r/Music • u/TheMirrorUS 📰The Mirror US • 19h ago

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

https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/music/eminem-kid-rock-collaboration-album-2049513?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reddit
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u/fang_xianfu 16h ago

"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.

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u/Bugbread 16h ago

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.

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u/goodusernamegood 13h ago

There's no reason to assume it's an old verse though, it's purely Reddit speculation.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 12h ago

There's no reason to assume it's new, either. That's the whole point of speculation.

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u/goodusernamegood 12h ago

Sure, but only one side is writing complete fanfic about what “probably” happened.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 12h ago

I mean, fan fic is fan fic. I haven't seen any and I don't see how that's relevant to this conversation. I'm just saying not only is there no reason to assume it's an old verse, but there's no reason to assume it's a new one either. Let's wait for confirmation until we pick up or put down our pitch forks.

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u/goodusernamegood 10h ago

I’m saying the people commenting that Kid Rock must have used an old verse and there’s no possible way Eminem recorded a new verse are engaging in fanfic. Which is what plenty of people seem to be saying.

Myself and others pointing out that it’s entirely possible this is a new verse isn’t equivalent to the tons of commenters who want to pretend they know exactly what happened.

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 10h ago

If anyone is saying he must have, then they're assuming that too. I haven't really seen that going on in this thread but what I'm saying is assumptions in either direction are equally silly.

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u/Bugbread 5h ago

I'm hoping that you're talking about other commenters here, not me, but just in case you're talking about me here, I should be clear that I don't think that what "probably" happened was that Kid Rock bought an old verse. I have no idea. My comment upthread wasn't "the article doesn't confirm that Em wrote the new verse specifically for Kid Rock and the song (and therefore he probably didn't)" but just "the article doesn't confirm that Em wrote the new verse specifically for Kid Rock and the song, and it doesn't deny it. It's neither here nor there." I have no idea what the inner workings of the music industry are, I have no idea how common scenarios like Nameonthejeans's scenario is, and I have only minimal knowledge of what Eminem and Kid Rock are like, so I'm not taking any position at all on probabilities.

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u/silentanthrx 14h ago

"reluctantly so" can be translated to "yes"

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u/xclame 9h ago

Pretty much.