{"id":145,"date":"2021-04-18T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/?p=145"},"modified":"2021-04-27T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:25:10","slug":"long-live-slim-shady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/long-live-slim-shady\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live Slim Shady"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-146\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/F6BEF084-A4F7-4325-AC4F-22B8ED4A2199.jpeg?resize=505%2C303&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/F6BEF084-A4F7-4325-AC4F-22B8ED4A2199.jpeg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/F6BEF084-A4F7-4325-AC4F-22B8ED4A2199.jpeg?resize=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/F6BEF084-A4F7-4325-AC4F-22B8ED4A2199.jpeg?w=1023&amp;ssl=1 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Image selected from Flickr.com \/ Sebastian Vital<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><br \/>\nRecognizing many years of hard work and dedication to his work, as of 2021, Eminem has been rightfully nominated for a whopping 44 Grammy\u2019s and has won 15 in total. However, not everyone is a fan but even those who never paid particular interest to him previously, have now decided to jump on the \u201cCancel Eminem 2021\u201d bandwagon.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>As I usually do for my second posts on the same artist, I could go on and on about all of Em\u2019s discography and lyrical accomplishments, although right now, I am most interested in discussing the backfire he has been witnessing in his late-career years. In February 2021, a TikTok user (who has since been removed) uploaded a short clip from the 2010 Eminem and Rihanna song, \u201cLove the Way You Lie.\u201d The user called out the line, \u201cIf she ever tries to f***ing leave again, Imma tie her to the bed and set this house on fire.\u201d In the text written over the uploaded video, the user wrote, \u201cYesssss lets cancel him\u201d, suggesting that Eminem was a supporter of domestic violence.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uelHwf8o7_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Ironically, the other main character in the song, Rihanna herself has defended the song&#8217;s message in the past. &#8220;It just was authentic. It was real,&#8221; Rihanna said of the song in 2010. This is a huge turning point for this \u201cCancel Eminem\u201d culture because just a year before \u201cLove The Way You Lie\u201d came out, Rihanna was hospitalized due to domestic violence and assault between her and her significant other at the time, Chris Brown. Therefore, having Eminem collab with her on this track was only meant to promote the awareness of battering and domestic abuse that Rihanna felt necessary to be discussed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Overall, Eminem raps about the real-life struggles he experienced such as his dad leaving six months after he was born, his mother struggling with addiction and lack of parenting, living in poverty, dropping out of high school, and witnessing friends be murdered at such a young age. With that being said, Eminem didn\u2019t grow up in this much less-than \u201cBrady Bunch\u201d lifestyle to rap about sunshine and rainbows. His lyrics are a representation of who he is as a person and as an influencer to those who struggle with the same hardships.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>I think the people who want to cancel his struggle, cancel the negative association that they hear. But what they don\u2019t hear is the gratefulness of those that Eminem has helped throughout the years by giving a voice to their struggles. Just because it doesn\u2019t fit someone else\u2019s lifestyle doesn\u2019t mean it hasn\u2019t helped those who are have felt like an outsider. In all, it seems that Eminem isn&#8217;t really going anywhere anytime soon.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognizing many years of hard work and dedication to his work, as of 2021, Eminem has been rightfully nominated for a whopping 44 Grammy\u2019s and has won 15 in total.<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/long-live-slim-shady\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Live Slim Shady<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,4,29,5,3],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beginning","tag-lovethewayyoulie","tag-culture","tag-eminem","tag-evolution","tag-hip-hop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/F6BEF084-A4F7-4325-AC4F-22B8ED4A2199.jpeg?fit=1023%2C614&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredstories.com\/hiphopdailychronic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}