Young ( Andre Young, rap producer), Mike Elizondo, Marshall Mathers and Theron “Neff‐U” Feemster publisher: Ain’t Nuthin Goin On But Funkin, Blotter, Eight Mile Style, Elvis Mambo Music, Ensign Music, Feemstro Music, Music of Windswept and WB Music Corp. ( for use as release label only when no sub-label/imprint is specified see annotation) (in 2005) recorded at: Larrabee West ( Larrabee Sound Studios from 1969–1991) in West Hollywood, California, United States and Sierra Sounds mixed at: Encore Studios in Burbank, California, United States recording of: Business writer: Andre R. Dre ( Andre Young, rap producer) background vocals: Conesha Monet Owens, Shy Felder, Traci Nelson ( hip hop vocalist) and Barbara Wilson ( hip hop vocalist) performer: Eminem phonographic copyright by: Aftermath Records ( US rap) (in 2002) and UMG Recordings, Inc. Dre ( Andre Young, rap producer) bass guitar and guitar : Mike Elizondo keyboard : Ron Feemster additional vocals: Dr. ( engineer) and Alex Reverberi producer and mixer: Dr. There’s a burst of support for the Black Lives Matter movement on These Demons and Zeus (“black people saved my life,” he avers) and he keeps mentioning coronavirus, particularly on Gnat, without having much to say about it beyond comparing it to himself.Recording engineer: Mauricio “Veto” Iragorri and Steve King ( hip hop producer, Aftermath-affiliated) assistant engineer: Bob Canero, James "Flea" McCrone, Urban Kris, Michael Strange Jr. There’s the usual stuff about drugs and madness there are jokes about Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. Mumble-rap comes in for another kicking on Favorite Bitch, 90s hip-hop is hymned, there’s a jab at rappers who use ghostwriters – daring, given the guest appearance from Dr Dre, the most famous user of ghostwriters in the business. Other than that, it’s been business as usual.Īnd it’s business as usual here: it takes 52 seconds to reach the first lyrics about assaulting a woman and three minutes to reach the first about murdering her, complete with sound effects. Donald Trump provided a flash of re-energised inspiration, perhaps because the “alt-right” looked not unlike a significant section of his noughties fanbase: “the angry white young misanthrope who feels marginalised … with a sense of aggrievement that is out of proportion to reality,” as his biographer Anthony Bozza put it.Įminem’s scorn for the current state of hip-hop, which informed 2018’s Kamikaze, offered listeners the curious spectacle of Slim Shady sounding like a middle-aged dad, bemoaning the music his kids like. They’ve been in the business of giving their audience precisely what they expect for decades now, which has more or less been Eminem’s default position since 2010’s Recovery.
In fact, AC/DC are an apposite comparison. There’s an argument that getting upset because Eminem has said something appalling on his new album is like getting upset because the new AC/DC album features a man dressed as a schoolboy playing guitar: it’s rather the point. Eminem’s response is a classic sorry-not-sorry: “I know nothing about the Manchester bombing is funny,” he offers on Favorite Bitch, before making a joke about the Boston marathon bombing.
The latter provoked condemnation from both fans and the mayor of Manchester.
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It is one that shares its parent album’s preoccupation with Alfred Hitchcock – the late director appears on the intro the music on Alfred’s Theme is derived from Gounod’s Funeral March of a Marionette, which played while the credits rolled on the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents – and it reacts to its predecessor’s mixed reviews and the controversy it stirred with the track Unaccommodating, which featured queasy jokes about the Manchester Arena bombing. Likewise, Eminem’s Music to Be Murdered By Side B features an hour of additional music to make it a fully realised piece of work.
Artwork for Music to Be Murdered By Side B.