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In the 2018 song “Boss Life,” the rapper Offset, part of the multiplatinum-selling rap group Migos, rhymed: “I do not vibe with queers.”
Such casual use of a perceived anti-gay slur is not uncommon in the history of hip-hop. But the discussion that Offset’s lyrics provoked gave an understanding to how the genre is evolving.
Addressing claims of homophobia, the rapper wrote on Instagram: “I didn’t write the line about gay people. … I got love for all people.” He continued: “To me [by] ‘queer’ I don’t mean someone who’s gay. I mean lame people who film you, post it and stalk you. Lingo that means strange or odd.”
I hold no reason to interrogate Offset’s sincerity, although other artists have criticized him for the slur.
But as a scholar of hip-hop and social consciousness, what interests me more is that Offset felt the need to reply at all; many of his rap predecessors have not felt the need after similar incidents.
As rap song approaches its 50th anniversary in August, I consider it is increasingly embracing challenges to – and debates about – homophobia. That is, hip-hop has evolved to the direct where anti-gay rhetoric invites condemnation from members of the culture. It is still p
Detroit-based rapper Eminem's toddler has come out as gender fluid and bisexual. In an Aug. 7 TikTok video that began with the words "Watch me become more easy with myself," the "8 Mile" star's 19-year-old child revealed their name henceforth would be Stevie and that their preferred pronouns would be they/she/he going forward.
In the video, Stevie chronicles their transformation and uses the hashtags #genderfluid and #bi. They also spoke in the comments about their new name.
"I spent a prolonged time trying to pick a entitle I felt relaxed with and the first name I felt comfortable with is Stevie!"
Eminem, 48, legally adopted Stevie, who is the biological child of his ex-wife Kim Scott, in 2005. He has two other children, daughter Hallie, whose mother is also Scott, and his other adopted daughter Alaina, whose mother is Scott's late twin sister.
"I have a niece that I have helped boost, too, that's attractive much like a daughter to me, and she is 26, and I have a younger one that's 17 now," Eminem said on Mike Tyson's Hotboxin' podcast in early 2020. "So when I reflect about my accomplishments, that's probably the thing I'm the most proud of, is being capable to raise kids."
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Eminem didn't 'feel right' with homophobic lyrics about Tyler, The Creator
Eminem says he was uncomfortable with homophobic lyrics he wrote and released on his recent album, Kamikaze.
He faced criticism for his language on album track Plummet 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 pain 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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Eminem's Kamikaze Features Anti-Gay Slurs and Donald Trump Disses
Guess who's back?
Overnight, Eminem surprised fans by dropping his tenth studio album, Kamikaze, two years after the let go of Revival. Eminem executive produced the 13-track album with his longtime collaborator, Dr. Dre, and worked many other prolific producers, including Fred Ball, Boi-1da, Illadaproducer, Ronny J, Tay Keith, Mike WiLL Made It, Jeremy Miller, S1, Tim Suby and Jahaan Sweet. Joyner Lucas, Jessie Reyez and Royce da 5'9" also produce guest appearances.
"Tried not 2 overthink this 1... enjoy," Eminem tweeted, adding a middle finger emoji.
Like Ariana Grande with Sweetener and Travis Scott with ASTROWORLD, Eminem is selling his album in merch bundles, packaging it with everything from camo jackets to special lithographs. Throughout the album, he name-drops a number of stars, including 50 Cent, Charlamagne Tha God, Gabby Giffords, KathyGriffin, Lil Xan, Lil Yachty, Logic and Machine Gun Kelly.
The final track, "Venom," appears on the soundtrack for the upcoming film of the s
The title of Eminem's upcoming album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, is a direct callback to the title of popular and wildly controversial The Marshall Mathers LP. It's been more than a decade since that album won Best Rap Album at the Grammys. Since then, the entire culture of hip-hop has changed — but if his deeply homophobic new single "Rap God" is any indication, Eminem is every bit the same lazy, insulting bile-spewer he was assist then.
"Rap God" is Eminem's rapid-fire, six-minute anthem to himself, and it's peppered with brazenly and violently homophobic rhetoric. 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 male child / 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."
The song is bad enough — but even more disheartening has been the way