Eminem has expressed an interest in playing in the NFL, telling his beloved Detroit Lions that he’d happily trade in his microphone for a pair of cleats.
The legendary rapper stopped by his hometown team’s training camp during the taping of the season finale of HBO’s Hard Knocks, which shined a spotlight on the team’s second year under head coach Dan Campbell.
On Thursday (September 1), the Lions shared a clip of Em’s visit on Twitter, which sees him tell the team he would relish the opportunity for a spot on the roster.
“I said I’m here for whatever position,” Eminem tells Denaun Porter while standing on the sidelines of the team’s practice. “I’m here. Any of ‘em. All of ’em.”
Eminem then walks onto the field to speak to the team, informing them that he’ll “lace up whenever” and “go to every game.”
He continued: “I’ll stand on the sideline and if you guys need to put me in, put me in. Any position, I’m good. Actually, any position, I’m great.”
The Detroit Lions begin their season on September 11 against the Philadelphia Eagles at Ford Field. The team’s final episode on Hard Knocks premieres on Tuesday (September 6).
On the music side of things, Eminem’s most recent release was his Curtain Call 2 greatest hits which arrived on August 5.
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Curtain Call 2 boasts 35 records in total and houses Eminem’s recently released singles “The King & I” featuring CeeLo and “From The D To The LBC” with Snoop Dogg, along with an unearthed 2009 collaboration with 50 Cent and Dr. Dre titled “Is This Love (’09).”
The album debuted at No.6 on the Billboard 200, earning 43,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. It is Eminem’s 12th US Top 10 album, and first since The Slim Shady LP not to reach No.1, ending Eminem’s streak of No.1 albums at 10.
Meanwhile, Swae Lee shared a brief cover of Eminem’s “Stan” on TikTok earlier this week, and now fans are begging for a full remix.
In the clip, Swae can be seen meandering around his apartment shirtless as he sings the song’s hook, which was sampled from the opening lines of “Thank You” by British singer Dido.
Couldn’t hurt
Y’all are aware The GOAT was joking??
JUST STFU!!!
this dude is delusional.
Of course the person with the name “clown” doesn’t notice Em was clearly joking.
I hope he does. He’s gonna get knocked the fu ck out immediately lol
Twenty-three years, still ain’t penetratin’ the culture
You are not, top five, in mine, B.I.G or ‘Pac eyes
No André, no Nas, stop tellin’ white lies
Sniff a white line, this the right time
I Suge Knight Vanilla Ice, I’m not Mr. Nice Guy
Yeah. Unfortunately people like Game don’t realize that one of the reasons they are able to make a living rapping is because Eminem took it to another level when he blew up. Everyone hatew the white boy but they sure love the money he helped put in their pockets. Plus if you were around when Em blew up you would realize he indeed penetrated the culture, his music was being played in the streets, clubs, locker rooms of your favorites NFL and NBA teams, all that. Now it isn’t and that’s fine, I don’t hear most of Jay’s new shit, or Kanye’s new shit, or even Game’s new shit in those places. It doesn’t mean they aren’t great (although Game isn’t great) it’s just that people move on from artists. Young kids don’t want to listen to 40-50 year olds.
Man what streets have been bumping Eminem music? Sesame street lol and what clubs? Oh u mean the boys and girls clubs of white America? Lol oh wait or do u mean those fancy golf clubs and resorts lol
Will he wear the hat and the hoodie while playing ball? Or will his stylist glue the toupee to his scalp. You know like when he does music videos.
Em to funny wit it and nobody on this stupid site gets it lmaooooo
So apparently he’ll do anything except respond to The Game. LMAO Mfs like to say that he won’t give him the time of day… I Personally think he’s scared… IDK why he would be but it certainly seems like he is. Letting his fan base (and Pat stay protect him). MF is a professional rapper. RAP!
Okay but like why would he respond the the game when all the game is doing is fishing for attention when you drop an album that gets less streams in a week than a kid laroi single it’s obvious you jus want eyes on you to talk shit about Em
I think most of you smooth brains leaving comments don’t realize it’s jus Em fucking around he has no actual plan or prolly even the thought he can play on the NFL stage and you’re using this article as a reason to bash on him for being white like it’s super irrelevant like go home and listen to ur country music and kick rocks