Eminem on gays

RIO — Eminem está de volta ao centro das atenções nos EUA, com os fãs e a crítica especializada exaltando a qualidade de seu novo single, "Rap God", enquanto muitos lamentam o teor homofóbico de trechos da quilométrica letra. A ONG Stonewall classificou a canção de "ultrapassada e profundamente ofensiva", alegando que o rapper ficou "preso no século passado".

Eminem não é nada sutil em seus versos. Já na primeira estrofe ele diz que, enquanto faz “acrobacias líricas” ainda consegue “quebrar uma mesa nas costas de dois gays”. Mais à frente, canta que “os gays pensam que isso é só um jogo (...) Garotinho com aparência gay / Tão gay que eu mal consigo falar com a cara séria”.

“Comparado a artistas modernos inspiradores como Frank Ocean e Macklemore, que enfrentam abertamente a homofobia, Eminem parece preso no século passado com essas letras ultrapassadas e altamente ofensivas”, disse Richard Lane, assessor da Stonewall.

As letras agressivas sempre renderam críticas a Eminem. Mas numa entrevista ao "New York Times", em 2010, ele deu uma declaração favorável ao casamento male lover. Sem deixar o sarcasmo de lado

Eminem didn't 'feel right' with homophobic lyrics about Tyler, The Creator

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Eminem says he was uncomfortable with homophobic lyrics he wrote and released on his recent album, Kamikaze.

He faced criticism for his language on album track Drop while speaking about Tyler, The Creator.

Eminem says he "felt like this might be too far", in a brand-new interview to promote the record on his own YouTube channel.

"In my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it," says Eminem.

"It was one of the things that I kept going back to and going 'I don't feel right with this'."

Many others didn't feel right with it either.

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Eminem has successfully avoided using other repulsive lyrics

El Hunt, a writer for NME, says it's wonderful that Eminem has apologised, b

A few weeks ago, Eminem released "Rap God," the third single from his new album The Marshall Mathers LP 2. When I listened to it for the first second, I was instantly struck by the repeated apply of homophobic slurs, which include a threat to break a table "over the back of a couple faggots" and a long, vicious diatribe about a "gay-looking boy." I searched for responses, assuming that the song would already have attracted controversy — and found nothing but dozens of articles praising his lyrics and flow while selectively overlooking the song's blatant homophobia.

So I wrote an article about it.

My article was titled, "Eminem's 'Rap God' is incredibly homophobic, and no one is talking about it." Within a few days, it was pretty much the only thing about "Rap God" that anybody was talking about anymore. My complaints were quoted in articles at Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, The Huffington Post, and more. Writers at Salon and The Daily Beast picked up the charge. Openly queer artists like Boy George, Solomon, and LastO criticized Eminem in public statements.

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Elton John says Eminem was ‘never homophobic’

Iconic musician Sir Elton John has defended rapper Eminem against years of allegations of homophobia, saying that he’s simply “misunderstood”.

Speaking to Zane Lowe in an interview for Beats 1, Elton said he was “floored” when he first heard The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000.

“I thought, 'how could anyone think this is [what he really thinks]'? He’s just writing about the way things are. Not how he thinks, but the way things are.

“I’m always a supporter of the people that are getting trashed. For me Eminem was never homophobic. I’ll struggle for anyone who is misunderstood and misrepresented by the idiots out there,” he told Lowe.

Elton John sparked controversy by performing a duet with Eminem at the 2001 Grammy Awards. GLAAD issued a statement at the time saying that the LGBT+ rights organisation was “appalled that John would share a stage with Eminem, whose words and actions promote hate and violence against gays and lesbians.”

In the song "Criminal", Eminem raps: “My words are like a dagger wi

Boy George Gives Eminem Mixed Reviews

October 9 -- Boy George — whose uninterrupted American tour with Culture Club hits St. Louis on Tuesday — remains one of pop music's most prominent and outspoken homosexuals. So it comes as something of a surprise that he boasts admiration — both musical and physical — for rapper Eminem, whose unrepentantly gay-bashing lyrics have prompted protests and boycotts from groups enjoy the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

"I believe he's really excellent at what he does," George says, "and I reflect that it's always exciting when people kind of cross those sort of cultural boundaries.

"But one of the mournful things about pale boys who access the kind of rap arena is they tend to kind of trail the predictable routes of behavior," continues George, who augments his singer career as a famous DJ and newspaper columnist these days. "For me, if Eminem was pro-gay, pro-female, that would be revolutionary; there's nothing revolutionary about slagging off gays and women.

"But I do think people like Eminem encourage debate, although I'm not sure if that's really his intention; I consider he