Eminem Releases Surprise Album, ‘Music To Be Murdered By’

YouTube We last heard from Marshall Mathers in album form in the summer of 2018, when he surprise released his 10th album, Kamikaze . At the time, NPR Music’s Rodney Carmichael said it seemed like the famously tongue-in-cheek terrible child had ” lost his sense of humor .” About a year and a half later, Mathers has indirectly responded with another surprise album, asking: “What’s there to laugh about?” Music To Be Murdered By , Eminem’s 11th studio album, was a midnight surprise dropped quietly in the wee hours this morning, packaged with assists from Black Thought, Ed Sheeran, Q-Tip, Anderson .Paak, Juice WRLD — the 21-year-old Chicago rapper who died on Dec. 8 — and others. Among them you’ll find skits; the voice of Alfred Hitchcock (from whom Mathers cribbed the album’s title) and a cross-section of popular hip-hop’s varied, favored production styles. But it’s the video released in tandem, for the song “Darkness,” that appears to be the album’s centerpiece and fulcrum. Eminem isn’t