{"id":89372,"date":"2018-03-12T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=89372"},"modified":"2018-03-12T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:06:44","slug":"rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Eminem took a shot at the nation\u2019s gun lobby Sunday while performing at the IHeartRadio Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Before he launched into his song, \u201cNowhere Fast,\u201d featuring Kehlani, he singled out the National Rifle Association suggesting it was responsible for the mass killing in Parkland, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole country is going nuts\/ and the NRA is in our way\/ they\u2019re responsible for this whole production\/ they hold the strings, they control the puppet,\u201d rapped Slim Shady.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HTYEbMnLxcY?rel=0\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I know articles on pro-gun websites that bash anti-gun musicians or actors for profiting off of violent depictions in their work have sorta jumped the shark by now, there have been so many instances over the years from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/five-high-profile-gun-owners-im-disowning\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet\" title=\"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019\">Rambo<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/liam-neeson-u-s-gun-ownership-expletive-disgrace\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet\" title=\"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019\">Irish bloke who played that operator whose daughter keeps getting abducted by Albanian sex traffickers<\/a>, that you probably feel that you don\u2019t really need to read another one.<\/p>\n<p>You know how the story goes. Famous jerk says we need to ban guns, destroy the NRA, repeal the 2A. Then said Jerk puts out a movie or a song glorifying violence. Hypocrisy at its finest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89374\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eminem.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet\" title=\"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89374\" title=\"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eminem-375x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019\" width=\"375\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eminem-375x300.jpg 375w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eminem-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eminem.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eminem raps about raping an 8th-grade swim team and yet he&#8217;s calling out the NRA for perpetuating the violence we see in schools. (<em>Photo: Wikipedia<\/em>)\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ll agree that we don\u2019t need another one of those articles. We don\u2019t. But it\u2019s so hard to resist the temptation to do just one more. Especially when you\u2019re dealing with a chucklehead like Eminem whose lyrics over the years have been mired in the macabre.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/liam-neeson-u-s-gun-ownership-expletive-disgrace\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet\" title=\"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019\" rel=\"bookmark\">Liam Neeson on U.S. Gun Ownership: \u2018[Expletive] Disgrace\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>For example, this lovely gem on the treatment of women, from the song \u201cLow, Down Dirty,\u201d that reads, \u201cSlap dips, support domestic violence\/ Beat your bitch&#8217;s ass while your kids stare in silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once you\u2019re done beating your spouse (or an acquaintance\u2019s spouse), you should take the party to the streets. Like so, \u201cI\u2019m the illest rapper to hold a cordless, patrolling corners\/ Looking for hookers to punch in the mouth with a roll of quarters,\u201d from \u201c4 Quarters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, in the same ditty, he extends the <em>fun<\/em> to mentally handicapped children. \u201cMet a retarded kid named Greg, with a wooden leg\/ Snatched it off and beat him over the fucking head with the peg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warms the cockles. Doesn\u2019t it? Those are just the tip of the iceberg, really. He<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/7550077\/eminem-lyrics-songs-problematic-wouldnt-fly-2016\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet\" title=\"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019\"> raps about<\/a> raping an 8th-grade swim team, taking his daughter on a trip to throw away the carcass of her dead mother, and murderous ideations concerning his ex-wife Kim. All in the name of art and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, you get the point.\u00a0 Add\u00a0Eminem to the ever-growing\u00a0list of Hollywood hypocrites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis whole country is going nuts\/ and the NRA is in our way\/ they\u2019re responsible for this whole production\/ they hold the strings, they control the puppet,\u201d rapped Slim Shady. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":89374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216],"tags":[132,469,607,309,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-gun-control","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nra","14":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rapper Eminem took a shot at the nation\u2019s gun lobby Sunday while performing at the IHeartRadio Music Awards.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rapper Eminem on NRA: \u2018They\u2019re responsible\u2026 they control the puppet\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThis whole country is going nuts\/ and the NRA is in our way\/ they\u2019re responsible for this whole production\/ they hold the strings, they control the puppet,\u201d rapped Slim Shady.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/rapper-eminem-nra-theyre-responsible-control-puppet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-12T18:22:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-30T18:06:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Eminem.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"467\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"374\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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