Slim Shady praises Taylor Swift while roasting Eminem in new video

Slim Shady in a surprising moment praises Taylor Swift while roasting Eminem, delighting fans.

Eminem has released a new conceptual album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), where he battles his alter ego, Slim Shady, through a series of songs and rap battles. The album sees Eminem, real name Marshall Mathers, confronting Slim Shady for his provocative and offensive lyrics, which have targeted marginalized communities over the years.

In a new video created with Complex, Eminem continues this theme, going head-to-head with an AI version of Slim Shady. During their exchange, Marshall criticizes Slim for “being a dickhead and just pissing people off,” acknowledging that “the world’s changed” and people are “way more sensitive now.” Slim retorts that he’d rather be canceled for being offensive than writing bad lyrics.

A surprising moment in the video occurs when Slim praises Taylor Swift, a departure from Eminem's history of feuding with pop stars. Slim tells Marshall, “You’re not fucking Taylor Swift; you had one era that mattered: mine. Everything that people think of when they think of Eminem is fucking yours truly.” This acknowledgment of Swift as a powerful figure in the music industry has left fans pleasantly surprised.

Swifties took to Reddit to express their excitement, with one comment reading, “Game recognizes game ❤️.” Another fan noted, “He realizes she is a powerful woman & she's a force of nature like him.” Some fans recalled how Eminem defended Swift after Kanye West interrupted her acceptance speech at the 2009 VMAs, with Eminem telling Spin magazine at the time, “He shouldn’t have done that, man. I mean, she’s a little girl.”