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Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr., the estranged father of rapper Eminem, has died, TMZ reports. He was 67.

Mathers, who went by Bruce, reportedly died near Fort Wayne, Indiana after suffering a heart attack at his home, though his exact cause of death remains unclear.

Eminem, 46, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, had a well-documented, tense history with his father, whom he has said he never met.

The Grammy-winning rapper frequently mentioned their lack of a relationship in his song lyrics, singing in “My Name Is” that he slit his father’s throat in a dream, and addressing his father leaving the family in “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.”

“I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye/No I don’t/On second thought I just f⁠— wished he would die,” he raps on the track, before declaring his devotion to his own daughter, Hailie.

Eminem’s mother, Debbie Nelson, wrote in her 2008 memoir My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem that she married Bruce when she was just 15 and he was 22, and they welcomed their son two years later.

Their marriage soon soured, though, as Bruce allegedly became physically abusive, and they split shortly after Eminem’s birth.

“He never knew his father, and I did all I could to make up for it,” Nelson wrote. “I wanted Marshall to have a relationship with his father… but Bruce didn’t want to know.”

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Eminem told Rolling Stone in 2004 he was raised mostly by family members on his father’s side, including his great-aunt and great-uncle, but was often skipped over when Bruce would call their house.

“A lot of times he’d call, and I’d be there — maybe I’d be on the floor coloring or watching TV — and it wouldn’t have been nothing for him to say, ‘Put him on the phone,’” he recalled. “He coulda talked to me, let me know something. ‘Cause as far as father figures, I didn’t have any in my life.”

2013 studio album by Eminem

The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is the eighth studio album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on November 5, 2013, by Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment, and Interscope Records. It is his last album to feature the involvement of the independent label WEB Entertainment and his first since joining Aftermath not to feature production by his mentor Dr. Dre, who instead serves as an executive producer alongside Rick Rubin. The album is a sequel to Eminem's third studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP, and follows the trend set by his previous album, Recovery, by featuring popstars such as Rihanna and Nate Ruess, and using outside producers like S1, Alex da Kid, and Rick Rubin.

The idea of a sequel to The Marshall Mathers LP came about after Eminem recorded a handful of songs in the early stages of the creation of the album that reminded him of his earlier music, though Eminem wanted to experiment with "retro, vintage" sounds from turntablism for the sequel. The album draws influences from arena rock and old-school hip hop, mainly inspired by Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill and LL Cool J's Radio, while the production is more minimalist than Eminem's previous albums.

The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was regarded as one of the most anticipated albums of the year. The album was revealed during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards in August, alongside a preview of its lead single "Berzerk". The next two singles were "Survival" and "Rap God". "The Monster" (featuring Rihanna) was released as the album's fourth single and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album's fifth and final single "Headlights" (featuring Ruess) was released in Australia exactly three months after the album's release.

The Marshall Mathers LP 2 debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling more than 792,000 copies in its first week. In March 2017, it was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording In

Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr, who is also known as Bruce Mathers, was the father of Marshall Mathers (stage name Eminem) and was an ex-spouse of Deborah Nelson. He left his son Marshall as a baby when he was about 11 months old.

Mathers died of a heart attack, just four days before his 68th birthday, on June 26 2019, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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American rapper (born 1972)

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Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time, he is credited with popularizing hip-hop in Middle America and breaking racial barriers to the acceptance of white rappers in popular music. While much of his transgressive work during the late 1990s and early 2000s made him a controversial figure, he came to be a representation of popular angst of the American underclass.

After the release of his debut album Infinite (1996) and the extended playSlim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP. His next two releases, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002), were worldwide successes, with the latter becoming the best-selling album worldwide of 2002 and the best-selling hip-hop album in history. Following the release of Encore (2004), Eminem went on hiatus, largely due to a prescription drug addiction. He returned to the music industry with the releases of Relapse (2009) and Recovery (2010), the latter becoming the best-selling album worldwide of 2010. All of his subsequent releases – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013), Revival (2017), Kamikaze (2018), Music to Be Murdered By (2020), and The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (2024) – debuted at number-one in the U.S.

Eminem was also a member of the hip-hop groups New Jacks, Soul Intent, Outsidaz, and D12, and has collaborated with fellow Detroit-based rapper Royce da 5'9" as the duo Bad Meets Evil. He starred in the 2002 musical drama film8 Mile, playing a dramatized version of himself. "Lose Yourself", a song from it