![]() ![]() During the first verse of "Without Me", Eminem raps, "A little bit of weed mixed with some hard liquor/Some vodka that'll jump start my heart quicker/Than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital/By the doctor when I'm not co-operating." Five years later, he wound up in the hospital from a near-fatal overdose."Drug Ballad" is a wry and witty Age-Progression Song about Eminem wrecking his life with drugs, which becomes extremely dark in retrospect.Eminem's 2009 album Relapse contains a serious audio drama of Mr Mathers's overdose as a lead-in to the Sincerity Mode portion of the album. In the 1997 song "Low Down, Dirty", Slim punningly begs for help "before I OD on an LP".After Eminem's addiction, Creator Breakdown, overdose and brain damage caused by drugs, it turns out you really, really shouldn't do drugs. Slim Shady's first words on his first major label studio album is to say, at the end of the Public Service Announcement Album Intro Track, "Don't do drugs".Most of his songs about drugs become this in light of his overdose.Even scarier is that despite Proof being alive at the time, he wasn't even on the song, which could mean that in the song's story, he did get shot. Proof's death two years later made this song even scarier than it already was. ![]() "One Shot 2 Shot" has Em and D12 rapping about a shooting at a D12 concert.Eminem commented on this in his book The Way I Am, understandably feeling like he'd cursed Proof somehow with the video. It's a little freaky to see him in a hospital dying of gunshot wounds. Like Bugz, he was also shot to death about a year later. The video for "Like Toy Soldiers" (released in early 2005 as a single), which re-enacts the death of former D12 member Bugz in 1999, has fellow member Proof taking the former's role in the video.Several of Eminem's songs appear to have foreshadowed Proof's death.Listen to D12’s ‘My Band’ from the 2004 album D12 World, Proof’s last with the collective. He was, and always will be, my best friend.” Proof was funny, he was smart, he was charming. “Right now, there’s a lot of people focusing on the way he died,” Eminem said.” I want to remember the way he lived. Opting to remain out of the speculation surrounding the events at the CCC Club, Eminem focussed on Holton’s life. He will be missed as a friend, father and both the heart and ambassador of Detroit hip-hop.” Not a day will go by without his spirit and influence around us all. Without Proof’s guidance and encouragement there would have been a Marshall Mathers, but probably not an Eminem and certainly never a Slim Shady. “You don’t know where to begin when you lose somebody who’s been such a big part of your life for so long. ![]() In the aftermath of the shooting, Eminem spoke fondly about the memory of his close friend. Moore claimed that Etheridge then started firing toward both, intending to kill Holton but accidentally hit Bender in the head.Īs a rap artist, Holton was known best as a member of Eminem’s collective, D12. Bender then attacked Holton from behind to get the gun back. The shots panicked Holton and he pushed Etheridge out of the way, grabbed his gun and fired once into the air as a warning. He claimed that after the fight broke out, between Bender and Holton, Mario Etheridge had fired warning shots to break them up. Holton’s close friend, Reginald Moore, who had been at the club that evening, alleged in an interview with XXL Magazine that Holton hadn’t shot anybody. In the following weeks, eyewitness accounts gave contrasting accounts of the evening. However, he was prosecuted for carrying an illegal firearm and using it indoors. Despite these protests, the court determined that Etheridge had been acting lawfully in defence of his cousin. Holton’s lawyer subsequently accused the police and the media of being “reckless” in their assumptions that Holton had fired the first shots without any hard evidence. The autopsy revealed that while there were no illicit drugs in his system, Holton had a blood alcohol content of 0.32, four times the legal limit for driving under the influence.
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