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Jack Shepherd

Eminem responds to critics with beastiality joke on new song

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Eminem's latest guest feature has turned heads as the artist rapped about beastiality.

The 46-year-old features on a new track by Boogie, titled "Rainy Days", with the artist hitting back at critics of his controversial 2018 album Kamikaze

"I left my legacy hurt? F**kin’ absurd / Like a shepherd havin’ sex with his sheep, f**k what you heard," Eminem begins his verse. 

The lyrics have left some fans laughing at the line. Others have called his use of the homophone "heard/herd" to compare the absurdity of having sex with sheep to critics saying the rapper's recent release hurt his legacy another example of Eminem's clever wordplay.

Eminem was criticised last year for calling fellow rapper Tyler, the Creator a "f****t" on the album Kamikaze.

Addressing the controversy on "Rainy Days", Eminem raps about putting "woke me" to sleep and taking the cold medicine NyQuil to "wake" his persona Slim Shady up. 

He continues: "But no matter how many rounds or if I get knocked down in a bout and fell to the ground / I got a fighter's mentality, I'll get back up and fight with it."

Eminem previously apologised for using the word to descibe Tyler, saying: “I think the word that I called him on that song was one of the things where I felt like this might be too far.

"Because in my quest to hurt him, I realised that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it.”

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