When I first saw this video, my immediate reaction was "new 
just dropped"
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I heard someone say Eminem was their grandma's favorite musician. Made me feel really fucking old
That is a photo of Rep Marie Glusenkamp (Concentrationkamp) Perez D-WA. She is often referred to as the John Fetterman of the Democratic House members. She was one of the Reps that Hakeem Jeffries had vote to fund ICE.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a name scream “my grandfather was a Nazi who fled to Argentina” so loudly
This is a good time to remember that Eminem campaigned for Kamala in Michigan and Obama rapped 'Lose Yourself' at the Kamala rally with Eminem. Eminem campaigned for Kamala, knowing that she was unpopular in Michigan because she supported the genocide in Gaza, and Michigan has a large Muslim population who are sympathetic to Palestinians.
Oh buddy I don't think you forgot to drop bombs.
To be fair, he's been libbed up for a while, and had backed Biden previously.
Thats an awfully hot coffee pot someone should drop it on Donald drumpf.
I don't really understand it, but seeing the crowd's reaction, I have to respect this man's charisma. And at the same time, condemn his incredible cowardice for not using said charisma to do ANYTHING POSITIVE. He solidified Bernie's demise by calling ever Dem candidate in the 2020 primary, he helped break an NBA strike, now he just shares Ezra Klein podcasts on Twitter. It's a disgrace really
Slim Shady, the patron saint of white people who are afraid of black hip-hop.
I'd say Lin-Manuel Miranda fits that better
Lots of white people don't like Eminem because he still "raps like them"
Lin Manuel Miranda is way to woke and lib (also, brown) for those kinds of people. They, the racists, say Eminem beats black rappers at their own game.
"white people who are afraid of black hiphop" is a broader umbrella than the archetype that you seem to have in mind and 1000% includes many people whose favorite "rapper" is LMM.
This is a good point! I was not accounting for those people.
With those people I would argue that LMM isn't a "rapper"; he's a poet, playwright, composer but he doesn't make his career off of releasing rap albums. The way a rapper would do. And if they argued that I'd just shrug my shoulders and give em a thumbs up and move on with my day.
Well, let me rephrase that there are a lot of people who would identify him as easily their favorite "artist who produced raps" even if we're saying that's not necessarily a "rapper," but the fact that it distinctly is rap in some sense is a huge part of the appeal, even though the "appeal" in question heavily leans on treating rap as a novelty that is only an art in-and-of-itself insofar as you can do lyrical miracle bullshit with it. Basically I'm saying LMM is like if Lil Dicky did slavery apologia.
Edit: And some of this legacy from Hamilton is pretty enduring, like for example being responsible for the worst parts of Epic (not bad overall, to be clear, but it's got some really bad parts).
I don't know much about hip hop, but it's crazy how much someone who doesn't know anything about rap thinks lyrical miracle kind of rappers are the only cool ones.
MF Doom is better than Eminem at that shit anyway
"One for the money, two for the better green
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine"
Floors me every time, tbh
CW: SA, abuse
spoiler
Truly is a wonder why people might not like the guy who rapped about SAing his own mother and brutally murdering his wife
He also has talked about regretting the song about his mom and he has made more endearing songs about her. People can change, but we don't talk about that
I’m guessing that’s why he mocked a victim of domestic abuse on his last album.
He made fun of everyone on his last album. But not his mom