Fire burns Eminem’s childhood home in Detroit

The house is pictured on the cover of Eminem’s just-released The Marshall Mathers LP 2

Last updated: September 15, 2018 | 23:54

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A fire has burned the childhood home of rapper Eminem in Detroit.

The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press report crews responded on Thursday evening to the boarded-up bungalow, which is pictured on the cover of Eminem’s just-released The Marshall Mathers LP 2. It also was on the musician’s 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP .

The blaze damaged portions of the small home’s top floor. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately known.

Public records show the home was listed as the address of Eminem’s mother, Deborah Mathers, starting in the 1980s. It later changed hands.

File-This Sept. 10, 2010 file photo shows rapper Eminem performing at Yankee Stadium in New York. The first YouTube Music Awards had all kinds of unexpected moments, imagined by Spike Jonze and carried off by the odd-couple hosts Jason Schwartzman and Reggie Watts. Eminem won artist of the year, and Taylor Swift and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were among the winners during Sunday night's live webcast from New York. But the awards were sort of beside the point as Jonze and others directed live videos with Eminem, Lady Gaga, M.I.A. and Earl Sweatshirt, and Schwartzman and Watts careened about the soundstage with no script and only notecards to point the way. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

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