Dre to be his next protege, people "straight bugged out." The Source talks about race in a measured way, saying that when the former trailer-park kid from Detroit was picked by famed rapper Dr. All this makes you, Marshall Mathers, a hypocrite." You criticize other whites before you dare say anything disrespectful about a Black person. Like most white dudes in hip-hop, you suffer from the white boy one-upmanship disease.
When you're a white rapper, you're different. "See, Em, as much as it bothers you, your race still matters. In "Message to a White Man," the staff of XXL thanks the rapper, saying "The venom that spewed from your mouth is the best commercial a hip-hop magazine could ever receive."īut in the most direct knife-twist to the heart, XXL accuses the rapper of choosing easy targets - "boy/girl bands, dead homosexual icons" - while taking a hands-off approach to blacks. XXL, which, like The Source did not return phone calls, plainly has an ax to grind with Eminem: He dissed the magazine in one of his songs, calling it a "cheap-ass little magazine" with poor sales. All three magazines deal with the issue of race, but in very different ways.
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