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On the second episode of the Jack Neel Podcast on July 21, Conservative political commentator Candace Owens got candid about being dissed by rapper Eminem in his latest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace).
She began by saying that she didn’t have an “issue” with it and was “totally fine,” mockingly adding that she “appreciates” how even at the age of 51, the Detroit legend was “doing the same thing to be relevant.”
“But now I am like, Hailey, who used to rap it on with him, is a little girl who now got married. Like, you should be preparing to be a grandfather but you’re still doing kind of the same thing like finding women you can speak about on your albums and create drama so that you can just sell records. It’s just tired,” Owens said.
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She also quipped that perhaps the only way to respond to Eminem’s diss track was to “drop” one herself, adding that he was an “oddball.”
For those uninitiated, Eminem threw shots at Candace Owens in two of his singles from the brand-new album, including Lucifer, featuring Florida rapper Sly Paper, and Bad One featuring Bronx rapper White Gold.
Exploring Candace Owens’ latest response to Eminem’s diss of her
On July 12, Eminem dropped his 12th studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace), where he dissed many famous people, including Candace Owens. In his 7th single, Lucifer, he aimed at Owens’ right-wing sociopolitical views and rapped:
"And Candace O, I ain't mad at her (Ah)/ I ain't gon' throw the fact b*tch forgot she was Black back at her/ Laugh at her, like them crackers she's backin' after her back is turned/ In a cute MAGA hat with her brand-new White Lives Matter shirt (Haha, nope)/ Or say this MAGA dirtbag in a skirt."
Eminem also used several nicknames for Owens, including “Grand Wizard,” “Klandace,” and “Grand Dragon,” before admitting that he “can’t diss her” as she would “blow my chance” of going out with her “if I answer back to her.”
Likewise, in his 16th single, Bad One, Em continued to reiterate his previous sentiments about Candace Owens and rapped:
“This thousand bucks in my hand is just like what Candace did/ When she turned her back on her own race ‘cause I have abandoned it…”
In response to Eminem’s double disses on her, the 35-year-old conservative called him “desperate” and claimed he was doing the same things he did decades back to stay “relevant” during her recent appearance on Jack Neel’s podcast.
“He is trying to figure out whoever is being talked about a lot and then he kinda puts a diss track and he gets a bunch of headlines. It’s just like, it’s tired. And for me, I only find artists to be interesting when they’re evolving,” Owens added.
Candace went on to share how she loved listening to Eminem when she was a teenager and thought what he did was “insane” and “different,” almost like “pushing the barrier,” but now she just feels bad for him.
“He is not hard, he is not scary. Maybe I thought when he was younger like, ‘Oh! Slim Shady is so tough.’ But now I’m like, you’re just, I just think I can beat him up. You know what I’m saying? I think I can beat Eminem up in a fight. So, I wasn’t offended by it. Go out, make music about me,” she added.
The Blexit co-founder said, unlike the popular opinion that it was an “honor” being mentioned by Eminem in his songs, she didn’t feel the same as he was no longer in his “prime.”
Candace Owens further said that she wasn’t even sure whether Eminem was really “good” or if they simply thought he was because they were “young.” She also expressed doubts about his talents and claimed that she didn’t find him “interesting” as he was not “adding anything to the dialogue” and had “not evolved” over the years.
The former Daily Wire talk show host claimed Katt Williams was more relevant and interesting than Slim Shady.
Candance Owens spoke to TMZ and EW in the wake of Eminem's diss
This is not the first time Candace Owens slammed Eminem for taking shots at her in his latest album. On the day it dropped, Owens took to her YouTube channel and addressed the matter in an 8-minute-long video, calling Slim Shady an “out-of-touch leftist elitist” who was “cosplaying a race that you aren’t.”
She even referred to him as “irrelevant” with “music [that] isn’t good anymore,” asking him to focus on being a “granddad Shady.”
“He is a lesson to a lot of people out there that you need to know when it’s time for you to retire,” Owens added.
Around that time, she also told TMZ that her first response was to laugh hard when she heard the disses, calling them “lame” and “Hillary Clinton hot-sauce moment.”
“Like, he's just so desperate to show Black people that he's real. He's just aged out. It's time for Eminem to hang it up," she said back then.
The former Turning Point USA communications director also spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the matter. She said that she was honored when “Dave Chappelle made fun of me,” but that wasn’t the case for the Houdini rapper, whose efforts made her depressed.
The Black Lives Matter critic even accused Em of “stealing from Black Twitter” to resonate with the community, saying it wasn’t “going to work.”
