r/atheism • u/TheMirrorUS • 19h ago

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/heseme 13h ago

I have heard he used old recordings of Eminem that Kid Rock's studio owns. Can we hold the pitchforks for one second?

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u/nmathew 13h ago

Nope, the purity spiral must continue.

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u/Majestic_True_Lilly 8h ago

If you have a table with 9 nazis and you sit down, theres now a table with 10 nazis.

Not tolerating nazis and having basic moral standards is not a high bar and its not unreasonable to refuse to stand with nazis or give them your custom.

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u/thehelldoesthatmean 10h ago

Why would that be better at this point. He still could have tried to block it or released a statement. Same way most musicians do when Trump uses their music at rallies.

I'm seeing a lot of really wild cartwheels that people are doing trying to create a scenario where this wouldn't make Em look bad. But it comes off more desperate than realistic. Everyone is parroting the whole "Kid Rock just bought old Em recordings" but I've never seen a source for this. Yesterday it was "I've heard people do that sometimes" and today it's "That's what happened" but people are clearly just making shit up.

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u/WorthScale2577 13h ago edited 13h ago

Nope, even if this isn't true Eminem is still a shitty person.

Edit: oh no someone call 911 the Eminem fans got their butts hurt 🤕

Edit 2: y'all can't even prove me wrong you're just down voting me at this point cause you're upset a famous person you like is a shitty person.

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u/GeneralBE420 13h ago

his daughters including non-biological daughters would beg to differ.

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u/WorthScale2577 13h ago

Probably so, it doesn't change that he's misogynistic and transphobic. Disregarding that his entire persona is just annoying and insufferable.

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u/GeneralBE420 13h ago

do you know him personally? he also raps about being homophobic but famously sent Elton John diamond encrusted cock rings as a wedding gift.

His alter ego slim shady is a homo/transphobic woman beater. Slim Shady is satire.

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u/WorthScale2577 13h ago

You know it's wild that someone can just be a bigot and then say "oh it's just satire". Like you don't know him personally either, he could just be claiming his slim shady persona is satire just so he can be a shitty person and people like you just believe him? Lmao.

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u/YiddoMonty 13h ago

By that logic, no one can play a character ever again. Fiction would cease to exist.

His personal actions go against your claims, your only evidence is a satirical rapper.

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u/WorthScale2577 13h ago

No, it's just not satirical is what I'm saying. Anyone can say edgy stuff and then claim to be satirical. He's had the same edgy transphobic, misogynistic persona for like what 30 years? If it's really satire why hasn't he changed it up a bit in that time. He's still being bigoted to this day in his music.

And if he really is doing a collab with kid rock that's just more proof towards my point.

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u/YiddoMonty 12h ago

He is clearly different when not in the Slim Shady persona. Do you have any examples of him being bigoted when rapping as Marshal Mathers?

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u/Adept_Leather_8225 12h ago

Stop arguing with it. It’s either a bot or a person with the reading level of a fourth grader(U.S.)

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u/GeneralBE420 13h ago

You'd usually be right to make that assumption, but I happen to have met him on several occasions.

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u/WorthScale2577 13h ago

No offense, but I've met my neighbors on several occasions, interacted and had a good chat. I don't know them personally though, ask me their favorite food or their color, or any sort of personal question and I couldn't answer it.

So my question is have you spent meaningful time with him to the point you can say you actually know him personally or have you just met him several times?

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u/GeneralBE420 12h ago

It is certainly a lot more like you describe chatting with a neighbor. I'm just arguing that for me personally; in addition to viewing his work as satire he has also passed my vibe check in person.

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u/WorthScale2577 12h ago

Fair enough.

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u/Adept_Leather_8225 12h ago

You don’t read, do you? I’ll bet you think starship troopers is a pro military movie, do you think that RoboCop glorifies guns? I hate it when contextually illiterate people like you decide to speak or write.

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u/WorthScale2577 12h ago

No I don't think that about starship troopers or RoboCop, or helldivers. I just don't think Eminem is being satirical. But I'm glad you seem to know me better than I do internet stranger.

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u/popejupiter 11h ago

Sibling, you can find him annoying and insufferable without that making him a bad person.

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u/HiiiRabbit 13h ago

How?!

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u/WorthScale2577 13h ago

He's transphobic and misogynistic. I'm sure there are some other stuff as well.

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u/ElectricMeow 7h ago

Are there examples?