Album Review: Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By

Music To Be Murdered By is a very enjoyable album to listen to. On it, you get hardcore rap songs (‘Yah Yah,’ ‘You Gon Learn’), club bangers (‘Those Kinda Nights’), deep tracks (‘Darkness’) tracks that are full of energy (‘Godzilla’) and tracks that are downright bizarre (‘Stepdad’). 

Eminem’s rapping on Music To Be Murdered By is pretty good! Does he hit us with punchlines that are a bit corny at times? Yes, but everything else such as his flows, his wordplay, and his lyrical content is on point. Additionally, I love how Em lets his many personalities flourish on this album, as, throughout, he shows little to no fear in coming across as a deranged individual that knows he has a screw loose

Most artists featured on Music To Be Murdered By put up fantastic performances. To be more specific, I thought Royce Da 5’9, Joell Ortiz, KXXG Crooked, Black Thought and Young M.A. all put up killer verses, while Anderson .Paak, Juice WRLD, and Don Tolliver gifted us with solid hooks on the album. I thought everyone else had decent features.

My favourite thing about Music To Be Murdered By is how much experimenting Eminem does on the album. Never did I imagine that the Detroit rapper would be interested in rapping over a reggae beat in ‘Farewell’’ or a D.A. Doman beat in ‘Those Kinda Nights’ (He raps over other interesting beats, too). I also love the fact that Eminem didn’t go Rambo on the music industry on this album; he took his subtle shots at Machine Gun Kelly, Lord Jamar, and Nick Cannon, but for the most part, he left everyone else alone (He went at way too many people in KamiKaze).

I truly feel like Eminem’s love for rap returned in Music To Be Murdered By. Don’t get me wrong, there are a bunch of tracks on this album that sound like they were watered-down, but thankfully, none feel like forced.