‘I had been looking for a society reduced to its simplest expression. Like most of Godard’s script, the line comes from elsewhere, in this case Claude Lévi- Strauss’s memoir Tristes Tropiques (The Sad Tropics, 1955).
Courtesy: John Humphreys, In Jean-Luc Godard’s 1969 film, Le Gai Savoir (Joy of Learning), the characters talk in an empty TV studio, searching for images ‘of a society reduced to its simplest expression’. The rapper defended his use of slurs to Rolling Stone, saying, “Those kind of words, when I came up battle-rappin’ or whatever, I never really equated those words .Actor Matt Frewer being made up in the latex mask designed by sculptor John Humphreys for Max Headroom, c.1984. Singer Sia, who is openly queer and appears on the MMLP2 song “Beautiful Pain,” has offered to donate her royalties from her Eminem collaboration to the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.
The track generated controversy for Slim Shady earlier this year when his use of homophobic slurs in the song put him under fire.
As the track begins, he mimics the audio samples as if they’re his words, which eventually reveal themselves as the elements that make up a logo treatment at the end of the clip, spelling out “Rap God.” He wears a dark suit and a skinny black tie, and, occasionally, a pair of pitch-black Ray Bans dart on and off his face. For less than half a minute, Em flickers about a neon landscape of cubical lines dressed like the computer-like character, which debuted in 1984 and became its own TV series, Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future, in 1987. The track comes off his most recent album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2. Rolling Stone’s new cover subject, Eminem, riffs on the Eighties’ stuttering sci-fi character and soda spokesman Max Headroom in the teaser for his “Rap God” video, which debuts in full next Wednesday.
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