Math Hoffa names Eminem in his top 5 as a response to Dr. Umar.
Math Hoffa made an appearance on DJ Vlad’s show, where he was asked about his opinion on the recent comments made by Dr. Umar Johnson that Eminem can’t be a GOAT because he’s white.
“I disagree [with Dr. Umar’s remarks about Eminem] Did black people invent basketball? Golf? Tiger Woods? And you know, when he said that, that’s the first person I thought about,” he said. “There is Tiger Woods and nobody seems to have a problem with his status so why would we? Dr. Umar, I respect him, but I just think that sometimes his beliefs are his beliefs. I might believe that the moon is really made made of mayonnaise but I shouldn’t go around telling everybody that. You know what I’m saying? I should just keep it to myself. All right. This ain’t a popular opinion and he’s not scared to say it but just the way Joe kind of turn down the volume on those statements, he’s like, yeah nobody is running with that.”
“This topic has nothing to do with me. You are using me right now to take shots at this man,” he said in response to Vlad’s comments about Umar over not building the schools he promised. “I will say this though, Eminem… I think the big part of our show becoming popular in the beginning was Eminem cosigning it. He co-signed the show. He was on Crooked I podcast and he was like ‘you know I was watching Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion and these are the guys we wanna hear from. These are guys who know the lyricism’ and I was like ‘Wow, incredible’ and the numbers went up around that time. Shout out to Em. So, the GOAT argument, I’ll leave that up to the people who like to make lists like that but as far as my personal top 5, Em is definitely in there.”
During the appearance on the Joe Budden Podcast, Umar said: “This is going to my African fundamentalism. No non-African can ever be the best of anything African. It is an insult to the ancestors, it is an insult to the race and it is an insult to every Black person … We gotta stop naming non-African people as the best of any aspect of our cultural power because it is an insult … I can acknowledge Eminem’s talent, but for you to put him at the top, that’s white supremacy.”
