Eminem slams TikTok campaign trying to ‘cancel him’ for lyrics in 2010 song Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna
EMINEM slammed the ongoing TikTok campaign that is trying to “cancel him” for the lyrics in his 2010 song Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna. Just yesterday, the rapper released a new song where he slammed TikTok users for fighting a lyric that is ten years old. In his new song, Eminem – whose […]
EMINEM slammed the ongoing TikTok campaign that is trying to “cancel him” for the lyrics in his 2010 song Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna.
Just yesterday, the rapper released a new song where he slammed TikTok users for fighting a lyric that is ten years old.
In his new song, Eminem – whose real name Marshall Mathers – hits at the Gen Z age group as they rallied in condemning him for his lyrics in the Rihanna song.
They mainly had an issue with the last verse he sings, “I’m tired of the games, I just want her back, I know I’m a liar / If she ever tries to f**king leave again / I’m a tie her to the bed and set this house on fire.”
The lyrics came just one year after Rihanna had an argument with her then-boyfriend, Chris Brown, which left her with bruises on her face.
As the Gen Z group rediscovered the lyrics, they slammed the rapper for how insensitive he was while promoting domestic violence.
However, the 48-year-old rapper released a song in response called Tone Deaf.
In the lyrics, he sings: “I can’t understand a word you say (I’m tone deaf) / I think this way I prefer to stay (I’m tone deaf) / I won’t stop even when my hair turns grey (I’m tone deaf) / ‘Cause they won’t stop until they cancel me (yeah, yeah).”
Eminem has recently been slammed plenty of times for his lyrics with his most recent album featuring lyrics about the Boston Marathon Bombing, which occurred in April 2013 and left three dead and around 264 people injured.
On the track titled Favorite B***h, he raps: “And I know nothing is funny ’bout the Manchestеr bombing/ But we got something in common, (What?) both of us are alarmin’/
“Foul, disgusting, and awful (Yeah), so repugnant and ugly (Yup)/ I could give the Boston Marathon a run for its money, yeah/ And you could say I’m a little bit immature.”
After listening to the album, many fans took to Twitter to vent their frustrations at the 48-year-old music star.
One wrote: “I can give the Boston Marathon a run for its money – @eminem I hope you know you’re going to he** in gasoline drawers.”
“No way Eminem is sending for Ariana Grande stans and dissing the Boston marathon bombing in the same verse. This guy is just built differently,” added another.
While a third added: “I love Eminem but this guy really has a bar in his new song mocking the Ariana Grande concert bombing and then has a explosion noise straight after.”
Earlier in 2020, he defended lyrics in Unaccommodating in which he rapped “I’m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’” in reference to the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in 2017.
He insisted “certain sections” of his songs were “designed to shock the conscience” and were “not made for the squeamish.”
In the new album, an extended version of the one released in January and surprised the music world today, he also takes aim at Billie Eilish who previously said she is “terrified” of the rapper.
In Alfred’s Theme, he says: “But really I’m just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes, which is really childish and silly, but I’m really like this, I’m giving nightmares to Billie Eilish.”
He also reignited his favorite feud with ex-girlfriend Mariah Carey by comparing her to an outcast, in These Demons, when he says: “I got a question, what rhymes with Pariah?”
In the same album, he apologized to Rihanna after he claimed in a 2019 leaked song that he “sided with Chris Brown.”
Eminem “wholeheartedly” apologized to Rihanna and said it was “wrong” of him to support Chris, in the song, Zeus, on his new surprise album.
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He raps: “But, me, long as I re-promise to be honest / And wholeheartedly, apologies, Rihanna.
“For that song that leaked, I’m sorry, Ri / It wasn’t meant to cause you grief. Regardless, it was wrong of me.”
When Eminem‘s song leaked, a spokesperson said: “This is a leak of something that’s over 10 years old.”
They added: “After Eminem recorded it, he scrapped it, and rewrote it.”
Rihanna’s ex-boyfriend Chris pleaded guilty to assault in 2009 and received five years probation and a community service order.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or chat at thehotline.org.