The rapper didn’t mince his words on the controversial track
Eminem has been one of the top dogs in rap for decades now.
But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have any tracks that he’d rather see the back of.
The 51-year-old disliked one song so much that he even released an apology track about it years later.
What is the song in question?
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Featured on his album Without Me, Eminem details his fraught relationship with his mother Debbie.
Not exactly stuff you’d be putting in a Mother’s Day card.
The Slim Shady rapper also branded her the ‘queen of popping prescription pills’ and vowed not to let her meet his daughter.
At the time the song was released, the two had a turbulent relationship.
Of course, we are talking about the controversial ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet’, released in 2002.
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Debbie had sued her son in 1999, accusing him of slander and defamation.
She’d originally hoped to get $10 million (£7.7 million) out of her famous son, but eventually settled for $25,000 (£19.4k) in 2001.
Although this isn’t the only song in which Eminem slammed his mum, he decided to retire ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet’.
A follow-up apology track, ‘Headlights’ would be released years later.
The 2014 track begins: “My mum probably got it the worst.
“The brunt of it, but as stubborn as we are, did I take it too far?
“‘Cleaning Out My Closet’ and all them other songs.
“But regardless, I don’t hate you ‘cause ma.
“You’re still beautiful to me, ‘cause you’re my mum.”
The heartfelt apology continues: “But I’m sorry mama for ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet,’ at the time I was angry.
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“Rightfully maybe so, never meant that far to take it though, ‘cause.
“Now I know it’s not your fault and I’m not making jokes.
“That song I no longer pay at shows and I cringe every time it’s on the radio.”
While the track is essentially an apology, the rapper doesn’t shy away from his often turbulent childhood, revealing how he was kicked out on Christmas Eve and his young brother Nathan, was taken into foster care.
Despite this, he admits that he hates the ‘dysfunctional relationship’ between him and his mum.
He continues: “But ma, I forgive you, so does Nathan yo.
“All you did, all you said, you did your best to raise us both.
“Foster care, that cross you bare, few may be as heavy as yours.”
Rounding off the heartfelt apology, he says: “But I love you Debbie Mathers, oh what a tangled web we have.
“And I’m mad I didn’t get the chance to thank you for being my mom and my dad.”
Debbie herself spoke about the possibility of reconciling with Eminem in an interview: “I’m not ever gonna give up on my kids. I won’t give up on anybody.
“There’s hope for everybody. It’s a matter of just basically swallowing your pride. It’s like a cashed check. It’s over, it’s done. You need to move on.”
Eminem drops new explosive diss track against one of his oldest rivals
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Rap god Eminem has set tongues wagging amongst the music industry by doing exactly what he does best: releasing a jaw-dropping diss track.
The 51-year-old ‘Slim Shady’ hitmaker has featured in and partially produced a brand new track for musician pal Lyrical Lemonade’s latest album All Is Yellow.
And having not contributed fresh beats to the rap roster for several years now, it’s no surprise that fans of the 8 Mile frontman rushed to hear his latest release.
The track was released earlier today (January 26) after what has felt like months of anticipation.
But it wasn’t just his globally-renowned slick bars and poetic lyrics that left listeners in a state of shock.
That’s because, once again, Eminem – real name Marshall Mathers – has used the song to fire shots at an old rival.
Throughout his long-standing, critically-acclaimed career, the musician has instigated feuds and slammed his fellow stars in many of his best-selling hits.
Dissed celebs include the likes of Machine Gun Kelly, Nick Cannon, Pamela Anderson and Mariah Carey.
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In his latest hit, however, titled Doomsday Pt. 2, the Detroit-born star fired shots at one of his longest-standing nemeses, urban media proprietor and fellow rapper Benzino.
The battle between the two stars first kicked off in the early noughties, after Source Magazine co-owner Benzino, now 58, leaked an audio recording of Eminem using the N-word numerous times following a split from a Black woman.
The rapper later issued an apology for his use of the racist slur, the controversial leak in turn resulted in bad coverage of Benzino’s publication itself, and the record producer was subsequently terminated from his role.
Ever since then, the duo have taken every opportunity they can to publicly take fire at one another.
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Just last year, TV personality Benzino criticized the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for inducting Eminem ahead of Black artists.
He tweeted at the time: “To all you p***y a*s Stans, we all know y’all are the most corniest non violent coward fan base hip hop has ever seen I have a restaurant in Atlanta 5071 Peachtree industrial boulevard Chamblee GA. stop tweeting and pull up on me you p*****s.
“I been left this shit alone but since the COWARD A*S STANS still wanna talk shit and hide then it’s still f**k Eminem and if you got a problem with me, do something about it nothing you ever said has effected me in anyway.
“I know how to fight and I got big sticks. So pull up.”
And amongst the most recent of the pair’s insult comes Eminem’s brand new single, branding Benzino several different names and going on to accuse him of being broke and living in and out of motels.
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“Now I got a riddle (What?), one condition, you mustn’t laugh (Okay) / What is the opposite of Benzino? (Uh, what?) A giraffe (Haha),” he spits. “Go at his neck, how the f**k is that? (Yeah) / How can I go at somethin’ he doesn’t have? (Haha) / Arm so short he can’t even touch his hands”.
The rapper continues: “When they’re above his head doin’ jumpin’ jacks (Wow) / Sorry, I don’t mean (What?) to upset you, Ben’ (Yeah) / When I talk about (What?) all the debt you in (Uh).
“I hear that you been (What?) creepin’ on the low / In them cheap hotels (Yeah), that they catch you in (What?)”.
Eminem even goes one step further in the song, taking shots at Benzino’s own daughter, Coi Leray, 26, who also happens to be a rap star.
“Well, I guess then I regret to inform you, hate to spoil the day / But this doesn’t bring me no joy to say / Guess that Coi Leray feat is in the toilet, ay?” he says.
Benzino is yet to reply to the diss.
Lil Tay finally responds to Eminem after he dissed her five years ago
Five years on from the release of ‘Killshot’, Lil Tay has responded to Eminem’s comments.
Eminem released ‘Killshot’ in 2018 as a diss track towards Machine Gun Kelly, but somehow Lil Tay got mixed up in it as well.
Part of the song’s lyrics went: “Got more fans than you in your own city, lil’ kiddy. Go play, feel like I’m babysitting Lil Tay.”
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Lil Tay, legal name Tay Tian, was only nine-years-old at the time of the track’s release.
Eminem released the song in response to Machine Gun Kelly’s song ‘Rap Devil’, where he labelled the ‘Lose Yourself’ hitmaker as a ‘bully acting like a baby’.
Machine Gun Kelly’s feud with Eminem may have been in vein however, as several years on from taking aim at him, MGK has ditched the rap scene all together and now releases pop-punk songs.
But Lil Tay appears to want to reignite the feud and, in a new Q&A hosted by the now-teenager on her Discord channel, Tay was asked about Eminem’s remarks.
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Responding to one person, the 14-year-old said: “Outstreamed the rapper that dissed me too.”
Elsewhere, she gives the nod to his lyrics.
She wrote: “‘Feel like I’m babysitting lil tay’ – ooopsie I wouldn’t give you the PLEASURE of being with me booo.”
It’s said that Lil Tay did the Q&A in a bid to promote her new track, ‘Sucker 4 Green’.
The release of her new track comes shortly after there were reports that the teenage internet sensation had died in August.
But just days later, she released a statement to reassure her fans that it wasn’t true.
“I want to make it clear that my brother and I are safe and alive, but I’m completely heartbroken, and struggling to even find the right words to say,” it read.
“It’s been a very traumatizing 24 hours. All day yesterday, I was bombarded with endless heartbreaking and tearful phone calls from loved ones all while trying to sort out this mess.
“My Instagram account was compromised by a 3rd party and used to spread jarring misinformation and rumors regarding me, to the point that even my name was wrong. My legal name is Tay Tian, not ‘Claire Hope’.”
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It went on to be reported that Tay’s father, Christopher Hope, was behind the death hoax – but he has since spoken out and labelled the remarks as ‘false’.
He said: “The person who is responsible for that Instagram post, as well as anyone repeating the completely false and libelous accusation within it, are virtually certain to become defendants in a defamation lawsuit.
“Everything stated is 100% false, and I trust that this should be obvious to anyone who knows me or the long history of absurd and untrue statements made by the various people who have controlled the Instagram account.”
UNILAD contacted Hope at the time for further comment.
It’s not new information that Eminem and 50 Cent are long-time pals, and Eminem made it clear over the weekend that their friendship is still going strong after 20 years.
The two rappers were first connected way back in the 00s and, rather than be at war with one another like most rappers have done historically, the pair became pals and have since gone on to feature on several of each other’s songs.
From ‘Crack A Bottle’, ‘You Don’t Know’, and ‘Patiently Waiting’, the two of them have released some hit tracks together.
50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, is currently on his the Final Lap tour which was created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his blockbuster album Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
The rapper’s show on Saturday was at Pine Knob Music Theater, located just north of Detroit, and fans were delighted when Eminem graced the stage alongside his pal to perform their 2009 song ‘Crack A Bottle’.
Eminem, real name Marshall Mathers, was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, but relocated to Detroit with his family at the age of 11.
“Don’t f**king act like you ain’t know I was gonna be here,” Eminem told the audience.
“Detroit, make some noise for one of the best friends I’ve ever known: 50 Cent. And also, make some noise for hip-hop’s 50th birthday, y’all.”
DJ Kool Herc is credited for starting the Hip Hop trend back in August 1973.
Eminem then proceeded to declare his love for Detroit before he and 50 Cent had a quick embrace. The 50-year-old then exited the stage.
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In an interview with XXL Magazine earlier this year, 50 Cent, 48, also shared the love as he said that Eminem has ‘his best interest at heart’.
Reflecting on his career, the ‘Candy Shop’ rapper said: “What helped me not [to] have a big head at any point was I had Eminem around.
“So when I’m doing 13 million records on my first album, I have the Marshall Mathers LP to look at that’s doing 23 million records.”
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50 Cent went on: “Em, I put him next to my grandmother, and I’ma tell you why. He was always a place where I could go and just talk to him, and know that he has my best interest at heart.”
Fiddy added that he’d often get Eminem’s approval on his songs and that if he didn’t think his friend liked it, he’d ‘scrap the record’.
Dr Dre shared a video praising the fellow rapper’s unique talents
Dr Dre shares astonishing video of Eminem’s skill and suggests no rapper could take him on
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The short clip sees Slim Shady rap to his ‘Godzilla’ lyrics at a lightning-fast speed, causing the music producer to ask who on earth would be brave enough to try and give him a run for his money.
The pair have long-since worked together after Dre signed the ‘Lose Yourself’ star to his record label, Aftermath Records, back in 1998.
Dr Dre’s Instagram post was captioned: “Marshall Mathers vs Who???!!” with the clip showing Eminem rap the lyrics from the hit-single which first appeared in the ‘Music to Be Murdered By’ album.
In under 30 seconds, Eminem managed to get quite a mouthful in.
Standing in front of some retro arcade games, he rapped: “Fill ’em with the venom, and eliminate ’em. Other words, I Minute Maid ’em. I don’t want to hurt ’em, but I did ’em in a fit of rage.
“I’m murdering again, nobody will evade him. I’m finna kill ’em and dump all the f***ing bodies in a lake. Obliterating everything, incinerating and renegade ’em.
“And I make anybody who want it with the pen afraid. But don’t nobody want it but they’re gonna get it anyway. ‘Cause I’m beginning to feel like I’m mentally ill. I’m Atilla, kill or be killed, I’m a killer, be the vanilla gorilla. You’re bringing the killer within me, out of me.”
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And breathe.
He went on, waggling his finger to the camera: “You don’t want to be the enemy of the demon. Who went in me, and be on the receiving of me, what stupidity, it’d be.
“Every bit of me is the epitome of a spitter. When I’m in the vicinity, motherf***er, you better duck. Or you finna be dead the minute you run into me.
“A hundred percent of you is a fifth of a percent of me. I’m ’bout to f***ing finish you b****, I’m unfadable. You wanna battle, I’m available, I’m blowing up like an inflatable. I’m undebatable, I’m unavoidable, I’m unevadable.”
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Of course, the video got fans and producers alike fired up.
Dre’s short clip has since racked up more than 3,000,000 views, with thousands eager to share their reaction to the video.
One Instagram user praised: “Dre! Thank you so much for giving us Em!”
“You discovered him, and thanks for doing so,” echoed a second.
“We’re all gonna have an aneurysm trying to process this speed,” another joked.
A fourth wrote that the ‘Mockingbird’ rapper ‘can never be touched’, while a fifth dubbed him a ‘legend’.
“He is the man,” wrote a final Instagram user.
What do you make of the quick-fire bars?
