“The thing is that we love Hip Hop so much, we competitive, we battle rappers, so that was supposed to trigger that in him. On squashing the beef with Eminem, the Long Beach icon had this to say: “Man, I love Eminem!” he said. And on “Music to Be Murdered By,” we see the hope that he can change with the times but are left wondering if he should just stay behind.Snoop Dogg was the guest on The Breakfast Club, on today’s (October 27) episode and spoke with Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee about his new role as Executive Creative And Strategic Consultant to the iconic music label Def Jam, the very recent loss of his mother, squashing the beef with Eminem, performing in the upcoming Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show with Dr. It’s the rap sheet of a wise man, but he disses like an angry middle-school boy.Įminem is a relic of hip hop’s past. Now, he’s almost 50 and has been through fatherhood, divorce, drug abuse and superstardom. Eminem was a nasal-voiced white kid from Detroit who didn’t give a damn about anything. When he dropped these insults in 2000, it worked. “So all of y’all can just suck a penis/I’ll do the opposite/Eat you pussies like cunnilingus.” Therein lies the issue with this album - Eminem’s music makes it clear that the genre has evolved past him.Įminem only dates himself when he spits the following bar on “Marsh.” It’s an out-of-date trope that could pass as funny in 2000, not in 2020. On “Those Kinda Nights,” a party track with a grating refrain from Ed Sheeran, Eminem calls upon his old smartass charm by sexually harassing women. Sophomoric lyrics are more prevalent on the record than the implied-Hitchcock aesthetic. The verses are chilling and reminiscent of classic-Shady, but the poetry in the chorus is similar to an eighth-grader in English class than a legendary rapper: “I, I hate my, my stepdad/So tonight I’m saying/Bye-bye stepdad.” The album’s pop-rap song structures - Intro-Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus - aren’t inherently bad, but no one wants to listen to the same, tired shtick for 64 minutes.Įminem tries to recreate the woke magic on “Step Dad,” a song that details parental abuse. But both of those aspects are sparse.Įach second of triumph on “Darkness” is overshadowed by grating choruses and immature lyrics throughout most of the other 21 tracks. To wrap it up, the song ends with an audio reel from other mass shootings to call for gun control.Įminem using his platform to advocate for change while balancing it with enjoyable song composition is unexpected, given the course of his last two albums. The maturity in his delivery and unfolding of the events is chilling. The lead single, “Darkness,” is the peak of “Murdered By.” Eminem flashes his storytelling chops by taking us into the mind of the perpetrator of the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. This man is a legend for a reason and this album has moments that show artistic growth, and its horrorcore concept is one of the most ambitious approaches of his career. It’s refreshing to hear that Eminem has moved on from his “Revival” phase. That leads us to “Music to Be Murdered By.” From the sounds of a woman being stabbed on the first track, “Premonition (Intro),” and sampled narration from Alfred Hitchcock, it’s clear that Eminem is done throwing fits and is ready to deliver an experience.
His 2018 follow up, “Kamikaze,” is a pathetic temper tantrum he threw in response to the negative reaction to “Revival.” “Revival,” released in 2017, was a critical failure. His early releases are essential for any hip-hop fan.īut the train lost steam and crashed in magnificent fashion. Twenty years ago, there were few rappers who could find the balance of mainstream and critical success that Eminem did. But the album’s sophomoric and half-baked material is no surprise, even if it’s better than his last two releases. Rapper Eminem surprised the music world with the release of his 11th studio album, “Music to Be Murdered By,” on Jan. Photo obtained from Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records and Shady Records. Music to Be Murdered By is the eleventh studio album by Eminem, released on Jan.