From the Rolling Stone Archive December 29, 2014
Similar to how “The Interview” is not just a satirical comedy, but-if unexpectedly-was even able to start a global debate, so this coming out of Eminem and its role in the film as a gay rapper is also not easy Just a fun or a marketing campaign for a long -lasting film -a much better statement than a coming -out per se. Eminem says: “I am gay”.
Eminem shakes on the wrongly anchored principles of a homophobic rappers scene, to which he himself belonged, also shaped it as such. Macklemore or Frank Ocean demonstrated that Slim Shady alias Eminem now seems to join and want to change their own industry.
“I say so much ironic shit”
In a video interview with actor James Franco in “The Interview”, Eminem explains: “I am gay. It means I like men. (…) It is rather shocking that it has not been noticed so far. ”He also explains Franco that his homophobic texts would be there to process his own fears.
In recent years, Eminem has often commented on his gay -anti -sexual texts of the past. Like many others, he rapped from “Faggots” (German: foal) or in general the “gay look” as an insult to “real” men. In the Rolling Stone interview, he still defended his choice of words as a free slang, which was circulating at the time and on which one jumped up ironically and addicted to success. “Man, I say so much ironic shit. I make fun of other people, about myself. But real I am now sitting here and speaks to you and has no problems with homosexuals, heterosexuals, transsexuals – not a bit, ”said Marshall Math in November 2013.
Now his ironic kind of social messages is accepting new trains. They are no longer insulting or condescending. They also show that a hip shopper also changes its point of view and should not insist on false conventions.