Emem Com Out as Gay Sony’s ‘The Interview’ – Billboard

Contents:

• EMEM ADMS THE INTERVIEW SCENE WHERE HE ME OUT AS GAY TOOK MULTIPLE TAK
• IS EMEM GAY? KNOW ALL ABOUT ARTIST’S LOVE LIFE, RELATNSHIPS, NET WORTH & MORE
• EMEM IS GAY? THE RAPPER ONCE SAID “I’M MORE SHOCKED THAT PEOPLE HAVEN’T FIGURED IT OUT YET” – WATCH
• IS EMEM GAY? DID THE CELEBRATED RAPPER E OUT THE INTERVIEW?
• EMEM SAYS COMG OUT AS GAY IN ‘THE INTERVIEW’ WAS NOT AN ACT
• 15 LTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT EMEM. #14 WILL MAKE YOU ASK: IS EMEM REALLY GAY?
• EMEM COM OUT AS GAY SONY’S ‘THE INTERVIEW’
• EMEM SAYS HE'S GAY IN THE INTERVIEW, THE WORLD OVERREACTS
• IS EMEM GAY? THE TTH BEHD THE CONTROVERSY
• 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
• EMEM SPEAKS OUT FAVOUR OF GAY MARRIAGE
• 'I'M GAY!' EMEM'S SHOCKG REVELATN

EMEM ADMS THE INTERVIEW SCENE WHERE HE ME OUT AS GAY TOOK MULTIPLE TAK

Emem admted he stggled to get through a movie scene which he satrilly me out as gay bee Jam Fran was 'so f**kg funny' 'Lose Yourself' rapper, who is known for g the f-word slur his mic, had a meo appearance as himself the 2014 edy film The Interview starrg Seth Rogen and Jam has a fake terview wh Jam Fran The Interview. “When I say thgs about gay people, if people thk that my lyrics are homophobic, ’s bee I’m gay, ” Emem says 'me out' durg the absurd scene.

Cred: Sony Pictur ReleasgSkylark naturally asks Emem to clarify what he meant, to which Slim Shady doubl down and nfirms ‘I am a homosexual’ which leads to ‘gay Twter blowg up’ and ‘the greatt moment gay history’, acrdg to news producer Aaron Rapaport (Rogen) asked directly if he dislik gay people, Emem replied: “No, I don't have any problem wh nobody.

IS EMEM GAY? KNOW ALL ABOUT ARTIST’S LOVE LIFE, RELATNSHIPS, NET WORTH & MORE

Even though he has been married twice to the same woman, many sourc om time to time have claimed that Emem is gay.

EMEM IS GAY? THE RAPPER ONCE SAID “I’M MORE SHOCKED THAT PEOPLE HAVEN’T FIGURED IT OUT YET” – WATCH

In fact, Emem has been acced multiple tim of beg homophobic for the words he his rap songs. I’ve pretty much been leavg a gay bread-cmb trail.

IS EMEM GAY? DID THE CELEBRATED RAPPER E OUT THE INTERVIEW?

So, as far as we know and what Emem has shared about himself public, he is not gay.

EMEM SAYS COMG OUT AS GAY IN ‘THE INTERVIEW’ WAS NOT AN ACT

When Emem Said “I’ve Been Playg Gay Peek-A-Boo For Years” & Left The Host Stunned Beyond Words – Watch ( Photo Cred – Emem / Flickr). Well, ’s the rapper’s 2014 meo appearance as himself where he said he was GAY. Durg the scripted terview, Emem —who has been equently acced of beg homophobic owg to the e of the f-word nsistently, out as gay.

The vio then se the Love the Way You Lie rapper tellg Jam Fran’s character, “I’ve been playg gay peek-a-boo for years. I’ve pretty much been leavg a gay bread cmb trail.

What did you thk of this ‘gay’ nfsn of Emem?

15 LTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT EMEM. #14 WILL MAKE YOU ASK: IS EMEM REALLY GAY?

Emem has led people to thk he is gay spe his history of wrg homophobic lyrics.

The rapper has also led fans to believe he is gay, although he has a history of beg homophobic through the lyrics of his Emem homophobic? The legendary rapper has been acced multiple tim of beg homophobic due to his equent e of anti-gay lyrics.

In his 2000 song, Crimal, he rapped about hatg gay people.

EMEM COM OUT AS GAY SONY’S ‘THE INTERVIEW’

The answer’s yIn his 2018 Fall diss track agast rapper Tyler The Creator, Emem ed anti-gay language. He says, Tyler create nothg, I see why you lled yourself a faggot, bch / It's not jt 'e you lack attentn / It's 'e you worship D12's balls, you're sac-religEmem is not the only rapper to be lled out for homophobic lyrics.

EMEM SAYS HE'S GAY IN THE INTERVIEW, THE WORLD OVERREACTS

For the longt time, the hip-hop muny has ma look like they are agast gay men. Famo rap artists like Nicki Maj, Migos Offset, and the late XXXTentacn have been acced of hatg the LGBTQ muny through their the 2000s, Emem has been acced of g anti-gay slurs his lyrics. After Emem’s homophobic lyrics 2000 ed an uproar, the rapper llaborated wh the legendary gay artist Elton John 2001 to lm down the outrage.

IS EMEM GAY? THE TTH BEHD THE CONTROVERSY

He also gifted the sger, and his hband David Furnish, matchg diamond penis rgs when they tied the knot a 2010 terview wh the New York Tim, the Not Aaid rapper exprsed his support for gay marriag. In his 2018 diss track Killshot agast Mache Gun Kelly, he still ed anti-gay Emem really gay?

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

In December 2014, Emem ma an appearance Sony’s The Interview, which he said he was gay durg a mock terview.

EMEM SPEAKS OUT FAVOUR OF GAY MARRIAGE

I’ve pretty much been leavg a gay bread cmb trailThe rapper’s publicists later refuted claims about him beg homosexual.

However, a 2017 terview wh Vulture, the No Love rapper admted to g the gay datg app Grdr and Tr to meet new people. Inter ers had mixed reactns, wh some sayg that was his way of openg up about his sexualy, although he knows people will take as a Detro rapper opened up 2014 Sony's The Interview about beg gay.

'I'M GAY!' EMEM'S SHOCKG REVELATN

Photo: @Jim SpellmanSource: Getty ImagThere is no fe answer to Emem beg gay sce he is yet to e out fully. First of all, Emem is monstrably not homophobic, though maybe some lyrics suggt .

Admtedly, Emem stormg out mak him look homophobic. Yeah, what homophobe would take the stage wh Elton John? Homophob aren't tight iends wh homosexual ins.