Shady’s back, but it would probably be better if he wasn’t. Eminem’s newest single, “Houdini”—the first from his is a cringy screed against what he probably calls “wokism” that definitely should have stayed asleep. Apart from not even being the best song called “ ” this year, Eminem’s single includes some lines that you really do need to see to believe.
“My transgender cat’s Siamese/Identifies as black, but acts Chinese,” he raps at one point. “Sometimes I wonder what the old me’d say/If he could see the way shit is today (Look at this shit man)/He’d probably say that everything is gay,” he raps in another, before whispering “Like happy.” Apart from the obvious eyeroll content here, it’s also just goofily amateurish writing.
But that seems to be the point. “But fuck that if I think that shit, I’ma say that shit/Cancel me what? Okay that’s it,” he wrote. Well, he certainly did say it.
But while taking shots at himself (and his kids, who he calls “brats”) is Eminem’s business, becoming yet another rapper to turn at the hands of Tory Lanez into a cheap joke is not. “If I was to ask for Megan Thee Stallion if she would collab with me/Would I really have a shot at a feat?” he raps, over a caption in the video highlighting the icky attempt at a pun. Eminem isn’t the first rapper to make light of this incredibly traumatic event— and Nicki Minaj wrote an , which she unsubtly titled “Big Foot,” kicking off the two art.
