Eminem drops a surprise album on Twitter to the shock of fans named after Alfred Hitchcock's Music To Be Murdered By album, as well as remaking it's iconic cover.
Slim Shady Did What?
If you thought that Eminem's most recent album Kamikaze was a surprise, this is more than the latter. The The Real Slim Shady himself took audiences by surprise with a tweet simply reading "It's your funeral... #MusicToBeMurderedBy Out Now" with a link - see the tweet below, and continue reading for updates.
Social Media And Video
After speculation - the whispers - of a new project fans have now laid the rumours to rest. The new album cover's influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's Music To Be Murdered By album cover, for which his new album has the same name. The surprise was also accompanied with a video titled Darkness.
The song, and video references one of the deadliest shootings to take place in America where 58 people died - Route 91 Harvest Music Festival. Fancy a listen? Take a listen here Eminem new album 2020.
Eminem's Music to Be Murdered By Album Tracklist
- Premonition (Intro)
- Unaccommodating featuring Young M.A
- You Gon' Learn featuring Royce 5'9" and White Gold
- Alfred (Interlude)
- Those Kinda Nights (feat. Ed Sheeran)
- In Too Deep
- Godzilla featuring Juice WRLD
- Darkness
- Leaving Heaven featuring Skylar Grey
- Yah Yah featuring Royce 5'9", Black Thought, Q-Tip & Denaun)
- Stepdad (Intro)
- Stepdad
- Marsh
- Never Love Again
- Little Engine
- Lock It Up featuring Anderson .Paak
- Farewell
- No Regrets (feat. Don Toliver)
- I Will featuring KXNG Crooked, Royce 5'9" and Joell Ortiz
- Alfred (Outro)
Manchester Arena Attack
Eminem has faced an immediate backlash for his lyrics on "Unaccommodating" from his new album Music To Be Murdered By. Criticised for the lyrics "I'm contemplating yelling 'bombs away' on the game / Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.", it's not the first time the rap legend has referenced the attack saying "seeing Ariana Grande sing her last song of the evening / And as the audience from the damn concert is leaving / Detonates the device strapped to his abdominal region." in a 2018 freestyle.
Critics have called him "vile", and "disgusting" regardless of his past pledge to support the victims of the bombing in 2017 for which he urged fans to donate to the families affected. Eminem's positive attempt to raise awareness about gun control hasn't gone unnoticed.
A message includes "WHEN WILL THIS END? WHEN ENOUGH PEOPLE CARE. Please contact or visit the following organisations to find out how you can help or learn more about putting an end to senseless gun violence, or to help survivors and their families." with various links to anti-gun violence organisations including Giffords Law Center, Everytown For Gun Safety, and Sandy Hook Promise.
