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Eminem is so retrograde he’s all but unlistenable in 2019
I haven't had the urge to really listen to Eminem in a while. even the albums I like, I've just lost any desire to pick them back up. there's just too much that hasn't aged well in his lyrics and even a lot of the production on his albums isn't that great tbh. add into that he hasn't made a decent album in a decade and a half, and that his "classics" are looking worse as time goes on, it makes it hard to justify really revisiting any of it.
 
Not really. The excessive violent homophobia make it unlistenable.
this is definitely a big issue I have trying to go back. while I don't demand political correctness from artists and I try to keep in mind the time period in which things came out, late 90s-early 2000s Eminem built most of his public persona on pissing off soccer moms and being a snotty white punk kid that tried to get a rise out of people. he's a technically gifted rapper but going back and listening to older songs removed from that context, it just all seems so unnecessary. plus, even as recent as 2018, he used a gay slur against Tyler, the Creator, so yeah, it's hard to defend him on that front.
 
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