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Eminem faces backlash after comparing himself to Manchester Arena bomberRelatives hit back at ‘disrespectful’ rapper over lyrics referring to terror attackEminem has been criticised after comparing himself to the Manchester Arena suicide bomber.His track Unaccommodating, taken from his new album Music to Be Murdered By, includes controversial lyrics that appear to make light of the 2017 terror attack. Twenty-two people were murdered as they left an Ariana Grande concert after Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the foyer of the music venue.In the track, the star raps: “But I’m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’ on the game / Like I’m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.”Hours after its release, the musician faced a backlash on social media. The mother of 15-year-old Charlotte Hodgson, who died in the attack, called the track “disgusting” and “disrespectful”.Meanwhile, Figen Murray, whose 29-year-old son Martyn Hett died in the attack, called the song “pointless”.“Feels like he is piggybacking on the fame of Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber and says distasteful things about other celebrities,” she wrote on Twitter. “Not clever. Totally pointless. And before all Eminem fans pounce on me, I am not interested and will not engage.”Murray has campaigned for the introduction of Martyn’s Law, which would require venues to introduce more stringent security checks.Elkan Abrahamson, a solicitor for several of the bereaved families, said: “Eminem is a traitor to his talent; this is disrespectful, unwarranted and needlessly cruel.”Others agreed, with many Twitter users saying they were disgusted by the lyrics and that it was “a pathetic attempt to get attention”.“I am disgusted how did he or his team think this was okay? He’s trash,” one user wrote. Another said: “The fact that Eminem made a joke about the Manchester attack in his song makes me sick. He can’t get out of this one. He fully said her name and can’t deny it at all. Disgusting. How insensitive do you have to be to say something like this.”One user called on the rapper to show some respect to those who had died and been injured: “This is so messed up! Many people (mostly children) were injured at this concert and some even lost their lives, and he thinks it’s OK to put this lyric in a song? @Eminem maybe try and have a little respect, and don’t use a terrorist attack to gain clout.”The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said: “This is unnecessarily hurtful and deeply disrespectful to the families and all those affected.”It is the second time the rapper has referenced the Manchester arena bombing in his lyrics. In a 2018 freestyle battle rap, with a spoken caveat at the beginning that “nothing’s off limits” to get a reaction from the crowd, he rapped: “Squashed in between a brainwashing machine Like an Islamic regime, a jihadist extreme radical Suicide bomber that’s seeing Ariana Grande sing her last song of the evening And as the audience from the damn concert is leaving Detonates the device strapped to his abdominal region I’m not gonna finish that, for obvious reasons”Elsewhere in Unaccommodating, he compares himself to Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini, and also references the September 11 attacks.The album is the musician’s 11th full-length release, and his third album in three years. It features guest stars including Ed Sheeran, Q-Tip and late rapper Juice WRLD, who died aged 21 in December.
I’m sorry but I know these young kids are impressed by how fast Em can rap but doesn’t matter to me. Em has pretty much done all he can do, it’s a miracle he pulled off MMLP2 so late in his career and cuts like “guts over fear” but now he’s gained a new generation of fans cause I think they are awed by his skill I guess... but maybe it’s hard for older fans to be awed cause he’s done everything he can do in the gameStarts off well but ended up being another Revival. I didn’t like the Kamikazee album either, btw
Probably his best album since Relapse. Some vintage Em on here with tracks like stepdad and darknessYou gon learnNo regretsGodzillaI really dig the artwork and overall Hitchcock influences Disappointed in Dre’s participation
Quote from: Duck Duck Doggy on January 17, 2020, 07:26:00 PMProbably his best album since Relapse. Some vintage Em on here with tracks like stepdad and darknessYou gon learnNo regretsGodzillaI really dig the artwork and overall Hitchcock influences Disappointed in Dre’s participationNo way it’s better than MMLP2. Not as good as Recovery. And belongs among the worst or second to worst of career. I forced myself to listen to Lost Tapes 2 in denial for a week I’m not forcing this one... I gave it one serious listen and it’s already out of my rotation.
Quote from: Infinite Trapped in 1996 on January 17, 2020, 02:07:11 PMI’m sorry but I know these young kids are impressed by how fast Em can rap but doesn’t matter to me. Em has pretty much done all he can do, it’s a miracle he pulled off MMLP2 so late in his career and cuts like “guts over fear” but now he’s gained a new generation of fans cause I think they are awed by his skill I guess... but maybe it’s hard for older fans to be awed cause he’s done everything he can do in the gameStarts off well but ended up being another Revival. I didn’t like the Kamikazee album either, btwi almost agree all that you wrote, except Kamikaze. it was a good one. ringer, lucky you, stepping stone, venom were jointz for old fans.mmlp2 was also an album which satisfied both old and new fans.but music to be murdered by sounds like another revival.and dre is not able to push artist to next level. he even does opposite, he pulls the potential down... thats what happened on Oxnard with Paak. thats why he wanted to relase another album so quick and didnt let dre involved in it. yeah i mean Ventura. Kendrick also doesnt let Dre to pull him down. everybody is waiting for a Kendrick album produced by Dr. Dre but it would be a big disapointment and kendrick knows it, smart boy.dem jointz and focus might be good musicians and geniuses but their and dre's chemistry didnt fit each other.
Quote from: Infinite Trapped in 1996 on January 18, 2020, 05:12:21 AMQuote from: Duck Duck Doggy on January 17, 2020, 07:26:00 PMProbably his best album since Relapse. Some vintage Em on here with tracks like stepdad and darknessYou gon learnNo regretsGodzillaI really dig the artwork and overall Hitchcock influences Disappointed in Dre’s participationNo way it’s better than MMLP2. Not as good as Recovery. And belongs among the worst or second to worst of career. I forced myself to listen to Lost Tapes 2 in denial for a week I’m not forcing this one... I gave it one serious listen and it’s already out of my rotation.Your only hurting yourself with that stubbornness. It’s actually a quality album. When did he ever make a track like Stepdad on Recovery? It sounds like a track right off SSLP. Don’t listen to it if you don’t want to....maybe you’re meant to appreciate in 20 years like all the 90s albums lol
Quote from: Cey_Cey on January 18, 2020, 01:28:42 PMQuote from: Infinite Trapped in 1996 on January 17, 2020, 02:07:11 PMI’m sorry but I know these young kids are impressed by how fast Em can rap but doesn’t matter to me. Em has pretty much done all he can do, it’s a miracle he pulled off MMLP2 so late in his career and cuts like “guts over fear” but now he’s gained a new generation of fans cause I think they are awed by his skill I guess... but maybe it’s hard for older fans to be awed cause he’s done everything he can do in the gameStarts off well but ended up being another Revival. I didn’t like the Kamikazee album either, btwi almost agree all that you wrote, except Kamikaze. it was a good one. ringer, lucky you, stepping stone, venom were jointz for old fans.mmlp2 was also an album which satisfied both old and new fans.but music to be murdered by sounds like another revival.and dre is not able to push artist to next level. he even does opposite, he pulls the potential down... thats what happened on Oxnard with Paak. thats why he wanted to relase another album so quick and didnt let dre involved in it. yeah i mean Ventura. Kendrick also doesnt let Dre to pull him down. everybody is waiting for a Kendrick album produced by Dr. Dre but it would be a big disapointment and kendrick knows it, smart boy.dem jointz and focus might be good musicians and geniuses but their and dre's chemistry didnt fit each other.this is misinformation oxnard and ventura were planned like that ahead of time oxnard was to be the rap album and ventura the soul album because paak is not a natural rapper, oxnard didn’t come out as good (tho it was not a bad project)but it had absolutely nothin to do with dres production and everything to do wit paak bein naturally more of a singer than a rapper
Quote from: Sccit on January 18, 2020, 03:48:20 PMQuote from: Cey_Cey on January 18, 2020, 01:28:42 PMQuote from: Infinite Trapped in 1996 on January 17, 2020, 02:07:11 PMI’m sorry but I know these young kids are impressed by how fast Em can rap but doesn’t matter to me. Em has pretty much done all he can do, it’s a miracle he pulled off MMLP2 so late in his career and cuts like “guts over fear” but now he’s gained a new generation of fans cause I think they are awed by his skill I guess... but maybe it’s hard for older fans to be awed cause he’s done everything he can do in the gameStarts off well but ended up being another Revival. I didn’t like the Kamikazee album either, btwi almost agree all that you wrote, except Kamikaze. it was a good one. ringer, lucky you, stepping stone, venom were jointz for old fans.mmlp2 was also an album which satisfied both old and new fans.but music to be murdered by sounds like another revival.and dre is not able to push artist to next level. he even does opposite, he pulls the potential down... thats what happened on Oxnard with Paak. thats why he wanted to relase another album so quick and didnt let dre involved in it. yeah i mean Ventura. Kendrick also doesnt let Dre to pull him down. everybody is waiting for a Kendrick album produced by Dr. Dre but it would be a big disapointment and kendrick knows it, smart boy.dem jointz and focus might be good musicians and geniuses but their and dre's chemistry didnt fit each other.this is misinformation oxnard and ventura were planned like that ahead of time oxnard was to be the rap album and ventura the soul album because paak is not a natural rapper, oxnard didn’t come out as good (tho it was not a bad project)but it had absolutely nothin to do with dres production and everything to do wit paak bein naturally more of a singer than a rapperPaak said that he told dre he wants to executive produce his next album with his own way and dre answered "ok you are ready to fly on your own wings lets see what you can do".If dre was involved in venture, it was going to fail somehow. Without dre, paak is able to put his potential on ventura. Paak knew it. Kendrick knows it.