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Wikipedia article
"'Kim'" is a song by American rapper Eminem that appears on his 2000 album 'The Marshall Mathers LP'. The song reflects intense anger and hatred toward his then-wife Kim Mathers and features Eminem imitating her voice, and ends with him murdering her and later putting her body in the trunk of his car.
"Kim" was the first song Eminem recorded for the album, shortly after finishing work on 'The Slim Shady LP' in late 1998. He wrote it, along with "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" (where Eminem and his daughter go to the lake to dispose of Kim's dead body), when he and Kim were having relationship problems and Kim was preventing him from seeing his daughter Hailie. Despite its controversial graphic content, it is often highlighted as one of Eminem's most memorable songs.
On the clean version of 'The Marshall Mathers LP', this song is replaced by a clean version of "The Kids" (an unedited version can be found on the CD single of "The Way I Am", the UK and deluxe editions of 'The Marshall Mathers LP').
Critical reception
The 'Rolling Stone' album review of 'The Marshall Mathers LP' stated that:
While 'Entertainment Weekly' wrote that:
In 2001, Robert Christgau told 'Rolling Stone' that songs like "Kim" and Ghostface Killah's "Wildflower" employ sexist content in an artful way that offers insight into its pathology, citing them as exceptions to the usual "reflexive and violent sexism" popularized by rap and heavy metal: "[T]he nonsense that 'Kim' advocates the murder of wives who cheat what an absurdity, and what a disgusting absurdity on the part of people who don't give Eminem credit for being more intelligent than they are, quite frankly."
In 2013 'Complex' ranked "Kim" at #21 on their list of the 25 most violent rap songs of all time and at #4 on their list of the 35 most depressing rap songs.
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Category:2000 songs
Category:Eminem songs
Category:Songs written by Eminem
Category:Songs about marriage
Category:Songs about revenge
Category:2000 controversies
Category:Horrorcore songs
Category:Songs about domestic violence
Category:Obscenity controversies in music
Category:Sequel songs
Category:Uxoricide in fiction
Category:Answer songs
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