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Eminem Explains How He Picks His Targets For A Diss Track

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Updated 11:13 8 Feb 2022 GMTPublished 11:30 25 Jan 2022 GMT

Eminem Explains How He Picks His Targets For A Diss Track

Eminem has revealed the 'philosophy' behind how he decides who will feature on his diss tracks.

Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck

Eminem Explains How He Picks His Targets For A Diss Track (Friday Night With Jonathon Ross/ YouTube/ Alamy)
Eminem Explains How He Picks His Targets For A Diss Track (Friday Night With Jonathon Ross/ YouTube/ Alamy)

Eminem has revealed the 'philosophy' behind how he decides who will feature on his diss tracks.

Eminem, real name, Marshall Bruce Mathers III, has become known not only for his hip-hop and rap music, but the shade he throws at other celebs.

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The 49-year-old has taken to calling out the likes of Michael Jackson, Ja Rule, Mariah Carey and former US president Donald Trump, alongside critics of his music, his ex-wife Kim, some of his fans and even himself.

However, the American rapper has since opened up about his diss tracks and how he doesn't mean them to be 'personal attacks on people'.

Across his 10 studio albums, Eminem has dissed 135 people or organisations, Eminem.News reports.

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Yet on an episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross from 2019 the star revealed his philosophy behind such tracks, clarifying how he's 'never met these people'.

He said: 'It's not like personal attacks on their character or anything like that. It's kind of like picking names out of a hat, and if your name rhymes with something good then, you know what I mean? If you're a pop figure in this world.'

Eminem (Alamy)
Eminem (Alamy)

Ross joked that if Eminem did a diss track about Sarah Palin that listeners might see it as a statement about American politics to which the rapper replied, 'I do, I want to nail her.'

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Sarah Palin has recently come under fire for comments she made about the coronavirus vaccine, which she said she would only get 'over her dead body'.

However, the American politician tested positive for the virus today, January 24, marking the second time she has contracted it.

The federal trial for Palin's lawsuit against The New York Times has subsequently had to be delayed until February 3. Palin has claimed that the paper published a defamatory article about her in 2017, which has damaged her reputation as a political speaker.

While continuing to slam other celebrities, and perhaps even Palin in the future, in a track released in 2020 alongside Kid Cudi, Eminem condemned those who refused to wear masks amid the pandemic.

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Calling those who choose to not wear masks a 'bunch of half wits,' The Adventures of Moon Man and Slim Shady details the duo's thoughts on the coronavirus crisis, as well as the issue of police brutality in reference to the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.

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Featured Image Credit: Friday Night With Jonathon Ross/ YouTube/ Alamy

Topics: Music, Eminem

Poppy Bilderbeck
Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.

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