To say that actions speak louder than words might be a lazy cliché. He even came out in support of gay marriage! But what do those words really mean when he’s releasing a song with lyrics that explicitly wish ill-will on the gay community? But isn’t he also, then, being a hypocrite who has no problems with anybody? He’s been admirably outspoken about his feelings on the gay community and that he wishes no ill-will towards it. We are aware that Eminem, allegedly, has no problems with anybody.
His conclusion then, in 2010: “I don’t have any problem with nobody.” His conclusion now, after another round of controversy: “But the real me sitting here now talking to you has no issues with gay, straight, transgender at all.” Screech. Most memorably, he sat down with a pre-out Anderson Cooper and told him “Faggot was, like, it was thrown around constantly, to each other, like in battling, you know what I mean?” He has a said this about a million times at this point, or at least once. He then launches into the same story he’s told before, about how when he was growing up, calling someone a “faggot” was just as common and meant the same as “calling someone a bitch or a punk or asshole.” (Remind y’all of a certain butter-loving celebrity chef and her justification of the use of a racial epithet?) To his credit, Eminem’s right. (“Tell us about it,” says everyone who’s tired of having to point out that his lyrics are offensive, no matter how many times he says he doesn’t intend them to be.)
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“I don’t know how to say this without saying it how I’ve said it a million times,” he starts his response.
Rolling Stone asks Eminem why, after years of being called anti-gay for his lyrics and years of telling interviewers he has no problem with gay people, he continues to use words like “faggot” and “gay-looking” as an insult.
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"I'm not really book-smart.In “Rap God,” he raps about his ability to “break a motherfucker’s table over the back of a couple faggots and crack it in half.” And there’s the rant in the same song that uses “gay” as a shaming insult: "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." "I don't think I've ever read poetry," he said. But don't ask him to quote TS Eliot, Robert Frost or Allen Ginsberg. I couldn't concentrate on my problem."Ĭlean, "tolerant", and promoting a new album, Eminem seems poised to enjoy the zenith of his career. "People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. "When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look," he explained. "It used to be a big trigger for me." He has no wish to return to rehab – a place, he says, where he ends up feeling "like Bugs Bunny". His previous drugs use is the reason why Eminem is not gigging much. "I save a lot of money by not buying drugs any more." Eminem is taking strength in his three daughters, and investing as much of his money as he can. "It'd be very hard to repair that relationship," he explained. Debbie Mathers-Nelson unsuccessfully sued her son for defamation in 1999. The rapper said he's "not sure" where she is living. Unfortunately, Eminem's relationship with his mother has not seen the same positive outlook. "I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want." "I think if two people love each other, then what the hell?" he said. More recently, he seems to have shown greater – yes – maturity on this issue, promising to leave out homophobic lyrics at UK shows, and now defending gay marriage. Look back to 2000, when the Marshall Mathers LP included the following lyric: "Hate fags? The answer's 'yes'." While lines like this attracted the protests of gay rights groups, Eminem continued to court both sides of the controversy – kissing Elton John at the 2001 Grammy awards, then returning to spitting gay slurs on 2002's Without Me. "My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be." Case in point is his record on homosexuality. "I think I've calmed down a bit," Eminem told the New York Times Magazine, in an article to be published on Sunday. "Everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable," he said in a recent interview, offering similar pessimism on touring, poetry and his dear old mum. As Eminem relaxes into his mellow middle period, the rapper has spoken out in favour of gay marriage.