[Trigger Warning: This is about more than just Hip Hop]
This should have been amazing. You have DJ Premier, arguably the best DJ to ever live; you have Mos Def, Black Thought, and Eminem, three incredibly talented Hip Hop artists; but leave it Eminem to ruin the whole thing with a rape joke.
“My dick is so big if I add another inch to it, you would swear when I raped you that you was actually into it”
Appalling.
If you think I’m being nit-picky and wondering how I can say that one line ruined the entire freestyle, you will notice that it’s that line out of his entire freestyle that gets a “whoo!” It’s this celebration (and implicit endorsement) of rape jokes that contributes to terrible incidents like this, where a 15-year old girl was gang raped and beaten while as many as a dozen people stood by and watched. If you can’t see the connection, you need to be locked away in a dungeon somewhere never to see the light of day again because you are dangerous.
“My dick is so big if I add another inch to it, you would swear when I raped you that you was actually into it”
I agree with your commentary but I would also like to point out that comments like this attempt to equate rape with sex. No woman and in fact no person enjoys rape. It is a violation of the worst kind. What Eminem is doing is expressing power and not an actual sexual exchange. He refers to his penis size because to him genitalia means masculinity and therefore the larger it is the more manly. In part, the issue is with how conceptualizes masculinity as something meant to over power a woman, as if by sheer will alone he can create consent because only his body and his needs matter.
I don’t remember Eminem ever saying or doing anything right. When he is not being a homophobe, he is an outright misogynist. It saddens me that his blather is what we have come to understand as entertainment.