Eminem pulled off another surprise album drop on Thursday night (January 16) with the arrival of Music To Be Murdered By.
The 20-track effort, which was inspired by the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, boasted features from several notable guests, including Royce Da 5’9, KXNG Crooked, Black Thought and Q-Tip. Unlike 2018’s Kamikaze, Em pays tribute to a laundry list of his Hip Hop heroes — from Invisibl Skratch Piklz and LL Cool J to Del The Funky Homosapien and De La Soul.
While many fans anxiously tried to find any semblance of an overt Nick Cannon diss buried in the layers of double entendres and rapid fire verses, it simply didn’t exist. However, there were a few blatant jabs at a few other artists that were immediately obvious as well as a couple of other mentions worth noting simply due to their previous history with Em.
Lord Jamar
“I Will” f. KXNG Crooked, Royce Da 5’9 & Joell Ortiz
Lord Jamar has been an outspoken critic of Shady for years, but the feelings are mutual. Em doesn’t really care for the Brand Nubian MC either. Just like he did on the Kamikaze track “Fall,” Shady sent a shot in Jamar’s direction once again.
“Got a crown of thorns, but it won’t fit around the horns/But I’ma keep it a buck like a dollar store/I’m more than you bargained for and I am far more worse/Than a forty-some bar Lord Jamar verse.”
Machine Gun Kelly
“Yah Yah” f. Royce Da 5’9, Black Thought, Q-Tip & Denaun
A new Eminem album wouldn’t be complete without at least one stab at Machine Gun Kelly. Their beef popped off in 2018 after Em dissed him on the Kamikaze cut “Not Alike” and the “Rap Devil” madness quickly followed. On “Yah Yah” featuring Royce Da 5’9, Black Thought, Q-Tip and Denaun, he essentially claims he birthed the Cleveland rapper.
“As you can see from the ring that I’m wearing/Me and this game we got married/Already had the prenup ready/Shoulda seen her belly/She was barely three months pregnant/She gave me a baby/We named it Machine Gun Kelly.”
Machine Gun Kelly
“Unaccommodating” f. Young M.A
Speaking of MGK, Em also provides an update on their longstanding beef on the song “Unaccommodating.”
“But when they ask me is the war finished with MGK? Of course it is/I cleansed him of his mortal sins, I’m God and the Lord forgives even the devil worshippers/I’m moving on but you know your scruples are gone when you’re born with Lucifer’s horns.”
Joe Budden
“I Will” f. KXNG Crooked, Royce Da 5’9 & Joell Ortiz
It might not be an audible diss, but Em did a track with all of Slaughterhouse — minus Joe Budden. If that’s not a subtle slight, what is? Nevertheless, Joell Ortiz, Royce Da 5’9 and KXNG Crooked stepped up to the plate and delivered.
Of course, this isn’t the first time Em has set his sights on Budden. He called out the popular podcast host on Kamikaze as well, spitting, “Somebody tell Budden before I snap, he better fasten it/Or have his body baggage zipped/The closest thing he’s had to hits is smackin’ bitches/And don’t make me have to give it back to Akademiks/Say this shit is trash again, I’ll have you twisted/Like you had it when you thought you had me slippin’ at the telly.”
Joe Budden
“Lock It Up” f. Anderson .Paak
Eminem is apparently still bothered by Budden’s criticisms of Shady’s 2017 album Revival. He comes for him again on “Lock It Up” with the line, “Try’na save at Kroger, so why would I give a fuck about back-stabbin’ Trader Joe for?”
Kanye West
“Unaccommodating” f. Young M.A
Yes, it’s minimal, but Em does mention Kanye West for a split second, sending a subtle slight toward Calabasas.
“I’m a clown like John Wayne Gacy/They call me Kanye crazy/APESHIT, Beyonce, JAY-Z.”
Macklemore
“Leaving Heaven” f. Skylar Grey
While it’s not classifiable as a straight up diss, Em does throw a little shade at Macklemore’s perceived squeaky clean image and cushy upbringing on “Leaving Heaven.”
“OK, so while Macklemore was keeping his room nice and neat (Yeah)/I was getting my ass beat twice a week (What?)/Looking for a place for the night where I could sleep (Yeah)
Flippin’ sofa cushions over just tryin’ to see/If I could find some change and scrape up for a bite to eat.”
Tyler, The Creator & Earl Sweatshirt
“No Regrets” f. Don Toliver
Em caught plenty of flak for calling Tyler, The Creator a homophobic slur on the Kamikaze song “Fall.” In an interview with Sway Calloway, he admitted he was “in his feelings” when he wrote that line.
Em touches on the situation again on “No Regrets.”
“Misplacin’ my anger enough to give Earl and Tyler, The Creator the brunt/Shoulda never made a response to the disdain for the fake ones/Them traitorous punks, ’cause snakes are just cunts/They can get fucked with eight hundred motherfuckin’ vibrators at once.”
I May be wrong but i think when he said ” i bust my ass for this shit and I swear
It ain’t even worth dissing someone so offbeat
That they can’t even figure out where their words
Should hit the kick and the snare” can be considered a semblance of an overt Nick Cannon diss
Yup! On point.
That was a diss to Tee Grizzley
Doesn’t he diss Joe Budden on I Will when he says “it was your group but you were the weakest link”
No he was clearly talking about lord jamar in brand nubian
FOH that’s a budden shot.
Than a fourty-some bar Lord Jamar verse
Nothing means more than respect, so when I curse
You could say I swore to protect
My image I have zero time or regard for
I never was, been claiming rap when it’s not yours
If it was anyone’s house G Rap and Rakim would be havin’ you mop floors
Run-DMC would be havin’ you cleanin’ sinks
Yeah, your group was off the chain, but you were the weakest link
This whole time he going at jamar, He didnt just stop talking to him and moved to budden that wouldnt really make sense, im sorry but you gotta be preety dense to miss it, being so confident about it makes it alot worse too
It was directly at Jamar, but the song features everyone from slaughterhouse except Budden. It was for both of them
“Than a fourty-some bar Lord Jamar verse Nothing means more than respect, so when I curse You could say I swore to protect My image I have zero time or regard for I never was, been claiming rap when it’s not yours If it was anyone’s house G Rap and Rakim would be havin’ you mop floors Run-DMC would be havin’ you cleanin’ sinks Yeah, your group was off the chain, but you were the weakest link”
This whole time he going at jamar, He didnt just stop talking to him and moved to budden that wouldnt really make sense, im sorry but you gotta be preety dense to miss it, being so confident about it makes it alot worse too
Read through the lyrics, its tied together with jamar name drop few lines before. And it makes sense, since jamar always was the weakest in brand nubian
After reading the lyric I believe that’s a extra dog at Lord Jamal
This guy sucks.. funny how dope fiends are the new idols.. #trash
wtf u talkin bout? dope fiends?? cause he had a prescription drug problem? oooohh! he’s like the other 90% of Americans, but he actually has gotten clean. far from a fiend you moron.
If you don’t like him then stop feeding him. You crybabies are all the same… you say how much you hate but here you are commenting on they articles. Your obsessed.
That was showing love to Kanye not a diss. Em is in record with his respect for Ye
I think considering that a Budden diss is kind of reaching. It’s more like, “Come out of retirement.”
At the Earl & tyler quip was that a shot at them or was he responding to the backlash he received from the initial?
How did you miss that he literally dissed Budden again on the joint with SH.
“Sure your group was off the chain but you was the weakest link” <<<< That's a Joe Budden diss.
No it’s not. That’s him dissing a Lord Jamar.
“If it was anyone’s house G Rap and Rakim would be havin’ you mop floors
Run-DMC would be havin’ you cleanin’ sinks
Yeah, your group was off the chain, but you were the weakest link” – this is clearly a jab at Budden
sounds like a Lord Jamar diss. LJ said Eminem was a guest in his house (hip hop)
Did you forget Lord Jamar was part of a group? Weirdo lol.
Nope, it was at lord jamar
Nope, it was lord jamar
It’s a diss to Jamar, it was a response to the whole Eminem being a guess in hip hop. He literally names him by name. “But I’ma keep it a buck like a dollar store, I’m more than you bargained for and I am far more worse, Than a fourty-some bar Lord Jamar verse, Nothing means more than respect, so when I curse, You could say I swore to protect, My image I have zero time or regard for, I never was, been claiming rap when it’s not yours, If it was anyone’s house G Rap and Rakim would be havin’ you mop floors, Run-DMC would be havin’ you cleanin’ sinks, Yeah, your group was off the chain, but you were the weakest link”
Still a one time listen album. He is the KING of dixie plate rap. Nice lyrics but i have no desire to listen again.
Go listen to Gucci mane punk
Nobody caught it? He dissed Joe Budden with the Kroger/Trader(Traitor) Joe line.
Eminem became a living parody of himself. I’m always down to listen to 1999-2006 Em. Past that? Count me out… This album is extremely annoying.
You’re just hating… this album was badass
Joe better put his dirty wife beater back on and go in on this nigga….on his podcast though. He don’t want no lyrical smoke fr
lmfao U ACTUALLY think Joe bodies em? hahahahahah
Read the comment again.
Relisten to Lock it up & explain to me how Em is not speaking on joe (in both verses).
No regrets I believe he said something about Nick Cannon right after he takes shots at MGK. ” So some targets”ll get the kill shot some I barley Nicked’em I can make a mistake and erupt and end up taking a dump or sayin some dumb shit thinking I run shit” Then he goes on to Tyler the Creator an Earl sweatshirt.. correct me if I’m wrong….
Glad someone else caught this. That was definitely a shot toward Nick.
At least he has Q tip and Black thought on the album actual lyricists. Overall from the reviews heard its mediocre at best, certainly no illmatic.
You are so dumb.
It was like a figure of speech. Why so dumb when people hold Eminem to such a high regard isn’t he suppose to drop high quality hip hop? Just admit a lot of his music is wack, people just can’t handle this. Again very skilled mc but mediocre music.
Nick cannon….get off here boy.
“it’s no illmatic” can be said after every album after illmatic came out. Kinda high standards there, no?
Man, ya’ll are reaching! Lmao. I’m sure they asked Joe to get on the song and he declined. Royce was trying to get him out of retirement but Joe is getting more bread from not rapping than he did rapping. He ain’t thinking about hopping on that Mic at all.
agreed. Slaughterhouse wouldn’t have jumped on the track if they thought it was a conscious diss toward their old groupmate.
I ain’t even gotta read the comments to know a whole lotta stupid shit is written, but fake internet-land aside, Em’s new shit is the dopest rap album in a few minutes now. Nobody has impact like this shit.
Macklemore is about a hip hop veteran as Eminem. when Eminem was with the marshall mathers lp and the Eminem show etc… etc… Macklemore hadn’t got signed to a record deal for about those ten years. I don’t care whether the brother is openly gay. I think you got it wrong on this one he should be respected and praised. shout out seattle.
Yeah that’s just not true, dude. Macklemore doesn’t even do shit anymore and if his brother wasn’t gay. No one would mention him again. His only relevance was the song about cheap clothes and his brother being gay. Where he at now?
As long as Eminem is rapping and releasing music all is GREAT, the only rapper in the game that will make me spend my hard earned money on.
M ain’t shit. He always punching down instead of fighting a heavy weight. Shady will never go after someone like ghost, mop, mc eiht, e-40, chuck d and others. Marshall is a just phony. Who cares about nick canon, macklemore, machine gun kelly and the boy bands? I listened to the new album and it is average at best. His voice is verying whiney. Mumble rap!! Hip hop artists never have mumble rappers on an album. Someone should tell shorty shit stain shady.
Why tf would he go after legends he has the utmost respect for and no problems with? You sound like a doof
He better respect them. They push hip hop records. Shady does records with mumble rappers. Imo they no have respect him. A whiny little bitch with watered beats for the know nothing hip hop crowd.
Hey Unknown!
Stay unknown
Why would Em randomly go at the rappers you mentioned? If they diss him then im sure he’ll say something back but it’s stupid to say Em is scared of them or whatever just cause he doesn’t randomly this them for no reason
You Feminem nuthuggers keep using that as an excuse. Snoop Dog has criticized him in the past – yet he didn’t say shit. Method Man criticized him, and…
***crickets*** from him. He knows who to go after and who not to f*ck with!
Why do people keep checking for an artist who is so consistently wack?
They only do that for or whites.
This thread is wack
Only more proof that Eminem has absolutely nothing to say unless someone has something to say about him. I’ll always respect his pen, but he tries way too hard only to wind up saying nothing.
I don’t think he has nothing to say on this album. Recent albums, it seemed like he was running out of stuff to say. But this album shows he can keep going.
He said plenty on revival, but you, just as i, hated that album
Is he just going to name drop rappers and complain about people not liking him on every album now? Every time this dude drops it’s his “comeback” album to prove haters of the last album wrong. Like damn bro, how many comeback albums can you make? lmao He’s washed up at this point….If he were black his career would have been over like 15 years ago.
I’m guessing you don’t know that white folks are allowed have comeback dlbum after comback album, according to the general white consensus. And, you’reso right about if he were black, he would’vebeen over 15 yrs ago…AND he would’ve been on “Love & Hip hop” by now. LMAO
Album of the year contender. This album is one the most cohesive, lyrical and diverse album Eminem has ever released. 2020 looks like a good year for HipHop. It will be very hard to top this, unless Kendrick drops something.
that album Im eminem ghostwriter he those not pay at all
thank you this contented belong two me and rihanna should taken down right always. it off my facebook
Cat and the Hat Music… trash!
What does that even mean? That it rhymes? That The Cat IN The Hat is trash?? Pure foolishness.
Eminem is Dr. Seuss… his rhymes are completely trash! This entire album is garbage!
I have a 2pac album coming out soon!
You’re an idiot.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about
He called Tech N9ne out for being washed as well
No he really didnt, in the same line he said the same about jay z you think he dissed him aswell?? If thats not clear enugh he later in the same track goes to say
“I wasn’t dissin’ Tech, that was not a shot at 2 Chainz or to Jay-Z” go read genius to understand what he really meant
He ran it back at the end, but he still said it. Talkin bout people being washed and gave Tech as an example. We all know dude’s washed up as hell. And I say that as a fuckin fan, Tech N9ne is washed up as shit these last few years.
“After calling out the ridiculousness of the criticism that he might only care about making money, rather than integrity, Em proceeds to rhetorically suggest that he fires the same criticism at Tech N9ne and JAY-Z, who have also been in the game for a remarkably long time. He is alluding to the fact that they do not receive the same criticism, and therefore neither should he, because all three are evidently dedicated artists whose craft is of paramount drive”
Thats the genius interpetaion,its not the bible and you dont have to aggry with evreything there but for me just the fact he mentioned jay z in the same context means its not a diss, em will never diss jay z like this out of nowhere
Em never fails, album is straight fuego
It’s academic not akademik. I love how em comes out against the president and for gun rights and people whine that he said shit and now they whine that he has nothing to say. Guess they are akademiks.
Hang it up already. It’s clear he has absolutely nothing of substance to say. And why would he? Dude never leaves the crib. So out of touch sonically. Until he comes out the closet he’s got nothing to say sans MGK, Nick Cannon, and Lord Jamar. Just writing out the names he drops makes it abundantly clear he don’t got it anymore.
& before y’all come back with that played out shit about taking the time to comment etc, I unfortunately used to like this dude’s music. Used to being the operative phrase.
When did he EVER have anything to say??? He built his entire career of talking sh*t about his mother, his baby mama, female pop stars & white boy groups. He just now feels comfortable enough to diss nobody n*ggas like Lord Jamar, Tyler The Creator, and Nick Cannon around black people.
Same coward shit. Eminem battles the Macklemores, the Nick Cannons, and the MGKs. Just like he won his glorious battles agains Britney, Xtina and NSync. Wow, a rapgod! He never had the balls to go against relevant rappers.
What Happened to Jarule and Benzino and Murder inc. Em been battling Rappers throughout his Rap career . John , is obvious you don’t know what you talking about.
You say that when he only goes at rappers that attack him. None of the so called relevant rappers will challenge Em or else he would attack.
M isn’t attacking shit. He better stay in his lane. Someone like ghost would ruin his rap career for life. Wimpy shady is afraid of a real fight. Marshall needs 50 cent and others to clap back at nick cannon. This guy is so overrated. Many new hip hop albums are better than shady’s new pop trash. Hopefully this will be his last album. I’m tired of under educated shady fans screaming he is the goat. The goat of what not hip hop.
Its very clear ppl who dont like em are too dumb to understand actual lyrics they on every site i see pure ignorant stupid ppl your bitch ass prob bitching about his mention or the bombings too arent ya ppl deez days pillow soft pussies u dumb why you hate on someone who clearly has tallent and you dont hatters eat a dick hes clearly lost it !! You clearly too imature to even have an adult conversation idiots let momy and dady talk ok looser LMFAO if you dont understand big boy words dont pretend ur smart and dont lisen to lyrisist do what they do go suck the migos dick
You calling people dumb but your spelling makes you look like a Mexican with a second grade education.
No nick cannon diss? Lmao there were plenty. “Some get the killshot others I just nick’d em.”
“It ain’t even worth dissing someone so offbeat they can’t even figure out where they were to hit the kick and the snare” that’s from you gon learn. Pathetic. Smh f this site.
For reals yo
They missed another Joe Burden diss too
Eminem is unreal. I know he even has plenty more in the tank. Another great album ????
Anything for NF?
He’s amazing. Another nasty album. Will be on repeat for a while. Hope he goes back to the studio and makes another recovery-like album before he retires though
It’s very clear who uses this site, ?. Anyone who thinks this album is fire doesn’t know shit about hip hop. This man hasn’t made an album worth listening to ages. Trash. Such a waste of skill.
You retarded or some shit? ..
Missed the Carbi B diss….
When you put the lines to his lyrics to show a diss you shouldn’t break them apart with a / then add what you think is another diss with out completing the whole metaphor he used to diss the person. half of the lyrics listed are missing the other half of the metaphors. I sit reading this article and the ignorant comments below about “his albums being trash” yet half of you didn’t even realize almost every diss in this article is missing the actual diss because the metaphors went over your heads. Music is art. Just because you can’t understand something doesn’t give you a right to call it trash. Pick up a dictionary or a thesaurus , study it, then press play on his album I guarantee it will be the last time you call his music trash.