Eminem Says He Went Too Far With Homophobic Tyler, the Creator Diss
The slur appeared on the track “Fall” off ‘Kamikaze’ album.
In the third installment in his multi-part interview series with Sway, Eminem regrets using a homophobic slur towards Tyler, The Creator on the Kamikaze track “Fall.”
“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,” he said. “Because in my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it. … It was one of the things that I kept going back to and going ‘I don’t feel right with this.’”
He also discussed why he dissed Tyler, revealing that he had problems with Tyler and Earl’s comments about him. He specifically pointed out Tyler’s tweets about Shady XV and Earl saying “if you still follow Eminem, you drink way too much Mountain Dew.” He also said his “breaking point” came when Tyler criticized his Beyoncé-assisted single “Walk on Water.” “I was like, really? What the fuck,” Eminem said. “You guys were just on tour with us, we hung out, we kicked it, made jokes.” Eminem said his
Watch in the interview above. The previous installment of the interview showed Eminem addressing his beef with both Joe Budden and Machine Gun Kelly.
