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Eminem has revealed a teaser video for his new single 'Rap God' - despite existing controversy over the track's violent and homophobic lyrics. Watch it below.
The (seriously weird) teaser trailer sees Marshall Mathers' miming along to the track's spoken-word intro, against a flourescent, flickering backdrop. The extract doesn't contain any of the track's offensive lyrics, which include such lyrical gems as: "Little gay-looking boy / So gay I can barely say it with a straight face-looking boy / You witnessing massacre like you watching a church gathering taking place-looking boy / 'Oy vey, that boy's gay,' that's all they say looking-boy / You take a thumbs up, pat on the back, the way you go from your label every day-looking boy."
Sigh.
Watch Eminem's 'Rap God' video teaser below
The rapper has denied his is a homophobe, however, claiming he only throws words such as 'faggot' into his music because of rap culture.
"I don't know how to say this without saying it how I've said it a million times. But that word, those kind of words, when I came up battle-rappin' or whatever, I never really equated those words..." he says in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, in which he is asked directly about his use of the word 'faggot'.
"It was more like calling someone a bitch or a punk or asshole. So that word was just thrown around so freely back then. It goes back to that battle, back and forth in my head, of wanting to feel free to say what I want to say, and then [worrying about] what may or may not affect people."
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