Kimberly Mathers, from whom he was divorced for 4 years. According to Eminem, he finally understood what “you need to value in life.” In an interview with a popular Internet portal, he spoke about “true and false values,” plans for the future and his attitude towards family and children.
On January 14, 2005, Marshall Mathers (Eminem's real name) married his high school sweetheart and ex-wife Kimberly. The wedding ceremony took place in Rochester Hills, Michigan, in the presence of closest friends and relatives. From the groom's side, his friends and colleagues 50 Cent, Obie Trice and the lead singer of the group G-Unit were invited. The groom's witness was rapper Proof from the group D12.
A total of 85 people were invited. Eminem’s mother did not come to the wedding, with whom, according to the performer, he “is in a state of endless war.”
"Most happy moment this day (wedding day) - tears of happiness from my baby. She carried a bouquet of flowers for her mother and cried. I will remember this until my death,” Eminem said in a post-wedding interview. Rapper's daughter Hailie Jade Matters turned 10 years old.
The Eminem-Kimberly couple divorced in 2001 after numerous scandals and fights. Eminem was suing his mother at the time and had problems with the law due to drugs. In his songs, he spoke in detail about his problems, blaming his mother and wife for everything.
Eminem and Kimberly have known each other since childhood - they grew up together on the northern outskirts of Detroit and went to the same school, located next to the Nine Mile Highway (an autobiographical film was shot about the rapper's life under the symbolic title "Nine Mile" - author).
They got married in June 1999, then they already had a daughter. One day, Eminem saw Kim kissing another guy in one of the Detroit nightclubs. He started a showdown, threatened her with a pistol, and the police arrested him. That same night Kimberly committed unsuccessful attempt leave this life.
In August 2000, Eminem filed for divorce, but soon withdrew it. The couple decided to give each other one last chance to improve their relationship for the sake of their five-year-old daughter, Highley Jade. Nothing worked out for them, they parted as bitter enemies.
New collection of Eminem's main songs Curtain Call: The Hits in the first week of sales in the United States, it sold a total circulation of 441 thousand copies. The collection was released on December 6, (the name of the album Curtain Call in theater language means “encore” (the audience applauds the actors to come on stage after the end of the performance - author)
A week earlier, a collection Curtain Call: The Hits debuted at the top spot of the official UK charts.
Interview magazine published a conversation between Eminem and Elton John - the artists discussed the album "Revival", Trump's America and the contribution of Dr. Dre in the work of Eminem. Marshall greeted Elton the way one would greet old friends: "Hi, c*** [vagina]."
ABOUT THE NEW ALBUM
I've been working on it more than a year. Natural process: you make songs, and when new ones appear, the previous ones become outdated and go to the trash can. The album is called "Revival". This is a reflection of the state of affairs in my life. Also, I tried to be diverse. Tried to do something for everyone.
ABOUT DRUGS
I haven't used it for nine years. Quitting drugs helped me grow. There is a feeling that all the years of drug addiction I did not develop as a person.
ABOUT WORKING WITH DR. DRE
I learned a lot from Dre. I don’t know if you can call it his “mantra,” but he always believed: if you don’t go anywhere into the shadows, people won’t miss you. And I realized that some people perceive this disappearance as "He's no longer relevant." But for me it’s like this: if I don’t step aside, I’ll get tired of myself. I've never liked being the center of attention all the time.
On one of my first trips to Los Angeles, I met Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. It seemed something wild and unreal. When Dre walked into the room, it was like I started looking at everything from the outside. Everything was going wrong in my life, but Dre rented me an apartment so I could work with him. There was a time when I wrote songs for 48 hours straight and passed out at six in the morning. I wanted to be perfectly prepared for Dre because I thought, "If I'm not prepared for every little thing, this could be the end."
In our first studio session, we recorded three or four songs in six hours. He would turn on the beat - and I had to either rhyme or write lyrics on the spot. From that day on he began to show me what I could really do with my voice. We were recording the song "Role Model" - and he kept making me re-write the line "Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me?" And I repeated it over and over again until I started screaming - and then Dre said, "Yeah, you see. Here it is".
ABOUT THE ARTISTS HE'S LISTENING TO NOW
I listen to everything that comes out. [I like] J. Cole, Travis Scott. Kendrick is amazing. My friend Royce da 5"9"" is incredible. Joyner Lucas is very good. And Tech N9ne.
ABOUT PERFORMANCE AT THE BET CEREMONY
I wrote the text. I was originally supposed to go on stage at the BET ceremony and rap it acapella. I wrote the lyrics in a day, but at the last moment everything went wrong and we shot the video in Detroit. We were trying to play off the cover of Public Enemy's "You"re Gonna Get Yours." I don't know if anyone caught that. What I was most worried about was getting that message across and not forgetting the lyrics. I have trouble learning words. I write all the time something new, so it takes some time to memorize the texts.
ABOUT TRUMP
Our president is concerned about the entire population of the country. He is not a president representing each of us, only individual Americans. And he knows what he's doing. As long as Trump has his base, he doesn't care about all other Americans. But there are more of us here than of them. I still think America is the greatest country to live in. It's my opinion. But we have problems to solve. We must become better.
ABOUT THE CONCERTS
It was difficult before. Early in my career I was gesturing and could perform two or three times a day. It was difficult because it starts to feel like you have no life. But even with that in mind, I enjoy playing gigs.
Eminem's new interviews Lately- a great rarity, and when Elton John personally asks him questions, this is a truly unique case
Eminem's latest album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, was released four years ago - an unaffordable luxury by modern standards. At a time when artists sit for days in in social networks, release gigabytes of content per year and are not shy about any way to remind themselves - be it a photo on Instagram or a contrived conflict with another star - Marshall Matters is increasingly looking like a black sheep in the modern industry.
He lives a quiet life by the standards of an artist of this magnitude, rarely gets into the tabloids, quietly grows his beard and does not like giving interviews on any occasion. But when he really wants to be heard, the whole world listens.
That's what happened this fall, when he performed a furious freestyle against Donald Trump at the BET Awards. Needless to say, within a few hours there were headlines about this in publications around the world - from specialized portals to women's beauty magazines.
This was followed by the announcement of the album and the advertising campaign surrounding it, around which fans managed to build a dozen theories of varying degrees of delusion. Now, when there is about a week left before the release, fans are frozen in anticipation, and others look on in bewilderment and do not understand whether they should hope for anything good.
On the eve of the release of “Revival,” Eminem’s ninth studio album, not just the editor of another magazine spoke to him on the phone, but Elton John personally. Below we present the most interesting points conversations, and with full version can be consulted .
About the new album
I worked on it for over a year. You know, how it usually happens - you write songs, then you make new ones, and the old tracks become irrelevant, and you throw them away. The album is called "Revival" and it is a reflection of my current state. At the same time, I tried to bring variety to my creativity, because I was tired of trying to please everyone a little.
About the song recording process
You can't record a hit every time, so when I work on an album, I make about 50 songs. Each next one should be better than the previous ones. If a new song turns out to be worse, then I leave it for a couple of months, then put it on the back burner, and when I have a new finished song, this one simply doesn’t make it onto the album.
In every song, all the elements have to work together. First of all, you need a cool beat - everything starts with that. Then ideas begin to emerge, you start thinking about rhymes, and only then record the song. Sometimes - and this happens to me quite often - the result does not turn out as good as it was in my head at the time of creation.
About manager Paul Rosenberg as the editor-in-chief of his work
My manager Paul and I have disagreements on every album - sometimes we agree, sometimes we don't. Usually he turns out to be right. But the thing is, it's not easy to take advice when you've spent so much time working on the lyrics and recording the song, choosing the right chorus and beat. You spend a week making everything sound perfect, and then someone just comes along and ruins everything.
Ultimately, Paul turns out to be right. So, when I first played “Not Afraid” for him, it didn’t really resonate with him. A few days later we met again, and he asked: “Do you think the song needs a bridge?” And I answered him: “I knew you would say that.”
About drugs and addiction
I've been clean for nine years now. After getting rid of addiction, I matured. Now it seems to me that all those years that I was using drugs, I did not grow as a person.
About meeting Dr. Dre
I met Dre and Jimmy Iovine at the Interscope office, and at the time I didn’t believe this was happening, it all seemed wildly ridiculous. When Dre walked into the room, it was like my soul was separated from my body. At that time, my life was going downhill, and he moved me into an apartment and paid the rent so that I could write songs with him.
There was a time when I could stay awake for 48 hours and then collapse around six in the morning. I wanted to be prepared for meetings with Dre because I thought, “If I'm not prepared for every little thing, then this could be the end of me.”
About the first experience of working with Dr. Dre
During our first studio session, we did about three or four songs in about six hours. Whatever beat he gave me, I had to either rap to it or write some sketches on the go. From day one he started showing me how I could control my voice and do things with it that I didn't know I could do.
For example, during the creation of the song “Role Model” in the chorus I said “Don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me?”, and he just repeated: “No, let’s do it again. Try again ". I rewrote these lines over and over again until I finally screamed, and only then did he say: “Yes, that’s a different story. Exactly what is needed".
About the best young rappers
I listen to almost everything that comes out now. Some of the guys who are doing really cool stuff include J. Cole, Travis Scott, Kendrick Lamar, Royce da 5’9”, Joyner Lucas and Tech N9ne.
About the provocative diss on Donald Trump
I was really passionate about this idea. I simply wouldn't be able to write it otherwise because I can't fake my emotions. The original plan was for me to freestyle a cappella on stage at the BET Awards. I came home after that and wrote the lyrics that same day, but plans changed at the last minute and we had to film it in Detroit.
We wanted to do a kind of cover of the song " You're Gonna Get Yours» Public Enemy. I don't know if anyone realized this, but that's the feeling we wanted to achieve. my main task was to convey the message and remember all the words. It's difficult for me to remember my lyrics. I'm always writing new songs, so it takes me a while to fully learn each one.
About modern America
We now have a president who doesn't care about all the people in our country. He is the president of only part of the population. And he understands this. As long as he has support, he won't care about others. But I still think America is the best country in the world. It's my opinion. We just have problems that we need to work on to become better.
About concerts
At the beginning of my career, when I was in full-time income mode, I gave two or three concerts a day. It was not easy, because at a certain point you start to feel like you have no personal life. However, I really enjoy the concerts.
It was Dr again. Dre. In fact, he actually gave me a few useful tips. When I first signed with Aftermath, we had a long discussion about my desire to work with D12 and how to give them the push they needed. Then Dre said, “You should build your own house before you invite your friends in,” and it made so much sense. Looking back, we did the right thing because we ended up with Shady Records and were able to sign them to it.
I also remember one piece of advice that Rick Rubin gave me. We were talking about the song or something and he said, “I don’t think I’m smart enough to know for sure what people will think. So I only do what feels right to me.”
Eminem's album "Revival", which featured Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and others, will be released on December 17th. In the meantime, the official one is available
Rapper Eminem is not going to leave his personal life in the past. He spoke about this in a new interview for Valture magazine. It turns out that the rap titan uses the most simple methods for meeting girls.
After his divorce from Kim Scott, the singer’s personal life did not work out. "It's complicated. After the divorce, I only had a couple of dates and nothing came of it, because I wanted to do it publicly,” says Eminem. “Dating is not where I see myself right now.”
It turns out that the famous star prefers the most simple ways dating that most people use. The musician uses the Tinder program. “And Grindr,” Eminem joked about the male-to-male dating network.
But don’t think that such a star is looking for a girl online. Eminem admitted that he went to strip clubs. The musician admits that he met some girls and found such places interesting.
In his early lyrics, Eminem was not shy about speaking in a misogynistic tone. There were even references to Scott's death in some songs. Now he explains this by the fact that the old days demanded from him catchy and scandalous texts that would be interesting to the public. “I had experiences with women that I was so furious about and wrote about it in my lyrics,” Eminem says now. The rapper explained the lyrics by saying that in order to perform in public at that time, emu had to write screaming lyrics. As Eminem himself says, if the first lines don’t get the audience going, then he might not even go on stage.
Let us remind you that the rapper is now giving interviews in support of his new album. After four years of silence, he released a record called Revival, where he talked about his problems. This is already the ninth album in a row. From the lyrics of the tracks you can see that the artist was inspired by real life problems: politics, struggle with fame, relationships with his children, addiction...
In the 90s, Eminem's lyrics were influenced by his difficult relationship with his wife Kimberly Ann Scott, to whom he was married twice and with whom he raised their daughter, Haley Jade Scott. The father dedicated three songs on the new album to 21-year-old Hayley and regretted that he had previously talked about her in his lyrics and used her in the pursuit of popularity.
In many songs, Eminem hints that this album will be his last. “We can bring back the glory, but I don’t want to. I'll release this last album and be done with it all... Maybe it would be better to separate from Shady,” says the artist.
According to critics, the artist’s songs turned out to be very emotional and personal. In them, he asks for forgiveness from his children (in addition to his own Hayley, the rapper has several adopted children) and recalls how he was in the hospital, between life and death.
“A smile is good for photographs. Always value each other. I will forever love you and remain in your memory. I know that you will never forget me. Just don’t be sad when you remember,” says the lyrics of one of the songs.
Eminem like loving father, is very worried about his daughter Hayley, about whom he wrote more than one song. The girl is already 21 years old. In the spring, she celebrated her birthday, where she appeared in a revealing dress, which of course her father did not like.
Based on materials from: starslife.ru
Name Kim Mathers ex-wife Eminem is familiar to many of us. But it just so happened that it was not by her will. The rapper’s most controversial and harsh lyrics, which once attracted the American public, were “fed” precisely by these relationships, which lasted more than twenty years. Eminem dedicates his new album “Revival” to his ex-wife a good portion of the album, telling her story on tracks like “Remind Me” (and its intro) and “Bad Husband,” and also drawing parallels to his relationship with Kim on several other tracks on the album.
Despite their far from ideal union, there was a passion between them, thanks to which they stayed together for two whole decades, gave birth to a child and even adopted two more. But what is Kim's real story?
All this time, we saw the story of a girl from Michigan through the eyes of her ex-husband, through the prism of his aggressive texts. Therefore, we propose to analyze this confusing story in more detail.
early years
Kim Mathers was born in 1975 in Warren, Michigan, one of twin sisters born to Caitlin Slack. Although not much is known about the girl's childhood, information about her teenage life begins to emerge from the moment she met Eminem in 1987 - then just Marshall.
Kim first met Eminem at thirteen, at a party with mutual friends. The girl was fascinated by a fifteen-year-old boy who was rapping while standing right on the table. - the song “I’m Bad” by rapper LL Cool J. Love immediately broke out between the teenagers and soon Kim, along with her twin sister, ran away from home to live with Marshall and his mother Debbie Mathers.
In parallel with their romance, which lasted throughout the 90s, Eminem worked tirelessly on his career and began participating in rap battles in the famous Detroit Hip-Hop-Shop. And soon the aspiring rapper attracted the attention of a producer named Mark Bass, who really wanted to work with a young guy full of determination and a desire to succeed.
Things seemed to be getting better for Marshall and Kim, but then an unexpected event overtook them - Kim suddenly became pregnant.
Birth of Hayley Jade Scott-Mathers
Kim's unplanned pregnancy came as a shock to Eminem, but despite this, the young guy did everything to support Kim and their child. By the time Hayley was born, on Christmas Day 1995, Eminem was working sixty hours a week, which nearly ruined his fledgling rap career.
According to Mazur, one of Eminem's former work colleagues, he suddenly transformed from a sluggish slacker into a super-exemplary worker with exceptional enthusiasm: "He didn't want his daughter to grow up the same way he once grew up, making ends meet." ends."
Although Kim herself never mentioned this difficult period of her life, it is important to note that it was then that the couple’s relationship began to falter.
Life from hand to mouth with a small child in your arms was “ the last straw- the patience of Marshall, whose ambitions were literally boiling. This was the reason for their first separation in 1996. Eminem returned to his mother, and Kim and her daughter returned to their one-room apartment.
It was during this period that Em created his cruel alter ego, "Slim Shady", and poured out all his anger, disappointment and resentment into the now sad famous songs about Kim, including “97 Bonnie and Clyde” (“We’re like Bonnie and Clyde in ’97”).
In this violent song, Slim talks about how he takes his little daughter Haley and goes to dispose of Kim's corpse by throwing it into a lake. The worst thing was that Haley's voice sounded in the track. When Kim heard the songs, he was furious.
“That day I lied to Kim, said I would take Hailey to Chuck E. Cheese, and I drove her to the studio. When she found out that I used my daughter to record a track about her murder, Kim just went crazy. We just made up a couple of weeks ago and then I showed her the song and she ran out of the house like she was scalded,” Eminem told Rolling Stone magazine.
At the time, Kim and Eminem lived in a terribly dangerous area. One day, Kim was nearly hit by a stray bullet while she was washing dishes: “The place we lived in was fucking shitty. During the two years that we lived there, I changed four televisions and five tape recorders.”
First marriage
The couple married in 1999, before Eminem left with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and many other popular rappers on the infamous "Up In Smoke" tour.
Kim later explained that the main reason for this marriage was her desire to keep Eminem "on a short leash" while on tour in order to keep the family together. Naturally, at this stage of their lives, this attempt was unsuccessful.
While it's not clear exactly what went on between Kim and Eminem after their first marriage in 1999, it's safe to say there was a lot of chaos.
In an interview with Dr. Keith Ablow, Kim said that by bringing his alter ego with him on tour, Eminem destroyed her self-esteem to the point that she even attempted suicide in 2000. “Watching the crowd sing along to those monstrous words, laughing and clapping... it felt like they were all looking at me... I knew he was singing about me... that night I came home and tried to kill myself.”
She also added that fame turned Marshall into a "honeymoon" for other women, and it made her feel pathetic and rejected. “When his first tour started, that’s when his ego came in. He imagined himself to be God and said that I should say thank you that he still communicates with me, like you know how many women hang on to me. It all made me feel like a piece of crap."
Second marriage
The couple's first marriage broke up in 2001, but despite this, they remained in touch thanks to joint custody of their daughter, Hailey. After regular quarrels and reconciliations, in 2006 Kim and Eminem decided to get married again. Kim explained that the second marriage was to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their relationship: “We decided to get married on January 14th. Marshall wanted this because it was the 15th anniversary of our first date. I remember I said then: “Let’s just have a ceremony, without official marriage.” Because I was afraid of what might happen to our children if we went through divorce again. And then, 41 days later, on February 25, Marshall left." Although the second marriage was doomed, it was after it that the couple began to build friendly relations for the sake of their little daughter Hayley.
Other relationships
After her first marriage to Eminem ended in divorce, Kim met a man named Eric Hatter, with whom she had a daughter, Whitney, in 2002. When she and Marshall reconciled, Whitney was unofficially adopted by him. In his 2005 interview, Eminem very affectionately admits that he is “just in love with this sweet and funny girl.”
Kim's twin sister - Dawn
Kim and her sister had no better life, after running away from their alcoholic parents at age 13. In addition, they themselves suffered from addiction. Unfortunately, unlike Kim, who was able to overcome alcohol and drug addiction, her sister did not succeed; she died of an overdose in January 2016.
While there is no information about when exactly Dawn's addiction problems began, it is known that her daughter Alaina was in the care of Kim and Marshall from an early age due to her mother's inability to care for her - a sad fact that we will cover more in next section. In 2014, Dawn's addiction to heroin, cocaine, Aderal and Klonopin left her homeless. The woman wandered around rented apartments with friends until she found a room in a Detroit trailer park, on 8 Mile Road.
A few months before her death, Dawn said on Radar Online that Kim and Marshall refused to help her during her most difficult times: “My brother-in-law is a millionaire, my sister has a ton of money, but they refuse to help me. This is betrayal. Mathers has been a part of our family since he was 15!”
Dawn in her trailer, presumably from a heroin overdose.
Despite the fact that Dawn condemned her sister for not helping her, and helping, especially financially, a dependent person always entails trouble. But, of course, Kim cared about her sister. After her death, Kim wrote a touching obituary: “Dawn was my beloved sister who lost her way. I hold a candle for her in hopes that she will find her way back to me. I miss and love her more than anyone in the world. I wish she was here so I could hug her and tell her how much I love her. The other half of me left with her and I will never feel whole again. She always made me laugh and kept me afloat. She was the best sister, friend and I will miss her until we are together again."
Adopted daughter Alaina
Kim's sister's drug problems led Kim and Marshall to officially adopt her daughter in 2002. Alaina, who grew up with Hailey and is now 23, seems to have grown into a happy, healthy, young girl raised by Kim and Marshall.
Suicide attempt
Over the past couple of years, Kim's name has come up in stories that have received a lot of media coverage. On October 7, 2015, Kim Mathers was involved in a car accident while driving under the influence.
The police, of course, arrived at the scene of the accident and began asking passers-by how it happened. One witness said: “I heard a big bang, boom! And I thought: What was that?!” Everyone waited by the car until they knew who was in it. It was Kim Mathers, Eminem's ex-wife. She was intoxicated. According to her, she drank a whole quint of rum in broad daylight.
One of the reasons why many curious fans of digging into other people's dirty laundry showed great interest in this story is that Kim's suicide case and court documents were hidden from prying eyes.
Later, Eminem's ex-wife admitted that she tried to commit suicide by getting into a car while intoxicated and deliberately trying to get into a fairly serious accident. In May 2016, Kimberly spoke about this in an interview for the program “Mojo in the Morning.” During the conversation, she explained why the court papers relating to the accident were sealed, insisting that it was not because of preferential treatment, but only because the papers contained medical information about her suicide attempt. Regarding the accident and suicide attempt, Kim said that she had planned the accident and collision in advance so that there would be no casualties, and admitted that she mixed alcohol and drugs before getting behind the wheel of her Cadillac Escalade SUV.
“I drove to the end of the road, where I was sure that no one but me would get hurt,” Kim explained. - “Yes, I drank, took pills, and I pressed the gas and drove the car into a pole.”
She did not talk about the very reason why Kim decided to commit suicide. But she said that during this difficult period for her (after the death of her sister and after this accident), Eminem supported her very well. "He was a big support during this time," she said of her ex-husband. - “We are very close friends. We're just trying to be together the best parents for our children to keep their lives as normal as possible."
At the end of 2016, Kim was convicted. The process lasted many months and was kept secret from the people. Kim Mathers was sentenced to probation for driving under the influence causing an accident. She was placed on probation for a year, including drug and alcohol tests and observations, which began on November 22, 2016. Probation ends in March 2018.
Eminem and Kim's daughter Hailey, graduating from school
Revival
Whatever Kim’s life is, it’s not for us to judge her or poke our nose into her personal affairs. Kim is an important part of Eminem's life. She greatly influenced him and was reflected in his work.
Despite all the hardships Kim went through, she dedicated herself to being the best parent she could be, and her beautiful daughters - bright that confirmation.
On his track "Bad Husband" from the album "Revival", Eminem laments the fact that his relationship with Kim has collapsed. “If she could take it all back, I would do so many things differently.”
“We are not bad people, we just feel bad together”
