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Originally Posted by Certain Serpent
Irony is "the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect."
In this case, Eminem simply predicted incorrectly. He was not intentionally trying to be wrong for effect, and his being wrong was the happenstance of fate. He could not have known he would be wrong, at least not definitively, at the time.
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You are basing that off one definition of irony.
There is comic irony, situational irony, etc.