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Eminem is being slammed as a racist after a decades-old recording surfaced this week featuring him rapping negatively about a black ex-girlfriend. The track was made public at a press conference Tuesday by hip-hop mag The Source, which has been battling with the Oscar-winning rapper for years. The magazine dates the tape to 1993, when Eminem was 21, but the New York Times quotes a source as saying it was made in 1988.
A sampling of the lyrics in question: "Don't date a black girl/if you do it once you won't do it twice." Eminem issued a statement shortly before the tape was played acknowledging that it's authentic but claiming that The Source has had "a vendetta against me & for a long time."
"The tape they played today was something I made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager," the "8 Mile" star explained. "I'd just broken up with my girlfriend, who was African-American, and I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was. I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into today."
A sampling of the lyrics in question: "Don't date a black girl/if you do it once you won't do it twice." Eminem issued a statement shortly before the tape was played acknowledging that it's authentic but claiming that The Source has had "a vendetta against me & for a long time."
"The tape they played today was something I made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager," the "8 Mile" star explained. "I'd just broken up with my girlfriend, who was African-American, and I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was. I hope people will take it for the foolishness that it was, not for what somebody is trying to make it into today."
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