Rap God by Eminem is one of my favourite music videos as it parodies several famous TV shows, films and characters such as Max Headroom, The Matrix, The Walking Dead, Pong and Super Mario Bros. This creates an interest for fans of these shows and characters which then gives more reason for people to want to watch the video, even if they are not fans of Eminem or the music genre. It also becomes a talking point and begins to trend on social media which is a massive platform to advertise the video on. This is one of the reasons 'Rap God' has received 235 million views on YouTube and is such a success.
Here Eminem parodies Max Headroom. We can see he has modernised the recreation to appeal to a younger generation.
Eminem then begins to parody The Matrix and again modify it to add his own twist to the recreation.
Here we can see a cameo of the game Pong.
And then a cameo of the game Super Mario Bros. This appeals to a younger generation who played or remembers playing these retro games.
He then includes footage from The Walking Dead which has recently become a hit TV show which therefore creates an interest to a wide audience of people.
Finally we can see Eminem cleverly imitating the game Portal.
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