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)
“I guess that’s the reason you made that CD me for me” makes sense now. I never knew what he meant in that line.
Crappy parents are real.
But Mom’s spaghetti…
Damn, just learned about eminem’s estranged father, never knew that he actually knew who his father was and that he tried to reach out to him, before he made it big. He supposedly died in 2019 at age 68.
I think if I made $100 million lying about my mom she’d laugh it off — because she’s a good woman and would like to see me successful.
On the other hand, a horrible dysfunctional parent will get defensive. They have to tell you and the world it isn’t true.
The fact that they can’t convince their son to say; “I was doing this to sell music and express feelings” — means that the relationship isn’t good. And I think 9 times of of 10 that’s going to be on the parents.
Her spaghetti couldn’t have been that bad
Best thing I ever read about her is that she should open an Italian restaurant and call it Mom’s Spaghetti. I would eat there every week.
Streisand Effect: Rap Edition
I thought it said “Einstein” and was very confused for a sec
He mentions his mum a lot in his early stuff. I remember Trevor McDonald (old Engish news reader) doing an interview with her.
“Which is it b*itch, Mrs Briggs or Miss Mathers? It doesn’t matter you’re attorney Fred Gibson’s a fa**ot”
Haha, I remember this!
That really sucks to not have your mother on your side. I feel for those who have no parents to turn to.