That's what he cared about and talked about. The album, named The Slim Shady LP, was released in February and ended up going triple platinum as one of the year's most popular records. It was dedicated to Hailie. She was six years and days old when that song was released in I said, 'Hailie, what did you say?
I said, 'OK'. I got her in the booth. We had just got back together for a couple of weeks. At the time, Eminem hadn't played the song to then-four-year-old Hailie. None of it was to be taken literally. There were other songs, too, that didn't feature Hailie's voice but rather her spirit, some 22 in total. The most famous of which is Hailie's Song, which Eminem wrote for his daughter when she was seven. Later on this track, he calls Hailie his reason for living and his saviour.
Hailie is also mentioned on Cleaning Out My Closet , in which Eminem raps about his estranged mother, telling her she'll never see her "beautiful" granddaughter again. On Mockingbird, which was inspired by the lowest points in the Mathers' family history, Eminem apologised for any pain he had caused his daughter in the past.
There was also the diss track Hailie's Revenge , in which Hailie joined her father on a song calling out Ja-Rule. Previously, Ja-Rule had slammed Kim as a "known slut, what's Hailie gon' be when she grows up? On this track, Eminem sings out to his daughter. Bring Daddy his Oscar," he yells.
Eminem had picked up an Oscar in for Best Original Song for the track Lose Yourself from 8 Mile , the dramatisation of his life story.
It wasn't the only diss track Hailie wound her way onto. Eminem asked him to apologise for the comments, given Hailie was a teenager at the time, but Machine Gun Kelly took it to the microphone. While there, she was a member of the school's art club and played volleyball, as well as serving on the student council.
She graduated with honours in June and was crowned Homecoming Queen. I think my dad's gone crazy! I went to my house, and I had her go in the booth and say it. When she opens up, she's just like her dad in a lot of aspects. Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs.
Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. Spotify to Acquire Audiobook Platform Findaway. So they're able to go outside and live a normal life, go to stores and do things normally that I can't do. Which is why, a lot of times, certain things I can't be there for. Eminem said he did not miss out on school-related activities, however, "even if I gotta deal with the craziness.
It makes sense then, that back in , he told Rolling Stone that, to him, being a good father meant "just being there. Not missing things. If there's anything important going on, regardless of what it is, I'm there. Helping them with homework when you can. At the grades my older ones are in, it's hard.
They're already way smarter than me. And it broke his heart whenever they couldn't be together, such as when he was hospitalized in following a methadone overdose. I wanted to get home, and show them that Dad's OK.
It's not a fun thing to deal with. With all the multi-platinum sales, prolific creative output and headlines about what he said out in the world and what people thought he was saying in his music, Eminem became one of the most influential and controversial artists of his era.
But he struggled through the '00s, with his personal life, legal issues and a prescription pill addiction, which he kicked for good in , marking 12 years of sobriety last year.
Because throughout, it was only about staying alive so he could be there. Which he is, but that's not for anyone on the outside of the inner circle to see. When Hailie graduated from high school with honors in , in the school's commemoratory newsletter she named her mom and dad, Marshall and Kimberly Mathers, as the biggest influences in her life, "because they have pushed me to be the person I am and have given me all the support to achieve what I have.
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