Rapper Eminem’s Mother Died at Age 69

Debbie Nelson, Eminem’s mother, passed away.

According to TMZ, the 69-year-old parent of the 52-year-old rap icon died on Monday in St. Joseph, Missouri, after battling lung cancer.

Debbie and the “Lose Yourself” hitmaker had a difficult relationship, and the rapper chronicled their highs and lows in songs like “Headlights” and “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.”

The mother of the creator of Mom’s Spaghetti restaurant died five years after Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr., his estranged father, died of a heart attack in 2019 at the age of 67.

In 1972, at the age of 18, Debbie fell pregnant with Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III.

Because her son rapped the line, “Now, I would never diss my own mama just to get recognition,” on the song “Cleanin’ Out My Closet,” released in 2002, she filed a $11 million defamation lawsuit against him. Listen to “fore you think this record is dissin” for a moment. However, try to imagine yourself in my shoes. seeing your mother while she takes prescription medications in the kitchen.

The 2002 movie “8 Mile,” in which Eminem appeared, was based in part on his own experiences growing up in a trailer park and his tense relationship with his mother.

It followed Eminem’s character, Jimmy “B-Rabbit” Smith Jr., a young white rapper attempting to succeed in Detroit’s largely black hip-hop scene.

Debbie acknowledged in a 2008 interview that she want to set their disagreements aside.

She declared to Village Voice: “I will never give up on my children.” I refuse to give up on anyone.

“Everyone can have hope. It basically comes down to swallowing your pride. It is comparable to a cashed cheque. It’s finished and over. You must go forward.

Eminem apologized to his mother with the release of “Headlights” in 2013.

“My mom probably took it the worst, but I went in headfirst, never thinking about who what I said hurt,” he spat.

“I’m sorry I didn’t have the opportunity to thank you for being my mom and my dad,” Eminem continued. “So, Mom, please accept this as a tribute I wrote on this jet.”

In 2022, Debbie sent a special video greeting congratulating her son on his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Eminem, the Grammy winner, doubts his abilities on the Coachella stage.
“Marshall, I wanted to say that I couldn’t let today pass without congratulating you on being inducted into the Hall of Fame,” she stated. You have my undying love. You’ll get there, I knew. The journey has been lengthy. I’m so proud of you.

In 1986, Debbie and Fred Samra Jr. had a second son, Nathan Samra-Mathers.