Eminem addresses "homophobic" claims

[Shuttle Destroyer]

Nice
"I don't know how to say this without saying it how I've said it a million times" though lol

[cryonseris]

Lmao at the comments:

Anonymous:

"LMAO

just when everybody thought eminem was going to be controversial and raw again

he pussies out and apologises like a little bitch

eminem = washed up sellout who needs to die ASAP before he damages his legacy any further"

[Ku53v]

He's said much worse things in 2009-2011, its like they feel the need to complain just cause the album is called the marshall mathers lp

[Mr. Porter]

HipHopDX commenters are the most ridiculously stupid people on earth.

[Emadyville]

people need to chill the fuck out. one of my best friends is gay and he listens to criminal...so yeah

[Emadyville]

The fact that it's 2013 and some people still don't understand the tongue-in-cheek factor is beyond me.....

especially cause he has been through it for over a decade. just let it go. but it helps him sell so fuck it

[Good For Nothing]

Nice
"I don't know how to say this without saying it how I've said it a million times" though lol

You can tell how exhausted/bored he is from the question from that reply alone.

And fuck that websites comment section, if they listened to the actual album everything they are criticising is actualy answered and justified on there.

[Emadyville]

people need to chill the fuck out. one of my best friends is gay and he listens to criminal...so yeah

One of my friends is gay and he loves em in particular over other rappers, he doesn't get offended at all.

exactly. i think its more people trying to make a stink.

[Blackquill]

The thing is, some of them aren't actually personally offended and understand that it is tongue-in-cheek; it's just that they consider that that doesn't make it acceptable, because - among other things - this is lost on a significant number of idiotic fans, and this in turn results in hate speech spreading and/or becoming thrown around casually.

Now I would never argue in favor of censorship and love Em's music as it is, but I don't want to paint LGBT right activists in general as idiots who don't understand what's going on either.

Anyway, free speech entails that you deal with the consequences of what you say, and I think Eminem does a good job at that when asked.

[Mr. Porter]

The thing is, some of them aren't actually personally offended and understand that it is tongue-in-cheek; it's just that they consider that that doesn't make it acceptable, because - among other things - this is lost on a significant number of idiotic fans, and this in turn results in hate speech spreading and/or becoming thrown around casually.

Now I would never argue in favor of censorship and love Em's music as it is, but I don't want to paint LGBT right activists in general as idiots who don't understand what's going on either.

Anyway, free speech entails that you deal with the consequences of what you say, and I think Eminem does a good job at that when asked.

That was very well-said.

Agreed.

[Mr. Porter]

Both my mom and sister both mentioned the controversy. What's different about this album then the last couple? Is it because he was the "good guy" for his last couple albums, and now he's the "bad guy" again? He said "faggot" on Recovery, yet he was like the hero of 2010.

[Mr. Porter]

I wonder if it's putting "Marshall Mathers" in the title. It creates that sense that he's being "real" in the lyrics, or that the lyrics represent his views.

[Mr. Porter]

I think people need to take at look at the intro to "Criminal."

[lp_eminem_fan]

What's odd to me is that MMLP2 (or shit, even the first MMLP) is G-rated compared to Relapse, which is by far the most lyrically explicit album Em ever put out. As much as I love Relapse, I have to admit that even I feel conflicted at times over listening to some of those lyrics, yet there wasn't the slightest bit of controversy over Relapse. MMLP2's lyrics are cleaner than Recovery's, but everybody's pitching a bitch over it. I don't get it. Does the world stop paying attention to him when he isn't blonde?

because people are just full of crap and they probably only heard love the way u fucking lie.

[lp_eminem_fan]

What's odd to me is that MMLP2 (or shit, even the first MMLP) is G-rated compared to Relapse, which is by far the most lyrically explicit album Em ever put out. As much as I love Relapse, I have to admit that even I feel conflicted at times over listening to some of those lyrics, yet there wasn't the slightest bit of controversy over Relapse. MMLP2's lyrics are cleaner than Recovery's, but everybody's pitching a bitch over it. I don't get it. Does the world stop paying attention to him when he isn't blonde?

because people are just full of crap and they probably only heard love the way u fucking lie.

Best new member.

Heh and hi fellow soldier