Having witnessed her mother abused by her father growing up she had sworn never to let herself be the victim of similar treatment. The event left Rihanna hospitalized and unable to perform at the 2009 Grammy Awards ceremony.įinding herself a victim of abuse was something that troubled Rihanna. The harrowing experience arrived in 2009 when the 21-year-old pop star was assaulted by then-boyfriend Chris Brown. Rihanna experienced domestic violence first hand. “I knew it was about me and that night I went home and I tried to commit suicide”. “Just watching everyone else just singing the words and, like, jumping around in approval of… I couldn’t take it” she later confessed. Shortly after Kim would attempt to take her own life. As the crowd cheered, he beat a blow up doll made to resemble her. Going back on this assurance, he did it anyway.
During a performance in 2000, Mathers promised his ex-wife that he would not play ‘Kim’ at a concert she was attending. This hostility towards Kim was not limited to songs. 1997’s ’97 Bonnie and Clyde’ recounted another fictional story where Eminem collected daughter Hailie Jade before throwing Kim’s body into a river. Music publication Billboard once described the rapper’s 2000 song ‘Kim’ as “the pinnacle of the misogynistic rage he’d been building in his early career”.ĭetailing his hatred for his ex-wife, ‘Kim’ detailed a violent murder fantasy that ended with Scott’s body being hurled into the trunk of a car. The spectacular breakdown of Mathers’ relationship with partner Kimberly Anne Scott at the height of his Slim Shady LP fame did little to improve his attitude toward women. (Debbie filed an $11million defamation lawsuit in response.) ‘ Kill You’and ‘ I’m Back’ detail Eminem hurting and sexually assaulting his mother. Most famously, hit single ‘Cleanin’ Out My Closet’ describes his mother, Debbie Mathers, as addicted to hard liquor, cigarettes, and methamphetamines. Several of his songs chronicle this complicated relationship. Raised in trailer parks by an alcoholic mother the rapper grew up with less than a glowing opinion of women. It was no secret Eminem had a traumatic childhood.
Yet when it came to his relationships with women, his anger was often unleashed with violent and catastrophic effect. At the height of his Slim Shady era fame, Eminem took aim at fellow rappers, pop icons and even his own family with gleeful abandon.
It rescued him from a life of poverty and turned him into one of the world’s most popular living artists.
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“ An angry man,” the philosopher Confucius once said, “ is always full of poison.” Eminem‘s anger is what made him a star.
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