In two songs on Encore, Eminem mentions a little girl, presumeably about Hailey’s age, by the names Elaina and Laney. I cannot find anything about her via google. Who is she? The implication that she is his neice. Is he raising her for one of his sibs?
Still unsubstantiated since I could only find a couple of msg board postings from people who don’t spell very well, but apparently Alania is a neice that he has custody of. The msg board poster also mentioned that he had custody of his younger brother.
So yeah, huge grain of salt and all of that. I can’t find any reliable cites yet. 
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What events inspired “Toy Soldiers”?
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Huh, the only sibling I’ve ever heard anything about is his younger half-brother Nathan (they share a mother). Nathan lives with Eminem (or did last I heard) but he’s in his teens, making him a little young to be the father of a small child. Maybe Alania is from a sibling on Eminem’s father’s side?
Alaina (Laney) is his ex-wife’s niece. I believe it’s her sister’s daughter.
Toy Soldiers is about (in parts)
the Shady/Aftermath beef with Ja Rule…
Dre’s beef with Suge Knight
and Em’s beef with The Source/Benzino…
as far as I know - - although if anyone actually got killed I didn’t hear about it
Em almost suggests this has happened - - but I dunno…
on a simliar hijack…
does anyone else think that Crazy In Love is a metaphor for something - and not actually about Kim??
Also, if you want a cite for the claim that Alaina is Em’s niece, remember in Mockingbird Eminem says, “Alaina, Uncle’s crazy ain’t he, yeah but he loves you girl and you better know it.”