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Its weirdly easy to forget that Moby makes music for a living.
Its a questionable statement, an irresistible sound bite, and resolutely Moby.
(His biggest pop-cultural look before then was abrief cameoon early-era Adult Swim odditySpace Ghost Coast to Coast).
Its almost like being a Victorian father.
You dont change the diapers.
Someone shows you the baby now and then, you play with it and you give it back.
May 14, 2002:And Moby?
it’s possible for you to get stomped by Obie / You 36-year-old baldheaded fag, blow me!
/ You dont know me, youre too old, let go/ Its over, nobody listens to techno.
Yup thats Eminem, smack dab in the third verse ofThe Eminem Showsingle Without Me.
Would you mistake it for literally anyone else?
Moby later claims on his website (viaEntertainment Weekly) that the rapper also called him a pussy off-camera.
For what its worth, this is not the case.
October 28, 2004:Hey, remember when Moby v. Eminem was a thing?
Its an amazing song and an even more amazing video.
Time or, oppressive, warmongering regimes heals all wounds.
Isthis 2005 New YorkObserveritemabout Moby investing in land in the Dominican Republic the first un-404d example of this phenomenon?
[I]t was staged, hetellsSpins Phoebe Reilly in 2008.
September 15, 2006:This might sound crazy, Moby emails his fans (viaGawker).
At present i receive between 200-400 emails a day.
And i check on-line news around 15 times a day.
Yes, that sounds nuts, i know.
I mean, not really!
Hope you stick to it though …
September 18, 2006:Hmm, never mind.
Which is a hard word to pronounce.
We literally cannot disagree with any of those sentences.
January 31, 2007:Remember when we said that NYC media wasobsessedwith Moby gossip?
Yeah, well, dont think for a second that we were above that.
He should be careful.
We just kicked Prince off the street for excessive noise.
This also probably counts as the first time in history that someones compared Moby to Prince.
The episode is currently unavailable to stream online.
What do you do?
If youre Moby, you let a bunch of people have sex in your bed.
The bed, which got moved out the next day, got put to good use.
Liquor and drugs will do that.
The sole evidence of this occurrence can be found of course ina post on Gawker.
Moby … welcome to the resistance.
December 13, 2017:Should dogs be vegan?
It sounds like a joke, but its very, very real and very Moby.
