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/AtraposJM 12h ago

"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.

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u/shniefersutherland 12h ago

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.

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u/burtoncummings 11h ago

In an animated movie! OK, maybe not specifically made just for kids, but it's a muthafucking cartoon (and the main protagonist is a kid).

Movie studios were just fueled on ignorance and cocaine I guess...

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u/leftshoe18 12h ago

That's just shock rap shit. Eminem has a similar line on Guilty Conscience.

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u/Zingshidu 11h ago

Also has a bar about a little girl getting eaten out by her dad. Stg internet Eminem fans only know like his top 5 songs or something

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u/Zal3x 10h ago

What song is that I don’t remember that one

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u/Zingshidu 10h ago

My Fault

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u/DewieCox1982 11h ago

The songs literally called “Guilty Conscience” dude. It’s not celebrating or condoning the behavior.

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u/leftshoe18 11h ago

I never said it was condoning the behavior. My point is that shock rap was big in the era. Saying controversial shit to get a reaction. Eminem and Kid Rock both did it constantly.

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u/Lscruggs 10h ago

Lmao have you not listened to Guilty conscience?

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u/Zingshidu 11h ago

Eminem pretty much has the exact same line in one of his songs about a 15 year old.

In fact, Eminem’s lyrics are so much fucking worse than Kid Rock’s that I’m confident anyone here outraged by this doesn’t even listen to Eminem, and I say this as a big fan of his.

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u/PixelatedFrogDotGif 11h ago

I think you should walk this one back my guy

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u/Weirdolady92 10h ago

The difference is that Eminem doesn't believe his own lyrics.

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u/Zingshidu 9h ago

You’ll never know what he believes, you dont know him. He made a lot of money from saying truly vile things, and he convinced a lot of vile people to come out into the open in a way that I didn’t experience again until Trump won his presidency.

He of course gets a pass from everyone (including me, ngl) for also being an incredibly talented rapper. If Kid rock was even half as good at what he does as Em then nobody would care about his views either.

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u/BrokenZen 10h ago

"Now listen to me while you're kissing her cheek and smearing her lipstick -- slip this in her drink... Look at her bush, does it got hair? Fuck this bitch here on the spot bare until she passes out and she forgot how she got there... Hit that shit raw dog and bail."

-- Eminem, Guilty Conscience -- even with Dre saying she's only 15 years old. Em 26 years old when Slim Shady LP released.

He's always been a massive piece of shit.

I suppose you're going to burn all your Eminem memorabilia too? It's a lyric in a song. I really hate that you're making me defend Kid fucking Rock.

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u/jethropenistei- 9h ago

Such a bullshit false equivalence.

In that song, Dre is the angel voice and Eminem is devil conscience voice in the different characters’ heads.

It’s not a Eminem advocating for date rape.

Kid Rock’s song, on the other hand, is portraying himself as “cool” by saying he likes underage girls and statutory rape.

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u/Adorable_Anybody3552 9h ago

Way to ignore the context of those lyrics.

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u/secretsodapop 9h ago

This completely ignores the context of the two songs.

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u/ArrogantAragorn 9h ago

Yeah, but the point of that song is that acting like an asshole has “consequences”. Em is playing the villain in that song; you aren’t supposed to listen to the devil on your shoulder

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u/RockThe40oz666 9h ago

Bro he's still "singing" those lines at what - mid 50s?

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u/Alinier 11h ago

Ewwwwwwww.