Surprise! Eminem releases ‘Music to Be Murdered By’ Album

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Eminem has dropped the follow-up to 2018โ€™s 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 5โ€™9โ€ & 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 โ€œDarkness,โ€ which samples Simon & Garfunkelโ€™s โ€œThe 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. โ€œWhen will this end? When enough people care,โ€ says Em before encouraging fans to register to vote in order to help change gun laws.

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On the albumโ€™s second track, โ€œUnaccomadatingโ€ featuring Young M.A., Eminem references the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing attack that took the lives of 23 people.

โ€œIโ€™m contemplating yelling bombs away on the game like Iโ€™m outside an Ariana Grande concert,โ€ he raps.

This line was met with online outrage:

Music to Be Murdered By marks Eminemโ€™s first album since 2018โ€™s 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 5โ€™9โ€ 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 5โ€™9โ€, 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 5โ€™9โ€, Joell Ortiz)
  • Alfred (Outro)

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