Eminem released Music To Be Murdered By: Side B on December 17, which wasn’t a complete surprise. There’d been signs leading up to its release, including the cover art Aftermath Records affiliate Dem Jointz shared to his Instagram page the day before it dropped.
As fans all over the world get a chance to dissect the project, a few standout verses have emerged. On the song “Zeus,” Slim Shady directs his attention toward Drake and warns him of a day when some of his fans will no longer be in his corner.
“I’ve had a great view to see the (See the) game through (Through),” he raps. “And, Drake, they’re gonna turn on you (You) one day too (Too)/And the more you win, the sooner (Sooner) they do/They’ll be calling you a trash bin/Sayin’ that your new one isn’t better than your last and/Even if it is, once they start to turn their backs/They ain’t never comin’ back/They did it to Chance/Next they’ll be mentionin’ Future in the past tense (Yeah)/Or sayin’ “Adiós” to Migos.”
Shady is clearly speaking from experience. Although he’s earned a reputation as one of the best MCs to ever pick up a mic, he’s faced an onslaught of criticism over the course of his career.
Following the release of 2017’s Revival, Eminem was ripped to shreds by fans and critics alike, so much so he came back full speed ahead with 2018’s surprise drop Kamikaze, which found him dropping lyrical bombs all over his detractors.
He even took out a full page ad in the The Hollywood Reporter, blasting various publications for criticizing his latest work — despite the fact Kamikaze was the No. 1 album in 103 countries and sold over 434,000 total album-equivalent units in its first week.
“NOT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION!” the ad reads in part. “Thanks for the support a**holes!”
Eminem's 'Music To Be Murdered By: Side B' Projected To End Record-Setting Billboard 200 Streak
Reviews are still coming in for Eminem’s latest effort, but it looks like it won’t land at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 like his previous 10 releases. According to Hits Daily Double, Music To Be Murdered By: Side B is projected to sell between 70,000 and 80,000 total album-equivalent units, enough to get him to the No. 3 spot.
If those numbers are indeed accurate, it will mark the first time an Eminem album didn’t land in the coveted spot since 1999’s The Slim Shady LP, which debuted at No. 2. It would also become his worst debut week by close to 200,000 EAU. Revival moved 267,000 EAU in its debut week, while the original Music to Be Murdered By album moved over 279,000 EAU in its opening week alone.
Hahahahahahaah joe budden was right- its over for EM.
I’m sure Ems really hurting right now. It’s pathetic how much yal care.
Yes, Em is hurting right now. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be constantly talking about his haters and critics in his music.
You’re right. The 70,000 people who bought this album definitely outnumber the 331,800,000 who took a s— instead. Or bought Paul McCartney’s new album because let’s face it Sir Paul is actually still more relevant than Eminem over half a century later.
Em’s peak was ’99 – ’06 (I’d say the Re-Up album was the last time he sounded like his old self). Then he took a hiatus and never really sounded the same. Drake has never lost his momentum in 11 years since he debuted. On the other hand, Drake will inevitably fall off eventually, and when he does I don’t think he’ll keep a huge loyal fanbase like Em has.
I agree, but his fanbase is actually the worst part about Eminem, it’s like a fucking cult. He has been mediocre since more than a decade and they still ride his dick like he never misses.
I always thought maybe it was the yes-men who didn’t care enough about him to inspire him to turn down bad ideas or maybe it was the drugs and despair over 16 years of wasted potential. But after this last listen, I think it’s possible that this really is all there is to Eminem. That he’s really this empty and one-dimensional. There’s no depth. And yeah, it’s a total cult. He came out attached to Dr. Dre at the hip (at the height of Dre’s fame) and apparently mistook good timing for classic talent. He was the last “big thing” that was able to take advantage of “white boys can rap no way!” and a captive television audience on MTV with nothing else to listen to but N’Sync. If he’d came out a decade later when YouTube was around, no one would know who he was. His music has been THAT bad.
Drake already fell off. It just lets you know how trash today’s music scene is that he’s artificially on top. In the past, someone else fresher would have pushed him into the background by now, but so much low quality shit is getting pushed that it hasn’t properly happened yet. He’s been on autopilot since about 2016 or so when he put out Views, which was corny but did numbers anyway.
Eminem’s first two albums – if you go back and listen to them – are pretty much a parody of gangster rap. Everything he did from 02-03 was his first real dive into his own story, and it was interesting. However, his music since then has been consistently difficult to listen to. It’s joyless. He sounds like he’s forcing himself to rap, and his fans have been left forcing themselves to listen. I refuse to believe anyone actually goes back and listens to songs like “X Stupid Song About Butts Hutt Banana Fo Fanna Mo Manna.”
I’m pretty sure he just alienated the last of his true fans. This latest album was so bad that it was disgusting. And not in the “Oh my God Becky, Eminem is so disgusting” way. This is genuine, ew get this guy a shrink not a mic.
We will never turn on Drake because that would be antisemitic. He gods chosen peoples after all.
Fuk Drake phony fake ass. Talking like he white…fakin like when he raps when he don’t talk like that in real life. Change his name to Fake!
When will people understand that people can listen to whatever they want and be right about their choice? No one’s qualified to trash someone for what they listen to and when you do so you ain’t nothing but a hater so mind your own business and don’t listen or click on news of artists you don’t like just to comment. And by the way deluxe editions don’t count as actual albums and MTBMB already went platinum even before the side b came out.
Spoken like a true Trumpian. “If you don’t like my bad english and bad policies, you’re a hater.” Teens call things haters. 48 and 74 year old dudes who call people haters are sad. Get a grip. People critique artistry. If artists don’t like it, don’t do art. Art is meant to be absorbed, analyzed, and talked about. Sadly, this one was so bad no one will ever talk about it except to say they can’t believe the guy who did “Lose Yourself,” the guy who inspired Barack Obama with that music, is putting out things like, “Call her Cinderella, she loves balls.” Just sad.
Since when do a deluxe album count as a real proper release? Mtbmb already got top 1 so far as im concerned Em still hasn’t lost his streak
What separates Eminem for Drake is that Drake puts on new artist. Whereas Em takes from new artist. Every new artist song that Drake jumps on, the artist is tracking. He shares his star power to help new artist SHINE. You, Eminem snuff their light out. D12? Slaughterhouse? Griselda? Em, all you do is talk shit about the new generation. The fuck you think is going to happen?
Drake also bites from new artists
Eminem is overly sensitive, he some how thinks he is immune to criticism. His last few projects have been trash!! That’s just the truth, its 2020 and he is still doing his same (i can rap a million words a minute flow, dissing pop stars ) no one wants to hear that. Reinvent yourself or at least stay present with what is going on….at this point he is just reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaching.
This isn’t quite right. Yes, he’s sensitive to criticism but show me another rapper that isn’t. To be fair to him, he didn’t do much fast rap at all in earlier stuff, and if anything that could be held up as a departure point from his previous material. You don’t sound like you’ve ever been a fan so you’re unlikely to appreciate anything he does. He’s had a few classics, a few average, and Revival which was awful. Latest stuff is decent
Nas.
Actually MTBMB was fascinating.It is the best Hip hop album I’ve heard in like 5 years
There is everythng to that Album U just blindly criticize him
he changes his flow like 20 times in one song
Face it man U don’t criticize him coz U think he is doing Old stuff U do it exactly because he is not doing what he used to do he has changed his style completely
In a rap game that is full of mumble rappers who just Use the same flow in a 3 minute song he is teaching real lyrical rap with his different styles
And BTW speak for Ureself.don’t say no one listens to that…
“He changes a flow 20 times in a song”
Yes, and it’s exhausting, embarrassing, and nonsensical. It’s not cute. It’s not “good.” It’s not “impressive.” It’s like that kid in gym class who starts doing cartwheels in front of girls. Can you do a cartwheel? Yeah you can. SHOULD you do it 1,000 times in front of the same girls who already took out a restraining order on you last time? No. And if the words he was rapping made any sense, fine. But they don’t. They’re bizarrely strung together words that sound more like something you’d call a psychiatrist over, not something you’d want to share with 1 million people.
“They can suck my d— while I’m taking a s—.”
“Call her Cinderella, she loves balls.”
“Got this wick lick for the sdjflskdfjskdflsjdfkjskdlfjklsdjfklsjfklsjdf.”
“They can suck my little white wee wee”
Puke?
And his metaphors? They’re SIMILIES NOT METAPHORS. Every single song has 1,000 similes. It’s clinical, creepy s—. Every time he says anything he says it’s “like” something else. Wow! Looks like somebody got through 9th grade lit. Congrats. Please graduate.
if you think his flow changes are nonsensical it’s because your brain can’t catch the beat and can’t catch onto the flow. you don’t know where the next beat drop or the next syllable is going to hit or how it’s strung together. you’re commenting on what a grown man should say in his art and who he should share it with. that sounds more like your opinion on what’s appropriate to be said and what isn’t. if music and art don’t push that bar around then what’s going to? on another note, his words make sense. completely. and totally. if you can’t make sense of what’s going on that’s more of a you issue than anyone else’s. and on another note. a simile… is a metaphor… every single simile ever, is a metaphor.
Oh man, please bless us with your obvious superior skills, oh wait. You just a piece of ? on the internet. STFU now please, thanks.
I don’t think that’s gonna happen because if people really DO turn on Drake, he’ll just start biting a different style lol
This doesn’t apply to Chance because he actually did drop some trash.
Hella ppl have already turned on Drake so it’s starting to happen already…compare his likeness now compared to 2015 when he dropped IYRTITL….
Eminem’s obsession with other people’s celebrity is taking on restraining level proportions. It’s really sad to see someone devolve instead of evolve. Maybe like Trump Eminem isn’t capable of that. He has a level of self-absorption I’ve never seen in a rapper. It’s more than just entertaining, idle braggadocios. It’s clinical. Does the rap game need to take out a restraining order on this dude? Is he ever going to stop hating his fans for understandably turning away from his increasingly unstable persona? Artists take criticism, self-evaluate, and create better art. Narcissists take criticism and lash out like a toddler. Maybe Eminem should sit down with Donald Trump and air grievances.
You really don’t understand hip hop if u don’t get eminem.
And if u don’t understand hip hop then u probably shouldn’t be speaking on it.
Rap has always been about showcasing your ego and most rappers use their inner ID to vent out their frustrations. U get nihilistic and braggadocios ppl because at the root of the beginner rapper is a life of not being accepted,loved, or even cared about.
As far as lyricism goes eminem is evolving and is much better than he ever has been.
This is merely a warning letter to drake.
You’re the critics he’s speaking of, the ppl who draw up conclusions without taking in the entire story and actually putting mind into your sentiments and words before putting them on a page.
It’s OK, most ppl think their opinions valid just because they took their time to write them but life isn’t black or white it’s full of grays.
I know it probably miserable and arent living ur life and are mad that a millionaire is mad at other ppl about their words.
But eminem is as miserable as u are with all the money in the world. The thing he loves is taken for granted and used as a vehicle for ppls worst traits.
The thing that he loves was introduced to him by someone who killed himself and he never let himself give up for some reason.
How many rappers and artists criticized in a lesser extent have died or succumbed to addictions?
I’ve only seen eminem improve and lose his love and playfulness in rap and it’s evidently that his misery is also because of ppl who never really cared or wanted to actually listen to what he says even tho it’s what he’s known for