KJ-52's 'Dear Slim' Songs Send Message of Hope to Eminem – Throwback Thursday [VIDEOS]

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Christian rapper KJ-52 is known for his honest storytelling in his raps, and in this week's Throwback Thursday we will take a look back at his groundbreaking ode to Eminem, "Dear Slim" part one and two.

The original song created a lot of backlash toward the emcee, but at the end of the day he was able to rest assured that he was a witness to Eminem.

The song is modeled after Eminem's "Stan" which is about a letter written by a crazed fan to him. In the story he speaks about Stan going crazy and growing angry at Eminem for not writing back. KJ flipped the song, and wrote it as a letter from a fellow rapper who was praying for him and hoping he changes the tone in his lyrics to help people instead of feed them nonsense.

"Dear Slim" put KJ on VH1, but not for the reason of being a great rapper. Instead they put him on for being one of the top worst moments in history. They viewed his song as a diss to Eminem, and only played a clip of the song without really dissecting the message.

On his 2006 KJ-52 Remixed, he did a remix of "Dear Slim Pt. 2" which featured an intro by someone who claimed they were able to speak to Eminem about the song. The man says he was able to hand a copy of the song to Eminem backstage at the music awards, and told him it was not a diss toward him, but rather something encouraging.

"He's actually showing you a lot of respect and love. This is a message of hope he is giving you. And I said, if you don't mind I would like to give you one of these CDs," the man said in KJ's song. He said Eminem took the album, but they are not sure as to whether he ever listened to it.

However KJ does believe Eminem heard it, and addresses that in an interview with us here.

 

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Eminem's daughter recently graduated high school with honors.

 

Currently KJ is promoting his new album Mental, and his hit single "Gameface."