He then goes on to insult his mother by telling her he will not take his daughter(s) to her funeral and is enraged that she will not admit she was a bad mother and calls her out for suing him and says: "But how dare you try and take what you didn't help me to get / You selfish bitch, I hope you fucking burn in hell for this shit!" Finally, he mentions that at his uncle Ronnie's funeral, his mother told him he should have died instead, giving way to the final lyric: "Well, guess what? I am dead / Dead to you as can be!"Īllmusic highlighted this song. My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't." He also mentions the demo that his mother put out for him in hopes of repairing their estranged relationship called "Set the Record Straight" and claimed she made it to try to justify the way she treated him. At the start of the third verse, Eminem states that his comments regarding his mother are not made for the sake of public attention ("now I would never diss my own mama just to get recognition"), before accusing her of medicinal drug abuse and Münchausen syndrome by proxy as stated in the line, "Victim of Münchausen's syndrome.The second verse then moves on to how his father abandoned him and his mother when Eminem was an infant, and then goes on to say how he would not do the same to his own daughter.
The recording engineer had muted the snare drums in his headphones during the recording of the song.
Brown was ordered to do community service and received five years probation. In 2009, following a party, Brown assaulted Rihanna in his car, leaving her with visible bruising, swelling and a split lip on her face which made high-profile news at the time. Rihanna and Brown dated from 2007 to 2009 and then again in 2012. Eminem has issued an apology to Rihanna, following the leaking of an old song last year where he appeared to side with Chris Brown.