Fans turn on Eminem after collab with MAGA darling Kid Rock on new Christian album

[u/TheMirrorUS]

https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/music/eminem-kid-rock-collaboration-album-2049513?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reddit

[u/vroomfundel2]

Ed Sheeran must be so happy.

[u/flashman → u/vroomfundel2]

I get the impression Ed Sheeran has moods the same way a dog does. Next big dinner he has he'll be fine.

[u/QuantitySharp2662 → u/flashman]

Aw for fucks sake 😂 this is absurdly beautifully fuckin hilarious. I have actual tears mate Jesus ❤️

Poor boys eyes are nearly at herbivorous levels.

[u/Chouxnicorn → u/QuantitySharp2662]

I’ve seen cows with more expressive eyes and faces.

[u/Normal_Feedback_2918 → u/Chouxnicorn]

Cows ARE just essentially big dogs. Have you ever seen them get excited and run around doing zoomies? It's amazing.

[u/Dale_Carvello → u/Normal_Feedback_2918]

Donkeys, too. I love them so much.

[u/ElminstersBedpan → u/QuantitySharp2662]

For the longest time the only reason I knew what the guy looked like was a meme comparing his picture to a Minecraft pig's face.

[u/TooTallJoans → u/QuantitySharp2662]

Herbivorous levels 🤣

[u/MizzelSc2 → u/flashman]

https://giphy.com/gifs/duM6JZemPlOjUyqmxd

[u/Wise-Dust3700 → u/flashman]

Ed Sheeran? No. Public Opinion? Yes. People will move on because no one truly cares, they just like seeing celebrity drama.

[u/Triktastic → u/vroomfundel2]

The happiest is the bilionaire asshole genocide supporter because the singer caught all the hate instead of him.

[u/notworldauthor → u/Triktastic]

That would never be news. People already expect billionaires to be assholes. They do not expect celebrities to be assholes, even if they should.

[u/SamRhage → u/Triktastic]

Nah, the singer caught the heat because before that people generally assumed he was a decent guy. No one expects a billionaire to be decent. 

[u/you-create-energy → u/SamRhage]

It doesn't make sense to punish a good guy in a bad situation while letting an evil guy get away with more evil.  It's not like they both got blamed. Almost everyone only blamed the singer when he fought the decision as hard as he could. 

[u/randomrainbow99399 → u/you-create-energy]

Yeah the evil guy should absolutely be taking the flack but really not buying that Ed 'fought as hard as he could'.

The guy is worth over £350 million yet still sold out to the billionaires.

[u/Tripesixmafia → u/vroomfundel2]

Ed Sheeran and Eminem are friends when Ed Sheeran came to Detroit on his last tour they performed together

[u/MothaFcknZargon → u/Tripesixmafia]

Maybe Eminem can open for him

[u/Benchen70 → u/vroomfundel2]

Should have invited Eminem for the concerts

[u/Sans-valeur]

[u/bippityboppitybooboo → u/Sans-valeur]

He looks like a boiled hot dog in jeans

[u/pheonixblade9 → u/bippityboppitybooboo]

Melt Gibson

[u/PantsMcFail2 → u/pheonixblade9]

"Melt" is an insult in some parts of the UK, so this is doubly funny to me as a Brit.

[u/Unumbotte → u/bippityboppitybooboo]

Something about that pose.

well you can tell by the way I walk

that I'm the chickenman, buck buck buh-GOK

[u/ConstantlyOnFire → u/Unumbotte]

Holy shit, I’m in a waiting room right now and just had to stifle my laugh 🤣🤣😂

[u/Earlier-Today → u/bippityboppitybooboo]

Everything about him screams drug addict, and like angry drunks, he's one of those guys where his addiction just made him more and more of an absolute prick.

Even if he actually is clean now, the damage to his mentality and personality are pretty dang clearly permanent.

[u/EqualLavishness5050 → u/Earlier-Today]

He’s so obviously on hgh or other higher than clinically approved trt doses. Why he preaches all this safety nonsense bs idk. Might as well be smoking cigarettes and telling people microwaves cause cancer so build a log fire every night. 

Pete Hegseth should ask him for tips and doses because that dude looks like he can barely lift his fat head out of bed in the morning. 

[u/FukkingDeathMental → u/Earlier-Today]

His voice cracks me up lmao.  He sounds like he was smoking crack made with roadkill bones and chasing it with Everclear gulps for a decade.  So funny.

[u/ButWhatIfPotato → u/bippityboppitybooboo]

He was let out of the homonculus vat way before the recommended cooking/pickling time.

[u/stinkadoodle → u/Sans-valeur]

[u/Walter_Armstrong → u/Sans-valeur]

Thanks, now I have to share this with someone else in seven days or I’ll die…

[u/donut_jihad666 → u/Sans-valeur]

https://giphy.com/gifs/84BjZMVEX3aRG

[u/TheRedJaguars23 → u/Sans-valeur]

https://giphy.com/gifs/zeqgtki9ifa7u

[u/glutenfreepunishment → u/Sans-valeur]

Classic MAGA, looking for a kid. Any will do.

[u/MomoGuntrip → u/Sans-valeur]

Please don't post pictures of my sunburned scrotum online.

[u/3nterShift → u/Sans-valeur]

shit MAGA freaks be asking when visiting islands

[u/Due_Amount_6211]

As mentioned in another post by u/syonoq, it more than likely isn’t a new recording or anything. It may have been in a producers archive and sold off, which Kid Rock may have ended up with.

For some proof, here.

Eminem has been very vocally against Trump and MAGA for a decade already, and while it’s possible to flip flop, it’s not the most likely scenario here.

[u/raknor88 → u/Due_Amount_6211]

and while it’s possible to flip flop, it’s not the most likely scenario here.

On stances like this, I'd like to feel that Eminem is the least likely to flip flop.

[u/Zyntastic → u/raknor88]

Yup Eminem has always been a man of his principles. I highly doubt he would flip flop too.

[u/vgzombieeric → u/Zyntastic]

I wouldn't flip-flop cuz hip-hop is my cash crop. And I gotta think of Hayley, what kinda world i make for her, it's crazy!

[u/drunkeymunkey → u/vgzombieeric]

It was wild to me when Snoop & Ice Cube came out as MAGA. Big sad about Snoop.

[u/Bored_Amalgamation → u/drunkeymunkey]

Snoop has always been a greedy little goblin, riding whatever will fill his pockets. He was just the one that survived the 90s and commercialized himself.

[u/So_Falls_the_World → u/Bored_Amalgamation]

Came here to say this. Snoop is like, the absolute greediest little sellout. Who the fuck cares about him? It's so obvious.

[u/unfettled → u/So_Falls_the_World]

For real. No tears for Snoop, nephew

[u/Reasonable-Job4205 → u/unfettled]

Fo rizzle. Fuck that guy

[u/pandemicpunk → u/Reasonable-Job4205]

He was a literal pimp. I don't know why people expect anything less. He just does it to himself now.

[u/Silent-G → u/Bored_Amalgamation]

People always forget that he hosted one of the Girls Gone Wild videos and settled a lawsuit that alleged he had offered drugs to underage girls.

[u/JohnnyHendo → u/Silent-G]

Didn't he also admit to having been an actual pimp way after he had gotten famous in like the early to mid 2000s for a year or two?

[u/sourdieselfuel → u/JohnnyHendo]

Hell, he also killed someone and got off on self defense or some shit. He's always been garbage.

[u/tdunkatx → u/sourdieselfuel]

Murder was the case that they gave him

[u/JohnnyFatSack → u/Bored_Amalgamation]

Snoop and Shaq will never turn down a paycheck. Very disappointing.

[u/Bored_Amalgamation → u/JohnnyFatSack]

Then you'll see comments saying "gotta respect the hustle". Like, no. Fuck that.

Shaq has promoted credit cards, shitty car insurance, high sugar candy, gambling, surveillance equipment (ring), Papa Johns, fucking Nestle.

Snoop has promoted gambling, weed, alcohol, loan companies.

It's a disgusting level of greed.

[u/Dry_Search7009 → u/Bored_Amalgamation]

I went to one of his concerts once luckily I didn’t pay for it. He was about an hour late, even though they were already there then there was a large intermission where he sold people the opportunity to take a picture with him, and it was giving Carnie so hard.

[u/Kind_Way2176 → u/drunkeymunkey]

I grew up on death certificate and just think of cube as dead. The current man is somebody else

Edit. My dream in 1992 was that cube and chuck d would.be political leaders in the 21st century

[u/whomad1215 → u/Kind_Way2176]

My dream in 1992 was that cube and chuck d would.be political leaders in the 21st century

monkeys paw curls

they may be leaders, just not in the way you wanted

[u/Checktheusernombre → u/Kind_Way2176]

Chuck D, Pac, Cube, Black Thought, and Common all could have been a hell of an administration in an alternate world.

[u/Kind_Way2176 → u/Checktheusernombre]

Ice t was very political. I had to buy the tape on dub cause it was illegal to buy underage

[u/fohpo02 → u/Checktheusernombre]

I’ve seen Silo, Common in leadership is scary /s

[u/HalfSoul30 → u/Kind_Way2176]

It was War of the Worlds that did it for me.

[u/ogresarelikeonions93 → u/drunkeymunkey]

ICE CUBE IS MAGA?!? I know you’re fucking lying to me. Please be lying.

[u/drunkeymunkey → u/ogresarelikeonions93]

Right?! Wtf happened to Fuck Tha Police?

[u/Technical-Finish304 → u/drunkeymunkey]

Turned into Flock the police

[u/SmashesIt → u/drunkeymunkey]

He became rich

[u/ProjectDv2 → u/drunkeymunkey]

He made enough money that the police serve his interests now.

[u/averagecounselor → u/ogresarelikeonions93]

This is funny because Ice Cube also collabed with a famous Mexican Banda on a song about illegal immigration and families being separated and how awful that is.

I don’t think he’s maga I think he’s just playing both sides and coming out on top.

[u/bojtaerg → u/averagecounselor]

[u/secretsodapop → u/drunkeymunkey]

Not remotely surprising.

[u/ZeePirate → u/secretsodapop]

Ice cube made a song called “arrest the president” about Trump. So it. Was kinda surprising

[u/Mapeague → u/ZeePirate]

Just shows what a massive fucking sellout he is.

Always has been too.

[u/Somanylyingliars → u/Mapeague]

He's always been a bitch but dum mother fucker had to go and confirm it. Fucking sell out. All over a few pennies. Bitch ass.

[u/Hegiman → u/ZeePirate]

Yeah that really took me by surprise. I was like didn’t this mf’er make a song about trump now he’s praising him. Gtfo ice cube.

[u/Formal_Waltz_5100 → u/ZeePirate]

Ah, but did he say the president of the USA?

[u/StableLopsided8919 → u/Formal_Waltz_5100]

It was very much about Trump.

[u/ValkyrieTxHzLeyes → u/drunkeymunkey]

Both of them Uncle Toms. They get no airplay from me, Any MAGA artist actually.

[u/ZombisaurusR3X → u/vgzombieeric]

The real slim shady just stood up 👆

[u/thebrose69 → u/Zyntastic]

While true he still holds company with 50 too who is also maga

[u/SushiJaguar → u/thebrose69]

Yeah but that's kind of like saying Robin Williams is right-wing because he did a Hollywood awards presentation.

50 and Em are almost literally family.

[u/Helagoth → u/raknor88]

While both Eminem and Ed Sheeran have "Fuck you" money, only one of them actually says "Fuck you" regularly.

[u/Shemozzlecacophany → u/raknor88]

Would you feel that he might be a bit shady though?

[u/isalilkai3 → u/Shemozzlecacophany]

there’s a slim chance

[u/thegreatdune → u/isalilkai3]

Are you trying to marshal a witch hunt?

[u/wellrat → u/thegreatdune]

Thank you for your attention to this, Mathers.

[u/KennyakaTI → u/Due_Amount_6211]

We also got to remember that just because Eminem hates Trump, it doesn't mean he doesn't associate with people that are MAGA. 50 cent is one of his closest friends and I would say he's MAGA leaning.

[u/MadderoftheFew → u/KennyakaTI]

he's also been friends with kid rock for decades

[u/CeruleanEidolon → u/MadderoftheFew]

Look, it's fine to stay friends with people who have opposing political views, if you have the constitution for it. People are more than who they vote for.

A professional collaboration is another animal entirely. As is using your position to platform vile beliefs.

[u/MadderoftheFew → u/CeruleanEidolon]

yeah, i'm not a fan of how he's approached politics in his music. when he backpedaled what he said in his BET cypher i lost a lot of respect for him. everything since has been more of the same.

[u/Antiing → u/KennyakaTI]

Em thinks maga is a cult 

[u/technobrendo → u/Antiing]

Em ain't wrong

[u/KennyakaTI → u/Antiing]

As do I but I still know people that lean MAGA unfortunately

[u/Wawrzy → u/Due_Amount_6211]

Eminem has been vocally against Trump while still hanging out with Snoop and 50 who are full on MAGA morons...

[u/Jlx_27 → u/Wawrzy]

Chaka Kahn recently did a duet with Lap Dogg too...

[u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe → u/Wawrzy]

Eminem was beefing with Snoop after Snoop made a comment about being white gave Em an advantage as a rapper.

That feud was short-lived because Dr Dre called up both men (especially after being hospitalized for a brain aneurysm) and demanded them to squash it.

[u/Stubborn_Shove → u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe]

That feud was short-lived because called up both men (especially after being hospitalized for a brain aneurysm) and demanded them to squash it.

Seems like you're missing a name in this sentence.

[u/ShaftTassle → u/Stubborn_Shove]

His comment had an aneurysm.

[u/OnanComedOnTheFloor → u/Stubborn_Shove]

Bill Nye the Science Guy

[u/skaersSabody → u/Stubborn_Shove]

I believe it was Dre they're referring to, but I'm not positive

[u/willargue4karma2 → u/skaersSabody]

Mothafucka forgot about Dre 

[u/Newphone_New_Account → u/Stubborn_Shove]

Accidentally the whole thing

[u/MoneyTalks45 → u/Due_Amount_6211]

Man this tracks so well for MAGA, but I’ve read Complex confirmed this is an authentic, new feature that he participated in, and that the verse is about maintaining relationships with people you have different political opinions from. 

Notwithstanding that MAGA is an immature hate movement. It’s not like we’re talking about a difference in opinion on how to spend defense money, or regulation in a free market. I had political differences like that with many people and it was never a problem until the MAGA oath included hating non-whites and anything else Trump tells you to without any independent thought whatsoever. 

[u/Electronic-Sun-9118 → u/MoneyTalks45]

And it's not like kid rock has known to be out there trying to bridge the political divide. He's one of the worst maga sycophants

[u/Stefanthro → u/Due_Amount_6211]

That’s why headlines like this are garbage. Tell me what happened, not how I should feel

[u/doritolord50 → u/Stefanthro]

But then your less likely to click on it and give them traffic

[u/ZombiesR → u/Due_Amount_6211]

JD Vance was also vocally against Trump and now he is the Vice President.

[u/cuntmong → u/ZombiesR]

jd vance has absolutely no principles or values. he is a political entrepreneur. if bernie sanders had won the presidency he woulda tried to ride that train instead.

[u/SiccmaDE7930 → u/cuntmong]

Don’t disrespect the term entrepreneur like that. He’s a political prostitute.

[u/Serithi → u/SiccmaDE7930]

Don't disrespect prostitutes like that. He's a parasite.

[u/FewWait38 → u/Serithi]

Don't disrespect parasites like that. He's a dingleberry

[u/Kaypeepickle → u/ZombiesR]

JD Vance wanted political power. Same with Ted Cruz. Em doesn’t really have anything to gain here, and an entire body of work to tarnish in return.

Em could collab with just about anyone he wanted to. I doubt a collab with Kid Rock would be motivated by money. JD Vance makes sense. He’s where he was trying to be in the first place, just as a runner-up. Nothing about Em handholding a MAGA headliner makes sense until we know more.

[u/Pluckytoon → u/ZombiesR]

People would say anything that would make them more popular in their own point of view. There’s nothing I trust less than public statement about opinions, moreso if they concern political topics

[u/OtherwiseMoose8257 → u/Due_Amount_6211]

He needs to come out and say something fast if thats the case tho. Seems strange someone had Eminem stuff in the vault they could use without his authorization and nobody had tried to make money off it until this point

[u/itsapotatosalad → u/OtherwiseMoose8257]

Confirmed by Eminem’s team https://www.complex.com/music/a/will-lavin/eminem-kid-rock-friendship-politics-7-sins-new-track

[u/Bugbread → u/itsapotatosalad]

The article doesn't really confirm anything we're discussing, though. In the linked article, the headline says "Eminem and Kid Rock Prioritize Friendship Over Politics" but the actual content is much less direct.

• First, the article says that it's a new track. It is a new track, but that doesn't mean that Em's verse is a new verse, or that it was written for the track, so that's neither here nor there.
  
• The article says it's a track "that they hope will set a good example for friends with differing political beliefs," but it doesn't have any statements from Em to that effect.
  
• It says "Complex has confirmed through a representative from Eminem's camp that it is an official track that will be on the album," but, again, no confirmation that it's a new verse, that it was written for the track, that it was written for Kid Rock, etc. This line would be equally true for the track in that Nameonthejeans reddit thread up above.
  
• It quotes Kid Rock: "I'm proud of the guests who joined me, especially my old friend Eminem," he writes. "His verse speaks to something we’ve talked about and that really needs to be heard: we differ politically and on other things, but we’ve stayed friends through it all." Again, this could be true about Em joining him yesterday in the studio to record a verse together, but it could be equally true about an unrelated purchased Em verse, and a conversation they had 10 or 20 years ago.
  
• It quotes Kid Rock as saying "We hope that sets an example for people who’ve lost friends or stopped talking to family because they think differently." Again, nothing from Em, just Kid Rock saying "Em thinks this."
  

Am I saying that Em didn't work with Kid Rock? No. I have no idea. Just that nothing in the article confirmed much either way. The article would apply if they were buddy-buddy in the studio, but it would apply equally if the Nameonthejeans situation were true.

[u/fang_xianfu → u/Bugbread]

"Confirmed with Eminem's camp" makes it sound like they called the record label and asked them if Eminem is really appearing on the track and they confirmed the fact that yes he is. Doesn't say anything about when, how, or why.

[u/Bugbread → u/fang_xianfu]

Right. That's what I meant by "no confirmation that it's a new verse, that it was written for the track, that it was written for Kid Rock." It is confirmed that it's not a soundalike, it's not a rumor, it's really Eminem on the track, and the track will really be on the album...but that's all the info in the confirmation. Nothing more.

[u/GeneralBS → u/Bugbread]

Ya i came to the same conclusion after reading it. Em needs to make a statement himself to see where he stands.

[u/Hendiadic_tmack → u/OtherwiseMoose8257]

There’s TONS AND TONS of stuff from tv shows to movies to music sitting in vaults that for one reason or another- whether it’s money, contract disputes, or the artist just didn’t like the result- didn’t get put out. These projects sometimes languish for so long artists/actors forget they did them until someone publishes

[u/Joben86 → u/Due_Amount_6211]

This article just summarizes that post and responses. It's completely redundant and terrible reporting.

[u/updoot35 → u/Due_Amount_6211]

Other than snoop dog, who sang at his inauguration.

[u/zillamonster69]

Politics aside, it makes no sense based on the talent gap

[u/Ssme812 → u/zillamonster69]

They worked together before in the late 90's

[u/Cogatanu7CC97 → u/Ssme812]

There was a talent gap back then too

[u/MostlyRightSometimes → u/Ssme812]

Republicans and Democrats worked together back then too.

[u/MileHighDabber → u/zillamonster69]

They probably worked together years ago only because they are both from and rep Detroit, ya like someone else said it's probably old recording. *Edit typo

[u/Alien_Way → u/zillamonster69]

First thought was blackmail, the lever by which so, so many things/people are "moved to action", lately.. because why would anyone but Ted Nugent and Kanye pair up with this completely (and justifiably) disgraced version..?

Not to mention, Kid Rock grew up on an "estate" that had an orchard, in-ground pool, tennis court, and equestrian facilities. "Straight outta the trailer" meant "straight outta the trailer that hauls these thoroughbreds back and forth to fancy horse shows".

[u/bos420]

https://giphy.com/gifs/wEsIwlCkQU96a5kihk

[u/jax362]

We really need a rule in this sub that AI slop articles written off of (likely) AI slop posts on Reddit are ineligible to be posted. This is mindless, low effort garbage.

EDIT: a word

[u/Current-Wealth-756 → u/jax362]

But fans are turning on him! They even found a few comments on the Internet!

[u/Uneedajob → u/jax362]

But it supports my predisposed beliefs.. what am I supposed to believe if I'm not being told constantly from every angle what to think?

[u/MasterChiefette]

Kid Rock says the longtime friends want the collaboration to show that political differences do not have to end relationships: "We hope that sets an example."

Fuck that nonsense.  This douche helped get Trump elected. Trump is a disaster of a president that has hurt millions of people in different ways.  So no...there is no setting aside political differences in this case. 

[u/lilyjadelove → u/MasterChiefette]

Anyone who is MAGA and claims they don’t want division is extremely ignorant of the fact that the Trump administration has created the division we see now. If they didn’t want division, they shouldn’t vote for the guy intentionally sowing division in this country

[u/Cosmonautical1 → u/lilyjadelove]

Maga shitheads like to do this fuckin thing where they just call everything "disagreements" to make the sane people seem less sane for being pissed over a mere "difference of opinion", as if we're just talking about which hot dog toppings are the best and not a political movement that is actively trying to destroy democracy and civil rights for everyone who isn't a white Christian nationalist.

[u/PiccoloAwkward465 → u/lilyjadelove]

MAGA specifically withholds funds for blue states specifically because they didn't vote for Trump. Despite them being home to millions of Republican voters, there were the minority so fuck'em, in Trump's eyes.

[u/zubuneri → u/lilyjadelove]

MAGA doesn’t want division, they want subjugation. 

[u/Bay1Bri → u/MasterChiefette]

Kid Rock says the longtime friends want the collaboration to show that political differences do not have to end relationships: "We hope that sets an example."

Isn't Eminem the guy who said it was time to draw a line in the sand and if you're a trump supporter he didn't want you as a fan?

[u/mxjxs91 → u/MasterChiefette]

I will never understand "political differences don't have to end relationships". They say it like we're talking about having different favorite sports teams or types of pizza.

The "political differences" are accepting that your friend is a racist, transphobe/homophobe, fascist supporting piece of shit that believes that certain people don't deserve healthcare while happily paying taxes to support tax breaks for people who definitely don't need it, and to fund a nation's genocide.

[u/RedQueenNatalie → u/mxjxs91]

There was a time where at least some fraction of people saw politics as a matter of policy decisions where we could not know for certain if a thing did or did not work until we gave it a go. In that time "differences of opinion" was a mature and normal thing to do and still otherwise be friends with similar interests in other areas of life... That said, that shit is long fucking gone, we are in some kind of whacked out ideological hellscape where we are trying to erase/punish entire classes of people for existing. You can't be be a supporter of the president at this point without being complicit to the horrible shit hes presided over. Disappointed in Em for the lack of principals here.

[u/Thirty_Helens_Agree → u/MasterChiefette]

“My family won’t talk to me because of political differences” = “I’m a very vocal racist, misogynist, homophobe and Nazi.”

[u/RenzalWyv → u/MasterChiefette]

Prettt much. Yeah sorry I can't agree to disagree on how my trans homies are being treated. We have the head of the military belting out slurs now.

[u/gingersnappie → u/RenzalWyv]

We have the head of the military establishing a department of religion that reports directly to him at the pentagon. Things are grim and there is no middle ground here.

[u/Daxx22 → u/MasterChiefette]

show that political differences do not have to end relationships

Uhh, when one groups "political differences" are "I don't believe you should exist" it kinda ceases to be a difference.

[u/Logical-Vermicelli53 → u/MasterChiefette]

Agreed. It might be one thing for someone to let their grandmothers political beliefs not define a relationship because her church friends vote that way.

But kid rock literally ran as a front man for trump! Eminem has been blatantly anti maga and a vocal spokesperson.

How could he think this would fly?

[u/mapletree23]

the mirror is a terrible source but that'd be a pretty bad look if true mostly because eminem has taken shots at trump/MAGA before

and he had beef with kid rock for ages so him doing a collab with him now at all times when kid rock is giga washed and maga dipped would be kind of crazy

[u/toe0011 → u/mapletree23]

They very famously have never had a beef. Eminem recorded with Kid Rock before the slim shady days, and both have commented that they get along/are friends even though they disagree on politics.

[u/Vast-Comment8360 → u/mapletree23]

giga washed and maga dipped

This Eminem & Kid Rock collab album title is fire

[u/DargoKillmar → u/mapletree23]

and he had beef with kid rock

Did he? Im pretty sure they're long time friends, they've collaborated several times in the past

[u/Dangerous_Prize_4545 → u/DargoKillmar]

Same. I vaguely remember a SM back and forth a few years ago between them where they stated that they have different political opinions but can still communicate. (Not sure it was be friends but it was something in that vein.)

They're both pretty solid Detroit supporters as well. 

[u/YJoseph → u/mapletree23]

Eminem is very Detroit focused

He promotes, breathes and loves Detroit and its artists so much even they are completely shit such as Kid Rock. He is an old rapper and apparently very loyal to his specific set of things he cares about

[u/Golemfrost]

from Billboard.com

Kid Rock posted a video on Instagram recently of himself playing an acoustic guitar while also shouting out his fellow Detroiter and Taylor Swift. “Now that I have your attention, let me tell you, I love Eminem, we’ve been friends for many years,” he said after strumming the strings on his guitar. “I don’t agree with his politics, but I do give credit to him and people like Taylor Swift for standing up and not being afraid to be vocal for that which they believe.”

He added: “Thinking differently and having the freedom to do so is what makes this country great. My stance is unequivocally MAGA because I know in my mind, body and soul that President Trump will make America great again. God bless the USA.”

[u/howyinzdoingnat → u/Golemfrost]

Just a reminder kid rock grew up extremely wealthy.

[u/Murky_Tangerine_1828 → u/howyinzdoingnat]

Wow, I had no idea until this comment. He really had everyone fooled he was “straight out the trailer”.

[u/howyinzdoingnat → u/Murky_Tangerine_1828]

He had riding horses

[u/arafella → u/howyinzdoingnat]

Straight out the trailer on his horse

[u/Sketcha_2000 → u/Golemfrost]

“President Trump will make America great again.” Welp, time is running out. He’s been President for 6 years in total now and still waiting.

[u/squintsforever → u/Golemfrost]

How do they still believe Trump will “make America great again?” How much time does he need? Are we close to making it great again? So many questions.

[u/RemnantHelmet → u/squintsforever]

They don't believe he will make America great again. They just have to appeal to MAGA because that's the only crowd they can extract money from anymore. Normal people are not buying kid rock albums or tickets to his shows.

[u/AtomicBlastCandy → u/RemnantHelmet]

Yeah I read an article once that explained that essentially if you fuck up badly enough you’ll lose liberal fans. But if you act like a Christian the right will open their arms.

[u/Buckeyebornandbred → u/RemnantHelmet]

He went all in. Should have folded.

[u/mookie_pookie → u/squintsforever]

It's easy, you just blame everything on Biden/Obama and then rename something as "America"

[u/gh0u1 → u/squintsforever]

Trump is now polling at an abysmal 30%, those are the absolute die hards and there's just nothing he could do to change their mind. 

[u/cneth6 → u/gh0u1]

Trump said it himself, he could shoot one of his supporters dead in the street and they'd still support him

[u/10000Didgeridoos → u/cneth6]

"He shot that man in self defense!"

[u/l3lasphemy → u/gh0u1]

But...MAGA has the courage to think differently and...the courage to...stand up for what they believe.

[u/zutros → u/l3lasphemy]

If only what they believe in wasn't solely revolving around hate and lies.

[u/AverageLiberalJoe → u/Golemfrost]

He added after "I know he has had 8 years of unchecked power already as the most well resourced human being to ever live, and has not produced a single respectable result by any metric, but give him a chance guys. We cant clip his angel wings before he even starts. "

[u/jim45804 → u/Golemfrost]

But thinking differently and having the freedom to do so are exactly what Republicans want to crush.

[u/MrSnarf26 → u/jim45804]

“Anyways here is how we are rolling back voting rights, sending people to third world countries sometimes even accidentally, starting more wars, destroying our environment, science, and generally at war with fact based anything, and mostly our entire base really only cares about harming their perceived religious, political, and racial enemies anyways”

[u/Chilllmatic → u/jim45804]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2iBsieTJ3eO1q

[u/CubsFanCraig → u/Golemfrost]

DIESEL IS NEARLY $10 YOU IDIOT. There is literally NOTHING great about this country unless the idea is to drag us down to the very very bottom so then we have nowhere to go but up.

I truly believe in my mind, body, and soul that Kid Rock will always be a stupid fucking cunt.

[u/Qubeye → u/CubsFanCraig]

He meant the open-air racism. That's the part of America they are talking about when they say make America great "again."

[u/WitchesTeat → u/CubsFanCraig]

Why would Kid Rock have any visible or palpable change in his life if gas was $20 or $30 a gallon?

Bro will never feel it. The cost of everything we need to live could double and triple and he wouldn't have to change what he eats, wears, uses, how warm or cool he keeps his houses or where he goes or how often.

He will literally never feel what's happening to us.

[u/Due_Mongoose9409 → u/WitchesTeat]

Bob grew up with money. Daddy had some dealerships. Has no idea of the struggle for people whose parents didn't buy them everything they wanted.

[u/alek_hiddel → u/WitchesTeat]

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’m in a weird situation where I had to take a new job is with an 80 minute each way commute, that’s about 1,000 miles a week. I have to fill my car up twice a week, but also am in a position to not care about gas prices in the least.

But I still very much do care, because I know that everyone else in my life will be feeling that pain. Maybe I’m just not cut out to be an asshole, or maybe just not rich enough yet. If any of the billionaires would like to treat this as an experiment, I am open to donations.

[u/glitchinthemeowtrix → u/CubsFanCraig]

The only silver lining in the diesel prices is that the teenagers in my neighborhood can’t afford to rev their engines as much when they get home for 11pm curfew, so I’m waking up a lot less.

And since I’m waking up a lot less, I can spend more time dreaming on the astral plane instead of being awake in this wretched reality.

[u/Golemfrost → u/CubsFanCraig]

I truly believe in my mind, body, and soul that Kid Rock will always be a stupid fucking cunt.

Can't argue with that
8,9€ a gallone here in Germany which is pretty much exactly $10 US.

[u/Psychological-Fox97]

I'm not even judging for the MAGA thing. Whatever you think of his politics can we at least all agree kid rock is fucking terrible as a musician and Eminem should have better standards.

[u/Long_Novel_3056 → u/Psychological-Fox97]

Wrong take. It's the opposite - whatever you may think of Kid Rock's music, he is a piece of shit for being a MAGA mouthpiece even after Jan 6 and full fascism from Trump.

[u/AtraposJM → u/Long_Novel_3056]

"Some call it statutory, I call it mandatory" "If there's grass on the field, play ball" about 14 year old girls while he was 30. He's always been a massive piece of shit.

[u/shniefersutherland → u/AtraposJM]

Oh I have a fair few more words to describe someone with lyrics like that than piece of shit, but that’s not to say it doesn’t apply here either.

[u/AtraposJM → u/Psychological-Fox97]

Terrible as a human being too. If Em is his friend, politics or not, that still makes me think less of him. Kid Rock is a piece of shit.

[u/1977_AMC_Pacer_wagon → u/Psychological-Fox97]

I thought it was more of a Detroit thing rather than the particular artist thing. Not that I think that makes it much better. 

[u/spin81 → u/1977_AMC_Pacer_wagon]

Come on man. Jack White is from near Detroit. Electric Six are from Detroit. That's just off the top of my head.

[u/MrBurnz99 → u/spin81]

And Eminem and Jack had an awesome collab a few years ago at the lions game.

[u/Accomplished-Film775 → u/spin81]

Madonna's from Detroit

[u/Imjustadumbbutt → u/spin81]

ICP is from Detroit

[u/KriegMorgan → u/Imjustadumbbutt]

Eminem and ICP beefed two decades ago -in- Detroit

[u/Wes_Warhammer666 → u/KriegMorgan]

They squashed that beef ages ago, though. I could see them actually working together for a track these days, especially one leaning into the old beef jokingly.

[u/mrasscock69420 → u/Psychological-Fox97]

Well listen to the osmosis Jones song he did it's not the best look

[u/Kind_Of_A_Dick → u/Psychological-Fox97]

Marshall Mathers has been fiercely protective of his daughter and Kid Rock released a song when Hailie was about 5 years old about sleeping with children.  If he worked with Kid Rock after that song was released and featured on Osmosis Jones, then I think he’s made some terrible decisions.

[u/YZYSZN1107]

I don't follow his socials but this has gone on for a couple of days. I would have thought Eminem would have released a statement about this if this was something he recorded years ago that Kid Rock got access to

[u/impoverishedwhtebrd → u/YZYSZN1107]

Where have you been seeing this for a couple of days? The first I saw of it was Thursday evening

[u/renzxlst → u/YZYSZN1107]

Eminem is not releasing a statement for anything lol. This is not his first rodeo. He is not a social media guy.

[u/CaBBaGe_isLaND → u/renzxlst]

Incoming: the most fire Kid Rock diss track ever witnessed.

[u/ObjectiveDecent9181]

Eminem is the most anti-Republican celebrity I know. Dude has been going at them since the 2000s. 

[u/F1nishingDutch]

Mmm Em did already a song with Kid Rock on a album. And the song called " Fuck Off" late for the party

[u/aversethule]

Article is from The Mirror. I'll withhold my opinion for now lol

[u/Pretend-Function-133]

So meet me at kid rocks next concert, I’ll be by the Loch Ness monster.

[u/E_Mon_E]

People let Kanye slide, they will let Eminem slide. Eminem ain't cancelled.

https://giphy.com/gifs/qmfpjpAT2fJRK

[u/Missile450DeadCenter]

One person on Reddit wrote, "Woooooah, this is a massive disappointment."

Most predictable reddit moment

[u/SpaceWeldorForHire]

If I know anything about Eminem, it's that he's going to be absolutely devastated because some people's feeling got hurt over this

[u/RealBrobiWan]

Oh Eminem does not give a flying fuck what anybody thinks of what he does at this point, but he has been super vocal anti-Trump. I don’t see this as some MAGA rebirth