Eminem, the baby-faced white kid who miraculously became one of the world’s greatest rappers, just debuted a tougher, more grown-up look.
He’s dyed his hair and gotten new tattoos before, but nothing prepared the Internet hive mind for his latest accessory: a beard.
The beard, which made its red-carpet debut alongside Dr. Dre at the Thursday night premiere of HBO’s The Defiant Ones, is really just some purposefully overgrown stubble.
Here he is testing it out next to Kendrick Lamar.
Still, Twitter lost it, citing Slim Shady’s scraggly beard as the latest unpredictability of 2017.
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eminem got a beard. Next album bout to be crazy pic.twitter.com/Oim5Zpwupf
— Flo (@Fdemaa_) June 24, 2017
Eminem is going to be 45 this year…and he's got a beard. pic.twitter.com/c2h9A2o4Mq
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 26, 2017