The rapper Eminem accused the president of racism,
hypocrisy, disrespect of military veterans and more
in almost five minutes of furious freestyle rap.
"Now, if you're a black
athlete/You're a spoiled little brat for trying to
use your platform or your stature/To try to give
those a voice who don't have one."
Posted October 11, 2017
2017 Eminem
Is Basically Rachel Maddow In A Hoodie
By Caitlin
Johnstone
My God this is
depressing.
The once
artistically relevant hip-hop artist Eminem has
caused quite the stir in establishment liberal
circles today. Corporate Democrats across America
are currently squealing with delight over a viral
freestyle Marshall Mathers recently aired on the BET
Hip-Hop Awards, in which he denounced the sitting
president in a way that is indistinguishable from
the innocuous neoliberalism-friendly criticisms
leveled by the likes of Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and
Peter Daou.
In what is
without a doubt the single whitest thing that has
ever happened, Clintonist McResistance millionaire
Keith Olbermann publicly praised Eminem’s
performance with the ejaculation that after 27 years
of doubts about rap he is now a fan, adding, “Best
political writing of the year, period. [clapping
emoticons] #Eminem2020”.
It’s unclear
why Olbermann singled out the seemingly arbitrary
year of 1990 as the beginning of his rap skepticism.
Equally perplexing is his inability to appreciate an
immensely rich musical genre full of brilliant
artists until he saw a caucasian man expressing
opinions that can be heard daily on MSNBC. But it is
not at all confusing why Olbermann found this
particular piece appealing.
Just
like every other pro-establishment corporate liberal
partisan hack, Mathers voiced support for Colin
Kaepernick only in the context of opposing Donald
Trump,
without saying a single word
about the police brutality against African Americans
which Kaepernick has been protesting.
Just
like every other pro-establishment corporate liberal
partisan hack, Mathers gave “props”
to Wall Street crony and drone bombing king Barack
Obama,
decried the way
Trump “tormented” and “slandered” Hillary Clinton,
defended
bloodthirsty neocon John McCain,
invoked the
“deplorable” pejorative of the Clinton campaign, and
said he loves the
US military.
Just like
every other pro-establishment corporate liberal
partisan hack, Mathers had nothing to say against
the system which forced a nation to choose between
an obnoxious billionaire reality TV star and a
corrupt warmongering neocon under FBI investigation,
nothing to say about how none of the evils Trump
facilitates originated with Trump, and nothing to
say about the way America’s elected officials are
essentially lackeys for an unelected plutocracy
which thrives on a paradigm of economic injustice
which hurts minorities and other disadvantaged
groups worst of all.
There was once
a time when Eminem was widely considered a legit
artist and countercultural icon. In 2017, he’s just
Rachel Maddow in a hoodie.
Mathers
wrapped up his embarrassing display of oligarchic
sycophantry with the following verse:
And any
fan of mine who’s a supporter of his
I’m drawing in the sand a line: you’re either
for or against
And if you can’t decide who you like more and
you’re split
On who you should stand beside, I’ll do it for
you with this:
“Fuck you!”
Wow, like,
boom. That’s some dangerous wordcraft you’re
wielding there, Marshall. Be careful you don’t cut
yourself on all that edge.
I’m not
including the above video by
Infowars’
Paul Joseph Watson because I agree with him
ideologically, but because, in this particular
instance, he is absolutely right. Watson is
humiliatingly, infuriatingly correct when he says
that conservatism has become the new counterculture
because pro-establishment liberalism has become the
dominant culture in western society. Corporate
fauxgressivism is now the official ideology of the
mainstream music industry, Hollywood, social media
providers and other key areas of cultural influence,
which is why you’re now seeing Eminem regurgitating
CNN talking points with pasty old oligarchic
stalwarts cheering him on. If a young man wants to
find something that’ll piss off his parents and
teachers, he’ll now have much better odds looking to
the Kekistanis on 4chan than to any famous hip-hop
artist.
I’m not saying
it’s a good
thing that conservatism has become the new
counterculture, I’m just saying it’s
true. The
corporate liberals are winning the culture war, the
anti-establishment conservatives are winning the
counterculture war, and meanwhile those of us who
are on the actual left side of the political
spectrum are sitting out in the cold while our
presidential candidate gets one percent of the
popular vote.
This has got
to change. As long as the true left is allowing
itself to be shouted down into silence and
submission by the dominant mainstream liberal
culture, we’ll be lost in the margins while the
establishment Democrats duke it out with the
right-wingers. Nobody wins in that battle. If you
recognize the status quo as bullshit and partisan
politics as a farce, speak up! Make noise! Make
art — for fuck’s sake,
please make
art! And when they try to shout you down, shout
louder! Speak your truth like you mean it, and say
it like you’re right, because you are.
Don’t settle
for Eminem, please. Let’s create a real
counterculture and usher in something fresh.
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