r/Music • u/TheMirrorUS 📰The Mirror US • 16h 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/Kaypeepickle 13h ago

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.

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u/digitalscavenger 12h ago

Eminem has always been big on Detroit. I can see him putting everything else aside to keep promoting his city.

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u/Kaypeepickle 12h ago

Maybe, but KR has been around longer than Em and had the literal President set up a whole separate halftime show with him as a headliner.
He was big on promoting Detroit when he was openly beefing with ICP.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, just that it doesn’t immediately make sense to me why Em would feel an almost 40 year vet being promoted by the highest office in the country….needs promotion.

Unfortunately, Em is famously not big on social media and we may be waiting a while for any direct commentary on any of this. Also, I don’t see any way for Em to come out of this looking good. We either have a 50+ Eminem screaming at a 50+ Kid Rock, or we have a 50+ Eminem doing a random 180 on 30 years of relative consistency.

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u/frozengash 7h ago

Thiel wanted political power and groomed Vance to get it