https://nitter.click/Eminem/status/2111311830572552546#m
Not about choosing sides, just choosing to make music with my old friend. Praying for all of us. #HealMyFaith @KidRock
https://archive.is/ZVuV3 (stereogum)
Eminem Defends New Kid Rock Collaboration
Kid Rock and Eminem’s new collaboration has been turning heads. Though the pair have been friends for decades, their political views are famously opposed, as Kid Rock is an avid MAGA supporter and Eminem is a vocal critic of Trump. In a new post, Eminem defended his decision to work with the controversial figure.
“Not about choosing sides, just choosing to make music with my old friend. Praying for all of us,” Eminem wrote about “Heal My Faith,” which comes from Kid Rock’s new Christian album Halfway 2 Jesus. In his verse, Eminem raps, “From shock rap to the rock rap, my homie and me/ He is my brother, not my political enemy.”
In an interview with Billboard, Kid Rock said about Eminem, “We’ve been friends for, like, 40 years. I really didn’t want to drag him into my political world…. We talk about [politics] a little bit, not a ton. There’s a lot of stuff we agree on, and we can have a laugh about what [we don’t]. That’s why I asked him to write a verse for me.”
Last month, Kid Rock was supposed to perform at a MAGA festival in Kentucky but it was canceled because only six people bought VIP tickets.
This is the lyrics to the Kid Rock song featuring Eminem. The song was released yesterday. Lil Wayne is also featured on a different track of the album.
https://genius.com/Kid-rock-heal-my-faith-lyrics
No. You can’t actually argue the opposite. The Dukhobors, Molokans, Old Believers, and whatever else have not done “The opposite” of what is claimed, they did not oppose colonialism, they didn’t stand against pogroms, they retreated from broader concerns and when they do get involved in broader politics it isn’t as a progressive force or to stand against reaction. Name dropping the orthodox equivalent of Amish or LARPers isn’t going to win you this argument.
It isn’t a caricature to point out that the organised hierarchy of a centralised organisation has engaged in systemic action that should colour our perception of it. It is frankly absurd to argue otherwise.
The only things you can point to in defence of Christianity is any point where it has not held institutional power, and then you transpose that to defending the institutional power wielded for reaction.