Legendary rapper Eminem’s youthful looks have played into the hands of conspiracy theorists who believe his secret to looking young is being dead.
The American singer celebrates his 51st birthday today (October 17), or does he? Because according to some theorists, the Slim Shady singer died in 2006 and we’ve been left with a clone. Some truly mind-boggling theorists claim the Lose Yourself hitmaker – real name Marshall Mathers – has shed his mortal coil and is now an android.
Some of his fans believe they have noticed a change in his voice over the years. Spanish website La Guía Del Varón even addressed him as an ‘android clone’ claiming he died in a car accident back in the noughties.
Other fans believe they’ve noticed a change in his appearance and pointed out a huge change in his jaw shape and overall facial structure.
They wrote: “Yeah I believe he is a clone it doesn’t even look like him anymore and his eyes are dead.”
Another wrote: “I believe that Eminem is a clone he doesn’t look the same after the so-called accident where he just disappeared for about a year, he came back looking different.”
A third penned: “Em died in a car accident 2006. He stoped rapping like Em a long time ago.”
The theory also points out that since 2006, Eminem has made “significant changes” to his lyrics and fashion sense – having gone for a “much darker” style.
‘He stop rapping like Em a long time ago’ (Image: Getty Images for MTV)
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Other so-called “evidence” to back up the outlandish claims are his apparently ageless features, footage of him “glitching” and even a series of cryptic tweets by fellow rapper B.o.B. But in 2019, a track released by Tom MacDonald was heralded as “conclusive” proof of the rapper crossing over to the afterlife to make way for a robot replacement.
In the song, titled Cloned Rappers, Tom claimed the “Illuminati took bone samples to clone rappers” and then put the real beings in prison to “silence their vision”.
“If they can’t control you they erase the old you,” he continued, before listing some of the names that have been cloned.
“They cloned Gucci, cloned Kodiak, cloned Eminem, he ain’t rapped since Encore, know that.”
Tom MAcDonald’s video, Cloned Rappers (Image: Tom Macdonald/Youtube)
It wasn’t just the track that set conspiracy theorists’ tongues wagging.
The music video looked like a scene straight out of Frankenstein, seemingly showing “clones” being created in a lab.
It also featured a scene showing newspaper cut-outs of Tom supposedly being in a car crash – hinting that he had been brought back to life as a clone just like the bizarre Eminem conspiracy.
The video has been seen millions of times on YouTube and believers in the theory flooded the comments section with their conspiracies.
‘It’s true, Eminem is not the same’ (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Rag & Bone)
“He looks different plus he’s been gone too long,” one commented.
Another said: “It’s true, Eminem is not the same.”
A third agreed, saying: “All this has been a move for a long time…I just hope the ignorant will finally understand.”
Not everyone was convinced, though, with some suggesting the lyrics were simply metaphorical for rappers no longer being able to express themselves.
