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Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr., the estranged father of rapper Eminem, has died, TMZ reports. He was 67.

Mathers, who went by Bruce, reportedly died near Fort Wayne, Indiana after suffering a heart attack at his home, though his exact cause of death remains unclear.

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Eminem, 46, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, had a well-documented, tense history with his father, whom he has said he never met.

The Grammy-winning rapper frequently mentioned their lack of a relationship in his song lyrics, singing in “My Name Is” that he slit his father’s throat in a dream, and addressing his father leaving the family in “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.”

“I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye/No I don’t/On second thought I just f⁠— wished he would die,” he raps on the track, before declaring his devotion to his own daughter, Hailie.

Eminem’s mother, Debbie Nelson, wrote in her 2008 memoir My Son Marshall, My Son