The suggestion that Em is something other than human, receiving artificial assistance to pen his rhymes plays right along with the "Rap God" vocals, as he flips references to Superman, Thor, N.W.A. and female rap group JJ Fad, with expert rhymes, but little reason.
Marshall also borrows from himself. For the song's second verse Em, enters a rhyme cypher in a scene that looks strikingly familiar to his 2002 film "8 Mile," in which he played a young rapper fighting to make his mark by winning some unlikely rap battles. Wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and a backpack in the "Rap God" clip, Eminem gets the gathering crowd hyped with his multisyllabic rhyme patterns.
As the video begins to close, Em really sets himself apart from the pack and assumes his mantle as a rhyme deity as he walks across water in a clear biblical reference. "Why be a king, when you can be a God?" he asks before collapsing from apparent rhyme exhaustion.
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