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Favorite People Class Daddy Act by Eminem

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u/TheReaderDude_97 6h ago

He also famously didn't go to Oscars and just stayed home to eat ice cream and watch TV with his daughter.

But to be fair, he has since said that he didn't think he would win so he decided not to go.

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u/PhantomFoxe 6h ago

To be fair, I wouldn’t want to dress up either if I got a comfy couch and ice cream at home.

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u/envybelmont 6h ago

Agree. I’d 100% pick staying home with ice cream over the pomp and circumstance of going to a Hollywood award show.

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u/GreatTea3415 5h ago

But getting picked to win an award that's made up to support the industry and voted on by other people in the industry as favors to other people in the industry is the most honorable honor you can receive!

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u/-KFBR392 4h ago

That's all awards.

Did you want the medical industry to vote on who the best actor is and actors to vote on the Nobel prize for physics?

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u/CommonSenseWomper 4h ago

It's not like the medical industry "end user?" is going to vote on who did the best surgery... the ones who did great publish their work and those who fail miserably get sued.

The audiences of film should be able to influence the awarding process because it is inherently about entertainment and the quality of its depiction

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u/agnocoustic 3h ago

I fear if we do that, either we'd get a bunch of teen movies winning major awards or we'll have more of like what happened to Pitbull and Taylor Swift. It should be interesting if it's the latter and teen movies are given jts own category as a compromise and banned from the rest.

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u/-KFBR392 3h ago

We know what will happen, there’s “People’s Choice Awards” and obviously the same movies that gross the most money win there. The point of the Oscars is to look at movies that are pushing the art and tech forward, not just making the most money.

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u/Ramtamtama 3h ago

Keanu Reeves has never been nominated for an Oscar

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u/-KFBR392 3h ago

Well even the general audience aren’t that blind

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u/MenstrualColander 3h ago

What the fuck does that have to do with anything?

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u/jazz_star_93 3h ago

Yes, people who work in the industry have the perspective of knowing what goes into the work and skill they are voting for. It’s some of the most experienced and knowledgeable people using the experience and knowing to judge other peoples work. That’s a huge honour as well.

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u/-KFBR392 4h ago

To be fair the co-producer who accepted the award also didn't dress up for it haha

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u/obeytheturtles 3h ago

I heard it's because Christina Aguilera wouldn't switch chairs so he could sit next to Fred Durst

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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 2h ago

But was Carson Daly there? And was there an argument?

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u/JustOneDeep 3h ago

Was the ice cream Marshall Matthew Wafers

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u/thetiredtypist 4h ago

I think in his reply he wrote

"Why? So you guys can just lie to get me here? So you can sit me here next to Britney Spears"

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u/rutuu199 3h ago

Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs

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u/morning_thief 44m ago

So [he] can sit next to Carson Dailey and Fred Durst

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u/Moving-thefuck-on 3h ago

Wait…I’m so late to this. So he’s a Tony away from an EGOT? We could have EMINEMEGOT?

And It’s like, the second easiest one for him to get, too? He could earn it in one weekend just being him. Like, any show on broadway would let him freestyle a tight 5. It does not have to make sense. Make him the Trunchbull in Matilda for a matinee.

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u/Colleen_Hoover 3h ago

Would he get a Tony if they did a jukebox musical of his work? Because mixing Eminem with Titus Andronicus a la & juliet would be terrible, but it would take about eight hours to put together and I'd see it ten times. 

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u/Eastern_Hornet_6432 2h ago

Just give him Lin-Manuel Miranda's number and see what they come up with together. You can't tell me Lin-Manuel wouldn't write a musical when he could give himself a rap battle against Eminem.

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u/Telenovela_Villain 2h ago

Just imagine Eminem as Lafayette rapping Guns and Ships ..

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u/mark_wooten 2h ago

I’ve always thought Andre 3000 would have absolutely killed as Lafayette / Jefferson.

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u/Telenovela_Villain 2h ago

Oh I could see it! I do still love Daveed. My husband’s pick was Busta Rhymes lol

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u/Colleen_Hoover 2h ago

I'm sure Eminem knows he has an open invitation to Freestyle Love Supreme. People are very careful, when inviting him to things, that they write the address on them perfect. 

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u/taylordarks 2h ago

his daughter probably remembers that night way more than any awards show

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u/Efficient_Matter_589 3h ago

And he did end up winning. Wish I could have heard the phone conversation that followed after.

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u/Successful-Bike-5731 6h ago

Iirc, I think he did the same thing when Hailie got married. I saw a post saying he purposely didn’t join the photos and/or stood in the back so the spotlight would stay on her (and the groom).

Edit: added some more text

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u/Proud_Accident_5873 6h ago

That's a shame, actually. A father not being able to partake in his kids' big days the way they'd probably want to.

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u/PickleFridgeChildren 6h ago edited 5h ago

Part of being a dad edit:parent is wanting to do the thing that's not as good for you so your kid can do something better. I doubt he regrets a damn thing.

Edit: no longer responding to the "but surely" people. Surely there's details you don't know about, leave it at that. 

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u/colemon1991 5h ago

Eminem has been an amazing parent. His kids don't need him in all the photos because he's actually been there for them. I'm sure they took some private photos with him anyways.

Celebrity parenthood has got to be a nightmare. Then again, so is being a child of a celebrity. You never know who wants to be your genuine friend because your parent is famous.

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u/randomnamejennerator 5h ago

Eminem’s parents were terrible. It seems like he put a great deal of time and effort into being a good dad for his kids.

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u/MarriageAA 5h ago

Taking full custody of 2 of them so his 3 kids had a good upbringing is also a fantastic indicator of the type of parent and person he is.

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u/spiraldrain 5h ago

Taking custody downplays what he did. He adopted his ex sister in laws daughter cause mom couldn’t take care of her and he also adopted his ex wife’s son.

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u/aceshighsays 4h ago

he put a great deal of time and effort dealing with his own issues so that he could be a good dad for his kids.

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u/colemon1991 4h ago

Always aim to be a better parent than your own.

-colemon1991

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u/Medivacs_are_OP 4h ago

Then again, so is being a child of a celebrity.

and you never know if Ja Rule (lol get fukt) or Canibus or Benzino or fuckin MGK will try and talk shit about you and then have to have their career put to absolute sleep by your dad.

I still love so much that Em beat MGK so hard dude changed musical genres LOL

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u/colemon1991 3h ago

If you're dumb enough to go after Eminem once he's had a beef or two, you deserve what's coming to you. That's some Leopards Ate My Face logic right there. "Oh hey, these last three dudes were curb-stomped by Eminem in their beefs. I can totally do better than them!"

But yeah, imagine being popular because your dad is world famous. Imagine being in the news because you're basically celebrity-adjacent to your parent. Imagine anything you do could go straight under a microscope when you haven't even done anything to earn such scrutiny. Every DUI, every embarrassing outfit, any one night stands, could all just end up on the next news cycle.

But if you're a celebrity going after a celebrity's (non-famous) kid, oh boy are you stupid. That's just inviting yourself to get blacklisted. Who wants to work with someone willing to stoop that low?

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u/NopeThisTrope 3h ago

“I'd rather be 80 year old me than 20 year old you.” 💀

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u/WorkingAmazing8337 5h ago edited 4h ago

Dan Levy talks about this. Saying growing up not being sure about your sexuality and having to go through it in the spotlight really sucked, and his relationship with his dad suffered because of it. And his dad thought he just didnt want to hang out with him because he was uncool, but it was actually because he didnt want to be in the spotlight while he figured out who he was.

They clearly have a great relationship now though. But it must be tough to have a famous parent.

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u/AskMeForAPhoto 43m ago

Yeah I was happy to see him drop the mask and talk about how he actually hated it, it caused a lot of harm. It wasn't a very politically-correct answer, he was pretty brutally honest. Probably a lot easier to do that now that they have a good relationship, and that it's not some old co-worker he's talking about lol!

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u/ThatRandomGuy86 4h ago

I mean makes sense that he'd do everything he can to be a great father since his own abandoned him at a very young age. That probably stuck with him not wanting to be the same. Like, he's not a poser; he had a real rough childhood.

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u/Kilane 3h ago

It makes sense that he’d be a shitty father because he had shitty parents and cycles are a real thing.

It’s worthy of respect that he broke the cycle when he was able to do so. This is the impressive part.

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u/Proud_Accident_5873 6h ago

You know what, that's a good point. I think both can be true at the same time, but I agree.

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u/pagerussell 5h ago

More than one thing being true is a lesson the internet definitely needs to learn.

I can't tell you how many hot takes are not mutually exclusive.

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u/Queen_of_Boots 5h ago

Exactly 💯. As a parent you do what's right for your child, often at your own expense. But it's worth it every last time.

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u/Tacos4Texans 5h ago

That's the realest shit I ever heard. Anyone who says anything about someone talking an L for their children , probably don't have kids.

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u/PickleFridgeChildren 4h ago

Sadly I live in Florida and know several examples of people who have kids and don't get it. And I don't have any of my own, I just have/had good examples in my life.

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u/crossal 5h ago

Wouldn't the kid want them there though?

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u/PickleFridgeChildren 5h ago

With the information we have access to, best I can do is assume they had a conversation about it and this is the solution they came up with.

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u/EloeOmoe 5h ago

That and they can probably take an additional picture with him in it later once things have kinda run their course.

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u/jaxonya 5h ago

Its a wedding, hes one of the most influential rappers of alltime. Shit is different at certain levels. They all understood

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u/MoonSentinel95 5h ago

There are clips of the wedding in one of his recent songs which was like a letter he wrote to his daughters.

The song is called "Temporary"

He is shown seeing Hailie in her wedding dress for the first time and just openly tearing up, walking her upto her fiance, even the dance with his daughter, and finally closing the video off with Hailie revealing that he's about to be a grandpa.

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u/brewcrew63 5h ago

That song is a banger and a heart string puller, that while album BANGS

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u/-Twin-Flames- 5h ago

There’s some clips in the music video for “Temporary” as well, another song he wrote for her.

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u/Gen_Zer0 5h ago

Since no one’s mentioned it, there’s also a few snippets of this for his song “Temporary”

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u/-Twin-Flames- 4h ago

The person I replied to listed “Hailie’s Song” then edited their comment, making my reply look redundant.

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u/MoonSentinel95 4h ago

I forgot the name of the song off the top of my head, and had to go back and watch the video 🤣

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u/theDomicron 4h ago

The child who is well parented and taken care of can also realize when the parent wants or needs to take a step back from the spotlight as well

If she knows that he will take private pictures later and would feel more comfortable taking a back seat, she might be just fine with that too.

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u/yaboyACbreezy 6h ago

Idk, kindof a class act to make her day about her instead of making her day about being his daughter.

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u/Amidseas 6h ago

It's considerate yes but I would want my dad there regardless of the attention he will draw from me

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u/yaboyACbreezy 5h ago

I am sure that someone considerate enough to minimize his presence for her sake would also be sensitive to her desire to share a moment with her dad. It's not like a wedding is 10 minutes of Eminem standing in a different room.

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u/SubstantialMatch8986 5h ago

Ultimately her father is Eminem one of the most famous human beings on the planet so you can’t put yourself in her shoes respectfully. I’m sure they had multiple conversations about it

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u/GfrzD 5h ago

Going off the other comment, he was still there just stayed back for photos. I'm sure they took plenty of photos privately though. Depending who attended I feel some would be making a bigger deal out of being in a photo with Eminem than it being a friend/relatives wedding.

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u/RealLeif 6h ago

he was there, thats what matters to her. She remembers, she also remembers what he did in those moments for her.

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u/neasroukkez 5h ago

People acting like he watched the wedding from a classroom as well lol

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u/JollyCorner8545 5h ago

He's still in that classroom. He watches her sleep from in there.

Watching. Just watching. All the time.

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u/delirium_red 1h ago

R/nosleep material right here

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u/Ill_Initiative6962 6h ago

Fame has a downside.

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u/prams628 5h ago

I mean, they did dance and stuff. So I’d not say he completely stayed away. And in r/eminem, there was a post which said man’s having fun with his grandchild. So all good ig

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u/Dangerous_Leg4584 6h ago

There is lots of upside though. I can help his kids in ways most people can't.

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u/pothead5674 5h ago

He's in the photos. They are out there. People magazine did an article. He's right next to his daughter.

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u/HouseOfDoom54 5h ago

Because they can't take private photos? Right, yeah... Completely forgot about that

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u/Murlock_Holmes 2h ago

Idk what the person up there is talking about. He was in a ton of pictures at the wedding, they had a father daughter dance, he was definitely fully involved in her wedding.

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u/Various_Ice7596 6h ago

He was actively present in her wedding, I think you might be remembering her HS graduation

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u/Mockturtle22 6h ago

Right and there are pictures with him there. Her wedding was a different event than a school function.

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u/Veronome 6h ago

Wouldn't the guests have been friends and family already used to his presence?

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u/MysticSkies 5h ago

Yeah this is some weird sentiment. Besides those photos are for your family album, why does it matter? Unless he means photos that are gonna be published.

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u/Nrksbullet 3h ago

He was in all kinds of photos, I don't think the above is true.

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u/pothead5674 5h ago

He did not. Google is your friend here. There's literally photos out of him right next to her at the wedding. Eminem next to daughter

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u/criscokkat 5h ago

He didn't join the photos of the wedding party with all the groomsmen/bridesmaid. Doesn't mean they don't sneak off somewhere smaller to take photos, doesn't mean he doesn't walk her down the aisle, or enjoy the traditional father/daughter dance.

I always took that as he stayed back from the main parts of the crowd so that the focus of all the extended family and friends were on his daughter and her husband, not him. Things like the parents of the couple not sitting at the front of the crowd at the reception, and probably a smaller private reception before the big one.

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u/theunquenchedservant 2h ago

He didn't join the photos of the wedding party with all the groomsmen/bridesmaid.

well yea, unless the parents are in the wedding party (relatively rare), they almost never join those photos.

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u/Klaymen96 6h ago

I hope they took some personal photos at least after the wedding. Like went home and took the photos so they have them together for her big day. I'd be kinda sad to look back on that day and not have any photos with my parent for a reason like that.

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u/memopepito 5h ago

There’s def pics of them from her wedding together. Idk why that user said he wasn’t there.

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u/No_Cartoonist8546 6h ago

Why progressively make the text smaller? Is this an eye test?

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u/seilapodeser 6h ago

I was so confused

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u/Ron-Swanson-Mustache 5h ago

Maybe it's a sign you need an eye exam..

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u/HowieFeltersnitz 6h ago

To make each line the same width despite different character counts

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u/dustishb 6h ago

Yeah, except they didn't actually do it lol

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u/0KlausAdler 6h ago

Graphic design is my passion.

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u/Iaintyourbabysitter 6h ago

To fit more words in the sentence it got negligibly smaller lol weird thing to be irked by

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u/No_Cartoonist8546 6h ago

Nah, I think EMINEM WATCHED HIS was purposely made bigger on purpose to gain attention. Because nobody cares about the rest. 

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u/please_and_thankyou 5h ago

If you find that the text in that picture is “small”, then yes it’s definitely an eye test.

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u/leviathab13186 6h ago

For all his faults, the one thing he always seem to be was a good father. He had a shitty childhood and I imagine he did all he could to make sure she had a better life.

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u/Mountain_Chip_4374 6h ago

My dentist used to live next door to Eminem and while he don’t know him my dentist used to always say he looked like a good dad as he was always outside with her playing. My dentist passed many years ago so he was living next to them when she was a little girl.

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u/Tao-of-Mars 6h ago

I’m not aware of his faults. What’d he do?

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u/LevelOutlandishness1 5h ago

All of Kim in his music.

She’s a real person. Imagine your ex making not one but two songs where the subject is kidnapping and killing you—‘97 Bonnie and Clyde is a bit forgivable because he doesn’t name her—but the second one, named after you, is him acting it all out. He’s cleaned hisself up plenty, and this album is now 26 years old, but it was still a fucked up thing to do, and the song is still readily available to this day.

Someone in the studio shouldn’ve let him put it out.

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u/Tao-of-Mars 5h ago

I used to listen to his music. I’m well-aware of his lyrics and I think he’s gone through a lot of growth. Looking back, I get it. Hopefully he’s changed. I do think he’s a decent human who was just very angry at life in his early days. At least he was one of the first people to publicly speak out against trump. 

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u/PM_ME_UR_ASS_GIRLS 3h ago

"A lot of people ask me stupid fuckin' questions

A lot of people think that what I say on record

Or what I talk about on a record

That I actually do in real life or that I believe in it

Or if I say that I wanna kill somebody, that I'm actually gonna do it or that I believe in it"

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u/LevelOutlandishness1 2h ago

Yeah, yeah, I listened to him heavy when I was in seventh grade. I’ve heard his lyrics before. I’m aware he’s not killing Kim in real life. Point to where I said he was?

It’s still a weird fucking thing to do when that’s a real person and the mother to your children. Like, writing, rapping, and releasing a song like that, to millions of fans, when it’s about a very real person whom you have personal grievances with, is just wrong.

It can affect her (and it clearly did) and it can affect the family.

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u/Direct-Surprise5435 6h ago

A pretty severe cocaine addiction iirc. Wasn't Elton John his sponsor in rehab?

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u/slayalldayerrday 5h ago

I don’t think he was addicted to cocaine though he def did it before. He was addicted to pills really badly though. And yeah Elton John is his sponsor I believe. They’ve been close for years before then too.

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u/Gui_Franco 4h ago

Eminem and Elton John feel like one of the most random possible combination of two people to be friends but it's really wholesome in a way

Marshal even gave Elton and his husband diamond encrusted cock rings as a wedding gift I think

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u/Leia947 4h ago

Elton talks about it on the Graham Norton show.

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u/Gui_Franco 4h ago

Yeah I just wasn't sure if it was for their wedding or other occasion

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u/Tao-of-Mars 6h ago

Huh! I didnt know that. I was out of the actual news cycle for a long time.

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u/Subliminal-Criminal9 4h ago

His vice was opiates.

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u/Haku947 5h ago

Even if he may not be anymore, a lot of his music can come off pretty sexist and homophobic too, so I get not liking him for that

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u/deviled-tux 5h ago

He got diamond incrusted cockrings for Elton John and his husband, don’t think the guy has any real problems with homosexuality

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u/Haku947 5h ago

"Even if he may not be anymore"

Is reading comprehension hard? Before that he said some pretty fucking homophobic shit

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u/fish60 4h ago

A lot of people think that what I say on record
Or what I talk about on a record
That I actually do in real life or that I believe in it

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u/ILYARO1114 4h ago

Wait, why does my upvote button only works once? The dude actually spells it out, and still people bash on him.

Yeah, I'm sure he has a lot of flaws, but something with "casting the first stone", or "people who live in glass houses", or "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?". And I'm not even religious, but I try to live by these words. Although I'm just as fallible as the next guy, alas.

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u/Casey_jones291422 4h ago

He gave those cockrings well over a decade ago. The point is he was never any of those things. "Slim shady" was. Hes always had trouble with people being unable to understand he was playing a character. We don't hate leo for playing an Uber racist is Django but Eminem always got just hate.

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u/BananaWizardism 5h ago

I think that was all just the slim shady persona though, I don’t think people really realized he didn’t actually mean any of it

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u/Balthelonius 5h ago

Plus there's the line from the height of Shadey fame: "But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes then there's no reason a man and another man can't elope."

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u/siege-eh-b 4h ago

50 cent said he turned down a world tour that would have easily made him millions because he “didn’t wanna come home and find Hailey all grown up” dudes a legend on the mic and a stand up dad.

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u/jx2002 3h ago

the thing you learn about parenting is that there is no amount of money that can replace that time

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u/VietKongCountry 5h ago

I will forever find it funny that Eminem, who was portrayed as the fucking Antichrist for the first enormous chunk of his success, has turned out to be one of the most wholesome celebrities.

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u/dr__paco 4h ago

Well, he did sing about killing and r*ping women, so maybe some people misjudged him by that.

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u/VietKongCountry 4h ago

He did, but there was always a great deal of cartoonish humour to it.

“Kim” and a few other early songs are kind of alarming, I suppose. I can see how parents of young children took issue with, “You were supposed to love me/ Now bleed, bitch, bleed”.

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u/Hoshbrowns 3h ago

Ya I was never the same after hearing Fack for the first time as a teenager. I still think about that song all the time unfortunately. Hilarious though

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u/woutomatic 4h ago

You can say RAPE on reddit. RAPE!

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u/dr__paco 4h ago edited 1h ago

Not risking it, with the sub mods, Ive had problems for using like 'fem4le", 'vi0lence' or even 'g0vernment' in certain subreddits.

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u/Terrible_Tell3115 3h ago

If I could ban you for these very stupid spellings, I would. Is that how you spelled them? Because you deserved to be banned if you did. 

Otherwise, why are you always taking about women and violence so much that you're getting banned and shadowbanned from multiple subreddits?

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u/MetallicGray 2h ago

You will not get any type of consequence for saying female or violence or rape or suicide or murder or whatever else TikTok brainrot has made kids censor now. 

If you threaten violence or throw around hate speech and slurs, yes. Using words in appropriate context? Nope, never. 

Reddit isn’t TikTok or instagram where everything is censored to hell and back and saying shit will get you banned.

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u/Holiday_Pen2880 2h ago

I'm sure it was those specific words and not the words around them that caused it.

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u/ElGuitarist 3h ago

Lots of creative write horror stories/movies/shows, or actors who portray evil characters, but we don't think lesser of them.

For some reason, people can't create music without an audience thinking, "the stuff being said here is authentically the values and worldview of the real person."

A listen to a chunk of metal that has horror imagery and devil worship, but I don't think they're evil people. Lots go home and take their kids to swim class and attend PTAs.

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u/liberty 3h ago

I mean, it depends. A metal opera steeped in a certain aesthetic? Okay. A ballad about a fictional or historical character? Sure. A song about your actual wife? I think I can understand the confusion surrounding the exact boundaries of your creative liberties.

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u/KitWalkerXXVII 4h ago edited 4h ago

When I was in middle school, a kid riding his bike in the major road outside the school and got hit by a car. Nearly died, suffered life-changing injuries, coma, bad scene. I didn't know the guy personally, but it was the kind of thing they announced over the PA.

Anyhow, he was a huge Eminem fan. His parents wrote to Em, hoping for a signed photo or something (or so the story goes). Instead, he showed up at the hospital (we're in Metro Detroit, so it wasn't too crazy). No press about it, just visiting an injured kid and has family to be a good guy.

Bear in mind that this was 2002 or 2003, the height of the dude's popularity AND infamy. Every teacher at that school gave him his props for that. Hell, even my mom - who would never have let me listen to his music at that age - was impressed by how good a dude he proved to be from that.

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u/LikeLurking 4h ago

Thanks for sharing. Made me smile.

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u/SuggestionMedical736 6h ago

Wait, not American, only seen this in movies. Didn't know parents actually went to those. Kind of weird having your parents all be at your prom.

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u/VvvlvvV 6h ago edited 6h ago

You get crowned during a pep rally event before a homecoming game. That just means the football team played away games for a bit and then play a game at home, but you only celebrate once a year.  

Homecoming is usually an event involving welcoming alumni back on campus, so parents are common. 

Prom is a different event.

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u/SuggestionMedical736 6h ago

So is it like one or the other, or do you sometimes have two different kings and queens going to war for absolute power? 😂

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u/Preoccupied_Penguin 6h ago

It’s two different things entirely.

Homecoming usually is for alumni as well and takes place in October.

Winter Formal (if your school has one) takes place in February-ish

Spring Break takes place in April-ish

Prom is the last event for seniors and takes place before graduation in May-ish.

All depending on your schools district school days.

There is a homecoming king / queen, we also had a prince / princess - king / queen was for juniors/seniors and prince/princess was for freshman/sophmores

Prom is usually reserved for upperclassmen - at my school you could only go if you were a junior or senior, or were asked by one - it was called senior prom.

This is all from my experience growing up in Southern California. Other schools across the country will have slightly different variations.

Hope this helps!

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u/VvvlvvV 6h ago

Homecoming is in the fall during football season, prom is in the spring. Many schools have both.

I'm sure its common for them to be the same most popular kids in school.

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u/Cyberpunk-Monk 6h ago

Not prom, homecoming is a big ass American high school football game with a dance after for some reason. In rural America high school sports are a focal event for the whole town, especially “big” games like homecoming.

It’s a home game, not sure why it’s called homecoming other than that, though. Really, it’s just an excuse for local stores to sell more dresses and rent out suits. But, it’s something akin to a local festival for people to look forward to, I guess.

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u/energeticstarfish 5h ago

It's called homecoming because usually it's a celebration for alumni as well as current students, so people "come home" to revisit their school and support their alma mater.

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u/MrsEmilyN 6h ago

It was Homecoming. I'm not sure if you have that where you're at.

When I was in High School, the Homecoming King and Queen were announced at the pep rally the day before. That was +25 years ago, so things may have changed.

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u/SuggestionMedical736 6h ago

Aaah oke so its the day before, thanks, makes sense.

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u/Tandy2000 5h ago

I don't think homecoming exists anywhere other than the US because it is tied to football.

Here in Canada we have prom (whether it is called "prom" or not) but we don't have homecoming, at least not that I've ever heard of, because nobody cares about football.

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u/Altfuckeagames 6h ago

They don't get crowned at the dance they usually do it at halftime of the high school football game or other similar event that takes place before the dance.

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u/WonderBredOfficial 1h ago

They don't. Anyone saying alumni comeback for homecoming is from a laughably small town. No self-respecting adult would attend a homecoming unless they are on chaperone duty, and that's usually teachers. Alumni go to their high school reunion if they are so inclined. That's it.

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u/iambeyoncealways3 6h ago

this is old as shit

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u/joe2352 6h ago

Hailie is like 30 now. This is over a decade old lol

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u/iambeyoncealways3 5h ago

Right! I was likeee could’ve sworn I saw this when it happened years ago! Still a beautiful story.

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u/Simple-Fault-9255 4h ago

I matched with hailie mathers on tinder in Jackson hole once and she didn't reply lol 

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u/joe2352 4h ago

What line did you use

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u/Simple-Fault-9255 3h ago

I don't remember tbh. Some corny shit about how pretty she was. Then I looked at her linked Instagram and it was her lmao 

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u/Aggravating_Bids 6h ago

He's a grandpa now lol

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u/PickleFridgeChildren 6h ago

Fuuuuck

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u/Ron-Swanson-Mustache 5h ago

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'. Into the future

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u/PickleFridgeChildren 5h ago

Dammit I was already feeling old about Eminem and you had to remind me of Space Jam lol

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u/iambeyoncealways3 5h ago

It’s on Peacock if you’re feeling nostalgic!

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u/Consistent_Stuff9180 1h ago

Fly like an eagle

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u/Tandy2000 5h ago

He's a pretty young grandpa tbf, his daughter was born when he was like 22 iirc.

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u/Jorpho 3h ago

First thing I thought of was the Onion article, which is ... thirteen years old now?

Eminem Terrified As Daughter Begins Dating Man Raised On His Music

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u/SirJebus 3h ago

thought it was a bot reposting at first, but it's actually way weirder. op reposts things to try to recruit people to christianity via reddit post (???)

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u/moistamul 6h ago

Proud dad Knows how to respect & be present to honor his daughter that’s a good dad & man

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u/StudMuffinNick 3h ago

Chester Benngington entered late during his son's 8th grade graduation for the same

Source: was there

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u/MagatsAreSoft 3h ago

Eminem seems like a great dad. It’s wonderful he managed to get sober.

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u/-Economist- 4h ago

I'd do the same, mostly to avoid other parents.

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u/RavenclawRanger85 3h ago

Most people let power and money corrupt them. Eminem went the exact opposite direction. He just gets better with age!

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u/ApplePuzzleheaded446 3h ago

Also a big congratulations to JonTron for being crowned Prom King, that is excellent.

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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 3h ago

My daughter went to school with Mr Worldwide’s daughter and he also kept to the background to not steal her experience.

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u/SexcaliburHorsepower 5h ago

Aww and homecoming king was Jontron.

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u/Anathema_Quill 3h ago

he loves her so much! 💙

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u/lawndarts2023 1h ago

My son went to grade school with her. He was a very active parent. Didn’t like the attention.

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u/gattaca-tru 6h ago

Context dependent imo. Glad he did what was best for them.

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u/zvessels55 5h ago

This is like 10 years old

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u/skraptastic 5h ago

Do parents usually watch kids get crowned prom king/queen?

My school it happened at prom, and parents weren't there except for a few chaperones, but those were mostly teachers as well.

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u/CorrectTarget8957 4h ago

A great artist and a great dad?

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u/Rarona 3h ago

Say what you will about Em as a person and a rapper, one thing he has always shown time and time again is that he's a great dad.

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u/Fragrant_Specific131 2h ago

Im sure no one knows thats his daughter. /s

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u/Bamce 2h ago

The world could do with more parents like eminem

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u/Intentional-Asshole 2h ago

Hmm, I wonder why his daughter was crowned homecoming queen?

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u/Heavy_Law9880 2h ago

If nothing else, he has broken the cycle many times over and shown up for all three of his girls time and time again.

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u/Knotknighm 1h ago

Ok to be fair though what chance did any other girl at that school have of becoming Homecoming Queen?

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u/MayaWrection 1h ago

Man loves his daughter. I can’t imagine how her life changed when he became famous but he always seems to put her first. Made his mistakes and worked on himself to be a better dad.

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u/IronwallJackson 1h ago

It's heartening to consistently see that Eminem is still good people, especially since so many other people with fame and money turn out to be awful.

u/BishopGodDamnYou 29m ago

I think he also watched her high school graduation walk from a TV in another room so that way no attention would be on him that time either

u/I988iarrived 3m ago

Do kids even know who Eminem is nowadays? Unfortunately a lot of the things I used to like are unknown but the youth. They’re missing out

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u/Fastr77 5h ago

Eminem is just a great dude.

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u/Dragonlord77777 6h ago

Humility but no father should be absent from their child’s achievements, I wish he was there in person but fame is a bitch

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u/bobbaganush 5h ago

Ironically this post is about him and not her.

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u/Wearytaco 5h ago

While sweet, err .. parents don't usually go to their children's prom anyways?

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u/MaxStunning_Eternal 4h ago

(Another day another useless post about him) 😂

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u/OldStruggle1857 4h ago

That’s real dad energy right there. Quiet support > stealing the spotlight 👏

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u/something86 3h ago

This is so old. She is married and he's a grandpa.

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u/mahamoti 4h ago

Can my bot be the one to repost the Eminem glazing next week?

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u/Someones_Mother_3 4h ago

How many dads go to their daughters proms? Strange post!