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Eminem Lyrics Parodies refers to spoofs of the flow of rapper Eminem after the rapper released his album Kamikaze on August 31st, 2018.

Origin

On August 31st, 2018, Eminem surprise-released his album Kamikaze.^[1]

Critics noted that while Eminem's rapping technique had improved from previous records, many of the songs in which Eminem rapped about his own career and negative responses to some of his previous works, including his Anti-Trump Freestyle, fell flat,^[2] and his use of homophobic slurs, particularly against Tyler, the Creator were inappropriate.^[3]

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Shortly after the release, listeners critiqued some of the lyrics as nonsensical. Twitter user @bigracks tweeted some of the lyrics calling them "beyond parody" (shown below).

Listeners also created parodies of Eminem's style, in which he will sometimes use nonsensical words to complete interior rhyme schemes, by comparing it to The Fairly Oddparents theme song. Twitter user @HornikGSN tweeted The Fairly Oddparents lyrics, misattributing them to Eminem and using a clip of NFL commentator Shannon Sharpe to represent showing his fans reacting in awe, gaining over 160 retweets and 470 likes (shown below, left). User @kiiiirbs made a similar joke with a clip of Shia LaBoeuf clapping, gaining 17 retweets and 45 likes (shown below, right).

One of the most popular parodies was by and comedian @ChrisDelia, who rapped an Eminem parody on Instagram^[6] that gained over 459,000 views (shown below).

The audio was later paired with footage from Eminem's Anti-Trump BET Cypher by Instagram user blob_morechairs^[7] and tweeted by Delia (tweet shown below). The tweet gained over 8,200 retweets and 28,000 likes (shown below). The parody was covered by NME^[4] and Complex.^[5]

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