About Uncle Ronnie..

[KoLyric]

I've searched and haven't come to find an answer but how did uncle Ronnie commit suicide?

[murphmanny]

I read somewhere he shot himself in the head with a shotgun... and then had an open casket funeral. No lie.

I think I read it in that Eminem biography book a few years ago.

[Jimmy Conway]

I read somewhere he shot himself in the head with a shotgun... and then had an open casket funeral. No lie.

I think I read it in that Eminem biography book a few years ago.

Some shot guns don't cause as much damage as you would think. And depending on the location of the blast and of course make up and all the stuff they can do at a funeral home, sometimes open caskets are still possible.

Sad his Uncle died. I'd be surprised if he ever got into it.He's had 25 years to make a song about it and he still hasn't, doesn't make much sense to do it now.

[LK5]

I read somewhere he shot himself in the head with a shotgun... and then had an open casket funeral. No lie.

I think I read it in that Eminem biography book a few years ago.

Some shot guns don't cause as much damage as you would think. And depending on the location of the blast and of course make up and all the stuff they can do at a funeral home, sometimes open caskets are still possible.

Sad his Uncle died. I'd be surprised if he ever got into it.He's had 25 years to make a song about it and he still hasn't, doesn't make much sense to do it now.

He made one for MMLP I think but didn't release it

[Squiggles123]

It could make sense now, time can help the pain a bit. I didn't know that Ronnie was practically the same age as Em until I watched a doco recently. Also it said something about Em and his grandma falling out because she filmed the funeral or something and sent it to him because he wouldn't go? Something like that?

[Jimmy Conway]

I read somewhere he shot himself in the head with a shotgun... and then had an open casket funeral. No lie.

I think I read it in that Eminem biography book a few years ago.

Some shot guns don't cause as much damage as you would think. And depending on the location of the blast and of course make up and all the stuff they can do at a funeral home, sometimes open caskets are still possible.

Sad his Uncle died. I'd be surprised if he ever got into it.He's had 25 years to make a song about it and he still hasn't, doesn't make much sense to do it now.

He made one for MMLP I think but didn't release it

I meant for the public to hear. No one can speculate about the thousands of songs he's made over the year privately. I'm sure there's not many subjects he's missed.

[Amaranthine]

Also it said something about Em and his grandma falling out because she filmed the funeral or something and sent it to him because he wouldn't go? Something like that?

This is correct.

I read somewhere he shot himself in the head with a shotgun... and then had an open casket funeral. No lie.

I think I read it in that Eminem biography book a few years ago.

Also correct.

I think he was going to release it but his grandmother requested he don't.

Also correct. She threatened to sue him if he released it. He was going to use part of a freestyle Ronnie had recorded.

Em's grandmother, Betty Kresin, reportedly threatened to sue the rapper because he wanted to put a freestyle rhyme on Marshall Mathers LP by her deceased son Ronnie, Em's uncle and best friend, who took his own life in 1993. "She sent me a package not even a month ago," Em says. "I open it up [and there's a note that reads] 'Marshall, I found Ronnie's last tape. Maybe you could use it.' I put it in the tape deck and it's an audio recording of Ronnie's funeral. I guess she was trying to fuck with me."

[Squiggles123]

^ yeah that's messed up....so Em definitely didn't attend the funeral then? He could have paid her off probably but he had enough family legal battles going on.....

[Amaranthine]

He did not attend the funeral, no.

[Shuttle Destroyer]

I read somewhere he shot himself in the head with a shotgun... and then had an open casket funeral. No lie.

I think I read it in that Eminem biography book a few years ago.

Exactly
It's amazing how I also remember a lot from that book when the right subject comes in