Unfortunately for me, that line was only three songs in, so I had a feeling I would be in for a long night. Tracks like “Tone Deaf” are just fine production-wise, but when you start a song with “I have an ear infucktion,” on top of various other expletives I would rather not name, I don’t really want to listen to the album anymore. Other entries on the album are not quite as jarring, but are arguably just okay as songs. This is certainly not the first zany skit we have seen over the last twenty-something years from him, but I would argue it’s the least welcome. It features Eminem mostly yelling over some subtle piano accompaniment reminiscent of the intro to the Obie Trice song “Cheers” from his 2003 album of the same title. Going from worst to best on the tracklist, we begin with the sole skit on the album: “Key.” I can only describe this as an “Encore”-era fever-dream, or to put it differently, how a bad drug trip might be expressed lyrically.
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Dre, 55, recently made headlines after suffering and recovering from a brain aneurysm earlier this month. However, even a Dre sample though, in my opinion, cannot exactly save this album. As with every album since “MMLP 2,” there is the obligatory Skylar Grey feature, which was alright, but this record also happens to be blessed with a feature by the one and only Dr. Like the January release, “Side B” features heavy Alfred Hitchcock-inspired imagery and musical sampling.
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This of course brings us to this Dec. 2020 release, “Music To Be Murdered By: Side B.” As the name would imply, it is a spiritual successor to “Music To Be Murdered By,” which was released only eleven months prior in January 2020. While Eminem’s follow-up releases, the surprise “Kamikaze” and “Music To Be Murdered By,” have both been notable improvements, that worry was still there. That album touts the lowest Metacritic score of his entire discography, tied only with a compilation album for his record label. For those who have not followed Eminem so closely, he has had a number of ups and downs over his storied career, but in my opinion there has been no “down” that could quite match that of “Revival,” his 2017 record. So when I heard that he might be releasing a new album in this past month, I was filled with a mix of excitement and dread that can only be attributed to a post-”Revival” drop. Between genuine, heartfelt apologies and poop jokes, Eminem’s latest album release, “Music To Be Murdered By: Side B” leaves much to be explained. I have been a fan of Eminem for a time soon after the release of “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” in the mid-2010s.