![]() And if someone doesn’t understand that by now, I don’t think there’s anything I can do to change their mind about it. Em jumps in after the intro and raps: 'I'm beginning to feel like a rap god.' Slim Shady is not alone in elevating himself to a deity. Fresh is a member of the Church of Scientology and he has said that he put the '6,6,6' motif into the song to evoke the presence of the Devil's temptation. Well, look, I’ve been doing this shit for, what, 14 years now? And I think people know my personal stance on things and the personas that I create in my music. Six minutes Six minutes Doug E Fresh you're on.' Doug E. I kind of thought you were doing it because when you’re rapping as Slim Shady, part of your mission is to annoy people. And I don’t know how else to say this, I still look at myself the same way that I did when I was battling and broke. I’m glad we live in a time where it’s really starting to feel like people can live their lives and express themselves. But the real me sitting here right now talking to you has no issues with gay, straight, transgender, at all. ![]() And, not saying it’s wrong or it’s right, but at this point in my career – man, I say so much shit that’s tongue-in-cheek. The track has been praised for its dense lyrical content and high-speed delivery, having set a Guinness World Record for containing the most words within a hit song. It goes back to that battle, back and forth in my head, of wanting to feel free to say what I want to say, and then what may or may not affect people. 'Rap God' is a 2013 hip hop song by the American rapper Eminem. So that word was just thrown around so freely back then. It was more like calling someone a bitch or a punk or asshole. We've heard this all before, and there's no reason any of us should be subjected to it again.Kimberly Perry on The Band Perry's Breakup: 'Did We Leave or Were We Kicked Out?' The cables and electronics are his becoming 'rapbot', as he states in the song. Don't download Eminem's new single, and don't buy his new album. The crowd of people is his obscurity to becoming elevated. Instead, he's turned his considerable talents as an artist to the same regressive, lazy garbage he was spewing in 2000. With The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem had a similar opportunity to demonstrate growth as both an artist and a human being - and once again, he failed to take it. Russell Simmons, Jay-Z, and Kanye West have all spoken out in favor of marriage equality. Last year, Frank Ocean declared that he'd once fallen in love with a man. More than a decade later, I'm inclined to side with GLAAD, and I don't particularly care what Eminem actually believes - I care what he's preaching to the "new school of students" that he brags about having on "Rap God." Since the height of Eminem's popularity, hip-hop's biggest names have made major strides to tear down the once-entrenched homophobia of the genre. ![]() GLAAD issued a statement expressing their disappointment in John's decision, arguing that Eminem "should not have another platform for his hateful lyrics." im, never statin more than ever demonstrating. innovative and im made of rubber, so that anything you say is richoching off of me and itll glue to you. what i gotta do to get it through to you im superhuman. "If I thought for one minute that he was, I wouldn't do it," said John at the time. Ah, summa lumma dumma lumma youre asumin im a human. In 2001, Eminem responded to those who attacked him for the homophobia of the original Marshall Mathers LP by performing his hit single "Stan" as a duet with Elton John, who is openly gay, at the Grammy Awards. Worst of all is Just Jared, which took the time to painstakingly transcribe the six-minute song's lyrics - and took the coward's way out by writing "" over every homophobic lyric in the song, as if they suddenly couldn't hear his crystal-clear vocals whenever he said something offensive. MTV News took the time to collect Eminem's array of pop-cultural references without noting his homophobia. ![]() ![]() Time called the single "divine." Rolling Stone analyzed the song's influences without commenting on its content. The song is bad enough - but even more disheartening has been the way that so many websites have praised Eminem's rapping on "Rap God" while ignoring the song's problematic lyrics entirely. In the first verse, Eminem boasts of his ability to "break a motherf-r's table over the back of a couple f-ggots and crack it in half." In the second verse, Eminem goes off on a bizarre, homophobic rant: "Little gay-looking boy / So gay I can barely say it with a straight face-looking boy / You witnessing massacre like you watching a church gathering taking place-looking boy / 'Oy vey, that boy's gay,' that's all they say looking-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go from your label every day-looking boy." "Rap God" is Eminem's rapid-fire, six-minute anthem to himself, and it's peppered with brazenly and violently homophobic rhetoric. ![]()
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