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TIL when Eminem showed the song "Kim", which describes in detail how he would kidnap and kill his ex-wife, to Kim Mathers he said to her before it started "I know this is a fucked-up song, but it shows how much I care about you. To even think about you this much. To even put you on a song like this"

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