Eminem’s daughter Hailie Jade Smith has said she finds it difficult to listen to some of her father’s songs without getting emotional. Speaking on an episode of her podcast Just a Little Shady, Smith discussed Eminem’s new song Somebody Save Me, admitting that the music video was so hard that after watching it “in full” once, she’s not sure she “can do it again.”
“I cry every time I even hear it,” Smith said of the music video, which features Jelly Roll. “Between this and ‘Temporary’ … I think I audibly sobbed on both songs, but especially on ‘Temporary.'”
“The older I get, the less I can listen to the songs”
Smith continued to praise her parents as she reflected on her childhood in the same household as her father. “But when I watch the video again and listen to the songs, I feel like my parents did such a good job growing up that I didn’t realize how bad things were,” she said. “But now, as an adult looking back, it’s so scary to think about it. And I think that’s why I get so emotional just thinking that that could have happened.”
“That’s the message of the song, of course, but if you’ve ever lost an addict or a loved one, I feel for you,” she added.
Smith, 28, admitted she also finds it difficult to listen to some of Eminem’s older songs. “I can’t even listen to (‘Mockingbird’) anymore without crying,” she said.
“The older I get, the less I can listen to the songs,” Smith added. “But it’s fun to see (old family) clips (in the videos), just not in that context.”
Eminem revealed in 2021 that he had to relearn how to rap due to his severe addiction. Things were apparently so bad that he even took aim at Rihanna in a song recorded in 2009, referencing her domestic violence incident with Chris Brown in 2009. The song was leaked online in 2019.
Eminem later admitted in an interview with SiriusXM’s Gray Rizzy that he “didn’t remember” the verse at all. He said he simply put together rhyming words because he was relearning how to rap.
“I said it and it was wrong to say that. It was stupid as hell. You know, a lot of times, especially on the record ‘Relapse,’ when I started learning to rap again because of the drug situation that I had been through and having to relearn a lot of things, it was one of those things where it was like, ‘Well, if it rhymes, say it,'” Eminem added.
