When Eminem wrote about seizing moments and opportunities in “Lose Yourself,” chances are he wasn’t really talking about getting a high school education.
Now Slim Shady is older, and his sensibilities have changed a little. The Hip Hop superstar made a (video) appearance at a Flint, Michigan graduation ceremony this week to congratulate the students from several Michigan high schools.
“What’s up Class of 2017? This is Eminem. I just want to say congratulations to the graduating seniors of Flint Northwestern, Flint Southwestern and Flint Accelerated Learning Academy. Congrats to all your guys’ hard work, man. You earned this moment.”
Em, who is famously a proud “Michigander,” didn’t just offer kind words to the graduates, he also supplied a set of Beats by Dre headphones to every graduating student in the auditorium.
Even better, MLive has reported that the whole idea was Eminem’s, and that he reached out to the schools through his Marshall Mathers Foundation.
Last August, Em also teamed up with the Kids In Need Foundation to help bring school supplies to the community’s children.
Flint is a city that’s been in the headlines for the last several years for its water crisis, after its citizens were potentially exposed to dangerously high levels of lead in their drinking water. The situation has continued without resolution.
Flint schools Superintendent Bilal Tawwab spoke to the resilience of the students as a result of having been brought up in Flint.
“I would rather bet on a Flint graduate, someone who has been tested by adversity, who has transcended all the obstacles put in their way than someone who has coasted through life with every advantage. You can do anything you want and for the first time in your lives you have the full power to set your own course. From this point on the decisions are yours.”
Here come the trolls that will say he should have given them money for college instead….3…2…1…..========> GO!
Where dem muthafuccin wite boi diccridahz of diz OVARAIDED fa66ot dat luhh ta diss blacc rap OG’z bout how dey old and still rappin, wear y’alls at???? Sumbody need to tell ol grampa a55 feminem ta hang it up too, y’all hypocrites real spit doe. Feminem BEEN washed up y’all jest won’t admit it.
Well, at least he can speak English unlike ya
For real bro! I didn’t understand a single *uckin word that fool typed. Guess this is one of those fools that didn’t graduate!
#BANKS #PLK # BLUEHEF
Shut the fuck up retard u can’t spell
Its so much harder to write like the illiterate fucktard than it is to spell correctly and look like an educated respectable adult
How much time did you take to write this shit? 1 and half fucking hours?
Why do you type like that? LOL You must think typing like a retard makes you look cool. LMAO
eminem is one of the g.o.a.t people stop the hate he easily make to the top 5 rapper of all time
1biggie 2 nas 3 tupac 4 eminem 5 jay z
That’s my list but I got the order different. Dope.
That’s pretty dope of Em. Shout out to the Flint Graduates
Shot out to Eminem for doing that respect
And most of the kids bitched and complained that they either didn’t the color they wanted or they weren’t the bluetooth versions
Kids now days are hopeless all they want are handouts and then whine when they don’t get what they want.
No parent with a reasonable mind would send their kids to any of the garbage racism our universities have become. It’s a sad disgusting time we live in.
What in the hell are you talking about? No where in this article did it say that the kids complained about the color or type of headphones they received. Hell, I’d be pumped to get some Solo Beats by Dre as a gift; they’re expensive even for the base model.
beats heads phones tho? lets be real i aint like he paid for them
I don’t see you donating money or headphones worth $150-200 to hundreds of high school grads tho…
Not bluetooth!? 😉
Fuck those headphones they need water and a new Album..
Drop some new fucking music already….what da hell u waiting on.