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 ...
more 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 murdering Nelson. The relationship was further fractured by Nelson’s 2007 tell-all,
My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem: Setting the Record Straight on My Life as Eminem's Mother, in which she defended herself against her son’s accusations that she was a pill-popping alcoholic. Although Em said in 2009 that he had “compassion” for his mother, as of 2010 there had still been no reconciliation. Acknowledging to the
New York Times that he did not even know if she still lived in Detroit, he said, “It’d be very hard to repair that relationship.”
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