In 2010, Eminem released another album, Recovery, a highly autobiographical attempt to come to terms with his struggles with addiction and experience with rehabilitation. Hailie graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in psychology and has become an Instagram influencer.īy early 2008, Eminem had managed to kick his addictions to drugs and alcohol and returned to recording music. He released his first album of new music in five years, Relapse, in 2009, featuring the singles "Crack a Bottle" and "Beautiful." 'Recovery' (2010) Following their second divorce, the exes began a protracted, ugly and highly public custody dispute over their daughter Hailie.Įminem has rapped about Hailie throughout his career, including on the 2004 song "Mockingbird" and throughout his 2017 album Revival. Kim and Eminem continued to maintain a tumultuous off-and-on relationship until remarrying in 2006, then divorcing again several months later. The couple broke up and got back together many times, finally marrying just before Eminem left on his first major tour in 1999. In 1995, the couple had a daughter named Hailie Jade Scott. Deborah threw the couple out when Eminem dropped out of school. Kim, who claimed that she didn't know her father and had been sexually abused by her stepfather, came to live with Eminem and his mother Deborah.Įminem and Kim soon began dating, but their relationship was turbulent from the start. You know, somewhere, they'll be stored, like, locked away."Įminem was just 15 when he met 13-year-old Kim Ann Scott at a house party.
I just felt like I wanna be able to have all of these words at my disposal, in my vocabulary at all times whenever I need to pull 'em out. "I found that no matter how bad I was at school, like, and no matter how low my grades might have been at some times, I always was good at English. Yet despite being a poor student, Eminem always had a deep affinity for language, devouring comic books and even studying the dictionary. "Beat up in the bathroom, beat up in the hallways, shoved into lockers," he remembered.Įminem attended Lincoln High School in Warren, Michigan, where he failed the ninth grade three times and eventually dropped out at the age of 17. He had no close friends, kept almost entirely to himself and was treated like an outcast at each new school.
This itinerant lifestyle left a large impact on his personality. "That was probably the roughest part about it all." "I would change schools two, three times a year," Eminem later recalled. They admit it."”Įminem's mother never managed to hold down a job for more than several months at a time, so they moved frequently between Missouri and Detroit, Michigan, spending large chunks of time in public housing projects.
Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.” “There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act and they know they're an act. It's the music that I love and the music I respect.” “A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. But just know that 'Slim Shady' is hip-hop. But I think I've calmed down a bit.” “Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. Never even seen a picture of him.” “I'm not afraid to take a stand.” “Opportunity comes once in a lifetime.” “Anything I've ever said I certainly meant at the time. “There's obviously a limit to what people want to know, but I've pretty much put most of it out there.” “The emotions in a song, the anger, the aggression, have got to be legitimate.” “I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.” “My father? Never knew him.