The parties went back and forth trying to deny him entry into the state, but in Eminem’s favour, the Toronto concert went ahead as planned.Īt this point, Mathers’ had just released his third LP, titled Marshall Mathers under the Aftermath/Interscope Records label, and his hot property stakes were rising. Flaherty said: “I personally don’t want anyone coming to Canada who will come here and advocate violence against women.” An MPP at the time, Michael Bryant went as far as to say that the rapper should be charged with hate crimes for advocating violence against women, as can be heard in his lyrics. Attorney General Jim Flaherty’s claims were reportedly based on the vulgarity in one of Em’s songs titled “Kill Me”. That same year, Mathers was scheduled to perform in Toronto’s Skydome, but an Ontario Attorney General opened a case that the rapper not be allowed entry into Canada. The troubled rapper lived up to the hype, and continued to cement his already crumbling relationship with the law. This was only the beginning of the graphic images he’d go on to paint of his toxic relationship with the mother of his daughter.Įminem became a bad boy rapper almost overnight, and his raps painted a self-destructing time-bomb waiting to go off. The track starts off with Eminem talking sweetly to their daughter Hailie, and ends with Kim’s throat being slit and him pulling her into the trunk of the car.
Almost in celebratory fashion, Eminem went on to release a song called “Kim”, and she sued him for defamation. He pleaded guilty to both charges and was given two years probation.Ī few months later, Scott slashed her wrists in an attempted suicide. He was charged for both offences with possession of a concealed weapon and assault. Taking reality and slicing it up into comedy, Em re-enacted the parking lot assault in a skit on his 2000 release The Eminem Show the track was called “The Kiss (Skit)”. The following day in a different city, Warren, Michigan, Eminem reportedly saw his then-wife Kimberly Scott, kiss a bouncer in the Hot Rock Cafe parking area and after assaulting the bouncer named John Guerrera, the rapper was arrested again. Then in 2000, the no-BS rapper whipped out an unloaded gun during an altercation at a car audio store in Royal Oak, Michigan, and was arrested on the spot. The case lasted till 2001, and she was awarded a mere US $1,600 in damages. He laced his raps with raw and unfiltered emotion as he slandered the hell out of his mother Debbie Mathers, and in return she sued him for around $10 million. It started in 1999 when Eminem dropped The Slim Shady LP on Aftermath/Interscope Records. Question is, how big of a hole has it burned in his pocket?
The inside of a courtroom is no stranger to the artist whose legal name is Marshall Mathers, and over the years, it seems he’s spent more time with his lawyers than in the recording studio. He’s also spent most of his career fighting legal battles. Eminem has built his career around being an angry controversial rapper.