While sitting in a Windsor bingo hall, Kim Mathers’ phone was stolen by Kyle Spratt, an employee at the hall, and phone calls were made to Eminem on her phone asking him to listen to his [Kyle Spratts] demo track. Spratt told the Windsor Star that Eminem pretended it wasn’t him on the phone and used a fake voice. Later on the evening, Spratt received a phone call from Detroit Police, telling him to stop harassing Marshal Mathers.Spratt had the phone conversations with the police and Eminem recorded and sampled them in a song titled ‘Slim Sellout’ attacking the rapper. Spratt posted the song on Myspace and received 1,400 hits in two days. However, the link was removed from Spratt’s website after he received a visit from the Windsor Police.
According to Windsor Police inspector Greg Renaud, Spratt told Kim that if he didn’t receive any promotion from Eminem, “he was going to post the photos of (their) children on the web.” Spratt told the Windsor Star that the police came to his house and checked out his computer but found nothing and that Kim also misread one of the text messages. Renaud said the Mathers family will not be pressing charges because Spratt has already paid for his crime by losing his job at the bingo hall.
by Lucas DiGia & Robby Uppal
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