![]() On a more positive note, he also says that if it weren't for his father's neglect, he wouldn't be the man he is today. He pretty much confirmed that he still thinks this way on the song "Leaving Heaven" from Music to Be Murdered By, where Em reveals that he didn't feel sorry for his dad's death since he was never there for him. (Eminem's dad) died of a heart attack at age 67. On second thought, I just fuckin' wish he would die!" On June 26, 2019, Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. In "Cleanin' Out My Closet", Eminem raps about how his father had walked out on him and his mother when he was little, with such lyrics as "Wonder if he even kissed me goodbye? / No, I don't.In "Fast Lane", Royce Da 5'9" says "You let me take a shovel, dig up the corpse of Jack Kevorkian".The song originally intended Slim to be an Allegorical Character for fame and drug addiction, but the song now seems to make him into an allegory for her conservatorship. "Same Song and Dance", a song where Slim Shady murders Britney Spears, becomes significantly darker as more has emerged about the abuse she experienced, with the hook analogising her screams of pain and struggling to the way she sings and dances for her fans.Both albums contain multiple swipes at Amy Winehouse as a gross, drug-addicted trainwreck.Both "Kim" and his defense of the song become even more disturbing with the revelation that the song humiliated Kim so much that she attempted suicide after a particularly cruel performance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rihanna's role in all of this is interesting though." Clearly, he understands the psychology well and can express the feelings with enormous clarity. "Kim", an already disturbing song about Eminem murdering his then-wife Kim, is made a bit more disturbing when in "Love The Way You Lie" he reveals they were both mutually abusive towards each other.īBC Radio 1: "This is not an autobiographical lyric It's one of Eminem's flights of fancy, albeit one into a very real situation.A lot less funny after Eminem's overdose in 2007, as a fat past-his-prime Eminem dying while taking a piss (though recusitated). In the music video for "Without Me", a fat old Elvis dying while taking a shit is depicted as another incarnation of Slim Shady.During the first verse of "Without Me", Eminem raps, "A little bit of weed mixed with some hard liquor/Some vodka that'll jump start my heart quicker/Than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital/By the doctor when I'm not co-operating." Five years later, he wound up in the hospital from a near-fatal overdose."Drug Ballad" is a wry and witty Age-Progression Song about Eminem wrecking his life with drugs, which becomes extremely dark in retrospect.Eminem's 2009 album Relapse contains a serious audio drama of Mr Mathers's overdose as a lead-in to the Sincerity Mode portion of the album. In the 1997 song "Low Down, Dirty", Slim punningly begs for help "before I OD on an LP".After Eminem's addiction, Creator Breakdown, overdose and brain damage caused by drugs, it turns out you really, really shouldn't do drugs. Slim Shady's first words on his first major label studio album is to say, at the end of the Public Service Announcement Album Intro Track, "Don't do drugs".Most of his songs about drugs become this in light of his overdose.Even scarier is that despite Proof being alive at the time, he wasn't even on the song, which could mean that in the song's story, he did get shot. Proof's death two years later made this song even scarier than it already was. "One Shot 2 Shot" has Em and D12 rapping about a shooting at a D12 concert. ![]() Eminem commented on this in his book The Way I Am, understandably feeling like he'd cursed Proof somehow with the video. It's a little freaky to see him in a hospital dying of gunshot wounds. Like Bugz, he was also shot to death about a year later.
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