The rapper defended his use of slurs to Rolling Stone, saying, “Those kind of words, when I came up battle-rappin’ or whatever, I never really equated those words .
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Singer Sia, who is openly queer and appears on the MMLP2 song “Beautiful Pain,” has offered to donate her royalties from her Eminem collaboration to the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. This show was launched in the wake of its 60 minute British produced TV pilot that was called 'Max Headroom:20 Minutes Into The Future(called The Original Story for VHS home video release)', and also, all the Coca Cola TV commercials that Max Headroom appeared in advertising the soft drink that were shown repeatedly from 1986 to 1987. The track generated controversy for Slim Shady earlier this year when his use of homophobic slurs in the song put him under fire. As the track begins, he mimics the audio samples as if they’re his words, which eventually reveal themselves as the elements that make up a logo treatment at the end of the clip, spelling out “Rap God.” He wears a dark suit and a skinny black tie, and, occasionally, a pair of pitch-black Ray Bans dart on and off his face. For less than half a minute, Em flickers about a neon landscape of cubical lines dressed like the computer-like character, which debuted in 1984 and became its own TV series, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future, in 1987.
The track comes off his most recent album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
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Rolling Stone’s new cover subject, Eminem, riffs on the Eighties’ stuttering sci-fi character and soda spokesman Max Headroom in the teaser for his “Rap God” video, which debuts in full next Wednesday. The Max Headroom signal hijacking occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, when the television broadcasts of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, United States, were hijacked in an act of broadcast piracy by a video of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume, accompanied by distorted audio and a corrugated metal panel swiveling in the background to mimic Max Headroom's.
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