Nathan Kane Samra-Mathers (born 3 February 1986) is a hip hop artist (Nate Kane) from Detroit. He is most well known for being the younger half-brother of Eminem. They share the same mother, Debbie Mathers. He is featured in several of Eminem's music videos ("The way I am", "Without me"), and also appeared in numerous backstage scenes on the Up In Smoke Tour DVD.
At the 2001 Detroit Music Awards, Nathan accepted Eminem's awards and delivered a speech.
In 2001, Eminem fought for Nathan’s custody. Nathan now lives with Eminem. When asked about his brother, Eminem has replied: "Yo, my brother is mad cool. He's the most popular kid in the school. He's got like 10 girlfriends. He even dyed his hair blonde and got his ears pierced. He looks just like me! He came to my concert and the girls were all over him. They didn't even want to get with me. He was sitting on his girl's lap and I was like 'You go, you little pimp.' He is cool and we call him Little Nate Dogg."
However, it was once very hard for Eminem to keep in touch Nathan and said that "when I call him, I bite my tongue. I believe she's listening on the other extension. I'm sure he's afraid of my mother and I'm sure he's doing the same things to him that she did to me." When asked why he decided to be legally in charge of Nathan, Eminem explained that "it's got a little something to do with me not knowing my father, so I try to fuckin' make it up a little bit. But I don't think that's the only reason. I think parenthood comes naturally to me. I mean, I raised my little brother. My little brother was born when I was thirteen years old, so I pretty much raised him from the craddle."
Nathan's mother has shown more public support towards him than she has for Eminem, stating "I think when Nathan gets out there, he will do far better than Marshall." Despite his mother's public support, he told magazine The Face that living with Eminem was "better than living with my mom." He claims that he places a lot of value in his brother's opinion, and that "I'm more concerned what Eminem's going to think about me more than anybody else." He also has no claim to the name Mathers.
Controversy
In 2004 Samra-Mathers was arrested after being caught with a man in bed who was charged with selling ecstasy and marijuana to an undercover police officer.
Kim Mathers, Eminem's ex-wife, said in an interview that the rapper walked out on her, in February 2006, before filing for divorce, because she had had an argument with his brother.
