![]() ![]() Within 13 months, the videos received over 13 million and 10 million views respectively. On February 11th, YouTuber Mikey Bolts uploaded a cover of the rap song while impersonating the voice of the character Stewie Griffin from Family Guy (shown below, right). On February 6th, 2014, TheFineBros YouTube channel uploaded a video titled "Elders React to Eminem," featuring commentary by mature-age guests watching the "Rap God" video (shown below, left). On December 5th, YouTuber Bet0niarka uploaded a video comparing the rapping speed of Eminem in "Rap God" to other rappers, including Busta Rhymes, Tech N9ne, Twista and Young Blaze (shown below, right). In two years, the video gained more than 2.03 million views and 5,200 comments. On October 28th, 2013, YouTuber Rachdogg7 uploaded a video of a young girl covering a lyrically dense verse in the rap song (shown below, left). I make elevating music, you make elevator music…" Spread 'Cause I know the way to get 'em motivated Never fading, and I know the haters are forever waitingįor the day that they can say I fell off, they'd be celebrating ![]() How to give a motherfuckin' audience a feeling like it's levitating I'm devastating, more than ever demonstrating So that anything you say is ricocheting off of me and it'll glue to you What I gotta do to get it through to you I'm superhuman "Uh, sama lamaa duma lamaa you assuming I'm a human On November 27th, the official music video was released (shown below), garnering upwards of 190 million views and 196,000 comments over 16 months. At 4:26 in the song, Eminem begins a verse in which he raps 97 words in just 15 seconds. In two years, the song gained over 53 million views and 141,000 comments. We've heard this all before, and there's no reason any of us should be subjected to it again.Eminem released the song "Rap God" on YouTube on October 13th, 2013. Don't download Eminem's new single, and don't buy his new album. Instead, he's turned his considerable talents as an artist to the same regressive, lazy garbage he was spewing in 2000. With The Marshall Mathers LP 2, Eminem had a similar opportunity to demonstrate growth as both an artist and a human being - and once again, he failed to take it. Russell Simmons, Jay-Z, and Kanye West have all spoken out in favor of marriage equality. Last year, Frank Ocean declared that he'd once fallen in love with a man. More than a decade later, I'm inclined to side with GLAAD, and I don't particularly care what Eminem actually believes - I care what he's preaching to the "new school of students" that he brags about having on "Rap God." Since the height of Eminem's popularity, hip-hop's biggest names have made major strides to tear down the once-entrenched homophobia of the genre. GLAAD issued a statement expressing their disappointment in John's decision, arguing that Eminem "should not have another platform for his hateful lyrics." "If I thought for one minute that he was, I wouldn't do it," said John at the time. In 2001, Eminem responded to those who attacked him for the homophobia of the original Marshall Mathers LP by performing his hit single "Stan" as a duet with Elton John, who is openly gay, at the Grammy Awards. Worst of all is Just Jared, which took the time to painstakingly transcribe the six-minute song's lyrics - and took the coward's way out by writing "" over every homophobic lyric in the song, as if they suddenly couldn't hear his crystal-clear vocals whenever he said something offensive. MTV News took the time to collect Eminem's array of pop-cultural references without noting his homophobia. Time called the single "divine." Rolling Stone analyzed the song's influences without commenting on its content. The song is bad enough - but even more disheartening has been the way that so many websites have praised Eminem's rapping on "Rap God" while ignoring the song's problematic lyrics entirely. In the first verse, Eminem boasts of his ability to "break a motherf-r's table over the back of a couple f-ggots and crack it in half." In the second verse, Eminem goes off on a bizarre, homophobic rant: "Little gay-looking boy / So gay I can barely say it with a straight face-looking boy / You witnessing massacre like you watching a church gathering taking place-looking boy / 'Oy vey, that boy's gay,' that's all they say looking-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go from your label every day-looking boy." "Rap God" is Eminem's rapid-fire, six-minute anthem to himself, and it's peppered with brazenly and violently homophobic rhetoric. ![]()
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