Emem blasted by openly gay micians over 'Rap God' lyrics

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• EMEM BLASTED BY OPENLY GAY MICIANS OVER 'RAP GOD' LYRICS
• GAY RIGHTS CHARY ATTACKS 'OUTDATED AND OFFENSIVE' LYRICS EMEM'S RAP GOD
• OLR, WISER EMEM STILL DON'T GET WHY GAY SLURS ARE OFFENSIVE
• EMEM RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY CRICISM WH SAME LAME EXCSORRY I'M NOT SORRYFACG MORE ANTI-GAY ACCATNS FOR THE LYRICS OF 'RAP GOD,' EMEM STANDS BY HIS CLAIM THAT A HOMOPHOBIC SLUR IS JT A MON DISS. WHO'S TIRED OF THE BROKEN RERD?KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 04, 2013 4:07PM EST PIERRE ANDRIEU / AFPTHERE’S AN OLD TRICK HIP-HOP, WHERE A SOUND EFFECT MIMICS THE SCREECH OF A RERD BREAKG, AND THE SAME FEW BARS OF A SONG KEEP PLAYG OVER AND OVER AGA LOOP, LIKE A STUTTER. EMEM HAS BEEN G THE TRICK FOR OVER A NOW— HIS MIC AND HIS LIFE. SCE THE BUT OF THE SLIM SHADY LP 1999, CRICS, CIVIL RIGHTS ANIZATNS, AND MIC FANS WH NSCIENC HAVE BLASTED EMEM OVER THE RAMPANT E OF LYRICS HIS SONGS THAT ULD BE NSTED AS HOMOPHOBIC, OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, HATEFUL AND OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY MUNY. AND SCE THE BUT OF THE SLIM SHADY LP 1999, EMEM HAS NIED THAT HE IS FED BY ANY OF THOSE BIGOTRY-DITG ADJECTIV…BUT HAS GONE ON G THE NTROVERSIAL LANGUAGE ANYWAY. THE BROKEN RERD KEEPS ON SCREECHG. THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW TRACK, “RAP GOD,” OCTOBER SURFACED HOMOPHOBIA ACCATNS YET AGA. IN A NEW TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE, EMEM REFUT THEM. YET AGA. IN “RAP GOD,” HE RAPS ABOUT HIS ABILY TO “BREAK A MOTHERFUCKER’S TABLE OVER THE BACK OF A UPLE FAGGOTS AND CRACK HALF.” AND THERE’S THE RANT THE SAME SONG THAT “GAY” AS A SHAMG SULT: "LTLE GAY-LOOKG BOY / SO GAY I N BARELY SAY WH A STRAIGHT FACE-LOOKG BOY / YOU WNSG MASSACRE LIKE YOU WATCHG A CHURCH GATHERG TAKG PLACE-LOOKG BOY / 'OY VEY, THAT BOY'S GAY,' THAT'S ALL THEY SAY LOOKG-BOY / YOU TAKE A THUMBS UP, PAT ON THE BACK, THE WAY YOU GO OM YOUR LABEL EVERY DAY-LOOKG BOY."ROLLG STONE ASKS EMEM WHY, AFTER YEARS OF BEG LLED ANTI-GAY FOR HIS LYRICS AND YEARS OF TELLG TERVIEWERS HE HAS NO PROBLEM WH GAY PEOPLE, HE NTU TO E WORDS LIKE “FAGGOT” AND “GAY-LOOKG” AS AN SULT.“I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SAY THIS WHOUT SAYG HOW I’VE SAID A LN TIM,” HE STARTS HIS RPONSE. (“TELL ABOUT ,” SAYS EVERYONE WHO’S TIRED OF HAVG TO POT OUT THAT HIS LYRICS ARE OFFENSIVE, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIM HE SAYS HE DON’T TEND THEM TO BE.) HE THEN LNCH TO THE SAME STORY HE’S TOLD BEFORE, ABOUT HOW WHEN HE WAS GROWG UP, LLG SOMEONE A “FAGGOT” WAS JT AS MON AND MEANT THE SAME AS “LLG SOMEONE A BCH OR A PUNK OR ASSHOLE.” (REMD Y’ALL OF A CERTA BUTTER-LOVG CELEBRY CHEF AND HER JTIFITN OF THE E OF A RACIAL EPHET?) TO HIS CRED, EMEM’S RIGHT. HE HAS A SAID THIS ABOUT A LN TIM AT THIS POT, OR AT LEAST ONCE. MOST MEMORABLY, HE SAT DOWN WH A PRE-OUT ANRSON COOPER AND TOLD HIM “FAGGOT WAS, LIKE, WAS THROWN AROUND NSTANTLY, TO EACH OTHER, LIKE BATTLG, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?” HIS NCLN THEN, 2010: “I DON’T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WH NOBODY.” HIS NCLN NOW, AFTER ANOTHER ROUND OF NTROVERSY: “BUT THE REAL ME STG HERE NOW TALKG TO YOU HAS NO ISSU WH GAY, STRAIGHT, TRANSGENR AT ALL.” SCREECH. HEARG THAT RERD SCRATCH AND REPEAT? Y, Y. WE ARE AWARE THAT EMEM, ALLEGEDLY, HAS NO PROBLEMS WH ANYBODY. BUT ISN’T HE ALSO, THEN, BEG A HYPOCRE WHO HAS NO PROBLEMS WH ANYBODY? HE’S BEEN ADMIRABLY OUTSPOKEN ABOUT HIS FEELGS ON THE GAY MUNY AND THAT HE WISH NO ILL-WILL TOWARDS . HE EVEN ME OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE! BUT WHAT DO THOSE WORDS REALLY MEAN WHEN HE’S RELEASG A SONG WH LYRICS THAT EXPLICLY WISH ILL-WILL ON THE GAY MUNY? TO SAY THAT ACTNS SPEAK LOUR THAN WORDS MIGHT BE A LAZY CLICHé. BUT ’S NO LAZIER THAN G THE WORD “GAY” AS AN EMASCULATG SULT, SO HERE GO. SAYG HE HAS NO PROBLEM WH THE GAY MUNY SUPERFICIALLY DIT THAT EMEM ISN’T HOMOPHOBIC. BUT REPEATG THE SAME TIRED EXCE FOR WHY HE HOMOPHOBIC LYRICS ANYWAY RENRS THE CLAIM ALL-BUT MEANGLS.THE ROLLG STONE TERVIEWER, DISAPPOTGLY, GIV EMEM AN EASY OUT AT THE END OF THE TERVIEW EXCERPT, SENTIALLY EXCG AWAY THE BEHAVR FOR HIM, SAYG, “I KD OF THOUGHT YOU WERE DOG BEE WHEN YOU’RE RAPPG AS SLIM SHADY, PART OF YOUR MISSN IS TO ANNOY PEOPLE.” IT’S AN OPPORTUNY FOR EM TO NOD EMPHATILLY AGREEMENT WHOUT FENDG HIS ARGUABLY HYPOCRIL BEHAVR WH ANY MORE PLEXY. “I THK PEOPLE KNOW MY PERSONAL STANCE ON THGS AND THE PERSONAS THAT I CREATE MY MIC,” HE SAYS. “AND IF SOMEONE DON’T UNRSTAND THAT BY NOW, I DON’T THK THERE’S ANYTHG I N DO TO CHANGE THEIR MD ABOUT .”THE RERD SPS ON. KEV FALLON
• 14 MORE OF THE MOST UNTENTNALLY GAY RAP LYRICS EVER
• THE BT GAY RAP SONGS
• TOP TEN GAYT SONGS EVER

EMEM BLASTED BY OPENLY GAY MICIANS OVER 'RAP GOD' LYRICS

“Emem’s ‘Rap God’ is full of homophobic slurs, '” reads a Huffgton Post headle. Maly about the followg l om “Rap God”: Ltle gay-lookg boy / So gay I n barely say wh a straight face-lookg boy / You wnsg massacre like you watchg a church gatherg takg place-lookg boy / ‘Oy vey, that boy’s gay, ’ that’s all they say lookg-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go om your label every day-lookg boy. Earlier, the first verse, Em raps: I attempt the lyril acrobat stunts while I’m practicg that / I’ll still be able to break a motherfuck’ table / Over the back of a uple of faggots and crack half / Only realized was ironic I was signed to Aftermath after the fact So, Emem’s still g homophobic slurs to sult his rap fo and petors.

He’s been gettg trouble for his harsh homophobic imagery for more than a now, and seems not much will change this fall when MMLP2 drops. But other thgs have changed — namely, the state of hip-hop and s newfound termatn to be gay-iendly. It’s a qutn that’s been raised ever sce Emem’s game-changg major-label but The Slim Shady LP was released 1999, and ’s, prsgly, beg raised aga followg the release of his new track, “Rap God”: Is Emem’s new song homophobic?

Sample lyrics below:Ltle gay-lookg boy / So gay I n barely say wh a straight face-lookg boy / You wnsg massacre like you watchg a church gatherg takg place-lookg boy / 'Oy vey, that boy's gay, ' that's all they say lookg-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go om your label every day-lookg lyrics of the song aren’t jarrg when taken the ntext of Emem’s ovre.

GAY RIGHTS CHARY ATTACKS 'OUTDATED AND OFFENSIVE' LYRICS EMEM'S RAP GOD

Take the rapper’s crowng achievement mercialized hate speech, 2000’s “Crimal”:My words are like a dagger wh a jagged edgeThat’ll stab you the head, whether you’re a fag or lezOr the homosex, hermpah or trans-a-vtPants or drs, hate fags? Nah, you’re jt heterophobicSglg out “Crimal, ” however, may seem almost arbrary, as lyrics that uld be nsted as homophobic lter dozens of Emem’s tracks, om “Crimal” to 2009’s “Elevator, ” which tak aim at out celebri Lance Bass, Adam Lambert, and Clay Aiken: “Sorry, Lance, Mr. ” So sensive, those pendulum swg the bate over whether Emem is homophobic or anti-gay, at this pot, is dizzyg.

At the end, the two embraced and Emem flicked off the crowd, a middle-fger mea Moby lled Emem a “homophobe” 2001, the rapper rpond by llg him a “36-year-old, bald-head fag” and vowg to beat him up at that year’s MTV Vio Mic Awards. “I thk some people are a ltle too uptight, and take thgs a ltle b too serly, ” Emem told MTV News after his Moby ments ma natnal as the ntroversy over his so-lled homophobia ntued to hnt him years later, Emem sat down wh Anrson Cooper, who was not yet out but still an advote agast anti-gay hate speech, 2010 to expla himself, sistg that he don’t hate the gay muny. But more than, they’re, we’ve e to expect Emem to rap homophobic lyrics, no matter what meangls actns or non-apology apologi or empty gtur he’s ed over the years to prove that he’s not purposefully disparagg anyone.

OLR, WISER EMEM STILL DON'T GET WHY GAY SLURS ARE OFFENSIVE

Macklemore’s gay-rights anthem, a mil lson on acceptance and tolerance, beme a massive mastream h. Jay-Z ripped the gay-rights movement as “discrimatn” and 50 Cent, who once said “beg gay isn’t ol, ” has done a plete 180, sayg, “Anyone who hat Frank Ocean is an idt…Obama is for same-sex marriage.

”You uld almost, then, ll Emem’s retread to homophobia a lculatg ploy to stir up ntroversy—Slim Shady lov himself a good hullaballoo, after all—were not for the fact that the dtry seems to be wholly ignorg . ”In other words, after all the years and after all the lsons supposedly learned— 2010 Emem said he supported same-sex marriage—Emem is still gettg a ee pass on homophobia. FeatureEmem's "Rap God" is credibly homophobic, and no one is talkg about The new sgle om The Marshall Mathers LP 2 prov that the rapper's rhetoric is as ugly and regrsive as was 2000The tle of Emem's upg album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, is a direct llback to the tle of popular and wildly ntroversial The Marshall Mathers LP.

EMEM RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY CRICISM WH SAME LAME EXCSORRY I'M NOT SORRYFACG MORE ANTI-GAY ACCATNS FOR THE LYRICS OF 'RAP GOD,' EMEM STANDS BY HIS CLAIM THAT A HOMOPHOBIC SLUR IS JT A MON DISS. WHO'S TIRED OF THE BROKEN RERD?KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 6:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 04, 2013 4:07PM EST PIERRE ANDRIEU / AFPTHERE’S AN OLD TRICK HIP-HOP, WHERE A SOUND EFFECT MIMICS THE SCREECH OF A RERD BREAKG, AND THE SAME FEW BARS OF A SONG KEEP PLAYG OVER AND OVER AGA LOOP, LIKE A STUTTER. EMEM HAS BEEN G THE TRICK FOR OVER A NOW— HIS MIC AND HIS LIFE. SCE THE BUT OF THE SLIM SHADY LP 1999, CRICS, CIVIL RIGHTS ANIZATNS, AND MIC FANS WH NSCIENC HAVE BLASTED EMEM OVER THE RAMPANT E OF LYRICS HIS SONGS THAT ULD BE NSTED AS HOMOPHOBIC, OR, AT THE VERY LEAST, HATEFUL AND OFFENSIVE TO THE GAY MUNY. AND SCE THE BUT OF THE SLIM SHADY LP 1999, EMEM HAS NIED THAT HE IS FED BY ANY OF THOSE BIGOTRY-DITG ADJECTIV…BUT HAS GONE ON G THE NTROVERSIAL LANGUAGE ANYWAY. THE BROKEN RERD KEEPS ON SCREECHG. THE RELEASE OF HIS NEW TRACK, “RAP GOD,” OCTOBER SURFACED HOMOPHOBIA ACCATNS YET AGA. IN A NEW TERVIEW WH ROLLG STONE, EMEM REFUT THEM. YET AGA. IN “RAP GOD,” HE RAPS ABOUT HIS ABILY TO “BREAK A MOTHERFUCKER’S TABLE OVER THE BACK OF A UPLE FAGGOTS AND CRACK HALF.” AND THERE’S THE RANT THE SAME SONG THAT “GAY” AS A SHAMG SULT: "LTLE GAY-LOOKG BOY / SO GAY I N BARELY SAY WH A STRAIGHT FACE-LOOKG BOY / YOU WNSG MASSACRE LIKE YOU WATCHG A CHURCH GATHERG TAKG PLACE-LOOKG BOY / 'OY VEY, THAT BOY'S GAY,' THAT'S ALL THEY SAY LOOKG-BOY / YOU TAKE A THUMBS UP, PAT ON THE BACK, THE WAY YOU GO OM YOUR LABEL EVERY DAY-LOOKG BOY."ROLLG STONE ASKS EMEM WHY, AFTER YEARS OF BEG LLED ANTI-GAY FOR HIS LYRICS AND YEARS OF TELLG TERVIEWERS HE HAS NO PROBLEM WH GAY PEOPLE, HE NTU TO E WORDS LIKE “FAGGOT” AND “GAY-LOOKG” AS AN SULT.“I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SAY THIS WHOUT SAYG HOW I’VE SAID A LN TIM,” HE STARTS HIS RPONSE. (“TELL ABOUT ,” SAYS EVERYONE WHO’S TIRED OF HAVG TO POT OUT THAT HIS LYRICS ARE OFFENSIVE, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIM HE SAYS HE DON’T TEND THEM TO BE.) HE THEN LNCH TO THE SAME STORY HE’S TOLD BEFORE, ABOUT HOW WHEN HE WAS GROWG UP, LLG SOMEONE A “FAGGOT” WAS JT AS MON AND MEANT THE SAME AS “LLG SOMEONE A BCH OR A PUNK OR ASSHOLE.” (REMD Y’ALL OF A CERTA BUTTER-LOVG CELEBRY CHEF AND HER JTIFITN OF THE E OF A RACIAL EPHET?) TO HIS CRED, EMEM’S RIGHT. HE HAS A SAID THIS ABOUT A LN TIM AT THIS POT, OR AT LEAST ONCE. MOST MEMORABLY, HE SAT DOWN WH A PRE-OUT ANRSON COOPER AND TOLD HIM “FAGGOT WAS, LIKE, WAS THROWN AROUND NSTANTLY, TO EACH OTHER, LIKE BATTLG, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?” HIS NCLN THEN, 2010: “I DON’T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WH NOBODY.” HIS NCLN NOW, AFTER ANOTHER ROUND OF NTROVERSY: “BUT THE REAL ME STG HERE NOW TALKG TO YOU HAS NO ISSU WH GAY, STRAIGHT, TRANSGENR AT ALL.” SCREECH. HEARG THAT RERD SCRATCH AND REPEAT? Y, Y. WE ARE AWARE THAT EMEM, ALLEGEDLY, HAS NO PROBLEMS WH ANYBODY. BUT ISN’T HE ALSO, THEN, BEG A HYPOCRE WHO HAS NO PROBLEMS WH ANYBODY? HE’S BEEN ADMIRABLY OUTSPOKEN ABOUT HIS FEELGS ON THE GAY MUNY AND THAT HE WISH NO ILL-WILL TOWARDS . HE EVEN ME OUT SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE! BUT WHAT DO THOSE WORDS REALLY MEAN WHEN HE’S RELEASG A SONG WH LYRICS THAT EXPLICLY WISH ILL-WILL ON THE GAY MUNY? TO SAY THAT ACTNS SPEAK LOUR THAN WORDS MIGHT BE A LAZY CLICHé. BUT ’S NO LAZIER THAN G THE WORD “GAY” AS AN EMASCULATG SULT, SO HERE GO. SAYG HE HAS NO PROBLEM WH THE GAY MUNY SUPERFICIALLY DIT THAT EMEM ISN’T HOMOPHOBIC. BUT REPEATG THE SAME TIRED EXCE FOR WHY HE HOMOPHOBIC LYRICS ANYWAY RENRS THE CLAIM ALL-BUT MEANGLS.THE ROLLG STONE TERVIEWER, DISAPPOTGLY, GIV EMEM AN EASY OUT AT THE END OF THE TERVIEW EXCERPT, SENTIALLY EXCG AWAY THE BEHAVR FOR HIM, SAYG, “I KD OF THOUGHT YOU WERE DOG BEE WHEN YOU’RE RAPPG AS SLIM SHADY, PART OF YOUR MISSN IS TO ANNOY PEOPLE.” IT’S AN OPPORTUNY FOR EM TO NOD EMPHATILLY AGREEMENT WHOUT FENDG HIS ARGUABLY HYPOCRIL BEHAVR WH ANY MORE PLEXY. “I THK PEOPLE KNOW MY PERSONAL STANCE ON THGS AND THE PERSONAS THAT I CREATE MY MIC,” HE SAYS. “AND IF SOMEONE DON’T UNRSTAND THAT BY NOW, I DON’T THK THERE’S ANYTHG I N DO TO CHANGE THEIR MD ABOUT .”THE RERD SPS ON. KEV FALLON

Sce then, the entire culture of hip-hop has changed — but if his eply homophobic new sgle "Rap God" is any ditn, Emem is every b the same lazy, offensive bile-spewer he was back then.

"Rap God" is Emem's rapid-fire, six-mute anthem to himself, and 's peppered wh brazenly and vlently homophobic rhetoric. " In the send verse, Emem go off on a bizarre, homophobic rant: "Ltle gay-lookg boy / So gay I n barely say wh a straight face-lookg boy / You wnsg massacre like you watchg a church gatherg takg place-lookg boy / 'Oy vey, that boy's gay, ' that's all they say lookg-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go om your label every day-lookg boy. MTV News took the time to llect Emem's array of pop-cultural referenc whout notg his homophobia.

]" over every homophobic lyric the song, as if they sudnly uldn't hear his crystal-clear vols whenever he said somethg 's worth potg out that Emem — who has built much of his reer on the notoriety of his liberately offensive lyrics — knows exactly what he's dog here. In 2001, Emem rpond to those who attacked him for the homophobia of the origal Marshall Mathers LP by performg his h sgle "Stan" as a duet wh Elton John, who is openly gay, at the Grammy Awards. " Sce the height of Emem's populary, hip-hop's biggt nam have ma major stris to tear down the once-entrenched homophobia of the genre.

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Earlier this week, Emem released a six-mute cut off his Marshall Mathers LP 2 tled “Rap God, ” featurg multiple seemgly homophobic vers. In another, he sps: ” Ltle gay-lookg boy / So gay I n barely say wh a straight face-lookg boy / You wnsg massacre like you watchg a church gatherg takg place-lookg boy / ‘Oy vey, that boy’s gay, ’ that’s all they say lookg-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go om your label every day-lookg boy. Emem has long been cricized for his homophobic lyrics, datg back to his first Marshall Mathers LP 2000.

Years earlier, 2005, openly gay mic in Elton John fend his iend and one-time llaborator.

That’s the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys wh him when I was asked, spe all the nonsense talked about his beg homophobic, ” John said. This week, several headl have popped up on the Inter cricism of Em’s latt sgle, cludg The Week (“Emem’s ‘Rap God’ Is Incredibly Homophobic, and No One is Talkg About It”), The Huffgton Post (“Emem’s ‘Rap God’ Is Full of Homophobic Slurs, But Praised By Crics”), Salon (“Emem May Be Sober, But He’s Still Homophobic”), and Entertament Weekly (“Emem’s Homophobic ‘Rap God’ Lyrics: Still Gettg Away Wh It? Now the rapper has cid homophobic slurs are fair game once aga, releasg a new sgle, "Rap God, " which referenc "faggots" and "gay boys.

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" Later on the send verse, the rapper clus the followg scriptn a long riff on different kds of "boys":Ltle gay-lookg boy / So gay I n barely say wh a straight face-lookg boy / You wnsg massacre like you watchg a church gatherg takg place-lookg boy / 'Oy vey, that boy's gay, ' that's all they say lookg-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go om your label every day-lookg part of this verse appears to reference a sgle by Hot Stylze lled "Look' Boy, " the gay imagery is troublg, given the current state of hip-hop and rap, acrdg to The Week's Stt Mlow.

"Sce the height of Emem's populary, hip-hop's biggt nam have ma major stris to tear down the once-entrenched homophobia of the genre, " Mlow ments. Several tweeters ntrasted the lyrics wh "Same Love" sger Macklemore's work to eradite homophobia who follows Emem's reer knows this isn't the first time the rapper has been acced of homophobia. "The rapper appeared to have turned a rner 2010, however, when he announced his support for gay marriage.

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Oy vey, that boy's gay, that's all they say lookg boy Emem - Rap God More clips of this mic vio PREV CLIP Oy vey, that boy's gay, that's all they say lookg boy NEXT CLIP Like Embed Vio Story. Ltle gay lookg boy So gay I n barely say wh a straight face lookg boy You wnsg a massacre Like you watchg a church gatherg take place lookg boy Oy vey, that boy's gay, that's all they say lookg boy You get a thumbs up, pat on the back And a way to go om your label everyday lookg boy Hey, lookg boy, what you say lookg boy?

Emem ntu to get a bad rap over the ntroversial lyrics his new sgle, "Rap God, " that crics brand as homophobic.