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ByBrian Boone

Eminem is as monumentally famous as he is dominant in the hip-hop scene.

Over the past 25 years or so, he's sold millions of records' worth of lyrically dense, emotionally driven, and often humorous and violent songs rapped in his signature high-pitched timbre.

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Whether he's dissing himself, other rappers, or the mother of his child to various and specific degrees, Eminem comes across as both brutal and brutally honest. As far as what's commonly known about the rapper, one of the things we sometimes get wrong about Eminem concerns his personal life.

He's had a famously fraught, combative, and complicated relationship with his mother, Debbie Nelson (sometimes also known as Debbie Mathers and Debbie Briggs), who died on December 2, 2024, at age 69.

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It's part of Eminem's insane real-life story that he's publicly, legally, and even artistically battled with N