{"id":937040,"date":"2026-10-18T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937040\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:54:09","slug":"eminem-defends-kid-rock-collaboration-not-about-choosing-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937040\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminem Defends Kid Rock Collaboration: ‘Not About Choosing Sides’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEminem<\/a> defended his guest verse on Kid Rock<\/a>\u2019s new faith-based album<\/a>, saying their long friendship overshadowed their political divide.<\/p>\n

\n\tRock released his new LP Halfway 2 Jesus on Friday, with Slim Shady \u2014 a fellow Detroit native and longtime friend of the rocker \u2014 appearing on the track \u201cHeal My Faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe collaboration drew some criticism from some of Eminem\u2019s fans who were taken aback that the rapper \u2014 who publicly endorsed Kamala Harris at a Detroit rally in 2024<\/a> and has been critical of Trump on tracks like \u201cCampaign Speech<\/a>\u201d \u2014 could collaborate with Kid Rock, perhaps Trump\u2019s biggest (and most relevant) supporter in the music industry.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Eminem explained on social media hours after Halfway 2 Jesus was released, \u201cNot about choosing sides, just choosing to make music with my old friend. Praying for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKid Rock elaborated on the collaboration in an interview with Billboard<\/a>, revealing that while Eminem was first announced as a guest on the song \u201c7 Sins,\u201d the rapper instead appeared on \u201cHeal My Faith,\u201d the song Rock initially recruited him for. \u201cWe agreed we didn\u2019t need two songs together\u2026people are going to think we\u2019re dating,\u201d Rock said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve been friends for, like, 40 years. I really didn\u2019t want to drag him into my political world\u2026. We talk about [politics] a little bit, not a ton. There\u2019s a lot of stuff we agree on, and we can have a laugh about what [we don\u2019t]. That\u2019s why I asked him to write a verse for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFrom shock rap to the rock rap \/ My homie and me \/He is my brother, not my political enemy,\u201d Eminem raps on his verse. \u201cB.O. to the B. \/ We wrote this for those who believe in G.O. to the D \/ However you voted or lean \/ Liberal and evangelical can agree \/ It\u2019s God first, home of the free.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis [album] is about forgiveness and second chances,\u201d Rock told Billboard. \u201cTrying to heal some of the division in our country. I\u2019m just putting a positive message out there in the world\u2026 showing a little more grace, trying to kill some of the division.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eminem defended his guest verse on Kid Rock\u2019s new faith-based album, saying their long friendship overshadowed their political…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,19733,75,54612,341],"class_list":["post-937040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eminem","tag-entertainment","tag-kid-rock","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}