(He might have had a point there.) He also blame it on his upbringing, “Yeah, this scene I came up in. When asked about the aggressively anti-gay lyrics in songs like “Criminal” he got defensive, pointing out that black rappers with similar lyrics weren’t getting the same level of scrutiny. In 2010 he sat down with Anderson Cooper for a 60 Minutes interview. Staged or not, the gag played upon Eminem’s perceived discomfort with gay people. That is, until his latest album.īeyond his music, Eminem had an uncomfortably close encounter with the business end of Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen’s gay character) at the 2009 VMA, something he later admitted was staged.
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In the meantime Eminem has sold over 220 million records and, except for a 2010 track, “Elevator”, in which he took a crack at Adam Lambert, Clay Aiken and Lance Bass he’s largely left the gays out of his lyrics. I didn’t know anything about his personal life. Eminem later said in an MTV interview that he was the one to suggest performing “Stan” with Sir Elton John. Eminem never exactly apologized for any of his lyrics, but he did have what was seen as a sort of “redemptive” moment by performing with Sir Elton John at the Grammys in 2001. No surprise, but gays were offended and GLAAD called for a national dialog on homophobia in music. Pants or dress, hate fags? The answer’s “yes”
Or the homosex, hermaph or a trans-a-vest That’ll stab you in the head, whether you’re a fag or lez My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge Here’s a sample from the track “Criminal”, Eminem at his homophobic best:
Hi breakout third album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) was where he first got called out for homophobic lyrics. Since, for better or worse, he’s going to be in the news a lot this week, we thought we’d offer a quick primer on the highlights (and low blows) of Eminem vs. The artist has had an uneasy relationship with the LGBT community going all the way back to 2000. Rapper Eminem has an album dropping this week and, as we’ve mentioned before, at least one of the tracks, “ Rap God“, has some harsh words for the gays.