Eminem recently came under fire for yet another homophobic track. The rapper has been known to use anti-LGBTQ slurs in his music. In one of his latest tracks, he called out Tyler, The Creator, who's been open about his sexuality in the past. The lyric came up in "Fall" from his upcoming album, Kamikaze: “Tyler create nothing, I see why you called yourself a faggot, bitch/It’s not just ’cause you like attention. "It’s cause you worship D12’s balls, you’re sac-rilegious/If you’re gonna critique me, you better at least be as good or better.” In the past, he's defended his use of "faggot" and other slurs, saying it was equated more to "a bitch or a punk or asshole" when he was coming up in the rap scene, not necessarily used as slurs against the LGBTQ community. But in a recent interview with Sway, he addressed the lyric in "Fall," admitting it was "too far." "With the Tyler, The Creator thing, I realize now, and I realized when I said it, but I wasn't in the mindframe," he said. "I was angry when I said the shit about Tyler…The word that I called him on the album, 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 realized that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it.” Watch the full interview below:<doc-sep>Eminem says the only diss he regrets from "Kamikaze" is the homophobic slur he made against Tyler, the Creator. Eminem says he went too far on his song, "Fall," when he said, "Tyler create nothin', I see why you called yourself a f----t, bitch." In the third installment of his interview series with rapper and MTV News exec Sway Calloway, Eminem said the homophobic slur aimed at former friend Tyler, the Creator was the only diss on his "Kamikaze" album he "kept going back to," saying to himself, "I don't feel right with this." Eminem, real name Marshall Mathers, said his breaking point came when Tyler called "Walk on Water" -- his 2017 collaboration with Beyonce -- "horrible." "I know [with] a lot of this shit, I can come across being very petty, but at a certain point in time, someone has their breaking point," Em told Sway. "So when Tyler tweeted out the thing about 'Walk on Water' -- 'This f--king song is horrible' -- I was like, alright, I need to say something now 'cause this is f--king stupid." "I realize now -- and I realized when I said it, but I wasn't in the mind frame of... I was angry when I said that shit about Tyler," he continued. "The fact of like, every time I saw this kid -- always so cool to you. I loved his energy. He was a funny dude. He's super charismatic and shit, but I'm sitting back like, man, at what point do I have to say something just to defend myself?" "I think that the word that I called him on the album on that song was one of the things where I felt like, this might be too far," Em continued. "Because in my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it. And at the time, I was so mad, it was just whatever. But in the midst of everything else that was going on in this album and the things that it took to pull this album together, it was one of the things that I kept going back to going, I don't feel right with this." Regarding his freestyle Donald Trump cipher at the 2017 BET Awards, Em said the Secret Service ended up coming to his recording studio to investigate his intentions behind the public diss. "They were just basically asking me questions about my lyrics to see what the intent was behind them and if I was making an actual threat or just expressing myself," he explained. Eminem opened up about his feud with Machine Gun Kelly during Thursday's interview with Shay, saying he simply wanted the Cleveland rapper -- who dissed him and publicly hit on his daughter -- to "shut the f--k up." On Friday, Eminem clapped back even harder with an entire diss track aimed at MGK called "KILLSHOT." "You sound like a bitch, bitch," Eminem opens the track. "Shut the f--k up." Listen to the full song below. Got a story or a tip for us? Email TooFab editors at tips@toofab.com.<doc-sep>Saying his piece. Eminem had doubts about using a homophobic slur against Tyler, the Creator on his new album. “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,” the 45-year-old rapper said during an interview with Sway published on Thursday, September 13. “Because in my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it.” He added: “And at the time I was so mad it was just whatever … It was one of the things that I kept going back to going, ‘I don’t feel right with this.’” Fans blasted Eminem after he released “Fall,” a track from his surprise album titled Kamikaze in August. The lyrics of the song read: “Tyler create nothin’, I see why you called yourself a f—t, bitch / It’s not just ’cause you lack attention / It’s ’cause you worship D12’s balls, you’re sacrilegious / If you’re gonna critique me, you better at least be as good or better.” The “Lose Yourself” rapper explained his feud with Tyler, the Creator, 27, during his sit-down with Sway, saying that the “See You Again” rapper’s repeated disses angered him to the point of calling out Tyler and defending himself. “I’m not gonna be America’s punching bag and motherf–kers just think it’s cool to say whatever the f–k they want about me,” he noted. Eminem also claimed he tried to make the word less distinguishable while putting the finishing touches on the album, but his attempt was unsuccessful. Meanwhile, Machine Gun Kelly hit back at Eminem on September 3 for trolling him on another Kamikaze song called “Not Alike.” The 28-year-old rapper slammed the Detroit native on diss track “Rap Devil”: “Tough talk from a rapper paying millions for security a year / ‘I think my dad’s gone crazy,’ yeah Hailie you right / Dad’s always mad cooped up in the studio yelling at the mic / You’re sober and bored, huh (I know) / About to be 46 years old, dog.”<doc-sep>
Eminem admitted he went too far when he addressed Tyler, the Creator, with a homophobic slur on Kamikaze in an interview with Sway posted Thursday. "I was angry when I said the s*** about Tyler," Eminem said. "I think the word 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 realize I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it." "At the time, I was so mad, it was just whatever, but in the midst of everything else going on on this album and the things that it took to pull this album together, it was one of the things I kept going back to, going, 'I don't feel right with this,'" he continued. "Before the album came out, I had a conversation with Paul, and we spun the word back, but now I realize people can hear what I'm saying anyways." Eminem surprised fans when he released Kamikaze in August. He did that so no one could say, "He better have a song like this" or "he better not be rapping about this," he explained to Sway in an interview posted Tuesday. "Tyler create nothin', I see why you called yourself a f*****, bitch," he rapped on one of the tracks, "Fall." "If you're gonna critique me, you better at least be as good or better." Eminem initially thought he and Tyler had "a mutual respect," he told Sway. "I loved his energy. He was a funny dude. He's super charismatic. But I'm sitting back like, 'At what point do I have to say something just to defend myself?'" Eminem thought Tyler, the Creator, and Earl Sweatshirt shouldn't have insulted him publicly after they toured together. "You don't have to like it, and it could really suck, but being that somebody really was cool to you, you would expect some kind of reciprocation," he explained. "Just don't go public with it and publicly express your opinion and how much my s*** is trash." Tyler called his 2014 album Shady XV "trash" in a tweet, and Earl Sweatshirt said, "if you still follow Eminem, you drink way too much Mountain Dew," in an interview with SPIN in 2015. The Kamikaze rapper admitted his "breaking point" was for a "very petty" reason. Tyler called "Walk on Water," his 2017 song with Beyoncé, "horrible" on Twitter. "I was like, 'I need to say something now because this is f***ing stupid," he said. "I'm not going to be America's punching bag."