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Eminem’s daughter, Hailie Jade, announced on Friday (April 4) that she gave birth to her first child in March — and she revealed her son’s name, which pays homage to her “Rap God” father.

Slim Shady is officially a grandpa. “Happy due date//3 weeks earthside little e,” Hailie wrote to Instagram alongside a photo of the baby boy. “Elliot Marshall McClintock 3.14.25,” a headboard in the photo reads. Marshall Mathers is Eminem’s real name, so Elliot will carry his grandfather’s legacy through his middle name.

Fans were very emotional to find out that the child’s middle name honors Eminem, along with his initials being EMM. “His initials are EM & M Genius! What a little cutie,” one person wrote while another fan added: “Not me tearing up at the middle name like I’m related.”

Hailie Jade has been with her husband Evan McClintock since 2016. The couple got engaged in 2023 and tied the knot last May.

Another heartwarming moment came in October when Hailie surprised Eminem with the fact that he was going to be a grandpa, which was used as a scene in Em’s “Temporary” music video. In the clip, Em is gifted a Detroit Lions jersey with “Grandpa” inscribed across the nameplate and photos of his pregnant daughter’s sonogram.

“Temporary” landed on Em’s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) last summer and the vulnerable track debuted at No. 56 on the Billboard Hot 100.“I audibly sobbed … I think for both songs, but especially ‘Temporary,’” Hailie Jade said on an episode of her Just a Little Shady podcast. She also praised Em and her mother, Kim Scott, for “doing such a good job” of parenting while shielding her from “how bad things were” between them.

See Hailie Jade’s announcement post below:

Future posted a tribute to his recently deceased friend and collaborator Young Scooter on his Instagram Story.

“Life will never be the same without you my brother,” he wrote yesterday (Apr. 2) over a video of him and Scooter backstage somewhere. “I love you. This sh—t unreal.” He then posted a couple photos of the them hanging out together.

A few days after Scooter’s untimely passing, Future sent out a tweet seemingly referring to his friend, saying, “I can hear you loud and clear my brother(street)…we got you, kid.”

Young Scooter passed over the weekend on his 39th birthday in what has turned out to be a confusing ordeal causing the Atlanta police department to have a press conference to combat social media rumors online that they had shot the rapper after responding to a call.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s autopsy seemed to back up the APD’s statement by reporting that his cause of death was due to a cut to his thigh which cause substantial blood loss.

“Mr. Bailey sustained a penetrating injury of his right thigh that created marked blood loss,” the coroner told Rolling Stone. “This injury was not a gunshot wound. Mr. Bailey injured himself on organic (wooden) fencing material and/or woody debris after vaulting at least one fence.”

Scooter was one of the first artists singed to Future’s Freebandz label and the two worked on a bunch of records together over the years, most notably “Jet Lag” which also featured the late Juice Wrld off of his collab album with Future, Wrld on Drugs, “Doh Doh” from Beast Mode 2, and the single “Hard to Handle.”

On Wednesday night (Apr. 2), Fake Shore Drive‘s Andrew Barber tweeted out a leaked song titled “Take the Soul” and claimed that the track was “Playboi Carti and A$AP Nast over Alchemist production.”

Naturally, fans went into a frenzy on X, with many of them excited to finally hear Carti over an Alchemist beat. When one fan replied to an old tweet suggesting that the West Coast legend would never work with the likes of the King Vamp himself with the leaked track, the producer quote-tweeted and said, “Imagine if i didn’t make this beat.” When a fan followed-up and asked if he actually made the beat, the producer simply wrote, “Yes.”

Billboard has reached out to reps for Playboi Carti, A$AP Nast and The Alchemist for comment.

Back in December, after details of Young Thug‘s took a plea deal in the YSL RICO case, fans joked that The Alchemist should do an introspective jazz album with Thugger. Alchemist replied, asking for someone to send him the Atlanta rapper’s number.

Then in March, The Alchemist said he wanted to work with Future when a fan asked him who was an artist that he wanted to work with that he hadn’t already. Frequent Pluto collaborator Southside caught wind of his tweet and reached out asking the him to send some beats over as he and Wheezy put the finishing touches on Future’s upcoming album.

The leaked track posted by Barber is only about two minutes long with Carti handling hook duties as A$AP Nast delivers a verse. Check out The Alchemist’s tweets below: