The Mother Who Sued Her Own Son — the Most Famous White Rapper Alive
Welcome to Bad Moms. This Mother’s Day, as we celebrate the beautiful angels kind enough to raise our sorry asses, we’re profiling five of the most notorious moms in history. Who says dads get to be the only antiheroes in pop culture?
“Whenever something good happens, the bad always follows,” Eminem said once about his upbringing. “That’s the story of my life since the day I was born.” Those aren’t lyrics from an Eminem song, but a quote he gave to the Detroit Free Press in 2000 about being raised by Debbie Mathers, a single mother in a trailer park in Detroit near the boulevard 8 Mile, a major thoroughfare in a rundown neighborhood of poor black kids. There, he would nurture a talent for rhyming so successfully that he would not on… Continue Reading (13 minute read)