Eminem has dropped the follow-up to 2018โs Kamikaze. The rapper surprise-released his latest album, Music to Be Murdered By (via Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) on Thursday night, 16 January.
Produced by Eminem and Dr. Dre, the 20-track album boasts a number of high profile features including Young MA, Royce da 5โ9โ & White Gold, Ed Sheeran, the late Juice WRLD, Skylar Grey, Black Thought of The Roots, Q-Tip, Denaun, Anderson Paak, Don Toliver, KXNG Crooked, and Joell Ortiz.
Additionally, Em has dropped a video for โDarkness,โ which samples Simon & Garfunkelโs โThe Sound of Silence.โ The somber song was inspired by the 2017 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas and serves as a commentary on gun violence. โWhen will this end? When enough people care,โ says Em before encouraging fans to register to vote in order to help change gun laws.
On the albumโs second track, โUnaccomadatingโ featuring Young M.A., Eminem references the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing attack that took the lives of 23 people.
โIโm contemplating yelling bombs away on the game like Iโm outside an Ariana Grande concert,โ he raps.
This line was met with online outrage:
Music to Be Murdered By marks Eminemโs first album since 2018โs Kamikaze, which became his ninth consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
View the Music to Be Murdered By full tracklisting below.
- Premonition (Intro)
- Unaccommodating (feat Young MA)
- You Gonโ Learn (feat Royce Da 5โ9โ and White Gold)
- Alfred (Interlude)
- Those Kinda Nights (feat Ed Sheeran)
- In Too Deep
- Godzilla (feat Juice WRLD)
- Darkness
- Leaving Heaven (feat Skylar Grey)
- Yah Yah (feat. Royce Da 5โ9โ, Q-Tip, Denaun)
- Stepdad (Intro)
- Stepdad
- Marsh
- Never Love Again
- Little Engine
- Lock It Up (feat Anderson .Paak)
- Farewell
- No Regrets (feat Don Toliver)
- I Will (feat KXNG Crooked, Royce Da 5โ9โ, Joell Ortiz)
- Alfred (Outro)
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