Eminem Returns with Surprise Album Music to Be Murdered By
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Eminem addressed the nation early Friday morning with a surprise album release titled Music to Be Murdered By. The 20 tracks include diverse features from Young M.A, Ed Sheeran, the late Juice WRLD, Anderson .Paak and more.
It’s your funeral…#MusicToBeMurderedBy Out Now – https://t.co/q4TAFJUVGVpic.twitter.com/6PqnTjCKgu
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) 17 January 2020
Music to Be Murdered By is the first Eminem album since 2018’s Kamikaze, which the rapper also surprise-released.
Mathers has also released a video for the album’s eighth track, “Darkness.” This song is an open diary of sorts for (or from?) the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock. Mathers’ point-of-view is peculiar: Sometimes he speaks about the shooter, but most times he speaks as the shooter. The camera cuts back and forth between footage of the shooter drinking and taking pills in a hotel room surrounded by guns, and Eminem alone in a dark room. The two wear matching hoodies. We’re assaulted by images of drugs, liquor and guns as the shooter prepared to fire on the crowd at Route 91 Harvest Festival before he committed suicide. The depiction of his genocide is accurate even down to the cameras outside his door.
