Hush little baby, don’t you cry, everything’s gonna be alright—Eminem as a grandfather, presumably.
The “Mockingbird” rapper’s daughter Hailie Jade has announced she and her husband Evan McClintock have welcomed their first baby, a boy named Elliot Marshall McClintock. (The moniker serves as a sweet tribute to the rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers.)
“Happy due date,” Hailie captioned her April 4 Instagram post featuring a photo revealing their son arrived in mid-March, “3 weeks earthside little e.”
The news comes six months after Hailie shared the big announcement in her dad’s music video for his song “Temporary,” featuring Skylar Grey. The emotional track, which was dedicated to Hailie, was released as part of the 15-time Grammy winner’s Death of Slim Shady album on July 13.
The heartfelt music video showed adorable home videos of Hailie as a toddler while Eminem rapped about how even after he dies, he’ll always be there for his little girl.
At the end of the video, 28-year-old Hailie sat beside her musician dad and handed him a Detroit Lions jersey with “#1 Grandpa” on the back, as well as a sonogram of her growing baby. In the music video, Eminem was visibly shocked as he turned toward the camera with his jaw open.
The music video also featured never-before-seen footage of Hailie’s May 2024 wedding to Evan, showing the 51-year-old wiping tears away as he gets a first look at the bride before walking her down the aisle.
Evan popped the question to the podcaster last February—six years after they began dating. He revealed on Hailie’s podcast Just a Little Shady that he asked the “Houdini” rapper for his blessing during the holiday season, which also includes Hailie’s Christmas Day birthday. The enterprise growth executive emphasized that to be discreet about the whole ordeal, he had to wait for the right time to approach the wordsmith.
“I saw your dad go downstairs and [thought], ‘Alright. I got to do it right now or I’m not doing it today. I’m going to have to schedule some other time,'” Evan shared. “So, I just followed him downstairs and thankfully, he was just down there, grabbing your [birthday] cake.”
It’s no secret that Hailie—one of three daughters that Eminem shares with ex-wife Kim Scott—are super close. At the end of the “Temporary” music video, a note handwritten by Hailie comes into frame.
“Dad, I got this card a few years ago & held onto it & now feels like the perfect time to give you it,” it read. “Thank you for everything you do & always being there for all of us girls. You truly are the best dad in the world. Love you forever + 100 million dollars forever & always. [Love] Bean.”
For more on Eminem’s expanding family tree, read on.
Kim Mathers
Born Kimberly Ann Scott, the Michigan native was Eminem’s high school sweetheart. She welcomed their daughter Hailie Jade in 1995.
Kim was married to the rapper from 1999 to 2001, and briefly again in 2006. Their tumultuous relationship has been referenced in several of Eminem’s songs, including “’97 Bonnie & Clyde,” “Puke” and “Bad Husband.”
“In our relationship, there’s a pattern,” Kim said of their on-and-off romance in a 2007 interview with 20/20. ” We’ll have two good years and then it will go bad for some reason. It’s like a two-year max with us and we hadn’t reached the two years yet. I just didn’t want to rush into anything before the two years.”
However, Kim noted that Eminem has always been an “excellent” father.
“He loves the kids very much,” she shared. “He’s always lending a helping hand.”
Hailie Jade Scott
Eminem and Kim welcomed Hailie on Dec. 25, 1995. According to music star, her birth was a “real wake-up call” to “get my a– in gear.”
“Everything that I am doing right now is for Hailie,” he told Q magazine in 2001. “The money—it’s for her college.”
She spent most of her youth under Eminem’s 15,000-square-foot roof in the Detroit suburbs, before attending Michigan State University to study psychology. There, she met her now-husband Evan McClintock, who she married in May 2024 after getting engaged the year prior.
“She’s doing good,” Eminem said of Hailie during a 2020 episode of Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson, adding that the influencer—who now goes by Hailie Jade—graduated from college with a 3.9 GPA. “She’s made me proud for sure.”
In October 2024, Hailie announced her pregnancy with her and Evan’s first child. The pair welcomed a baby boy named Elliot Marshall McClintock in March 2025.
Alaina Marie Scott
Born on Feb. 22, 1993, Alaina is the daughter of Kim’s sister Dawn Scott.
She was adopted by Eminem in the early aughts due to her mother’s struggles with addiction. “I have full custody of my niece and joint custody of Hailie,” the 8 Mile star told Rolling Stone in 2004. “I was always there for Hailie, and my niece has been a part of my life ever since she was born. Me and Kim pretty much had her, she’d live with us wherever we was at.”
Having been largely raised by Eminem, the Oakland University alum calls him “dad” and had him accompany her down the aisle when she wed Matt Moeller in June 2023.
“He wasn’t going to miss that,” she told People after the nuptials, during which Hailie served as a Maid of Honor. “None of this would have been possible without my dad. I’m beyond blessed.”
Her mother passed away in 2016 at the age of 41.
In October 2025, she revealed that she was pregnant with her and Matt’s first child, a baby girl.
Stevie Laine Scott
Kim welcomed Stevie on April 16, 2002, with her then-boyfriend Eric Hartter. Eminem legally adopted Stevie in 2005, when he reconciled with Kim.
Stevie came out as nonbinary in August 2021, sharing in a TikTok video that they identify using “all pronouns.”
They added in the caption, “forever growing and changing.”
Debbie Nelson
Born in 1955 at a military base in Kansas, Debbie is the mother of Eminem.
She married the “Without Me” artist’s father Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. when she was 15, according to her 2008 memoir My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem. She became pregnant with Eminem 16 months later and relocated to Michigan, where her maternal grandmother lived.
Debbie and Eminem’s strained relationship has been documented in several of his songs, including his 2002 smash hit “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.” In the track, he alleged that Debbie abused prescription pills when he was young—which she denied in her autobiography.
“What mother wants to be known as a pill-popping alcoholic who lives on welfare?” she wrote. “None of it was true, but the fibs kept getting bigger, and ultimately Marshall and I became estranged.”
However, Eminem has since expressed regret in airing out his family drama. In his 2013 song “Headlights,” he rapped, “I went in headfirst, never thinking about who, what I said hurt / In what verse, my mom probably got it the worst.”
Nelson died at the age of 69 in 2024 following a battle with cancer.
