Eminem Elton John Defends Eminem Against Charges Of Homophobia

Started by Gustavo Jax, Mar 25, 2017, in Eminem Add to Reading List

  1. Gustavo Jax
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    "I’ll fight for anyone who is misunderstood and misrepresented by the idiots out there."

    Think Eminem is homophobic? Elton John isn’t having it.

    The singer sat down with Beats 1’s Zane Lowe to talk about his 70th birthday and reflected on moments from his career, including his 2001 Grammys performance of “Stan” with Eminem. That performance was surrounded by controversy, due to critics of Eminem’s violent and homophobic lyrics.


    But John doesn’t agree.

    “For me, Eminem was never homophobic,” he said in the video above. “I listened to the whole of the ‘Marshall Mathers’ album when I drove to a show in South Hampton and I was floored by it. And I thought how could anyone think this is… he’s just writing about the way things are. Not how he thinks, but the way things are.”

    Addressing a performance with Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose, he also said: “And the same with Axl. Never in a million years did I think he was homophobic. So I did things.”


    “I did the MTV Music Awards with him and the Guns N’ Roses and I did the Grammys with Marshall and I became very big friends with Marshall. I’ll fight for anyone who is misunderstood and misrepresented by the idiots out there.”


    In 2004 Eminem told MTV News that he didn’t know or care about John’s sexuality.

    “Of course, I heard of Elton John,” said. “I didn’t know he was gay. I didn’t know anything about his personal life. I didn’t really care. But being that he was gay and he had my back, I think it made a statement in itself saying that he understood where I was coming from.”

    The rapper has also frequently defended his homophobic lyrics claiming that he uses controversial language in a “tongue-in-cheek” way.

    “I don’t know how to say this without saying it how I’ve said it a million times... But [fa----], those kind of words, when I came up battle-rappin’ or whatever, I never really equated those words  [with being gay],” he told Rolling Stone in 2013. “It was more like calling someone a b---- or a punk or a------... I poke fun at other people, myself,” he said, adding, “But the real me sitting here right now talking to you has no issues with gay, straight, transgender, at all.”
     
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    No one cares it's 2017
     
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  3. rapmusik
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    wow thanks for this

    had no idea Elton John defended Eminem even though he's done it numerous times in the last 15 years

    but thanks again
     
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    Mar 25, 2017
    ah i see... i was not aware of this. thank youf or informing me. i thought at first it was homophobic, but after reading this it is now clear eminem's SHADYXV is the greatest album released this decade.
     
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    Wow really? I didn't know!
     
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    Wow Elton John is gay this helped me learn some new things
     
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    Whos eminem
     
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    Eminem knew who this guy was but didn't know he was gay

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    Prefix : NEW lmfao
     
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    He wouldn't even take it back if he time traveled!
     
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    Remember when they banged
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    Right up there with birdman/wayne and capt.awesome/narsh :hugs:
     
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    Now that's how I wanted his Grammy performance to end. :kapppa:
     
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