• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    While I’m on your side and think he shouldn’t be as popular; he did move away from his edgy angry domestic violence stuff fairly early.

    Also, 90% of rappers would have to go away if people were consistent with this moral code.

    • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I would just say 90% of popular music, so much of it is outright misogynistic, especially music videos

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        4 months ago

        It literally is him “killing” that stage persona and the ideas that powered it, yes.

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          4 months ago

          I mean that’s what it suggests on its face, but literally the same track the slim shady character is shot and killed then reveals it was all a dream in the outro, which really undercuts the entire narrative of the album leading up to that point (13 tracks into the album BTW). To me it feels a lot like a “haha jk idiot” since Eminem admits on another track that the slim shady character was an outlet for (paraphrasing here) “the stuff that’d get you ridiculed but we all know is true” amongst other messed up stuff.