Music to Be Murdered By is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on January 17, 2020, by Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records and Shady Records. The album was produced by Eminem and Dr. Dre, amongst other producers. It features guest appearances from Young M. A, Royce da 5’9″, White Gold, Ed Sheeran, the late Juice Wrld, Skylar Grey, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Denaun, Anderson. Paak and Joell Ortiz.
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Music to Be Murdered By is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Eminem. It was released on January 17, 2020, by Aftermath Entertainment, Interscope Records and Shady Records. The album was produced by Eminem and Dr. Dre, amongst other producers. It features guest appearances from Young M. A, Royce da 5’9\”, White Gold, Ed Sheeran, the late Juice Wrld, Skylar Grey, Black Thought, Q-Tip, Denaun, Anderson. Paak, Don Toliver, Kxng Crooked and Joell Ortiz. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 279,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Eminem became the first artist to have ten consecutive number-one albums in the US. Music critics praised Eminem’s lyrical abilities and the improved production after Kamikaze, while criticism directed towards the album’s formulaic song structure, lack of innovation and shock value. The Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, responded to Eminem making light of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, saying, “This is unnecessarily hurtful and deeply disrespectful to the families and all those affected.” The album’s title, cover art and concept are inspired by Alfred Hitchcock and Jeff Alexander’s 1958 spoken word album Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music to Be murdered By.
Eminem has said that the album is “not for the squeamish” and is ‘designed to shock the conscience.’ The album is dedicated to Juice WRLD and Eminem’s late bodyguard CeeAaqil Barnes. The music video for ‘Darkness’ revolves around the 2017 Las Vegas shooting from the point of view of the perpetrator Stephen Paddock alternating with Eminem’s own. On the track ‘Godzilla’, Eminem recorded a third verse that broke the record for the fastest verse on a charted track, rapping 10. 65 syllables per second. Eminem surpassed his own records held by his featured verse on Nicki Minaj’s song ‘Rapajesty’ in 2013, where he rapped 10. 3 syllable per second, and his single ‘Millionaire’ from 2013. He rapped 9.6 syllables in a single verse on ‘’Million Dollar Babies’’. He has also said that his alternative cover art was inspired by the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock album ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ ‘Little Red Engine that Could’ and the beginning of the track of the same name.
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