{"id":12617,"date":"2017-10-11T06:56:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2017-10-11T06:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:58:19","slug":"eminem-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/11\/eminem-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminem On Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LunHybOKIjU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where the best golfer is black and the best rapper is white?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One in which Eminem drew a line in the sand tonight, if you&#8217;re not with me, FUCK YOU!<\/p>\n<p>This is everything today&#8217;s &#8220;musicians&#8221; are against. They don&#8217;t want to alienate a single potential audience member. Meanwhile, Marshall even takes the side of Kaepernick when Jerry Jones and the NFL want to keep teams down on the plantation.<\/p>\n<p>But homey don&#8217;t play that no more.<\/p>\n<p>This was unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>We had an unjust war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>We had a &#8220;moron&#8221; elected President.<\/p>\n<p>And nobody in music said a word.<\/p>\n<p>But those days are done.<\/p>\n<p>What the music industry won&#8217;t admit is what it&#8217;s selling pales in comparison to what&#8217;s happening in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, label heads, touring honchos, all they want to talk about is politics, you can get nary a peep out of them re music. Because they&#8217;re both fascinated and afraid.<\/p>\n<p>But now Eminem broke the barrier down. Tonight he spoke the truth. Our truth. Isn&#8217;t that what artists are supposed to do, speak their truth beholden to no one?<\/p>\n<p>Expect the floodgates to open, just like women came out of the woodwork after Cosby got caught, after Weinstein got caught, we&#8217;re a nation afraid of consequences until one person stands up, and no one&#8217;s got as much power as a musician, but they don&#8217;t use it, they&#8217;re afraid of alienating sponsors, they want to make nice.<\/p>\n<p>But Eminem did not make nice tonight, he put it all on the line, he&#8217;s a beacon.<\/p>\n<p>I lived through the sixties.<\/p>\n<p>This is worse.<\/p>\n<p>I was worried about getting my ass shot off in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m worried about being blown up by North Korea, latest news is their missiles can hit the west coast, but in a country where Puerto Rico can be devastated and no one cares, where Northern California can burn and no one cares, if you live in the Midwest or East you&#8217;re far less worried, you&#8217;re most concerned about terrorism, even though your chance of being killed by a stray bullet is much higher, and if you think the terrorists are coming first to Dubuque&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You probably voted for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Every damn day MSNBC beats up Trump. The NYT and the WaPo too.<\/p>\n<p>And it makes no difference.<\/p>\n<p>Every week Trump commits a faux pas, but nothing changes.<\/p>\n<p>Except this weekend, when one of his team stood up and gave it to him, said the White House was a reality show and he was worried about World War III.<\/p>\n<p>The world is changed by individuals. One person can change the course of history. Especially when they speak the truth.<\/p>\n<p>So everyone&#8217;s got their heels dug in. We live in a tribal nation. You&#8217;re on one team or the other. Country acts can&#8217;t even come out for gun control after their fans are shot to death.<\/p>\n<p>But then one artist who crosses lines spoke up.<\/p>\n<p>Artists are not politicians. They exist in their own rarefied atmosphere. Eminem speaks to both right and left, both adore him. So when he speaks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift is fighting Kanye, Marshall Mathers is fighting for equal rights and world peace.<\/p>\n<p>So now everybody&#8217;s gonna see this, the entire younger generation, because hip-hop rules the country and Eminem is royalty. But instead of worrying about his bank account, tonight Marshall stood up for what&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe you already agree with him.<\/p>\n<p>But if you don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Are you gonna burn his CDs? Or delete his MP3s?<\/p>\n<p>No, his video, his streams, are gonna live online, where you can&#8217;t kill them, looking you in the face every damn day.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight Eminem broke the logjam. One artist eclipsed the entire debate. Called foul on Trump and his cronies agitating for a return to the past, where the little guy without a voice is screwed.<\/p>\n<p>The only person with a voice as big as Trump&#8217;s is a rapper.<\/p>\n<p>And tonight the king of rappers called him out.<\/p>\n<p>Just start a tweet war with Eminem, Trump won&#8217;t be able to block followers fast enough, that&#8217;s the power of a musician.<\/p>\n<p>And Eminem exercised that power tonight.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. That quote at the top is from Chris Rock, ever wonder where I got it from?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What kind of crazy fucked-up world do we live in where the best golfer is black and the best rapper is white?&#8221; One in which Eminem drew a line in the sand tonight, if you&#8217;re not with me, FUCK YOU! This is everything today&#8217;s &#8220;musicians&#8221; are against. 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