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Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly are beefing and it’s time to grab the flavorless popcorn. After two weeks at each other’s throats over a beef that can be traced back to at least 2012, Eminem has officially issued the response to MGK’s “Rap Devil” diss. But how did we even get here? Their beef first started cooking when MGK called Eminem’s daughter Hailie “hot as fuck” when she was 16 and he was around 21, though it remained dormant for some years. Em told Sway Calloway earlier this week that he never even heard the comment until a year after the fact, then finally decided to address it in a diss on his surprise album Kamikaze two weeks ago.

However, that wasn’t the real reason he dragged MGK on the album. Instead, he says, it was because of MGK’s longstanding claim that Eminem sabotaged his career early on by having him blackballed at Shady Records and elsewhere, an accusation MGK further detailed in his Kamikaze response, “Rap Devil.” Over a week later, Eminem has decided to lay this feud to bed and released, “Killshot,” which exists to do exactly as its title strategically aims. There are no revelations of a secret child — just some good ol’-fashioned ethering. Let’s run down the most fatal shots from Eminem’s best song in half a decade.

This one hurts twofold: First, it’s Eminem reimagining his biggest hit “Stan,” about an obsessed fan who idolized him to the point of insanity, as if the titular character were actually Kelly and this is who Stan grew up to be. And in doing so, he sons him. It also hurts because, well, you just don’t talk about a dude’s hair, bro.

Did we mention that in these same two weeks, somehow G-Eazy was also involved? It mostly had to do with G-Eazy and Machine Gun Kelly fighting over Eazy’s on-again girlfriend, the singer Halsey, and who slept with whom. Here, Eminem gets in on the drama in his own typically graphic way.

Rude as this song is to Kelly, it’s almost even ruder to the folks who catch stray bullets elsewhere. One of them being the forgotten rapper Shwayze, who had that one “hit” then disappeared from wherever he came from. In reviving that dude’s name, Eminem is threatening to also send Kelly into irrelevance with just one phone call, which is all the more cruel for being believable.

Would it be a rap beef without dredging up old conspiracies from the most fabled rap beef of all time? Eminem is making a play on words here by bringing up the long-believed theory that Diddy arranged for Tupac to be murdered as part of his East Coast allegiance to Biggie. And because both murders have never been solved (Johnny Depp and Josh Duhamel’s best efforts be damned), well, hey, never say never. Of course, Eminem ends the whole response by cutting in to say he’s just joking and it’s all love between him and Diddy. It’s the only line in this whole diss he doesn’t want you to take seriously.

The meat of this beef is simple: MGK thought he could buy himself attention by attacking his hero for letting him down by aging ungracefully, which has then backfired by reinvigorating said hero to the point that he’s impassioned and skilled enough to operate as he would have in his prime. Eminem has multiple jabs on this track about how age ain’t nothing but a number and as washed up as MGK thinks Eminem is, MGK’s looking like the geriatric rapper whose career is on life support:

“Ow, Kelly, ooh, but I’m 45 and I’m still outselling you /By 29, I had three albums that blew”

“My biggest flops are your your greatest hits”

“Cause as long as he knows I’m Shady, he’s gon’ have to live in my shadow”

Remember those stray bullets? Not even Iggy Azalea, an innocent bystander in this vanilla vortex ( for once), is safe.

Eminem won’t admit that he sabotaged MGK’s career, but he’s not afraid to dangle the fact that he’s always had the power to make or break it if he wanted to right in Kelly’s face. And, somehow, that’s gotta sting even worse knowing someone else could either help or hurt you at their own will and has happily chosen the latter.

As if we’d make it out of an Eminem rap without at least one dick joke. Please.

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As Slim Shady and Eminem, Marshall Mathers feeds on gleeful shit-stirring and trickster shock-tactics. But away from the mic, he claims there’s a kindler soul behind the persona. So is Eminem whatever he says he is, or did he lose himself in the music? Read below for his most revealing quotes and decide for yourself.

10 On self-censorship

Eminem was at his best teasing pop culture’s repressed subconscious – not punching down to women and gay men, not cracking rape jokes for a cheap punchline, but playing on our obsessions with celebrity and America’s seedy underbelly that everyone recognises but few in the public eye discuss. If he’s sick enough to think it, he’s sick enough to say it.

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9 On quality time

Perhaps a less popular pastime than he envisaged, Em’s booger castle nonetheless provides a vivid analogy for the sanctuary to be found in vulnerability, even when your day job is being the most notorious rapper in America.

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8 On record sales

A major flop for 2010 album ‘Recovery’ could’ve put Em out to pasture: after the sloppy ‘Relapse’ he’d scrambled to save face, blaming his addiction to painkillers. Eventually, the record saw him cling to his credibility among “real” hip-hop fans, and although 80 mil is a way off, a year after release, it did become the first ever album to hit one million digital sales – a decent, ahem, recovery, then.

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7 On rap as a drug

The late-2000s were a tricky time for the rapper: as peers Jay-Z and Kanye went from strength to strength, at least in entrepreneurial terms, the Detroit man, who’d recently lost his buddy Proof in a shooting, slid further into addiction. Talking up a return to the straight and narrow, he tapped into an eloquence that had been missing from his tunes.

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6 On poverty

Marshall Mathers’ pockmarked, broken-home upbringing has been well-documented, not least in largely autobiographical biopic 8 Mile. But this frank admission gives an alarmingly poignant insight, even by his standards. “I was poor white trash,” he’d admitted earlier, “no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.”

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5 On social media

There might be a bit of Slim Shady in all of us, but if only we could all follow this solid slice of Marshall Mathers wisdom, internet comment sections everywhere might be less Slim Shady and more Marshall Mathers.

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4 On rap as a social threat

A well-worn sentiment, but you can never say it enough: scapegoating rap, metal and video games will never fly, especially in countries where gun sales remain totally legit.

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3 On high school

For all his furious notepad-filling, Eminem’s rap superpowers didn’t stop him being a social outcast. This perceptive quote gets to the heart of why comic artists wrote shy, marginalised outsider figures with a wellspring of hidden powers: so people like Eminem could locate themselves and learn to harness their own powers.

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2 On hip-hop

Let’s face it, the number of musical big shots who could’ve passed as accountants, lawyers or oil barons can be counted on a sign of the horns. Marshall Mathers, who’d look as comfortable in a fly tux as Princess Kate would in trackies, is a shining example of somebody escaping inevitable fuckedness to show us the virtues of good old graft.

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1 On humiliation

A lesson for us all, here: if you want to become of the most notorious figures in music history, getting booed ain’t a bad start. You know how the rest of the story goes: “A week later, a day later, an hour later I got the urge, and I was like, I gotta get up, I gotta do it again.” Lucky for us, it paid off.

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Eminem has been making noise recently with his new single 'Survival.' The 40-year-old rapper has been stuck in the headlines since the controversial release of his debut single 'My Name Is' in 1999.

The controversial entertainer has since gone through a public feud with his ex-wife and mother of his child, Kim, and his mother (killing them both in different songs), beefs with Benzino, Ja Rule and Mariah Carey, experienced the death of Proof -- one of his best friend's -- and a drug addiction that almost took his life.

Throughout those times, Slim Shady was never shy to talk to reporters detailing his experiences as they happened, and leaving us entertained in the process. Take a look at some of the craziest and funniest words he's shared during his career. Here are 10 Shocking Eminem Quotes.

Self-acclaimed by the word “Rap God”; Eminem is the real rap God for the budding rappers. He is the lyrical genius whose music has touched the hearts of millions. His lyrics has given hope and inspiration to the people who think about quitting up early.

His most inspirational raps like; Lose Yourself, Till I collapse always pump me up to work even harder for my ambitions in life.

Before actually coming to the limelight, Eminem’s story itself is inspirational. And after going through many hardships in life, he became one most successful rapper.

Check out the top 28 Inspirational Eminem Quotes here.

28 Inspirational Eminem Quotes and Lyrics

1. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
2. “I don’t care if you are black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I  will be nice to you. Simple as that.” – Eminem
3. “I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.” – Eminem
4. “You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you actually stood up for something.” – Eminem
5. “If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.” – Eminem
6. “Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.” – Eminem
7. “Don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful. They can all get f****d, just stay true to you.” – Eminem
8. “You don’t get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.” – Eminem
9. “To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.” – Eminem
10. “Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?” – Eminem
11. “Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.” – Eminem
12. “You gotta find that inner strength and just pull that s**t out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse.” – Eminem
13. “In my mind I’ma fighter, my heart’s a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.” – Eminem
14. “Be proud of who you are.” – Eminem
15. “You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive.” – Eminem
16. “People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.” – Eminem
17. “Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.” – Eminem
18. “Sometimes you just gotta let shit go and say ‘To hell with it’ and move on.” – Eminem
19. “We sing for these kids who don’t have a thing.” – Eminem
20. “It’s no ones fault but my own. It’s the path I’ve choosen to go.” – Eminem
21. “I have nothing to lose but something to gain.” – Eminem
22. “If you had, one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment would you capture it? Or just let it slip?” – Eminem
23. “Life is too short and I got no time to sit around just wasting it.” – Eminem
24. Don’t ever try to judge me. You don’t know what I’ve been through.” – Eminem
25. “No more worries. Rest your head and go to sleep. Maybe one day we’ll wake up and this will all just be a dream.” – Eminem
26. “There’s no mountain I can’t climb. There’s no tower too high, no plane that I can’t learn how to fly. What do I gotta do to get through to you, to show you there ain’t nothing I can’t take this chainsaw to.” – Eminem
27. “If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.” – Eminem
28. “Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.” – Eminem

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