Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s longtime manager and the CEO of Def Jam Recordings, has refuted reports of Slim Shady using a gunshot sound effect at the 2018 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. According to him, the sound sparking the controversy was a pyrotechnic concussion that Eminem’s been using for over a decade.
“Contrary to inaccurate reports, @Eminem does not use gunshot sound effects during his live show,” Rosenberg wrote on Instagram. “The effect used by Eminem in his set at @bonnaroo was a pyrotechnic concussion which creates a loud boom. He has used this effect — as have hundreds other artists — in his live show for over 10 years, including previous US festival dates in 2018 without complaint.”
(This post has been updated. The following was originally published on June 10, 2018.)
Eminem is no stranger to controversy, but this time, it has nothing to do with the content of his lyrics.
Slim Shady has come under scrutiny for using a gunshot sound effect during his set at the 2018 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Saturday (June 9). The rap superstar used the sound multiple times in his performance, which scared some concertgoers in light of the frequency of mass shootings in the United States.
Multiple Twitter users expressed their outrage and disappointment over Eminem’s performance. Some attendees said they left the festival due to his use of the sound.
Others on Twitter defended Eminem, noting that has been using the gunshot sound for years. Slim Shady has even used it this year without facing such backlash.
Eminem hasn’t publicly commented on the matter at this time.
[apple_news_ad type=”any”]
people go to this guy who raps about killing his own family and they’re scared over a gunshot sound effect? soft.
They need to focus on a game coming out called the shooter,really AMERICA!!!
Lolololololololololol
Congrats Rocafella, Cash Money and Bad Boy. You’ve made rap so soft we can’t have DJ gunshot noises anymore. Gtfoh.
Just like Rap A Lot, Death Row, and No Limit?
fuckin social justice warriors at it again.. djs been playin gunshot fx since the beginning.. now in 2018 all of a sudden they can’t even do that.. it’s ridiculous
its extra sad cuz Em been doing everything to please these social justice warriors.. all the anti-white comments.. no more makin fun of gays etc.. and then he fucks up like this lol
Complaining about a sound effect when guns are still legal to buy after all the shootings there have been? Shouldn’t that be the bigger concern? I’d be more offended at the Government not changing legislation instead of a couple of sound effects!
be offended at your government. like they give a shit. legislations don’t mean a thing when there’s more than one gun per citizen circulating in the country
You think every clown like you should be able to access a gun that easily though? You pussies in America are afraid to fight one another. If it’s not school shootings that’s happening then it’s gangs, shooting each other because they’re from a different street, brilliant! It’s all Team America Fuck Yeah with you yahoos lol “Only a gun can stop someone with a gun you dumb fuck.” – No shit, that’s pretty fucking obvious but you’re missing how they guns ‘got there,’ YOU DUMB FUCK!
a wonderful example of white people white peopleing. i guess when you at a black show it’s ok to hear gunshots? because black people are all thugs anyway so that’s their element. all these mass shooters are usually white anyway so it serves y’all right
you’re a moron
So they’re really complaining about gun references at a hip hop concert?
This is where the world is headed.. A bunch of sheep scared of their own shadows.
Wow didn’t know so many pussies went to hiphop shoes these days. G unit shows and most hiphop shows have gunshots back in the day and nobody complained. This new generation is soft and sensitive.
I loved you, Slim. We could of been together, think about it. You ruined it now.
This is Tennessee’s gun laws and they are afraid of a sound effect?
Permits are “shall-issue”. Concealed or open carry of a handgun is allowed with permit. As of July 1, 2014, due to the enhanced Castle Doctrine law, a person may keep a loaded handgun or long gun in their private vehicle without a permit.
all these bitches need to tweet about being discussed over actual gun shots and gun use. these guys can’t see an action movie at a theatre next.
SJWs in full effect.
I think we should ban sound effects that offend us.
If you were dumb enough to think that was an actual real gunshot then that’s on you. Buncha panty wastes.
haha look at these new “fans” that haven’t been listening to any of his previous records where he talks about rape and all that jazz. Now they are fans because they like his new pop album and decides to go to one of his shows and they use sound effect that sounds liek a gun.
It’s fuckin U.S where everyone can legally own a fuckin gun, his sound effects aren’t the problem, the country you fuckers live in is.
This is why hip hop is not for white ppl. They too purified. Gun shots happen everyday. And the sound effect is used not only by Em but by most hip hop artist. Go a Taylor Swift concert if you want to feel comfy. Guess what this is America which means your never comfy
And I meant white ppl are to pussified. Not purified smh
hahaha. do your eyes work. they aren’t all white people. Fkn racist soab.
These the same type of people that are scared of a fire cracker
Every rap concert does that sound. I’ve never seen a solo Em concert live to know whether he’s done it, but I know that 50 Cent concerts that have featured Eminem have. Watch “The New Breed” DVD that 50 released when he first came out (its on YouTube now), it has a concert in which Em made a performance and damn near ever song break they do gunshots or the sound of a quarter hitting the floor and rolling. Em messed up by making himself a SJW last October. To the oversensitive pussies complaining about this, I wonder if they know he once said “my words are like a dagger with a jagged edge, that’ll stab you in the head, whether your a fag or les”
Imagine if they lived a life of actual struggle and pain, those twitter fingers would be swollen
freakin millenials ruin everything.
Did you muthafuckas for real just go on Twitter and get a bunch of white people with hurt feelings comments? Mostly white women at that? How representative.
GTFO with this trash ass fucking article.
Em just trying weed out all those fans that came in at “Recovery”
What a bunch of assholes
These people are real P*****s
How you gonna be mad at Em when he’s literally had skits shooting up his audience on his albums. Also this ain’t a white vs black thing, this is a pussification vs logic thing.
man these peoples are assholes
I remember when Bonnaroo started out as all hippie jam bands. Maybe that has something to do with people losing it?
It’s Trumps fault….and white males.
This is what happens when your audience becomes liberal whiney pussys congrats Em you got exactly what you wanted lol
Slim shady just doesn’t give a fk. That’s the beauty of it. What are u gonna do? Boycott his music? He’s already rich and can do whatever he wants despite your feelings. Twitter users are a bunch of trolls fk their feedback
But remember, he has been boycotted before. He became rich in SPITE of boycotts. So even THAT doesn’t work.
That’s what Eminem gets for going all SJW on his last garbage ass pop album. Toma! Kicking fake freestyles about how old Trump is a racist, while he is sorriu fed by only black people always. Not one white person, Asian or Arab… what a jackass. Total sellout wannabe black guy culture vulture.
culture vulture… You’re a clown.
its rap music. it has gun shot sound effects. quit being pussies.
How is this news at all? Seems that the hiphopdx journalists have an agenda cause to point out a handful of people that are outraged and call it relevant news is ridiculous shame on hhdx for this fake news bs, “these 6 people are outraged and now eminem is facing backlash” foh
I see it is beimg reported in multiple news outlets, the most ridiculous shit, obviously the media trying to push this bs and hhdx supporting this bs, you guys should stand for the culture and not join these other sites that try to shit on hiphop
All these ‘gangsters’ in the comment section below. LMAO. Ya’ll are all so tough…
People in 2018 are made of glass.
Fucking hell this world is turning so soft… bunch of fucking pussies!! Have to complain about something. Wish social media didn’t exist then we wouldn’t have to see these all these stupid comments from stupid people from something that has been going on since he started his career!!
its this cuntry moreso than the world. but yes.
They’re right and if Em wasn’t such a fucking hermit he would have known it was a dumb ass affect.
It’s 2018 and in America classrooms are getting shot up, movie theatres are getting shot up, concerts are getting shot up.
It’s not soft of them to be shook, you don’t know their fucking history, and only a child would attack them for a legitimate issue. PTS, PTSD, are legitimate medical conditions.
You sound like a soft lil pussy
Been happening for years. What’s the difference between then and now other than snowflakes?
Don’t go to a rap show where most songs have gunshots in em. If you suffer from any kind of disorder stay away from any type of show period. Fuk off with this sensitive bull shit.
‘Crying and shaking’… girl stop being so sensitive
If they are so sensitive they don’t really belong at an Eminem concert in the first place & complaining about sound effects is lame. This world is in a soft sad state…
Why do all these Videos end right before the peoples reaction to the “Gun Sounds” you would think people would wanna show the reaction of the people if there was really that much drama about it
Lol, white people can be such wimps..
I have no interest in participating in the same society as these whiney little bitches.
All these racist clunts talking on white people like they know shit … Dear Black People … check your racism … or stop crying racism every time life doesn’t go your way … but yeah … all the humans beings upset about Em’s gunshots … are puss as it gets
Judging from what I see and read, there is more racism towards white people these days. You’d think having to deal with racism, or at least understanding the history of it, you’d be aware that it isn’t a positive thing and maybe it wouldn’t happen, but nah. People keep trying to fight racism with racism.
difference between racism and prejudice. educate yourself before you speak.
You guys are soft, in Nigeria people die from bomb blast everyday and we still go about our business like it’s nothing
I’ll beat your ass pussy
Misanthropikone uploaded a video about this topic today and he flushed Revival down the toilet at the end of it. LMAO
So you were fine with him rapping about raping and murdering women. Beating them to death as their children watched. Beating up disabled kids. Constant misogyny in all his songs….but the gun shot sound effects were just a step too far??? @avalily_
Its was definitely a gunshot
They would’ve been mad comfortable if they heard the cop sirens…. in fact they would’ve partied harder.
Who the fuk goes to rap concerts and complains about gunshots? That’s like a staple of every god dam rap show in history. 50 and GUnit came out in Africa with AKs on the stage busting shots. If this shit happened at a Taylor Swift concert then freak out.
This is funny because it always was part of his show. I guess the new heads in Hip Hip are just to fuckin stupid to get their education on Rap Legends correct and use their twitter accout for stupid comments.
If you want a instruction manual on how not to be a pussy, go check out Carlos Mencias “Not for the easily offended”.
Ya´ll could learn something and make Rap/Hiphop fun again for all….