Some of my friends and I once had a discussion about how "Kim" was like listening to our childhood homes all over again in rap. It's extremely violent--he kills his wife in it--and sounds exactly like the fights that wake up thousands of children night after night. /1 https://twitter.com/levelmag/status/1263848811174268928

I'm not saying that's good; I'm just saying it's a bone-chillingly accurate representation of white male rage set to music that people who grew up in the 80s and 90s recognized as something they'd heard long before it was set to music. /2

Why I find that interesting right now is that this came out 20 years ago and people recognized it as familiar from decades prior.

But if you've been reading the news since 2016, you'd think this sort of 'white male rage' manifested during the Obama presidency. /3

"The Marshall Mathers LP" sits there now in defiance of that idea.

People protested it for that content when it came out. They didn't--or chose not to--recognize that it was an accurate representation of the culture Eminem came from. /4