Hailie Jade Mathers celebrates her 25th birthday this Christmas.
Evidently, the most important woman in Marshall’s life, Hailie has inspired so many important decisions he made and songs that he wrote that real Eminem fans pay attention to her trajectory, respectfully appreciate her success and celebrate her birthday.
Hailie is not only a muse and inspiration, she became a recording artist at very young age as Eminem added her voice to some of his tracks .
One of the most visceral songs father-daughter relationship ever written is probably his “When I’m Gone”, that explained Em’s decision to take a hiatus after releasing “The Curtain Call: The Hits”. Marshall explained in an interview later:
The guilt of always having to leave. At the time it was mainly Hailie that it was effecting. Literally the things that I say in the song about her giving me the coin and putting boxes in front of the door to try to block it, to try to stop me from leaving, those things really happened. I’m at a point in my life right now where I don’t know where my career’s going; this is the reason we called it Curtain Call because this could be the final thing.
[When Hailie would put boxes in front of the door] it would kill me. Just writing the song, when I hear the second verse of that song, everything in it is so true… There’s two songs that I’ve done where I was in the booth recording the songs [because] I’ve been teary eyed. “Mockingbird” and this new songs are probably the most emotional that I’ve [written].
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