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Eminem Wrote A Song About Murdering Kim Then Married Her Twice
By Bruno Von Falken, . BSN Network. Satire.
In the year 2000, rapper Eminem released a song called "Kim" on his album "The Marshall Mathers LP." The song, which runs approximately eight minutes, depicts Eminem murdering his then-wife Kim Scott in what music critics at the time described as "visceral" and what a reasonable judge might describe as "exhibit A."
Eminem and Kim Scott divorced in 2001.
In 2006, they remarried.
They divorced again in 2006. The same year. The marriage lasted approximately 82 days, which is longer than the runtime of "Kim" but only barely, and which raises a question nobody at VICE appears to have thought to ask, specifically: at what point during the second engagement did Kim Scott listen to the song again and think, "yes, but this time will be different."
VICE, the publication that once covered war crimes and is now covering this, has responded to this extraordinary sequence of events by compiling a playlist. Five songs, they report, tell the turbulent story of Eminem and Kim. The list includes "Love the Way You Lie," "Hailie's Song," and, presumably somewhere near the end, a moment of editorial silence where "Kim" would go if the writer had the nerve to put it there.
"Their relationship is complicated but also beautiful in a way," said Tyler, a 24-year-old who commented on the VICE Instagram post and whose name has been used here because he earned it. "Like you can tell he really loved her. Even in the dark songs."
The dark songs, Tyler.
Eminem himself has addressed the relationship across multiple albums, multiple decades, and what a prosecutor would call multiple opportunities to stop. On "We're Back," released in 2024, he referenced Kim again, which means the discography now spans more years than most mortgages and has roughly the same emotional consequences for everyone involved.
Kim Scott has not released an album.
Kim Scott has not released a statement.
Kim Scott has, by all available evidence, simply continued to exist in the same zip code as a man who made her the subject of a catalog that a Spotify algorithm would classify under "Romance" and a criminal justice professor would classify under "a full semester."
VICE's five-song framework suggests the relationship has narrative shape, which is generous. What it actually has is a structure more familiar from true crime podcasts: an incident, a trial, a period of apparent rehabilitation, a second incident, and then an episode where the host says "we'll let you draw your own conclusions" and cuts to an ad for a mattress.
Eminem has won 15 Grammy Awards. Two of them postdate the remarriage.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him in 2022 and described his work as "complex."
Kim Scott was not consulted for this article, or, apparently, for the VICE one either.
The story we are making fun of: https://www.vice.com/en/article/eminem-married-the-same-woman-twice-these-5-songs-tell-their-turbulent-story/