Elvis doesn't really deserve it either as he had many friends that reported how great of a supporter of black music he was.

Mohamed Ali was at his ranch till the day he passed away..., they vouched for eachother and what we know of Mohamed Ali is he would never vouch for a racist...
Yet that sentiment made him less credible after his death... his legacy is def tarnished due to it.
Elvis even gifted him a custom robe

Eminem is credited for reaching a greater audience.
Well white people supported hip hop in smaller numbers before (public enemy toured in the uk in the late 80s + krs-one is quoted as saying he gets more love in Europe than the US+ dmx rocked Woodstock and had platinum plaques in 1998 eminem would end up selling twice as much as the highest selling at that time, dmx )

If we look at that greater audience that eminem introduced to rap... there's this stereotype of
"I only listen to eminem, lil Wayne is s*** rapper that should work at McDonald's, rap is like a mountain..."

y'all may have never encountered it but I've seen them be either insensitive/dismissive to race topics to borderline racist to proudly defending racist pseudoscience (actually had that debate with a stan, he believed that blacks were genetically inferior 😐...)

facts its my second fav em album

with Elvis i was purely going off the music. i don't really know about his life. but i do think there's a bit of difference in what Elvis represents of his genre/era and also cos he didn't make original music. To a lot of people I think Elvis represents rock becoming a white-dominated genre. That's not his fault, but with Em that never happened after him.

And yeah i think i've met those type of people irl. It's scary to see how many people believe that s***. It can be very online, but just as a high profile example our PM in the UK had to fire someone this year for cosigning similar theories about black intelligence.

edit: that robe is cool af

Louisiana nerd

If you believe eminem is racist for saying dumb s*** about a woman he was f***ing bang your head against the wall and lose the rest of your brain cells

he probably thinks they are stylish, he definitely has considered wearing one

Racists listen to Eminem?

I thought we been knew this

hows he racist

We cant even hate on this when this exactly what Farrakhan out here looking like

and velour suit dr.dre

Exactly Em did way more to uplift Black culture than stifle it in my opinion.

Post Malone is modern day Elvis.

This boy life from level?

Eminem is black on the inside.

Classic.

Idk about other people on ITT, but I’m specifically talking about people on KTT.

And I’m Black too but live in the NJ suburbs and can tell you that all these suburban kids think Eminem is lame as f***. Em having a portion of his fanbase be racist doesn’t make him racist, which is the exact narrative people on this website like to run with. BLK saying White suburban kids are trying to appeal to Black people by s***ting on Eminem and pretending that
A) Eminem has no Black fans
B) He has had zero impact on Black culture and
C) He is consciously culturally appropriating Hip-Hop with the intention to undermine Black artists (meanwhile they f***ing love Post Malone )

Both Eminem having racist fans and racist White liberals weaponizing that against him can be true at once.

elvis lowkey worse than post tbh

he is an amazing vocalist tho (elvis not post )

Nah cuz Post Malone is doing what Elvis did in 2020. Elvis was doing that before the Civil Rights Movement even started. Post Malone should know better, and does, but doesn’t care.

If you don't think Elvis did the same thing you don't know 5os rock. Elvis is the reason all the teenagers were even allowed to listen to the rest of the black rockers. And he gave plenty credit where it was due as far as his influences.

"I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road...”

— Little Richard

ya'll think op thought this thread would be a intrinsically deep thread worth 7+ pages