Sia to donate Eminem collaboration proceeds to gay organisation
Sia will donate the proceeds from her collaboration with Eminem to the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, following criticism of the rapper's use of anti-gay slurs on his new album.
Titanium hitmaker Sia recently came under fire for working with the controversial artist on his latest record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, in which Eminem uses anti-gay slurs, and says, "Break a motherf**ker's table over the back of a couple of f**gots and crack it in half" in his song, Rap God.
However Sia, who is featured on his track Beautiful Pain, has
chosen to fire back at the criticism by giving her profits from
their duet to a good cause, as a representative from the Los
Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center confirms her donation will benefit
homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) youth living
in California.
While Sia has yet to speak out about her generous donation, she has
come to the defense of Eminem, insisting her pal is not homophobic
but rather using his platform as a rapper to create performance
art.
In a series of posts on Twitter.com in response to a follower
questioning her allegiance to Eminem, she writes, "I know
personally that he is not homophobic, but a performance artist. I
would never work with someone I believed to be homophobic.
"He has a character called slim shady who represents the worst and
darkest bile of America. I see how it can be unclear. But I assure
you he is not homophobic himself. He does certainly respect the gay
community he is close to in his personal life."