Debbie Mathers Nelson Passed Away!

Debbie Nelson, the mother of Eminem has passed away.

Eminem saw success and tragedy.

He released his album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). 

His daughter, podcaster and media personality Hallie Jade Mathers got married. She also announced her pregnancy. 

His SiriusXM channel Shade45 celebrates 20 years.

His former labelmate Kendrick Lamar released GNX and is scheduled to perform at Super Bowl LIX.

His longtime collaborator and producer Dr. Dre is releasing his latest album with Snoop Dogg titled Missionary and they launched the Gin And Juice beverage company.

His best friend and former labelmate 50 Cent plans on his retirement tour.

His archnemesis Raymond Scott was once again buried. Formerly known as Benzino, Scott was crying on Drink Champs, had a ghostwriter write the lyrics for his only notable diss. Em still mocked him for having no neck.

When Em was introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, his mother praised him and showed him love.

Debbie Nelson, the single mother of rapper Eminem whose rocky relationship with her son was known widely through his hit song lyrics, has died. She was 69.

Eminem’s longtime representative Dennis Dennehy confirmed Nelson’s death in an email on Tuesday. He did not provide a cause of death, although Nelson had battled lung cancer.

Nelson was born in 1955 on a military base in Kansas. Her fraught relationship with her son, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, has been no secret since the Detroit rapper became a star.

An earlier photo of Em with Debbie.

Eminem has disparaged his mother in songs such as the 2002 single “Cleaning Out My Closet.” Eminem sings: “Witnessin’ your mama poppin’ prescription pills in the kitchen. ... My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn’t.”

In lyrics from his Oscar-winning hit “Lose Yourself” from the movie “8 Mile,” his feelings seem to have simmered, referencing his “mom’s spaghetti.” The song went on to win best rap song at the 2004 Grammy Awards.

Nelson brought and settled a pair of defamation lawsuits over Eminem’s statements about her in magazines and on radio talk shows. In her 2008 book, “My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem,” she attempted to set the record straight by providing readers details about the rapper’s early life, writing that Eminem had forgotten the good times they had.

“Marshall and I were so close that friends and relatives commented that it was as if the umbilical cord had never been cut,” she wrote.

She also detailed her own childhood, describing a violent home life in which her dad’s mother, who she spent summers with, was “the one woman in my large dysfunctional family to show us kids love.”

Papa Em.

In 2004, she was dragged from her car on Eight Mile Road, the street in a Detroit suburb made famous by “8 Mile,” by a 16-year-old who was later sentenced to more than four years in prison. She suffered bruises and a broken foot.

The highly acclaimed rapper Eminem won for best hip hop act at the 2024 MTV EMAs and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.

He announced in October that he was going to be a grandfather, saying his daughter Hailie Jade is pregnant by way of a touching music video that is a tribute to their relationship.