Kim (song)
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| “Kim” | |||||
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| Song by Eminem | |||||
| Album | The Marshall Mathers LP | ||||
| Recorded | 1999 | ||||
| Genre | Rap, Horrorcore | ||||
| Length | 6:18 | ||||
| Label | Aftermath, Interscope | ||||
| Writer | M. Mathers | ||||
| Producer | F.B.T. | ||||
| The Marshall Mathers LP track listing | |||||
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"Kim" is the 16th track by Eminem from his second album The Marshall Mathers LP, which was released in 2000. It is a song of hatred aimed against his wife Kim Mathers, and features Eminem imitating the voice of hers, with the music being a piano loop.
[edit] Song information
Kim Mathers is Eminem's ex-wife, with an on-and-off relationship from the day they first met in 1987. The song is the second song against Kim after "97' Bonnie & Clyde" from his debut album The Slim Shady LP, though this one is a direct aim to her. The song is also a precursor to that song as its ending is 97's opening. In the song, Eminem is emotional and aggressive, pouring his heart out, with anger and cursing away throughout and he is talking and shouting instead of rapping, but still rhyming, with Eminem shouting verbal abuse at her. It starts off with him in her house, talking calm to his baby who's sleeping (Hailie Jade), then starts to shout at his wife, which he does throughout the song, while he, as his wife, screams. In the second verse, they are in a car and Eminem is driving, and in the third, they are in the woods, and ends with Eminem slitting her throat, while he repeatedly shouts "Bleed, bitch! Bleed!". In the outro, he drags her body, puts it into the car trunk, then drives off.
The song is one of Eminem's best known songs, despite not being a single. It is 6:18 long, and is the second longest track in the album, after Stan. Though there was no music video made for the song, there are fan-made videos on YouTube, with the actors lip syncing and acting the various parts.
Kim also saw him perform this song live in Detroit, with a mock-up doll of her being abused by Mathers on stage to audience approval. This was a recurring part of Mathers's performance in the Up In Smoke Tour. Following this concert, on July 7, 2000, Kim attempted suicide by slashing her wrists.[1]
[edit] Censorship
The song censors the words "four" and "boy" in the album version when he says "There's a four year old little boy, laying dead with a slit throat!" in verse 2, because of the Columbine High School Massacre and its reference to child murder. It also has the line "And while this is goin' on/His son just woke up and he just walks in/She panics and he gets his throat cut", but is not censored. An uncensored, rare version of "Kim" was leaked into the internet[2], before the massacre and album release, which doesn't censor the words "four" and "boy", but has bad quality and is very different from the album version: It doesn't have the intro and outro, smashes are not heard when he says "This couch, this TV, this whole house is mine", the truck's horn is different when he says "What the fuck's this guy's problem on the side of me?!", and rustling is not heard in the woods when Kim is running away from Eminem. The chorus of the uncensored version is also different from the album version, with the album version echoing Eminem's voice, but the last chorus of the rare version is similar to the choruses of the album version. Apart from that, everything else is the same.
Instead of Kim being in the censored version of the album, it is replaced by a South Park-themed song called "The Kids" because of of the violent messages aimed at his wife.
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