{"id":3924,"date":"2026-03-11T20:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/eminems-grandmother-betty-kresin-dead-at-87\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:06:54","slug":"eminems-grandmother-betty-kresin-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/eminems-grandmother-betty-kresin-dead-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminem\u2019s Grandmother, Betty Kresin, Dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Earlier this week, Eminem\u2019s maternal grandmother, Betty, passed away at her home in Missouri, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/11\/eminem-grandmother-dead\/\">TMZ<\/a><\/em>. She had been battling complications from breast cancer, and the rapper was reportedly not present during her final moments. Their relationship, marked by both love and tension, had long been complicated. In a 2000 interview with London\u2019s <em>Mirror<\/em>, Betty spoke candidly about her discomfort with Eminem\u2019s explicit lyrics. \u201cWhen I hear his vile disgusting lyrics I can\u2019t believe this is my Marshall,\u201d she said. \u201cThe same boy who used to come and sit on my lap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet she contextualized his work within the broader music landscape. \u201cHe\u2019s no worse than the rest of them. I don\u2019t like some of the lyrics myself, but this is what the people want to hear,\u201d she explained. \u201cIf they\u2019re going to criticise my grandson, criticise the rest of them. What about Limp Bizkit? And Ozzy Osbourne, who used to eat live bats on stage.\u201d Betty lamented the scrutiny directed at her grandson: \u201cThey seem to be singling my grandson out. They\u2019re picking on him.\u201d Despite their disagreements, she conveyed deep affection: \u201cHe\u2019s my first grandchild, I was there then he opened his eyes, I love that boy. I want to stop this war between us because life\u2019s too short \u2013 I want him to hang in there, because everything\u2019s going to be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-eminem-faces-family-loss-a-year-after-becoming-a-grandfather\">Eminem Faces Family Loss a Year After Becoming a Grandfather<\/h2>\n<p>Eminem has not yet publicly commented on her passing. The news comes almost a year after he became a grandfather, following the birth of his daughter Hailie Jade\u2019s son, Elliot Marshall McClintock, last April.<\/p>\n<p>Hailie\u2019s pregnancy was revealed in Eminem\u2019s October 2024 music video for \u201cTemporary.\u201d The track contains lyrics addressed to her, crafted as a message she might one day hear, blending personal reflection with his enduring connection to family and legacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Eminem\u2019s maternal grandmother, Betty, passed away at her home in Missouri, according to TMZ. She had been&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":3927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}