But he was the first white rapper to appeal to an almost exclusively white audience. I just don’t.”And the more successful he got, the whiter his audience became, at least partly because that was the audience Eminem courted. Or between Slim Shady – the “monster freak who knew only how to say and do what no one was supposed to,” as Bozza writes – and Milo Yiannopoulos or even Trump. He worried about the effects of the rapper’s success, about what happened next to the people who took the Slim Shady character at face value, as a hero. Did he merely mirror – or, with the ridiculous Slim Shady, even satirise – the rise of the angry white man, or did he help drive it?

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2017 12:44 UTC