People can definitely get the wrong message from it and it's definitely a very sensitive word." Satten stressed that she understands why people would be upset, however. "I don't think he's sitting there and trying to insult anyone, per se.
"I think it's his language," XXL Editor-in-Chief Vanessa Satten told MTV News. He's been using those words since he started out, and that's his MO, he's repeatedly said. His overall reasoning is that he's not connecting the words to anything LGBT-related: "Those kind of words, when I came up battle-rappin' or whatever, I never really equated those words ," he told Rolling Stone. In the ensuing days and weeks since "Rap God" and other songs have hit the Web and public consciousness, Eminem has been called on to justify his use of slurs. "It's just so beneath him to go that route and to use that word or to denigrate gay people even if it's indirectly.
I think a lot of people are disappointed," he told MTV News. Neal Broverman, contributing editor of The Advocate, agrees: "It's just disappointing. I don't know if it sets us back, but it certainly is a violently provocative thing to do." "The choice to use, when we know what kinds of consequences it has, feels pretty significant. "Speaking personally as a mom and an advocate, it feels like spitting in the face of people who are working very hard to make the world a better place in this respect," Byard said. He also denied being homophobic back in 2010 during an interview with Anderson Cooper, and before that, he befriended openly gay pop star Elton John, performing a duet with the singer at the 2001 Grammys. I'm glad we live in a time where it's really starting to feel like people can live their lives and express themselves." Last week, the rapper told Rolling Stone, "The real me sitting here right now talking to you has no issues with gay, straight, transgender, at all. Granted, Em dropped the other f-bomb three times on Recovery, but what's raising the ire of critics on MMLP2 is its violent usage of the slur, like on "Rap God."īyard also points out that the continued use of slurs and violent imagery against LGBT people is even more upsetting given Eminem's public denial of being homophobic. Slim is still angry and violent, and he's still taking out that anger, at least in words, on the LGBT community.Īs MTV News' Rob Markman points out, Em may have evolved on his last album, Recovery, but MMLP2 "finds the 41-year-old rap icon rekindling the flame he sparked back in 2000 on the original MMLP."
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"It's almost like he's in a time capsule," Billboard writer Reggie Ugwu points out, a statement that becomes evident when sorting through the references on MMLP2 - Bill Clinton, the Backstreet Boys, Kevin Federline - and examining the lyrics of the chart-topping "Rap God": "I'll still be able to break a mother-in' table/ Over the back of a couple of f-ts and crack it in half," among other similarly phrased assertions. "It feels bad to still be having this conversation ," Byard told MTV News about the use of words like "f-" by Em, who hit the MTV EMA stage on Sunday night where he performed and was honored with the Global Icon award. GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard was working at the LGBT education network when The Marshall Mathers LP dropped in 2000, back when gay rights groups like GLAAD protested the record for its use of lyrics like: "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge/ That'll stab you in the head/ Whether you're a f- or a lez." "It Feels Bad To Still Be Having This Conversation." The record exhibits some striking examples of Em having grown up over the past-decade plus, but one old aspect is leaving some outlets frustrated and disappointed: Slim Shady's continued use of homophobic slurs. He's harkening back to 13 years ago when he was just starting out, spitting lightning fast rhymes that awed and shocked - especially shocked. With his The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem is, in many ways, reliving the past.
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