After weeks of taunting, Eminem finally delivered the first single — “Walk On Water” featuring Beyonce — from his forthcoming album, Revival. Produced by Def Jam Recordings mastermind Rick Rubin and co-produced by Em’s frequent collaborator Skylar Grey, the song shows a more mature side of Slim Shady.
It’s a far cry from some of the controversial content found on 2000’s The Marshall Mathers LP or his anger-fueled BET Hip Hop Awards cypher he delivered last month. Here, we get a more introspective Eminem who seems to be exploring a newfound wisdom that only comes with age.
Of course, social media reactions to “Walk On Water” were mixed. Some found the collaboration between Queen Bey and Em to be a welcome surprise, while others wanted to pretend like the song never happened.
Check out some of the best reactions below.
The Song Sucks
Hey Jeffrey, remember me?
This is stupid. Everything ever has had a mixed reaction, nothing ever has been universally loved, you can twist things either way. I like the song, I like a grown up Em. Is that a problem? Why does that annoy other people? I don’t like mumble trappers. I don’t listen. Or complain. Life is simple
Lil bich azz
I actually like it, just wish it had a proper beat too. Em’s delivery sounds quite good.
The Song sucks
Dope Track. Great lyrics from Eminem. Very personal reflection for him. And Beyonce added soulfulness it needed. Great track and looking forward to the album.
Eminem just doesn’t want to heed his millions of fans call when they beg him to be the beast he was in 99′ and keeps taking a stubborn defiant stance against them. Why? Because dude genuinely hates his fans. Guaranteed. And he doesn’t have another SlimShady/Marshall MathersLP in him. Just like Nas ain’t got another Ether in him…
Or.. he could’ve matured and doesn’t WANT to rap like he used to? In the end, it’s his music and he gets the creative choices on it. The fact that you want him to conform to what YOU want is just selfish. Maybe you really don’t deserve to listen to his music since you’re such a needy, ungrateful shit
Damn this song sucked…. But it’s just one song, hopefully the rest of the album is better than this.
The problem is that There are 3 types of Em stans right now. The OGs that love the delinquent not give af stans, the commercial success stans and the post all of it dealing with finding himself stans. Em at this point is battling himself, but in doing so is taking the introspective route bc the man has matured and is growing, which obviously cuts ties with the first 2 stans that want that old slim shady. Beyoncé on the track is a marketing ploy, but I would’ve rather opted for maybe a Mary j bilge, Solange, SZA or even Lauryn Hill replacement for that soulfulness. Regardless, I dig this joint and am looking forward to what else is coming down the pipeline.
Exactly. People still want the crazy/uncontrolled Eminem, but he’s touched on every subject. The minute he goes back to his old self, people will hate on that as well by coming up with random excuses as to why it sucks. He literally just put out a track addressing everything people say about him and how the expectations are too high because fans these days want too much.
And like someone else said, it’s just like how we’ll never get another ill/stillmatic Nas.
You people are awesome. Thank you for being intelligent!
The Problem with it is not the introspection, it’s just not a good song. I’d say he’d have to change his delivery and get rid of the queen of pop music to make it listenable. It’s sort of like yea I’m a hardcore rapper, but I’m a huge pop star and I want to do something emo this time around. Let’s try to fit that all in. It doesn’t work. What the hell is up with the MMLP2 style ending on there? it’s so out of place. The guy can do comedy rap. he can do horrorcore. He can do pop rap. He has done some hardcore gangsta leaning stuff before, but his attempts at being emo on a song have all fallen flat. EM is not emo rap.
This the realist s h i t Ja Rule ever said..
Beyonce and Eminem in the studio
Beyonce – “Before I go in the booth, I’m not gonna let you do me like you did Jay”
Eminem – “Yeah I murdered your husband on his own song”
Not really tho plus it’s some old rhymes from the original song which was em n Royce’s
Woah ANOTHER CLASSIC! WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE BEST RAPPPERS!!!
Homeboy fell off after Proof died. The best part of the song is Beyoncé singing…the rest is meh…
you can’t write 3 bars to save your life b, let alone a record with Beyonce lol
Nah, Encore was trash.. Can’t blame it on Proof.
I have a hard time believing Rick Rubin had ANYTHING to do with this song. This song is like the antithesis of what Rick Rubin is about musically.
Rick Rubin is a talmudic jevv.
You clearly don’t know Rick Rubin’s production resume or the type of producer he is..
If you’re referring to Rubin’s material from 1990 and after, except for the recent Jay-Z collabs, or his rock, you would be correct. But his 80s stuff, especially his hip-hop? That I am familiar with. And his music from back then is very much percussive, rhythm based, sonically aggresive. Not particularly melodic.
I don’t know why everybody’s hating, this is the best Macklemore song I’ve heard in a while
Prefer KRITs Bury me in GOLD
Why do some of these twitter comments say that its bey first mistake, her first big mistake was Lift off With Jay and Kanye
Mistake was getting with Snake-Z
so you cry babies clown the man for NOT having deep content, and then you clown him when he does?
Nothing but farts, y’all aint sh!t. Then they’ll cry when he passes lol Give Flowers while they can smell them.
Champion a lyricist that actually cares about the craft, or continue to drown in that other trash the radio feeds.
No Stan, Eminem is one of the GOATS. PERIOD.
Song is fuckin muff cabbage. Em done become a boring ass weirdo who make pop music with Beyoncé now and retards Skylar grey and even fucking Pink smfh. He done become everything he despised and clowned on. So sad…….old queer.
ya mutha’s a queer, that’s why you adopted
He’s a pop artist now. Sad
Quick get this man some drugs may be able to save his career yet lol
or better yet overdose on them and save the universe from hearing his garbage “music”
Save his career? Ha. You fucking dumbass. He’s coming to the end of what has been a stellar career, biggest selling hip hop artist of all time. Don’t think he needs saving.
Mic Check, all of your comments are spot on. What is wrong with all these retarded haters? It doesn’t matter anyway. Em has millions of fans that are always interested in what he has to say and in digital downloads and sales this album will go through the roof as always 🙂
M has completely sold out. This song is straight garbage. He doesn’t care along as the song sells to the right demographics. M used to be a hip hop star but that wasn’t good enough for him. He doesn’t love the music anymore. M just wants to get paid at any cost. He should do mumble rap next because it’s sell out junk too. I knew M was the worst thing to happen to hip hop ever. He is no different than elvis Presley. They both sold out black music just for money. People consider elvis the king of rock n roll just like they think M is the king of hip hop. I see history has repeated itself again. Long Live Hip Hop And The White Rappers That Keep It Real!
Just for money… You’re a clown. Listen to him talk about hip hop and if you still think that’s true, well, you’re an even bigger clown than you seem. Get out of here with that racist bullshit too. It’s okay for white people to support the genre but they can’t make it? gtfoh
What a load of shit you’ve just spouted. Em doesn’t need money, he want recognition for his music and he struggles to live up to expectation but he’ll keep going and trying to change this bullshit opinion against him that if it ain’t on the Marshall Mathers LP then it’s garbage. He’ll probably never reach that level again but it doesn’t mean the stuff he’s doing now isn’t better than 99.9% of the rappers out there cos it is, it’s just not his best. This song is amazing. I think we forget how good a lyricist Eminem is. If Adele put these words in a song people would be going nuts!
You racist piece of shit! You’re just upset that Eminem is a WHITE LYRICAL GENIUS RAP GOD! His songs are too deep for you. You probably have to look up the words he uses because they are too big for you lmfao. His music touches people on a level you’ll never understand because you don’t have the fucking depth in you. He’s not only the best rapper of all time. He’s the best ARTIST period of the last almost 20 years!!
You actually used what Em said in “Without me” ..” I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley, to do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy” and it’s obciously been eating at your racist ass ever since lol Your comment makes me laugh ?
Why whenever I hear a new em track it’s always some weak ass women feature? Rihanna or Beyoncé etc. real fans want beast ass lyrical monsters featured with em.. not this trash
This songs sucks but the one with Ri Ri on it was dope
So am I the one in the minority? I like his flow on this. The lyrics. He raps about his struggle with perfectionism and how he can’t please everyone and ironically he releases this song about being polarising and it’s completely polarising.
No. Bc obviously if you gave a damn you’d see some of us in the comments are loving the track. Get over yourself…smh
WTF??? You people need to wake up and think. Em played you all and you fell for it. LOL. The Song is polarising…It maybe is the Intro to REVIVAL were EMINEM is thinking to himself, because at the end, you can clearly hear Marchall Mathers getting ready to battle back EMINEM in the second song starting with his remarks regarding STAN. This Album is probaly a journey through his mind and thoughts. Slim Shady is probaly Song 3 spazen the fukk out over a DRE beat. This project is going to be awesome….lets wait and see…
It’s cool to wait and see the album, but we see and hear this song and it’s not good.
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Anyone hating on this song can eat a fucking dick. The shit was directed right at you and you don’t even know it. Probably because you only heard the chorus. Fred weeeeeeak Phil aseka and all you other mother fuckers die slow. Go listen to some lil yachtey and xxxtentacion and jack each other off
It’s a damn pop song and an obvious attempt to be relavent again…so keep sucking on that dick in your mouth…the beat sucks too…keep chewing and jerking your buddies off
It literally doesn’t have a beat, and it wasn’t meant to. It’s meant to be a sad look into the struggles he faces as a rapper who has high expectations for himself and doesn’t want to disappoint everyone. He’s getting back out there so he can be heard again, so keep sucking that hate-train bandwagon dick
I’ve always been an Eminem fan; I was praying that this wouldn’t happpen again! It’s like watching Kobe Bryant play with no knees.. I’m petty sure that if Beyoncé tried to walk on water, she wouldn’t drown? Even if she can’t swim, her entourage would likely pull her out before her wig even got wet.
They’re not human like us; they forfitted that claim a long time ago. You’re a flash in the pan if you’re lucky in music bizz; these two have had more success than anyone could dream of; it’s no fun watching the icons of your generation attempt to create pity for themselves.
He said it himself in the song that this shit is garbage I think he really meant it, I think it was he way of saying this shit is garbage
but I’m forced to do it.
You’re not deep enough obviously to even understand what he’s saying. He’s explaining how critical he is of himself which all perfectionists are. He’s not saying his shit is garbage. He’s a musical lyrical genius and isn’t forced to do this, dumbass! He’s the biggest selling Rapper of all time! He’s saying that no matter what he does there are haters out there they will pick him apart.. People who’s taste in music is GARBAGE! JUST LIKE YOU
it’s definitely trendy to hate on eminem rn. the only ppl who are saying “Eminem sucks” are ppl who are trying too hard to be cool.
Em takes yet another L.
My God, just look at that photo at the beginning of the article… The ghost of Bill Clinton has risen again! I heard the name of the album is “L.o.l.i.t.a. E.x.p.r.e.s.s.” not “Revival” tho.
The track would actually be better without Beyonce on it at all, it doesn’t fit whatsoever
So Beyonce singing beautifully doesn’t cut it, and real Eminem bars aren’t good enough these days. Ppl aren’t gonna be happy no matter what he does (as he says in the song). You ppl would rather hear some monotone Drake singing with some mumbling autotune. The song doesn’t suck, in fact when I saw how much hate it was getting I knew it was gonna be good.
I ain’t no Jesus, is a double negative, meaning she is Jesus.
I’m surprised so many people noticed this.
ive been a EM fan..but hes changed over the years..got excited when i heard his latest freestyles and such like gucci mane get the bag remix with EM was fire..then i hear this song with B and its just “meh”..
Not even Em on that one. Some lame wannabe trying to catch a piece of fame. I hope you got at least one extra view on your shitty video on YouTube. Must be hard as you have to fish for view on HHDX.
i feel you EM …but no