Trivia

• The song was originally set to feature an interpolation of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by The Beatles, but its use was denied by George Harrison’s wife. Eminem stated that Harrison “heard it before he passed and liked it,” adding, “I don’t understand the political side, but his wife has control of the music now, and she said no, so I had to re-sing it all and redo the song.”

Words from Eminem

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I made it to keep in the vault for Hailie to hear when she got older and was able to understand it. […] When I played it for people they started liking it, so I was like, “okay.” I was a little embarrassed about putting it out at first. I’m never gonna hold back on expressing my love for my daughter. There’s nothing that can strip that. […] She knows [what I do] to some extent. I can’t imagine what a 6-year-old must think.

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I really dumped my feelings out in that song. I love my little girl enough to sing to her, for one, and two, it wasn’t easy what I went through last year.

Divorce is the hardest thing that I’ve ever worked through — not that I’m bitter or anything like that. I’m a better person because I went through it, but it was hard at first.

I’ve known this chick all my life, she’s the first true girlfriend that I ever had. You grow up with this person, and then they want to leave you. And at first you don’t know what to do.

You know, I put the blame on everything. I put the blame on myself, I put the blame on my career. But as I got through it, I stepped back and looked at the whole picture. I realized it wasn’t my fault and there’s nothing I could have done. It was inevitable.

It’s cool, me and Kim are on speaking terms, we can communicate, no hard feelings, fuck it. Didn’t work, you know, after eleven years.