"Eminem has experienced more racism than 99% of black Americans"

[Mandarin Duck]

I seen that comment in an old Vlad video and fukking died
This is why I can't get jiggly with Eminem fans because they really believe that shyt

To see cacs in the comment section saying white privilege doesn't exist and Em being white has nothing to do with his success when Eminem himself has admitted this is just unbelievable

 

[Unknown Poster]

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talib didn't say this. That's why I don't read youtube comments.

 

[Mac Casper]

In some ways . . but he walked into a counterculture dynamic when he chose to make hip-hop his life path

It's kind of like if you're a hot blonde woman getting into comedy . . the moment you get on the stage you're going to get the look like "Oh, look at this. An attractive woman who wants to be on stage". There's various dynamics through every culture. It's not just hip-hop

 

[Mandarin Duck]

In some ways . .

No.
In no ways

 

[IAmListenin']

Video comments aren't exactly the place for intelligent commentary.

 

[Mac Casper]

No.
In no ways

You're clinging to your victimhood identity . . how dare anyone strip you of that

 

[Mandarin Duck]

You're clinging to your victimhood identity . . how dare anyone strip you of that

Eminem did not experience more racism than 99% of black Americans.
And me saying that is not clinging to a victim hood identity

 

[JuvenileHell]

Eminem fans are the worst

 

[BK The Great]

anyone with a right mind would know Em has White Privilege backing him, he even admitted it on his White America track.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Most Eminem fans are not hip hop fans

 

[Mac Casper]

Of course "Eminem himself has admitted to it"

and the quarterback for the team that just blew out the other team by 40 points still goes into the press conference doing the mister humble "we played hard, they played hard" routine

It's the same reason Macklemore panders every chance that he gets

If you ask Eminem or even Macklemore in his private conversations, or anyone who's successful an entertainment . . they're going to say "Ya, I worked VERY hard in ways that you wouldn't even begin to be able to comprehend.In ways you aren't even perceptive of. I had to sacrifice things and took risk with my life that are beyond what you could fathom. This wasn't handed to me. You think you're different because you recorded some tracks at your homies pad, changed your Facebook profile or began selling your mixtape at your nearest tourist location"

But when the interview comes on or that Grammy acceptance speech it's

"None of this would've been possible if it wasn't for the fans. I do this for you. Thank you so much for the support. I wouldn't be here without you"

And that's the bullshyt that our culture has become accustomed to accepting. That's the way we need it. Then you have someone like Kanye West gives it to you how it really is and you look at him like "He's so arrogant! How dare he!" You're literally offended that someone can be more successful than you and have the audacity to not be humble about it.

There's just things a lot of people wouldn't understand about actual success and that's why they're employees

As for 99% of us . . that might be a high number but a good majority of black men have never walked into a room and been singled out by everyone in the room. A good majority of us will never have to go through that because we are never outside of our realm.

The audacity you have to not accept that is worthy of clinical analysis. You didn't deal with more adversity going from fry cook to manager at McDonalds than someone who took front and center stage from a small local venue all the way to sold out arenas, it's just not possible

 

[BK The Great]

Most Eminem fans are not hip hop fans

there's a large portion of them who don't listen to hip hop and only consider him as one of the best. i wouldn't pay them people no mind, if anything you might have to test them to see if they know anything else besides Em.

 

[Max Goonberg]

Careerwise he %100 benefited from white privilege. But I gotta give em props for how he went about it early on. He payed his dues in that underground scene doing talent shows, battles conventions. basically did what any rapper had to do at that time to get on. He might have got special treatment when he blew but he didn't skip the line as far as putting in work during that " I'm trying to get signed" struggle.

 

[SunZoo]

Of course "Eminem himself has admitted to it"

and the quarterback for the team that just blew out the other team by 40 points still goes into the press conference doing the mister humble "we played hard, they played hard" routine

It's the same reason Macklemore panders every chance that he gets

If you ask Eminem or even Macklemore in his private conversations, or anyone who's successful an entertainment . . they're going to say "Ya, I worked VERY hard in ways that you wouldn't even begin to be able to comprehend.In ways you aren't even perceptive of. I had to sacrifice things and took risk with my life that are beyond what you could fathom. This wasn't handed to me. You think you're different because you recorded some tracks at your homies pad, changed your Facebook profile or began selling your mixtape at your nearest tourist location"

But when the interview comes on or that Grammy acceptance speech it's

"None of this would've been possible if it wasn't for the fans. I do this for you. Thank you so much for the support. I wouldn't be here without you"

And that's the bullshyt that our culture has become accustomed to accepting. That's the way we need it. Then you have someone like Kanye West gives it to you how it really is and you look at him like "He's so arrogant! How dare he!" You're literally offended that someone can be more successful than you and have the audacity to not be humble about it.

There's just things a lot of people wouldn't understand about actual success and that's why they're employees

As for 99% of us . . that might be a high number but a good majority of black men have never walked into a room and been singled out by everyone in the room. A good majority of us will never have to go through that because we are never outside of our realm.

The audacity you have to not accept that is worthy of clinical analysis. You didn't deal with more adversity going from fry cook to manager at McDonalds than someone who took front and center stage from a small local venue all the way to sold out arenas, it's just not possible

What the fukk does that have to do with real live racism though?

Em's skin color worked against him, most certainly. But once he found a way to get his foot in the door and flip those cards the hardships payed dividends.

And most of these people saying this shyt aren't even referencing his life but his career...not even the shyt about him getting beat up and bullied by black kids in school, but just some rap shyt and equating it with "99% more racist" than everyday shyt black people deal with in the background of their lives. Dude payed his dues, ate shyt, came up in this culture and this game and earned what he has gotten, white privilege or not but I think even he would tell you that it still doesn't compare to actually being black with little opportunity to flip the race card in to your advantage in this system that we live in. He's self aware enough to know that and spoke on it in his music several times.

 

[Mac Casper]

What the fukk does that have to do with real live racism though?

Em's skin color worked against him, most certainly. But once he found a way to get his food in the door and flip those cards the hardships payed dividends.

And most of these people saying this shyt aren't even referencing his life but his career...not even the shyt about him getting beat up and bullied by black kids in school, but just some rap shyt and equating it with "99% more racist" than everyday shyt black people deal with in the background of their lives. Dude payed his dues, ate shyt, came up in this culture and this game and earned what he has gotten, white privilege or not but I think even he would tell you that it still doesn't compare to actually being black with little opportunity to flip the race card in to your advantage in this system that we live in. He's self aware enough to know that and spoke on it in his music several times.

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What I'm saying is there's various segments of culture with their own dynamics.

As for the bolded - Exactly. His skin color helped him crossover into the mainstream but dealing with the adversity that he had to go through in the beginning, before he was known, is something that would've had many people stopping in their tracks. Especially this new special snowflake generation