Eminem Doesnt Know What a Metaphor Is

[Despicable]

Sure.

[SliK]

I know it's a metaphor.

But I think it's obvious that he was getting a metaphor and a pun mixed up, lol.

Absolutely. "excuse the corny metaphor", what exactly is corny about mustering up energy? Nothing. The ketchup/catch up - mustered/mustard pun is what is corny and obviously what Eminem is referring to.

[EminemBase]

I know it's a metaphor.

But I think it's obvious that he was getting a metaphor and a pun mixed up, lol.

Absolutely. "excuse the corny metaphor", what exactly is corny about mustering up energy? Nothing. The ketchup/catch up - mustered/mustard pun is what is corny and obviously what Eminem is referring to.

Also, it would have been so much better if he didn't use puns there at all...

And actually just said "they'll never catch-up to all this energy that I've mustered"...

Like... in a 'Recovery' interview at the time, he said he wanted the make songs you could play 1,000 times over and over, just classic songs... so why all of fucking places would you use such corny fucking puns on a PROOF tribute... and he even knows it's corny lmao but it's like he couldn't resist showing us that puns could be used there.

But that was pretty shortsighted of him; this is supposed to be his Proof song that goes down in history and he puts shit like that in there like it's a stupid freestyle lmao.

[metsfan1121]

As far as English and rhetoric, it IS figurative (or metaphorical) language. It isnt technically a metaphor though, more of a zeugma or double entendre

[Mr Change]

I thought we established that OP was wrong like half a page ago

[Mr Change]

I thought we established that OP was wrong like half a page ago

Nope. Not exactly wrong. I still think he mistook metaphor for pun/wordplay in the 2nd example. What Eminembase said though is true.

Well that is what I meant. You aren't completely wrong, Em has been mistaken before

[SliK]

He uses the wrong term a lot, despite using the same term correctly in other instances. He does this for many words which is interesting.

I can't think of a great example. We all know he does it though...

[BigBoss]

ITT: we realize your God isn't perfect

[SoldierShady]

"I'm just a street-smart winner. Bitch you'll get ate sideways like some retard's dinner...." = pun?

"You can pump your fists for him but I'm still crushin' him physically, this shit is child's play....you'll get ate (eight) sideways like the number infinity" = metaphor?

And for you slow fucks out there, ∞ is the symbol for infinity.

[SliK]

"Getting ate" is a metaphor, yes (since he isn't literally eating someone). The infinity line and the retard line are both similes.

[SoldierShady]

"Getting ate" is a metaphor, yes (since he isn't literally eating someone). The infinity line and the retard line are both similes.

[TheGentlePlayer]

Who cares

[NotFinished]

Who cares

We need album news.

Yes we do lol