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Eminem's Rap God sparks outcry over discriminatory



Eminem's Rap God sparks outcry over discriminatory


Eminem's Rap God sparks outcry over discriminatory slurs
Grammy-winning rapper vulnerable for up to date track off approaching album

Veteran rapper Eminem has yet again sparked difference of opinion along with his music, blasted by fellow artists and music critics for discriminatory slurs in his new single, Rap God.

Delivered as Eminem's dark performance alter-ego Slim Shady, Rap God options violent, fanfare lyrics that taunt his rivals within the aggressive vogue that the Grammy victory metropolis rapper is understood.

At issue is his insulting use of the words "gay" and "f-ggot" throughout many sections of the track.

A host of music critics and media shops praised the song (which emerged last week earlier of his approaching album The Marshall Mathers LP 2), however several have conjointly blasted the rapper for the language, that has been criticized as being discriminatory.

British singer and DJ Boy patron saint and LGBT rights teams ar among those that have criticized Eminem for this latest unleash, career it a come to out-of-date views and past offensive music.

The chorus of criticism was joined last by rapper LastO and singer-songwriter Solomon, 2 of the brazenly gay hip hop recording artists featured in an exceedingly month-long series on Eminem's satellite radio channel in 2008.

"When he invited ME on his station a couple of years past, i believed he place all of this aside," Solomon same in an exceedingly statement.

"Granted, it is not directed towards the gay community, however subconsciously it's. he is victimisation the word f-ggot to degrade another man. As if the worst issue a person is is gay. What variety of message will that infix into the minds of young children, each gay and straight?"

The difference of opinion over Rap God arrives when the rapper's perennial declarations that he has "nothing against gays" (including in an exceedingly hr interview with Anderson Cooper in 2010) and his high-profile Grammy Awards  performance aboard Elton John in 2001. Eminem has not commented publically concerning the reaction to the song.

Acceptance of LGBT artists within the hip hop community has been AN more and more distinguished issue over the past year, partly tied to rising hip hop singer Frank Ocean's 2012 revelation concerning falling dotty with a person and exemplified during this summer's hit Macklemore and Ryan Lewis marriage-equality track Same Love.

"As irreverent and offensive as [Eminem's] whole is meant to be ... he still is aware of his line," LastO same in an exceedingly statement.

"It's ironic as a result of i am positive once he was returning aged, a lot of black people walked over him...than anyone gay ever did."


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