The new album of Royce Da 5'9″ contains a surprise collaboration from Eminem. Normal: Marshall Mathers is possibly the most famous rapper in the world. He's been doing it for about twenty years and, truth be told, his skin color has helped him. He himself has recognized it in many songs, being White America de The Eminem Show the most obvious example: Part of Eminem's success is because he's a white rapper.. Today, his lifelong friend Royce Da 5'9″ release new album: TheAllegories, in which we can listen to Eminem in cut number 15, entitled Allegory.
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Unfortunately, Eminem's collaboration on the new Royce Da 5'9″ album for 2020 is nothing more than a crap. Eminem does not participate in any song, but he is the absolute protagonist of this interlude 2 minutes and 24 seconds where we hear him talk about the institutional and cultural racism that has reigned (and still reigns today, although to a lesser extent) in the United States. Below, at Postposmo, we translate Eminem's entire collaboration on this fabulous (although perhaps somewhat tiresome) new album by Royce Da 5'9″, which explores a controversial idea: without the African-American community, the United States would not exist.
Or, as Royce says, he's 5'9″ at cut 17, Black people in America: «Can you imagine African Americans in America deciding “you know what? fuck America, I'm going back home [Africa]”, you know what would happen? That we would take all the added value that we have brought and America would no longer exist.
Eminem begins with the positive side of things first, reviewing how hip hop has been an element that has brought different cultures closer (as we saw a few days ago with Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash in Hip Hop Origin):
"You have people of all races coming together and helping shape this from the ground up. So now you have white kids growing up with Black idols, Black kids growing up with white idols—it's all mixed together. Nothing has united more races and people from all walks of life than hip hop. No other genre of music has done that, nothing has done that as well as hip hop."
As he did in his famous song without me (more information shortly), on Royce da 5'9's new album Eminem cites the example of Elvis Presley (also used by J Cole in his song FireSquad, where he mentions Eminem next to Justin Timberlake y Macklemore) to exemplify white artists who have been successful with black musical formulas:
«In the same way, I can understand the frustration, because all kinds of music, literally all kinds of music, have been created by Black people. You have Chun Berry, Rosetta Tharpe, and just when rock and roll is starting to get some attention, along comes Elvis. And people start saying, 'My God, I've never seen anything like this in my life.' You've seen it before, but maybe what you haven't seen is a white person doing it at this level. So now he [Elvis] sells more records than anyone else, and that's why they call him the king of rock and roll, right?»
Eminem does not limit his speech to racism in music culture, but extrapolates it to the scope of the entire consumer society. Children's toys included:
«On the other side of the coin, if I'm a black kid growing up in the sixties, seventies, or eighties, it doesn't matter, I watch television and nobody looks like me, everything is very stereotypical, even in toys, all the action figures are white, the fucking superheroes are all white, maybe there's one or two black superheroes mixed in with a white majority... I don't know how it's possible to grow up [in such a context] and not have resentment»
Eminem ends his speech in his skit from Royce's new album da 5'9 with a message of hope:
«We cannot choose our parents, we cannot choose what color we want to be born. At this point, it's more like "you were born here, you are the color you are and the nationality you are. And it's about seeing what you do with it to make a difference»
The black and white race in Eminem's songs
Eminem's appearance on Royce da 5'9's new album is far from the first time Marshall has spoken out on the problem of racism. The matter of the binomial, the confrontation and la rivalry between whites and blacks has been a widely worked theme in Eminem's music.
And not only for the famous Untouchable (and somewhat criticized) of his album Revival (a certain sector criticized him for wanting to profit from an injustice) As we mentioned, one of the songs in the Slim Shady catalog in which this matter is revealed is without me, where Eminem already equates his success with that of Elvis in the same sense already explained in the Royce da 5'9″ skit: a white man receiving the glory for making black music:
Though I'm not the first king of controversy
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley
To do black music so selfishly
And use it to get myself wealthy (Hey!)
There's a concept that works
Twenty million other white rappers emerge
But no matter how many fish in the sea
It'd be so empty without meAlthough I am not the first king of controversy
I'm the worst since Elvis Presley
Making black music so selfishly
And use it for my personal enrichment (Hey!)
There is a concept that works
Another 20 million rappers may emerge
But no matter how many other fish there are in the sea
It's all so empty without meEminem – Without Me
However, Eminem has also dedicated quite a few lines to explaining that not everything is happiness. That, in his times of maximum stardom, he also got his good sticks from certain sectors that had always ignored the content of the lyrics of a certain kind of rap music. Until a white man took to rapping them. No clearer example than that of White America, also The Eminem Show:
Surely hip hop is never a problem
In Harlem only in Boston
After it bothered ya fathers
Of daughters startin' to blossom
Now I'm catchin' the flack from these activists
When they raggin'
Actin' like I'm the first rapper to smack a bitch and say bassoon
It's clear, hip hop was never a problem
In Harlem, it's only in Boston
After he molested parents
Of daughters who were beginning to bloom
Now I'm taking the criticism from these activists
when they complain
Pretending I'm the first rapper to hit a bitch and say "faggot"
Eminem – White America
