Posted on 09/14/2018 9:48:20 AM PDT by Ennis85
Eminem says he felt uncomfortable with homophobic lyrics he wrote and released on his recent album, Kamikaze.
He faced criticism for his language on album track Fall while speaking about Tyler, The Creator.
Eminem says he "felt like this might be too far", in a new interview to promote the record on his own YouTube channel.
"In my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it," says Eminem.
"It was one of the things that I kept going back to and going 'I don't feel right with this'."
Many others didn't feel right with it either.
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El Hunt, a writer for NME, says it's good that Eminem has apologised, but doubts the validity of his explanation.
"If he really thought that was going too far, then he probably shouldn't have released it in the first place," El tells Newsbeat.
She's a 26-year-old gay woman and has had the same word used against her as abuse in the street.
"When you see people like Tyler, The Creator using that word it's a totally different thing, because it's about reclaiming the word," she says.
"That's their prerogative to do so, if they want to describe themselves in that way they can, because they've got control over it, it's not being used as an insult against them."
She also accuses the rapper of being selective with which offensive words he is comfortable using in his lyrics.
"If you look at Eminem's historic use of the N-word - or rather lack of use - he knows not to do that as a white rapper," she says.
"So why he's decided it's OK to say the [homophobic] F-word is beyond me.
"Anybody using that word would know that it's bad."
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Marshal is such a pussy
My agent here in Hollywood met him years ago. He’s a poser alright. He wanted attention bec he wanted the white boy image who has black ‘friends”. And yeah, he has liberal white guilt.
The Nazis would have steamed right over this entire generation of navel gazing losers!
Consider my quote updated. Was just going from memory. I don’t think they play that Dire Straights song much anymore.
The lyrics were more an indictment against the character speaking (supposedly heard in a conversation with a real appliance salesman) than debauchery in the rock scene, but you can’t even do that anymore.
That’s a lot like the Ah-Ha song “money for nothing”.
I have to admit that I actually like some of Eminem’s work.
Like the song “I love the way you lie”
and “THe Monster”.
I like rap music a bit when it is combined with actual singing.
But I’m a fan of the slam poetry style, which has some similarities to rap.
Don’t like gangsta rap much though. I did like Hamilton.
That makes two of us.
They play it all the time on Sirius XM.
The just cut out that whole verse and play the musical interlude again.
Ruins the song.
Not because I crave to hear "faggot", but because I KNOW how the song is supposed to go, and that PC simply decided that we can't hear that.
I'm surprised they play Brown Sugar by the Stones.
Those lyrics are pretty harsh by any era's standards.
Make that, three of us.
The radio made Taylor Swift change “Picture to Burn.” It was originally (more or less),
So go and tell your friends that I’m obsessive and crazy,
That’s fine, I’ll tell mine that you’re gay.
O noes, o noes! Can’t say that!
I wonder if that makes us “racist” ...
“I wonder if that makes us “racist” …”
LOL... Strange thing about it, I’m a 73 year old, black man.
But then again, I have been called a racist, many times. I call “Thugs”, Tyrone and Jerome.
If you aren’t interested in a rap performance, even though you’re black and the performer is white, you must hate black people. And if I’m not interested in a rap performance, I must be racist, even though I’m white and he’s white.
That’s just the way it works these ways. Also, we both must hate homosexuals, even though we aren’t interested in Eminem, because.
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