's fees.) Em really pushed the envelope with his 2000 song, “Kill You,” in which he spoke about raping and ..
Even the King of Pop was not immune to Eminem’s anger. In his 2004 song, “Just Lose It,” he rapped about Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial (“I done touched on everything but little boys”) and took it a step further when he mocked the case (and MJ’s 1984 Pepsi commercial in which he caught on fire) in the accompanying music video. The “Bad” singer called the jab “insensitive and disrespectful” and said it was offensive to both him and his ..
In Em’s defense, Will Smith started it. In 1999, the rapper-turned-actor’s song “Miami” beat Eminem’s “My Name Is” at the VMAs, and in his acceptance speech, Smith noted that he didn’t need to use foul language on his records in order to sell them, which Em took as a swipe. On his 2000 track, “The Real Slim Shady,” he retorted, “Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records/well I do, so f--k him and f--k you too." Five years later,...
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