Eminem's new album by surprise | So is Music to be murdered by
Collaboration with Juice Wrld and jokes even from Ariana Grande. Eminem has done it again. He has caught us by surprise. A year and a half after surprise release of the first surprise album of his career, Kamikaze, Marshal Mathers has repeated this winning formula. Today, January 17 (and coinciding with the premiere of Mac Miller's posthumous album Circles), Eminem has released his eleventh studio album unannounced: Music to be murdered by (music with which to be killed). The title of the album is a clear allusion to the famous film director passionate about the most homicidal side of man, Alfred Hitchcock, and serves as a reference for the predominant theme of the project:
Dr. Dre, Luis Resto, Mr. Porter, The Alchemist, Dawaun Parker They play the music for the return of the darkest and most playful Eminem with what is undoubtedly the favorite theme of his 20-year career: death, murder and psychopaths. He has dared to make jokes even with the unfortunate terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017:
But I'm contemplating yelling «Bombs away» on the game
Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting
But I'm thinking of yelling "bombs off" at the game
Like I'm outside an Ariana Grande concert screaming
Marshall has left a very thematic album with nearly every one of its courts devoted entirely to dabbling in the matter of murder for fun. Delicate line where there are in these times.
Frankly, surprise surprise has not been. Truth? We already warned and we were not deceiving: Eminem was leaving too many clues about a more than likely new album. Listen to the first single the Music to be murdered by, an album composed of 20 cuts that represents Slim Shady's 11th studio work.
Among the list of collaborators of the new Eminem album for this 2020 highlight the recently deceased Juice Wrld, Ed Sheeran and Anderson Paak (one of the best songs of Music to be murdered by). Once again, Skylar Gray has arranged another collaboration with which we can already name his favorite artist.
In the introductory cut, Eminem makes it clear to us what will be one of the constants of the album: “If I'm only half as good as I used to be, I'm still twice as good as you'll ever be” ("If I'm only half as good as I used to be, I'm still twice as good as you'll ever be". In other words, Eminem didn't come here to cheat at solitaire. He has nothing to prove and that, at least, is already an evolution (logical and necessary) with respect to the surprising defeatism that he wore in believe, one of the most pessimistic cuts of revival 2017).
The video is worth watching multiple times. Darkness, a song where the Simon and Garfunkel classic is covered The sound of silence to send a clear message of rejection towards the growing problem of mass murders in the United States due to mad minds. The video pays tribute to the 2018 Las Vegas shooting where 59 people were killed during a country music festival.
list of songs from Music to be murdered by tracklist
1. "Premonition (Intro)"
2. "Unaccommodating" featuring Young MA
3. "You Gon' Learn" featuring Royce 5'9″ and White Gold
4. "Alfred (Interlude)"
5. "Those Kinda Nights" featuring Ed Sheeran
6. "In Too Deep"
7. "Godzilla" featuring Juice Wrld
8. "Darkness"
9. "Leaving Heaven" featuring Skylar Gray
10. "Yah Yah" featuring Royce 5'9″, Black Thought, Q-Tip and Denaun
11. "Stepdad (Intro)"
12. "Stepdad"
13. "Marsh"
14. "Never Love Again"
15. "Little Engine"
16. "Lock It Up" featuring Anderson .Paak
17. "Farewell"
18. "No Regrets" featuring Don Toliver
19. "I Will" featuring KXNG Crooked, Royce 5'9″ and Joell Ortiz
20. "Alfred (Outro)"
Song-by-song analysis of Eminem's new album Music to be murdered by
Premonition: Eminem continues with the digestion of Revival
Eminem was so hurt by the massive negative reviews towards his 2017 album Revival that in the first introductory cut of his new 2020 album he dedicates an important section to the issue of the credibility that the public continues to grant him. And that half Kamikaze was already a kind of revenge of Revive. Not to mention the constant nostalgic return to a past in which Eminem was the god of radio stations:
Once I was played in rotation
At every radio station
They said I'm lyrically amazing
But I have nothing to say
But then when I put out Revival and I had something to say
They said that they hated, they awakened me
There was a time when they wouldn't stop reproducing me
on all the radio stations
they said it was lyrically fascinating
but i have nothing to say
And when I release Revival and I have something to say
They said they hated me. and woke me up
Does Eminem play with the trap in Unaccommodating?
The first collaboration of Eminem's new album does not take long to appear. The New Yorker Young MA warns: "this is not sweet at all, this is not Quavo" (referring to the singer of the trap group Migos). And the truth is that we can't help but be amazed by the atmosphere and production of this cut, unimaginable in an Eminem from ten years ago.
When Marshall enters the scene, he does so, again, with a hypersonic flow but, unlike what has been heard on other recent albums, much more digestible and with great replay value, as already demonstrated in Suicide bomber. In this second cut, Eminem amazes by easily pulling four or five different styles of flow out of his sleeve. in the same song. The play with the syllables in unaccomodating it is fascinating.
When we realize that, in the middle, Eminem is rhyming with Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein or the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester where 22 people died... the feeling left in the listener is, of course, strange. of novelty This is one of the best songs on the album and honestly we wish it didn't have any collaboration. As already happens in your feat with Fat Joe, for the first few minutes of the song we're just waiting for Eminem's turn to tidy up.
You Gon Learn: Tandem Perfection Royce Da 5 9 – Eminem
Collaborators since Eminem's first studio album, The Real Slim Shady LP, Royce da 5′ 9″ and Marshall have proven to understand each other to the millimeter in the myriad of songs they have together. This cut confirms once again that Eminem has chosen to emulate the formula of producers, collaborators and flow of Kamikaze (2018).
Unlike the previous episode of Royce and Eminem (not alike), this the theme has a much slower pace and calmer atmosphere, less challenge and more retrospection, with a message with which, once again, the couple attacks the pseudo rappers so fashionable in the trap scene. Eminem's latest bars sum up the whole thing nicely:
It ain't even worth dissing someone so offbeat
That they can't even figure out where their words
Should hit the kick and the snare
It's not even worth insulting someone so off the beat
who does not know where his words come from
they have to hit the hype and the box
Those kind of nights: Ed Sheeran is already a fixture for Eminem
It doesn't fail, in all the albums Eminem has to slip us some joke song or pure foolishness. Women, alcohol and Bizarre (with whom Eminem has no problem, interviews, interviews are) summarize a night of madness that is comically glossed in this song with a syrupy chorus by Ed Sheeran along River. This is yet another collaboration with Ed Sheeran, to whom we already heard last year with Eminem and 50 Cent in Remember the name, included in the disc of the British.
Godzilla: Eminem and Juice Wrld together in a song
With Juice Wrld's overdose death still fresh in memory, it is strange to hear the very young rapper in an Eminem song rapping about how at night he turns into a monster that murders on Louis Vuitton carpets.
Although Juice Wrld only participates in the chorus, this is another indication (and we didn't need more) of the very promising career that awaited the Chicagoan, who He passed away on December 8 at just 21 years old.
Godzilla It threatens from its first listen to become one of the most popular songs on Eminem's new album. If you are interested in knowing what they are Eminem's most famous songs, feel free to pause and click on this article where we review their most listened to songs on Spotify.
The second most noteworthy thing about this song is the rhythms of Eminem, who returns for a few seconds to a supersonic style that probably exceeds the record set in words per second. rap god. It's not nice to listen to. But yes impressive.
Hello Darkness my old friend
Following the path started in rhyme or reason, Eminem takes a classic and remakes it (this time in a slightly more subtle way) to give it his own personal touch. Darkness is the promotional single of this new album. His video clip is shocking and is entirely dedicated to the murders in Las Vegas during a country music festival and, more specifically, the performance of singer Jason Aldean in 2018.
Skylar Gray returns with Eminem in Leaving heaven
With the exception of Kamikaze, Skylar Gray has become a regular contributor to Eminem's work. The American, (partner on the Interscope label) never fails to supply the classic chorus poppy in the songs of Marshall Mathers.
En leaving heaven (with a refrain somewhat similar to I need a doctor also with Skylar, we find yet another episode of how fame has changed Eminem's life (in case it hadn't already been clear to us in the million previous songs dedicated to the same theme).
Royce da 5'9″ the mess in Yah yah yah
With a tone and madness (and title) clearly allusive to the unleashed screams of Old Dirty Bastard, Royce makes the second of three total appearances in Music to be murdered by. This time the one from Detroit comes with the knife in his mouth and wanting to fight whoever dares.
Like Ice Cube said, "Before you wreck yourself"
Like Wu-Tang said, "You should protect yourself"
The novelty here is the addition to the party of the excellent Black Thought, who has given ample proof of being a master not only of rhyme but also of freestyle. If you don't know him, don't stop watching this impressive improvisation exercise that he gave us three years ago.
Eminem beats his stepdad to death and goes berserk on marsh!
stepdad y Marsh they constitute, without a doubt, the most crazy section (not bad) of Eminem's new album. In these two songs, the 48-year-old rapper once again brings out his alter ego Slim Shady (he himself recognizes him in (Marsh) to have fun at the cost of a few baseball bats. Eye here.
In case you didn't know, Eminem's stepfather kicked his Chihuahua to death when the rapper was six years old. Or at least that's what Eminem says in Stepdad, another song where he reviews his difficult childhood.
Of course, the subject is just another fun exercise in storytelling divided into three acts and culminating in the stepfather being beaten to death by the young Slim Shady, who is kind enough to bury the body in the garden of the house. Along with his puppy. The frenzy of madness and blood continues on Marsh, which is how Eminem has decided to name his umpteenth alter ego. By structure and type of flows, we could almost call her Killshot 2.
Never love again and Little engine: an Eminem with a new sound
never love again y little engine they constitute, in their own way, another very interesting couple of songs. Again, we find a sound dominated by the keyboard and, in general, quite exotic for Eminem.
In the first Eminem uses his classic story of heartbreak to elevate it to the category of metaphor and talk to us, in reality, about the drug problems that ended up almost costing him his life. It is not a song of love towards a person. It is a heartbreak aimed at laboratory poison. Psychotropic substances that, to put it all, he laid the foundations for his first three albums (the most celebrated). More information here.
En little engine we receive a visit from Sir Alfred Hitchcock again to make sure that we are liking the album and, above all, to remind us that the idea is that we listen to it while we are being assassinated. Interesting premise that is later reinforced with a song dedicated entirely to the theme of homicide for fun.. Undoubtedly, and taking into account the sensitive times with the issue of public violence and the control of access to weapons in the United States, Eminem is playing it with the theme of this album. And yet, isn't this the theme of a good number of songs from your ten previous albums?
Eminem and Anderson Paak: a dream come true
En lock it up, the collaboration of the great Anderson Paak (remember that he released an album in both 2018 and 2019) makes up one of the best cuts of Music to be murdered by.
Anderson's very marked personal style fits wonderfully with Em's unleashed lyrical rage. This is the first time the two rappers have collaborated on a song. It was seen coming after the participation of Dr.Dre and Snoop Dogg in Oxnard, one of the two albums that Paak has released recently and with very little time between them.
Playing with fire (and sexist violence) in Farewell
Farewell It has a tropical vibe that catches you from the second zero. Now Marshall plays with fire again. We are facing another sample of a playful Eminem without too many worries about the image that projects its classic misogynist facet and heartbreakers (but his, not theirs):
If one thing is clear with Eminem's new album, it is that the one in Detroit continues with zero concerns regarding the wave of political correctness that is sweeping society and media since the middle of the last decade. Eminem without nuance. Raw and to the point. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) Eminem tries to disguise the final message of Farewell by assuring that, despite all the hatred he feels for this woman, he still loves her. we just wait, For his (and Nick Cannon's) sake, Eminem isn't talking about Mariah Carey.
Eminem has no regrets in no regrets
"Yeah, they miss the old me, I think they want me to overdose on codeine, they want my life to be a mess like it was in 2003, they want front row seats and nosebleeds," Eminem says right off the bat. No returns.
Slim Shady makes it clear that he is not willing to do anything to get the favor of the public in this issue where he reviews his beef's most recent. tyler the creator (to whom he apologized for calling him a "faggot" in Kamikaze, He comes out much better than MGK and Nick Cannon, whom Eminem alludes to very subtly with double meanings:
For some adversaries, I carry big guns
So some targets'll get the kill shot
Some, I just barely nicked 'em
Royce da 5'9″, KXNG Crooked and Joell Ortiz carpet Eminem's entrance with the spectacular last song of the album. Eminem surprises in his final piece by recovering a flow that, as happened in Lord Above more closely resembles that of its golden age. This, added to the fact that he himself confesses that he is going to be here for a while ("I don't think he can stop it) leaves us with a very good taste in our mouths.
As Hitchcock says in the other: "If you haven't been killed, better luck next time." It is clear that Eminem will come for more blood and that much remains to be heard.