The significance to the ending of Drug Ballad

[EminemInsider]

I'm wondering how many people thought about the message Eminem was conveying in the last few bars of the third verse:

But when it's all said and done before I know it
I'll be forty with a forty on the porch tellin stories
With a bottle of Jack, two grandkids on my lap
Babysitting for Hailie, while Hailie's out gettin smashed

This song, done in 99, was when Eminem was 26/27 years old. Hailie at the time was no older than 2. In 13-14 years, when Eminem would be 40, Hailie would be 15 or 16 years old.

I think most people probably thought Eminem was just saying this to be funny...but when you think about it for a minute, you realize Eminem was actually conveying a terrifying fear he had for the future if he couldn't get it together. He was projecting a harsh reality...his teenage daughter picking up his destructive habits and eventually becoming a teenage mom. These bars were not intended to be humorous; the very idea of his daughter ending up like that had to have been eating him alive.

But of course, there are many out there who never grasped the significance of the ending and think he was glamorizing drug use in the song.

[Sam.]

He always dreaded growing up.

[Slill_Slim_Shady]

first hailly was 4 or 5 years old (depends when the song was wrote) at that time not 2. Seconde he ofcourse didn't talk seriously!! It was jus an irony!!!

[Sam.]

first hailly was 4 or 5 years old (depends when the song was wrote) at that time not 2. Seconde he ofcourse didn't talk seriously!! It was jus an irony!!!

Exactly an irony remember he wrote that song in like 20 min or so , that's very less time to be serious and shit.

[BigBangBazinga]

Talk about reading into things too much...

[EminemInsider]

first hailly was 4 or 5 years old (depends when the song was wrote) at that time not 2. Seconde he ofcourse didn't talk seriously!! It was jus an irony!!!

[EminemInsider]

Talk about reading into things too much...

Fucking idiot..

[Slill_Slim_Shady]

EminemInsider - big FAIL!!!

[EminemInsider]

You people are so fucking stupid. Perfect example of how most of Eminem's own fans don't even understand WHY he's good.

[Iris]

EminemInsider, nobody understands eminem like you do. It'd be great if you review all the songs from his first three albums. I'm sure there would be many things we didnt know.

[BigBangBazinga]

EminemInsider, nobody understands eminem like you do. It'd be great if you review all the songs from his first three albums. I'm sure there would be many things we didnt know.

My Fault: Obviously a song to make sure kids don't do drugs.

she said "Help me I think I'm having a seisure!"
I said "I'm high too bitch, quit grabbin my t-shirt!

He's saying drugs can kill you and you shouldn't wear t-shirts 'cause someone can grab it.

[EminemInsider]

EminemInsider, nobody understands eminem like you do. It'd be great if you review all the songs from his first three albums. I'm sure there would be many things we didnt know.

My Fault: Obviously a song to make sure kids don't do drugs.

she said "Help me I think I'm having a seisure!"
I said "I'm high too bitch, quit grabbin my t-shirt!

He's saying drugs can kill you and you shouldn't wear t-shirts 'cause someone can grab it.

Yeah, and the fact that she dies at the end (even though you can't OD on shrooms) is entirely meaningless.



You fucking dunces can't even follow his writing.

[BILI]

So much win in one thread thats still on 1st page.

[Sam.]

:laughing:

So much win in one thread thats still on 1st page.

Even my post can't take it to page 2.

[EminemInsider]

I mean, this should be OBVIOUS shit once you see it.

Then I remember: This is the same board that contains posters who write things like,

"I'm glad Eminem hatez fags!!!111"

"Encore was actually a very good album!!!111"

"Eminem was always on drugz"

"Eminem haz matured!!!111"

"Stop being negative about Eminem's musik!!!111"


What the fuck was I expecting? Shame on me.