The Black Nubian legend, who has a tense relationship with Eminem, to say the least, commented on Marshall’s latest verse where Em responded to a repetitive hostility towards him.
There are so many acts of aggression against Eminem happening recently, online and in media. Sometimes, after another acrid remark from a hater, Em’s fans would expect a response from Slim Shady but he never dignified a clout chaser with an answer. Until now, where he responded to all of them at once, no preferences.
One of those, whose words Eminem references on his verse was Lord Jamar. He said more than once that Marshall is only a guest in the house of hip hop. And many repeated it since. For them Em rapped on his “Realest” verse:
I am a guest in this house but I turned this bitch to a mansion
That’s an expansion, made it gargantuan
England, Germany, France and Japan’s in this bitch
Even Dubai, because my music, they do buy
Lord Jamar commented on this later, however, he decided to start his video rant from being offended on behalf of Melle Mel and a bunch of other artists Eminem didn’t even try to address:
So, earlier this morning, I get the message from my brother. He’s like, “Yo, did you hear this song where Eminem goes at Melle Mel?” “What? — I thought. — No! Not in the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Are we going at Melle Mel? One of the forefathers? And Eminem is doing it?”
Lord Jamar was comically overselling every line, bringing emotions to the level of a comic horror show by the end of a segment.
Wow. So, this song gets sent to me. First of all, I guess, it’s somebody else’s song. I thought it was a wrong song because somebody else started rhyming at first. He went back to me again in the song, without mentioning my name. But yeah, first I thought I had a wrong song cause it sounded like younger dude rhyming. Whoever it was, he could rhyme, he was pretty good. I didn’t listen to the whole thing though because I was trying to get straight to what all the hullaballoo was all about.
So, we get to Eminem verse and he’s saying a bunch of shit. In the comments they say he was talking to The Game a lot. But a lot of this shit he was saying was he shit that I have said before. He definitely said, “Yeah I’m a guest”. But he said, “But I turned the house into a mansion” or some bullshit like that. Then he talks about, “Yeah, they don’t play me in the clubs” and he tries to act like, “So what? You only know that because you still performing in those clubs”. Now, that right there is a real dig to any artist, really. Especially from back in the days that still has the honour of performing. You see how they are trying to pigeonhole old school rappers? First of all, they try to act like you can’t make records. You’re too old to make records. Now, you perform the records that you had them in all different type of places, wherever they’ve got the bread. It’s gonna be in stadiums sometimes, it’s gonna be in clubs, it’s gonna be in arenas. But the fact that you say, oh, you still perform in the clubs… Brand Nubian perform in clubs, Big Daddy Kane performs in clubs, Rakim performs in clubs. So many of your famous rappers perform in clubs. Although we’re performing in the stadiums too. That little jab about performing in the clubs that was a swipe at a whole lot of people that I don’t think he may have realised.
Anyway, he goes on and then he directly mentions Melle Mel. Basically, he starts calling him a juicehead trying ro say that he’s on ‘roids. Even though that’s a funny thing to point out because a lot of people had said about the person that put Eminem on, who was Dr. Dre. I’m just saying. Maybe that’s how he’s able to identify it so well.
Lord Jamar gets to the most offensive to him point misinterpreting Em’s lines about his race and narrowing down to a single case with which Em has never had an issue with:
Also in this rap he basically was saying because they had the Billboard Top 50 MCs and Eminem came in at No. 5. And in this rap he is trying to blame his whiteness for not being No.1 on the list. It’s because he’s white that y’all won’t put him No.1. He thinks he’s the best rapper. He thinks he’s getting discriminated against.
After that Lord Jamar starts pretend crying mocking imaginary Eminem’s trauma. Overall, his response was a classic example of a straw man fallacy, when an opponent responds to an argument different from the one actually under discussion, whitout recognising or acknowledging the distinction. He imagined motives and reasons behind Marshall’s lines and was talking about them, not the actual lines and actual reasons. However, that’s exactly what we hear from Marshall critics more often than we should.
