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Eminem's father reading a magazine about his son in 2001. He last saw Eminem in 1974 when he abandoned the family and left Eminem's mother to raise him in poverty. He died in 2019 in Indiana without meeting his son as an adult.
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"Oh no he's rich and famous now im so sad 😭😭😭"
He looks like he's doing pretty well on his own. He's got like 100 different cups back there.
An embarrassment of riches
His cups runneth over.
Mullet Mathers
Slim Fadey
Honestly respect to Eminem. Many people would still want to meet their dad regardless.
Yeah this is the thing people miss with estranged kids, most kids try again and again to work things out with their parent. Yet so many people act like its selfish kids acting on whims.
I guess I’m one of the exceptions? I have no desire to reconnect with my alcoholic, crack addicted father.
Hey, thats me!
Tried re-establishing a relationship with my deadbeat father who abandoned the family when I was a toddler.
It went okay for a hot minute - I softly leaned into it because I didn't want to fully commit immediately and get emotionally invested only to get my heart broken again. Took things slow.
To no bodies surprise, he eventually tried to guilt trip me into thinking it was ME who wasn't putting in enough effort to repair that relationship. (Despite him never once coming to visit me. It was always me visiting him)
Needless to say, I have stopped trying. Fuck 'em.
I wouldn’t respect him any less for wanting to meet his dad. Being abandoned by a parent is rough.
My mom gave up her first child when she was 17 because her mom wouldn't let her raise him herself. The doctor who delivered him ended up adopting the baby boy. My mom went on to raise the rest of her kids, and I was the youngest. When I turned 32, I reached out to my older brother, but he didn't really seem interested in getting to know me. I understood that, though he was interested in learning more about his biological father.
Sadly, his biological father was a meth addicted biker, and as far as we knew, he was dead.
When he fought for his little girl after his woman ran off, and defended his daughter’s honor he earned my respect
He got clean so he could get full-time custody for her. He also got his younger brother out of foster care too - I think he works for him as a produce.
And his AA sponsor - none other than Elton John,
As for Elton John, the person he credits the most for helping him kick the booze and Coke was Ryan White - the young boy who died of AIDS from contaminated blood. Elton John was one of the pall bearers at the funeral.
Ironically, if he didn’t leave eminem with his mother back in the day, Eminem didn’t develop into this rapper he is nowadays.
The breeding ground of good rappers is a harsh environment during childhood and puberty
What made Eminem a good lyricist is that he used to read a dictionary every day and challenge himself to rhyme obscure terms in complicated rhyme patterns.
It leads to ridiculous lines such as:
'Jumped into a Chickenhawk cartoon with a cape on / And beat up Foghorn Leghorn with an acorn'.
Which is actually a double-entendre that insinuates at the obscure term, 'capon' (cape on), which is a term for a castrated chicken.
Eminem suggests that Foghorn Leghorn was only acting so macho because he was trying to compensate for not having testicles, and then Eminem enters his world and runs after him with a giant acorn (acorns being symbolic of testicles).
IDC if I get downvoted to oblivion here but I'm gonna quote 50 directly - "Hip hop is Black music, without question, and, unfortunately for some people, it's tough to accept that you have a White artist that does it better than Black artists."
Eminem surely pulled himself out, nonetheless
That is a sperm donor, if I remember correctly he left when Eminem was 6 months old, a father is raising his baby
I'll be damned, the family resemblance is strong there. It's got to suck to look so much like someone you hate so much.
“He died in 2019 in Indiana without meeting his son as an adult.”
I love this for him.
“btw if you see my dad, tell him that i slit his throat in this dream i had”
He's just Marshall Mathers.
He's just a regular guy, I don't know why all the fuss about him
Exactly. It's not like any of this mathers.
God I hate when deadbeats have the gall to have this reaction toward ANYTHING their abandoned kids do. You didn't care then, don't pretend to care now just because you think you might get money for it. I know he's dead so consider "now" to be when this photo was taken.
Meanwhile Mac Demarco was the other way round. Mac actively seeking a relationship with his dad, who didn't even seem to care that his son was a world famous musician.
Karma
Glad Eminem never gave his dad the time of day or a chance to come crawling back.
Pretty sure the only man closest to being called dad by Eminem was his Uncle Ronnie. Someone who abandoned him as a child and only wanted to reconnect when his son became rich and famous isn't worth being acknowledged.
His son wrote letters to him but they always came back 'return to sender'....
"And i wonder if he even ever kissed me goodbye. Second thought, no i dont. Just fuckin wish he would die."
Good. Fuck him.
Regrets, I've had a few...
That's honestly sad. Imagine reading about your son's success in a magazine after missing his whole life. You can't get those years back
It's wild to think about the duality of the fact that if this dude had gotten his panties out of a bunch and been a real father, Eminem probably wouldn't have had the extremely traumatic and destitute childhood it took to become a mean rap star. He would have instead grown up to be middle class and decently adjusted, likely doing blue collar work and just being a family man. He is famous and rich because his daddy was a bum that knocked his entire world out of order. Still, I am happy this loser presumably never got a penny from his son's painful success. 90% of children left in destitute don't have happy endings and my heart is hardened for those who've abandoned children.