for three-to-five years after being targeted for his past homophobic and misogynistic lyrics through anti-terrorism legislation. The irony is that Tyler - who was hurled bratty gay slurs himself - now raps about same-sex attraction to men on Igor, although he still won’t answer questions about sexuality outside of his lyrics. “I think the word that I called him on the album, on that song was one of the things where I felt like this might be too far because in my quest to hurt him, I realize that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it.” We rewound it and were like: ‘Oh’ And then kept playing.”ĭuring a sit down with Sway Callow, Eminem admitted that Tyler’s “Walk on Water” tweet was the “last straw” and a “breaking point.” “I was angry when I said the shit about Tyler,” Em said. We were playing Grand Theft Auto when we heard that.
He felt pressured because people got offended for me. “Did you ever hear me publicly say anything about that?” Tyler responded when asked about the lyric. In an interview with The Guardian, Tyler recalls feeling unfazed by Eminem’s response and understanding its intent. Apathy to the song was widespread - with Tyler, the Creator summing up the consensus by tweeting, “this song is horrible sheesh.”Īlmost a year later, when most people had forgotten “Walk on Water” and Tyler’s tweet, Eminem responded on “Fall” by hurling a homophobic slur at the Igor rapper. The saccharine and sentimental 2017 collaboration between Eminem and Beyoncé had all the surface-level machinations of two pop stars trying to engineer a surefire hit without ever asking if there was a reason for their song to exist. “Walk on Water” was supposed to be too big to fail.