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More than a decade later, I'm inclined to side with GLAAD, and I don't particularly care what Eminem actually believes - I care what he's preaching to the "new school of students" that he brags about having on "Rap God." Since the height of Eminem's popularity, hip-hop's biggest names have made major strides to tear down the once-entrenched homophobia of the genre. GLAAD issued a statement expressing their disappointment in John's decision, arguing that Eminem "should not have another platform for his hateful lyrics." "If I thought for one minute that he was, I wouldn't do it," said John at the time. In 2001, Eminem responded to those who attacked him for the homophobia of the original Marshall Mathers LP by performing his hit single "Stan" as a duet with Elton John, who is openly gay, at the Grammy Awards. Worst of all is Just Jared, which took the time to painstakingly transcribe the six-minute song's lyrics - and took the coward's way out by writing "" over every homophobic lyric in the song, as if they suddenly couldn't hear his crystal-clear vocals whenever he said something offensive. MTV News took the time to collect Eminem's array of pop-cultural references without noting his homophobia. Time called the single "divine." Rolling Stone analyzed the song's influences without commenting on its content. The song is bad enough - but even more disheartening has been the way that so many websites have praised Eminem's rapping on "Rap God" while ignoring the song's problematic lyrics entirely.
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In the first verse, Eminem boasts of his ability to "break a motherf-r's table over the back of a couple f-ggots and crack it in half." In the second verse, Eminem goes off on a bizarre, homophobic rant: "Little gay-looking boy / So gay I can barely say it with a straight face-looking boy / You witnessing massacre like you watching a church gathering taking place-looking boy / 'Oy vey, that boy's gay,' that's all they say looking-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go from your label every day-looking boy." "Rap God" is Eminem's rapid-fire, six-minute anthem to himself, and it's peppered with brazenly and violently homophobic rhetoric.