HeвЂ™s in a Las Vegas hotel room, pacing, waiting for the show to start, hoping people will show up. At first, we think heвЂ™s talking as himself. Em raps in the first person, and he starts off only leaving foreshadowing clues of what heвЂ™s rapping about. If you judge it as a writing-class exercise, вЂњDarknessвЂќ is a neatly executed bit of suspense. ThatвЂ™s the one where Em puts himself in the shoes of the Las Vegas mass shooter. The big news about Music To Be Murdered By is вЂњDarkness,вЂќ the song that, almost incredibly, is serving as the lead single. If anything, he seems worried these days that heвЂ™s been too timid - too вЂњwokeвЂќ - in his recent past: вЂњI told the woke me to go to sleep/ But still they keep on provoking me/ TheyвЂ™re hoping to see me completely broken emotionally.вЂќ And so thatвЂ™s why heвЂ™s out here talking about вЂњIвЂ™m contemplating yelling вЂbombs awayвЂ™ on the game like IвЂ™m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.вЂќ He needs the adrenaline of causing a reaction. Maybe thatвЂ™s why he continually mashes the shock-value button. Even on 4:44, his painfully honest last album, Jay-Z never stressed about whether people would be interested in what he had to say. Of course, the real difference between Eminem and his peers is that his peers would never admit to feeling these kinds of anxieties.

(HeвЂ™s made plenty of effortfully fun music, though.) Eminem has never made an effortlessly fun song in his life. But then, 2 Chainz released an effortlessly fun Future collab on the same night that Music To Be Murdered By dropped. вЂњNobody said shit about 2 Chainz as long as heвЂ™s been here,вЂќ Em grouses. Sometimes, those things are one and the same: вЂњIвЂ™m LL Cool J, bigger and deffer, thatвЂ™s how come/ I sell like four mil when I put out a bad album.вЂќ This time around, Em is venting about how people donвЂ™t take him seriously even though heвЂ™s been in the game for decades, an indignity that he doesnвЂ™t see Jay-Z or Tech N9ne dealing with. There are dated references, and there are righteous punchlines. Once again, Eminem is angry about being angry.ДЄnd yet that anger has a detailed architecture of its own. Of course, EmвЂ™s last album was primarily an angry spleen-vent about the reception to his previous album. But then Eminem starts rapping, quickly and brusquely and precisely, venting his rage about the reception to his last album. A woman screaming, a stabbing sound, a portentous swell of gothic strings, an anonymous wailing female voice who isnвЂ™t actually Skylar Grey but who might as well be Skylar Grey - most of these things have been constants on Eminem albums since the Clinton administration. The first few seconds of the song almost did murder me because they nearly made me roll my eyeballs out of my head. The catch, of course, is that this doesnвЂ™t necessarily make for compelling music.Д¬onsider вЂњPremonition (Intro),вЂќ the opening track of Music To Be Murdered By. Eminem doesnвЂ™t have a filter, and heвЂ™s willing to be tragically, cringingly, painfully honest about whatвЂ™s happening inside his head at any given moment. If youвЂ™re willing to listen, EminemвЂ™s records still offer plenty of insight into one of the most fascinating people in pop-music history.

When I was an undergrad English major and Eminem was a sudden new sensation, I got multiple term papers out of his various self-conscious contradictions. Instead, the only person who seems truly upset about Eminem is now Eminem himself.Д®minem albums make for good psychodrama. If anyone is truly appalled over anything that Eminem says on Music To Be Murdered By, I havenвЂ™t heard it. Now Eminem compares himself to both the Las Vegas shooter and the Manchester bomber, and we get a bit of media muttering about tastelessness and sensitivity to the victims.

People used to get excited to get upset about Eminem albums. bucket.What did we expect? What did anyone expect? EminemвЂ™s new album Music To Be Murdered By dropped as a clear-blue-sky surprise on Friday, and yet the outrage that followed was just a muffled, quieter version of previous Eminem-related outrages. lected>a.pg-vertical-entertainment.pg-section.

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