Eminem is going to be a grandpa!
Even though Marshall Mathers, a.k.a Eminem, is killing off his famous alter ego Slim Shady in his latest album, ‘The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce),’ he announced that his biological daughter Hailie Jade, 28, is pregnant in the tear-jerking music video, ‘Temporary,’ a song from the album.
Jade is seen walking to her father on the front porch of their house, while Eminem looks confused. She then hands over a blue football jersey with the phrase ‘Grandpa ‘ and the number 1 emblazoned. The to-be grandfather looks shocked as he shows the jersey to the camera and the ultrasound photos Jade handed him.
‘Temporary’ which features Skylar Gray is a consoling song written for Jade in the event of Eminem’s death. The emotional music video was filled with home videos of the father-daughter duo from 1999 when she was a little girl. The montages are filled with fond memories of the two as she grew up and documented important moments in her life such as her graduation and her infamous May wedding this year.
During the wedding, the ‘Lose Yourself’ rapper held back visible tears when he saw his daughter in a wedding dress for the first time. The video even captured the ‘Rap God’ walking his daughter down the wedding aisle.
From ‘Mockingbird’ to ‘Temporary,’ Jade has been a focal muse for her father’s infamous music albums from a young age. In ‘Temporary’ he gives a lyrical callback to a ‘Mockingbird’ line, “What Daddy always tell you? straighten up little soldier” which is coaxing her to not shed tears after he passes away.
Jade made the pregnancy announcement on her Instagram profile, with her husband Evan McClintock, where she is seen hugging him with the ultrasound photo in her hand. The social media influencer captioned the post, “mom & dad est. 2025 🤍.”
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Eminem and Jade had always had an adorable father-daughter relationship. In one of Jade’s recent episodes on her podcast, Just a Little Shady, which she co-hosts with Brittany Ednie, she expressed how she felt about her father’s ‘Temporary’ and ‘Somebody Save Me’ music videos. She said in an August 2024 video, “I audibly sobbed, I think, for both songs, but especially ‘Temporary,'” before adding, “But I will say, watching the video back and listening to the songs, I feel like my parents did such a good job growing up. Where I didn’t realize how bad things were, but now, as an adult in hindsight, it’s so scary to think about.”
In a 2001 interview with British publication Q, the ‘Houdini’ rapper spoke about how his daughter was a wake-up call for him to snap out of his addiction problems and earn money to secure her future. He said at the time, “She made me get my a– in gear — to make something of my life and try 10 quadrillion times harder than I had before,” before adding, “Everything that I am doing right now is for Hailie … the money — it’s for her college.”
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Hailie is Eminem’s sole biological daughter from his marriage to ex-wife Kim Scott. He also adopted Alaina, 31, his niece in the year 2000, and did the same for Stevie Laine, 22 in 2005, Scott’s child from her ex-boyfriend Eric Hartter.
‘The Death of Slim Shady’ is Eminem’s 12th music studio album, released this July. It ranked No.1 on the Billboard 200 with its debut song ‘Houdini.’ The album has again been pushed up to the top 10 on the charts after he released an “Expanded Mourner’s Edition.”