Kim (Eminem song)
| "Kim" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Eminem | |
| from the album The Marshall Mathers LP | |
| Released | May 23, 2000 |
| Recorded | 1999 |
| Genre | Horrorcore |
| Length | 6:17 |
| Label | Aftermath, Interscope |
| Songwriter(s) | Marshall Mathers, Jeff Bass, Mark Bass |
| Producer(s) | F.B.T. |
"Kim" is a song by American rapper Eminem which appears on his 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP. The song reflects intense anger and hatred toward Eminem's then-wife Kim Mathers and features Eminem imitating her voice, and ends with Eminem killing Kim and later burying her. "Kim" was the first song the rapper recorded for the album, shortly after finishing work on The Slim Shady LP in late 1998. Eminem wrote this song, along with "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" (where Eminem and his daughter go to the lake to dispose of Kim's dead body), at a time when he and Kim were having marital problems and Kim was preventing him from seeing his daughter Hailie. While the song has been cited as an example of misogyny in hip hop culture, it is often highlighted as one of Eminem's most memorable songs.
On the clean version of The Marshall Mathers LP, this song is replaced by a clean version of "The Kids" (an unedited version can be found on the CD single of "The Way I Am", the UK and deluxe editions of The Marshall Mathers LP).
Since meeting in 1989, Eminem and Kimberly Anne "Kim" Scott have had an on-and-off relationship. They had a daughter together named Hailie Jade, who was born on Christmas Day 1995. The couple married in 1999 and divorced in 2001, later re-married in 2006 and divorced that same year. "Kim" is the third song by Eminem about Kim, the first being "Searchin" from his debut album Infinite (1996) and the second being "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" from the album Slim Shady LP (1999). An instrumental version of the song is played at the start of the music video of "The Way I Am".
Eminem is both emotionally unstable and aggressive throughout the entire song, as the song portrays him murdering Kim. The song begins with Eminem in Kim's home (after murdering her husband and her stepson). Eminem is talking calmly to their daughter, who is sleeping, and subsequently starts to shout verbal abuse at Kim, which remains a common element throughout the entire song. Eminem sings "So long, bitch you did me so wrong/I don't want to go on living in this world without you" in the hook two times.
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