Who is Eminem’s daughter Hailie Jade Scott?
By TOI Desk Report December 4, 2024 Update on : December 4, 2024
If one has listened to Eminem’s rap music, they are not unfamiliar with his daughter, who has been a muse and a character in his raps for more than two decades now.
Bruce Marshall Mathers III has name-dropped Hailie Jade Scott in multiple songs with nothing but how much he loved her.
However, Hailie who has had to live under the shadow of a rap god has her own podcast and is an influencer.
She recently got married in May 2024 to Evan McClintock and the couple is expecting their first child, which means the young Slim Shady will soon become a grandpa.
Hailie has been to the studio where Eminem records his masterpieces and has lent her voice and cameoed in some of his songs.
Hailie Jade Scott was born to Marshall and Kim Mathers on December 25, 1995.
The two were not together at the time and she was given her mother’s name.
She was born and raised in Detroit, a city which Eminem mentions a lot in his songs as it is his hometown as well. Hailie and Kim still live there till this day.
Hailie’s name was first mentioned in “97 Bonnie and Clyde”, a song that featured in the The Slim Shady EP in 1998.
His 2017 song “Castle,” which was penned as multiple letters to Hailie.
In 2004, while talking to the Rolling Stone magazine, Em explained what it was like to be a rap artist and a father.
He said at the time that whenever he set foot to the city, he would leave the cloak as a rapper at the gates and put on the coat of a father, taking her to school, picking her up and teaching her manners and giving lessons.
Hailie went on to become homecoming queen and Eminem attended it from an empty classroom to let her have the limelight.
Even Hailie mentioned in her podcast, Just a little Shady, a tribute to the rapper’s moniker, that he once rented a limo to have her and her best friend and podcast co-host Brittany Ednie be taken to Disney World when they were visiting him in Florida when they were little. She described the incident as surreal which they looking back appreciate much more as they got to have a princess tea party in costumes.
Hailie is also a smart cookie like her father. She obtained graduation degree with a 3.9 GPA in psychology from Michigan State University. Prior to that, she graduated summa cum laude from Chippewa Valley High School in Michigan and
She has two siblings, Alaina Scott, who is her aunt’s daughter, and Stevie Laine Scott from her mother and Kim’s then boyfriend Eric Hartter. Eminem adopted both of them as his own.
Recently, Hailie lost her grandmother, and Eminem his mother — Debbie Nelson. She died on November 2 in St. Joseph, Missouri at the age of 69.