Untouchable

Here, Eminem delivers a furious six-minute treatise on police brutality, race relations, mass incarceration, the Black Lives Matter movement, and more. He compares and contrasts how white and black people are treated by society.

Slim Shady begins the two-part song by rapping from the perspective of a racist white police officer. Black boy, black boy, we ain't gonna lie to you Black boy, black boy, we don't like the sight of you Pull up on the side of you Window rolled down, 'profile' Then we wonder why we see this side of you Em ends the second verse by admitting "there have been times where it's been embarrassing to be a white boy." He then switches views on the second half of the track, to that of an African-American as he references Kaepernick's stand against police brutality during the National Anthem at NFL games, the death of Freddie Gray and numerous other infamous civil rights cases.

During the chorus, Eminem continues to address the topic of white privilege as he spits about feeling "untouchable" and like a "rock star" in his "cop car." The Detroit MC's vocals are intercut with interpolations from stoner duo Cheech & Chong's 1974 rock pastiche "Earache My Eye," whose riff is also sampled. Asked by Variety if he agrees with the sentiments in the song, Tommy Chong replied: "Totally, you sing about what you know, and he knows it. It's a good take. It shows you the meshing, how our cultures are getting so intertwined, they're not so separate, and it makes us stronger, like another strand of rope around it."