Eminem criticized for using gunshot sounds during Bonnaroo performance

Rapper Eminem startled some music fans at the Bonnaroo festival Saturday night in Tennessee. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

MANCHESTER, Tenn. — Rapper Eminem has come under fire after he used realistic gunshot sound effects during his performance at the Bonnaroo music festival Saturday night in Manchester, Tennessee, Billboard reported.

Fans, remembering the deadly mass shooting outside a Las Vegas casino last October, screamed and ducked for cover when the gunshot-like sounds were heard during Eminem’s performance of “Kill You,” from his 2000 album “The Marshall Mathers LP.”

Social media star Andrea Russett attended the annual festival in middle Tennessee and tweeted that using those kind of effects at the end of the song was "extremely irresponsible and distasteful."