Music To Be Murdered By
by Eminem
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8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 5097 Ratings

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  1. Yanstarr
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Eminem's ability to still rap at this high level well into his late 40's is beyond impressive. His passion for music is evident in the work he put into this project. This album is easily my favorite album since MMLP2. Bravo Marshall Mathers!
  2. mystica
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album was amazing. Unfortunately there have been plenty of low ratings on here by Eminem haters since they found out on twitter that this became the highest rated rap album in user scores.
  3. Evanwakeman1
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album to me proves he can do whatever any person asks of him, he can be shady, he can be Marshall, or he can be Eminem, but no matter what he does theres always gonna be that one set of people who arnt happy or just hating or even jelouse
  4. neje
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    great album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!bndndnnnjjjdjdjsiwi!!!!!!!!!!
  5. Johnnyyest7
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It’s actually a really good album Eminem been bad lately but this fire boyz… Expand
  6. Arham
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. You Gotta Appreciate The Work Ethic Eminem Has… Expand
  7. Matt26
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great concept, great storytelling, great metaphors and punchlines and double/triple entendres, great features, great beats, record breaking rapid fire spitting, experimentation and growth all coupled in with with the controversy and disses we have come to expect from an Eminem album. This album also balances the sound of the 90's era and the modern hip hop sound.

    I have been hearing this    Great concept, great storytelling, great metaphors and punchlines and double/triple entendres, great features, great beats, record breaking rapid fire spitting, experimentation and growth all coupled in with with the controversy and disses we have come to expect from an Eminem album. This album also balances the sound of the 90's era and the modern hip hop sound.

    I have been hearing this is regarded as his best album since the Eminem show and even though I've also loved his recent works I have to agree

    What's more impressive is Eminem has pulled this off after more than 20 years into his Career after already becoming the bestselling artist of the 21st Century, 2000's artist of the decade, best selling male artist of the 2010's, achieving 9 no. 1 beduing solo albums (+3 no.1 group albums) in 2 other decades and this will likely be his record breaking 10th no.1 in a 3rd decade. He has also birthed and influenced many of the most popular artists today and Let's not even get started on Awards, which of course don't mean everything but certainly carry some weight.

    This is an artist who has remained on top through the casette/CD era, the Napster/illegal download era, the digital/social media era, and now the streaming era. Looking forward to Eminem dominating the next era    … Expand
  8. Nickimac0495
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    It’s so good!!! I can’t get over the flows and the subject matter! Even the features and the disses fit well with the album
  9. CJR11
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album is a solid 7/10. Definitely a return to form for Eminem, and his best album since MMLP2. Not perfect, but I hope this is the start of an upswing for Em. Great production and features, but some songs are held back by iffy lines and dull production.

    HIGHLIGHTS: Godzilla, Yah Yah, Darkness, You Gon' Learn Note: I know I rated this 10/10 even though I said it's a 7/10, this is    This album is a solid 7/10. Definitely a return to form for Eminem, and his best album since MMLP2. Not perfect, but I hope this is the start of an upswing for Em. Great production and features, but some songs are held back by iffy lines and dull production.

    HIGHLIGHTS: Godzilla, Yah Yah, Darkness, You Gon' Learn

    Note: I know I rated this 10/10 even though I said it's a 7/10, this is because of the sheep review-bombing the album because it was too high for their liking.    … Expand
  10. blasttown
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Albums pure flames
  11. Chettey
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Absolutely incredible. The production, lyrics, delivery, and beats are incredibly well done. I have listened to this album all the way through more than 15 times and I must say this is one of his best work of all time. People who lack common sense, are snowflakes and can't be adults about emotion, or think they know rap will hate this album and that is amazing.

    Well done, Em.
  12. Gameela
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album , love all his albums, wish people would stop comparing between his albums and him and other artists and just enjoy the music
  13. guccishoelaces
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    Not good. Eminem hasn't had a good project since the turn of the century. Unfortunately for the music community, he's easily got the most dickrider fans in the industry. Strong 0.
  14. Bazza971
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    It’s amazing nothing more I can say about this album it’s just amazing all the tracks are just amazing and memorable with tracks like ‘darkness’ and ‘stepdad’ which is some of his best songs
  15. wendellcalcote
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best Eminem album in years. Every track is a banger and the features (except Young M.A.) are great! Darkness has a huge meaning and is one of the best story telling songs Eminem has ever done (up there with Stan, Bad Guy, Arose, etc.)! Godzilla is very catchy and is the albums most popular song.
  16. Jmc52
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    One of his best, been on repeat since it was released and not going to stop anytime soon
  17. ViTRiFY
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Amazing albums with maybe only 3 skips. It's better than his recent albums except his first 3 classics and Relapse!
  18. egoathh
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    that is **** amazing album by rap god GOAT Eminem i dont know why some guy`s dont want to accept that...
  19. Johnnyg42
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Incredible artist that provides his fans with so much to appreciate. Never half asses his work, he clearly puts everything he has into expressing how he feels through music while bringing creative flows, voices, rhyme schemes, voices, metaphors, lessons, stories, visualizations and on and on and on, this dude is a legend and inspiration.
  20. Moostifa
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I personally love every song on this album. I put it up with Marshal Mathers LP, Slim shady LP, and The Eminem Show. He destroyed every beat on the record and his wordplay is outta this world. And the Bombing line was one of my favorites because it reminds me if the Columbine line I'm back.… Expand
  21. Aravinddd
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I think it's a modern classic for Eminem(even though it has flaws.. even the flaws are pretty enjoyable), he has improved upon a lot of stuff.. and it would have been a really good album without the 2-3 love songs and the Ed Sheeran one, production is a step up.. honestly it's an 8.. but immma be a little bias and rate it a 10 over here cuz surely people are gonna rate it 0 just cuz itI think it's a modern classic for Eminem(even though it has flaws.. even the flaws are pretty enjoyable), he has improved upon a lot of stuff.. and it would have been a really good album without the 2-3 love songs and the Ed Sheeran one, production is a step up.. honestly it's an 8.. but immma be a little bias and rate it a 10 over here cuz surely people are gonna rate it 0 just cuz it doesn't deserve such high rating… Expand
  22. Lucifer1996
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    We got a classic blend of anger and passion in this album from Eminem. Absolutely phenomenal!
  23. Manar88
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The best I have heard from Eminem for a while It’s a combination between old slim shady and new Eminem… Expand
  24. talantsalvatore
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best of 2020
  25. Zain003
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Eminem with this album is just toying around the hip hop world. Trying everything all at once. He has evolved into a lyric machine who can switch flow to match any beat on this planet. Also in this album he turned to a little modern hip hop by adding catchy hooks and flow that keep the new kids stuck to it. So 10/10
  26. Dylan05
    Jan 22, 2020
    4
    Again very disappointed by yet again another bad Eminem album. He needs to retire at this point he just ruining his discography
  27. Kwild199
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    SO good!! Eminem will always be a goat and he will never slip off that mountain! Greatest of all time!!
  28. Coolguymandude
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This album is **** amazing it's better than 90% of rap nowadays but people will hate Eminem no matter what he does. **** these ****… Expand
  29. rykedz
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    he should not have used the manchester bombing as a lyric, it was insensitive and completely ignorant
  30. Edd0220
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. World record breaking this album is **** great. Listening to it everyday. Great **** ****… Expand
  31. aymamma
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    em fell off for sure. it jsut aint good and his flow is dated n corny. doesnt match the hype
  32. dburnison
    Jan 22, 2020
    3
    As always, Em's rhyme scheme's and wordplay are on point. However a lot of the songs are killed by his angry bitter vibe that emanates throughout the whole album. He will always have the best numbers, thanks in part to him exploiting tragedies for punchlines, and namedropping 100+ people, and stans willing to defend him no matter what. We all know em is a brilliant attention seeker, butAs always, Em's rhyme scheme's and wordplay are on point. However a lot of the songs are killed by his angry bitter vibe that emanates throughout the whole album. He will always have the best numbers, thanks in part to him exploiting tragedies for punchlines, and namedropping 100+ people, and stans willing to defend him no matter what. We all know em is a brilliant attention seeker, but this formula is getting pretty old. He can spit bars like nobodies business, but this just isn't very compelling music. There are a few bright spots, a few songs I really enjoy. But there are far too many skips on this album to consider it a classic. Love the bars, just wish he would switch up the material. Anger and bitterness is not a good vibe. He can do better.… Expand
  33. pesostache
    Jan 22, 2020
    1
    anderson .paak is the only nice thing about this album. eminem is absolutely rinsed.
  34. Abdelwahab
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    If this isn’t 10/10 I don’t know what is, the production is perfect, the lyrics are complex and dope and the feature list is on point.
  35. iamjavy24
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    good production, amazing content, lyrically insane. definitely a classic. the features were very good
  36. Willowmoonblood
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    One of the best albums I have heard in a long time! Eminem did it again! Leaving Heaven is today's favorite for me!
  37. Yehsshsj
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This album literally **** sucks. The production is either really bland or really annoying. The lyrics are corny and stupid and its just so **** ANNOYING when he keeps complaining about Revival! Name dropping people (again) and his lyrics almost entirely rely on shock factor. A disgrace of an album… Expand
  38. JRDeux
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Each song has an aspect of the old Eminem that made him a huge star back when he first came into the scene. I would highly recommend his album to anyone
  39. jbdickens
    Jan 22, 2020
    5
    This album is mediocre at best, it's an improvement over Kamikaze and Revival but Eminem's golden days are far away now. Em tries to innovate for a new generation but honestly fails and feels like more of the same modern Em. There are some good tracks but none I'd revisit.
  40. zandvogel
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album is Em on another level again, trying out new styles and flows and still making great songs. Please name a rapper thats even coming close lyrically, i’ll wait. If someone tels you there are no bars they probably dont own ears.
  41. PedroMM
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    What can I say??what an amazing album!!Instant classic!! I can't skip a single track, this is just amazing!!!
  42. andycardi81
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Amazing album! Everytime I listen to it I hear something new. You have to be closed minded to not like it.
  43. Torrensig
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Best work in years. A lot of bangers, god level rhymes and dope beats. I just trip over my cape
  44. Power9t3
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    One of his best albums since Marshall Matthers LP.... obviously not including Kamikaze
  45. c0calp
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    love the album better than Revival and Kamikaze thanks Slim replay value is great i got it on loop loved it
  46. doomthejoker
    Jan 22, 2020
    9
    His best album since Relapse! Fantastic production, his delivery superb and his musicality on true form!
  47. facki
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This a new sound out of Eminem he keep growing and evolving it's just amazing I love it this is "classic" album.… Expand
  48. idrotpews4
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Classic. This is his second prime without a doubt. Thanks Marshall. keep going
  49. Entourage55
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Such a great album. Just going through it from 1st song to last song is so easily doable and full of different flows and beat switches it’s just beautiful.
  50. Jonathan_M
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    My favorite Eminem album since “The Eminem Show” his Provocative yet intricate wordplay makes for a musical experience worth listening to from front-to-back. And you guessed it, Andre is back to producing for the hip-hop giant. Interestingly enough, some of the best tracks were produced by Royce Da 5’9” who was featured heavily on the album. Absolute classic, and a return to form forMy favorite Eminem album since “The Eminem Show” his Provocative yet intricate wordplay makes for a musical experience worth listening to from front-to-back. And you guessed it, Andre is back to producing for the hip-hop giant. Interestingly enough, some of the best tracks were produced by Royce Da 5’9” who was featured heavily on the album. Absolute classic, and a return to form for Eminem.… Expand
  51. Jordanbara
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Has some of his best songs and album consistency since the Eminem show. I love the intro, Eminem starts it by having the sounds of a woman dying and him burying her. This indicating shady was back in control. Then in the rest of the intro he talked about the struggle of trying to make the music he wants and how he can’t please everyone, including his haters all at once, so he is declaringHas some of his best songs and album consistency since the Eminem show. I love the intro, Eminem starts it by having the sounds of a woman dying and him burying her. This indicating shady was back in control. Then in the rest of the intro he talked about the struggle of trying to make the music he wants and how he can’t please everyone, including his haters all at once, so he is declaring that he’s just going to let loose on everyone who wants it. Throughout songs like you gon learn, Godzilla, yah yah, marsh, and I will; Em show cases his lyrically skill at its best. While on those kinda nights he reminisces back to his party days. He makes a banger with anderson.paak called Lock it up, which I took as Eminem saying that the haters almost got him but then he just locked it up before he could lose it.… Expand
  52. TheBraveRyan
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album. At this point Eminem is just doing this for fun. His wordplay and rhymes are incredible as always
  53. heehaw14
    Jan 22, 2020
    1
    though a departure from the lack luster sound of his previous few albums, Marshall Mathers still fails to reclaim the glory of his early sound. with lackluster production, forced staccato flows, and lyricism that at times boarders on cringe at times, Music to be Murdered By is nothing special
  54. Chris344
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The goat is back with a fire album.Godzilla is the best song on the album RIP Juice WRLD
  55. jaydenpayday
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    His best album since the Eminem Show! Grest lyrics and amazing hooks this time
  56. Slamont
    Jan 21, 2020
    10
    in Eminems best project since 2013's, 'Marshall Mathers LP 2,' the Detroit legend is back and just as offensive, thought provoking, and humor filled as ever before.
  57. eddierehm
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Shady is back! Honestly his best album in many years and it's more than welcomed!
  58. OrgesPlayz
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album. Best album of the year so far, all tracks are good, entertaining album.
  59. F-MOS
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album, with a lot of replay value.

    it has great features, great production and most importantly eminem is killing it in this album.
  60. Kingtrexx
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Eminem really surprised me with this album. The production is a lot more modern on this album and it let's Em flow really well on each track. The features were really good too especially Royce and Black Thought on the track Yah Yah. Though there were a couple corny lyrics, the good vastly outweighs the bad.
  61. Fadedtubby
    Jan 20, 2020
    10
    This album captures the classic slim shady flow and might be the best album since Relapse. He brings so many different flows and rhyme schemes and switches that a grabs your attention and really makes you focus and listen to what he is saying.
  62. joshfeygin
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    Extremely annoying to listen to. Eminem’s extremely corny lines and fast-flows-that-aren’t-cool-anymore ruin the album. Juice WRLD and Anderson.paak were the best parts of it
  63. nedebnou
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    This **** is trash !!!!!!!!! Go and get the **** off the airwaves!!!!!!!!!!
  64. zamkdexwy
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    middle aged man still whining about his step dad and revival album two years later lol
  65. Ginuzzoooo
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
  66. Rippityraprap
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. MTBMB is a great Eminem album, his best since Relapse. Unlike revival especially, there are just 2 or 3 songs here that I don't like ("Those Kinda nights" and "Farewell" and possibly "Step Dad") Songs like "You Gon' Learn" and "I will" show how amazing Ems lyrical ability is, while "Godzilla" featuring Juice Wrld shows how well em can work with new gen talents (rip juice :()
    The song "Darkness" showcases the Stan like storytelling ability Shady still has. This album is brilliant, and shows that Em isn't done yet. Goat.    … Expand
  67. Reviewerofsongs
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. GOAT album. This was one of the best Eminem we had in a while and I am enjoying this very much.… Expand
  68. Lamiga10
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Its so much to take from this, people have no taste in music anymore, eminem did wonders for all generations, its perfection
  69. Abdulaziz-EngAA
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The album is excellent. A bit long but I enjoy it. It will not appeal to everyone since nowadays the beats ride the rapper and not vise Versa.
  70. NicholasPayet
    Jan 22, 2020
    5
    Ems best work in a long while, but still very inconsistent, too long and the middle portion is very weak.
  71. Michelev
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This is amazing!! Eminem is always the GOAT!! Questo album è migliore rispetto le ultime uscite, beat da far paura, liriche eccellenti e feautures perfetti. Eminem si è superato
  72. talhex7
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album is hella good i love everything about this album tbvh im feeling it em did a really great job
  73. chinno
    Jan 22, 2020
    9
    Music to Be Murdered By is Eminem's best album since MMLP2. Production and features are 10/10
  74. vhsultra
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    It’s not that bad but Eminem stans are so annoying for spamming it with perfect scores ahaaahaha
  75. Avixh
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing album great work em . It is an amazing and wonderful album . In my opinion the song with juice wrld is the best one in the album… Expand
  76. Simonblaze
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Classic album...easily his best since TES. The best tracks on the album IMO Godzilla, Marsh, You Gon Learn, Lock It Up, and Premonition...
  77. DrCharizard
    Jan 22, 2020
    4
    It’s pretty mediocre all things considered, a few standout tracks, but nothing we haven’t seen or heard before from Eminem and at this point it’s a bit redundant.
  78. Danroll
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    The hook on I Will is straight old school hard hitting eminem. The bars following absolutely demolish the beat. All though his voice I find a little annoying- his flow is incredible. Yah yah, Godzilla, never love again, premonition, all hit hard and go for broke. I will forever miss “the re up” era Eminem, but this is a good replacement. Thanks shady!
  79. Vegeta0196
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Great album 10/10 would. Production is on point and the feature list is great too. This is the best Marshall has been in the past few years. Lots of great flows. Good mix of fun and serious songs.
  80. jack000
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    this is easily the best HIP-HOP album ever, so glad we live in this time where we get to witness such greatness!!
    my goat Eminem has been on the top for 4 decades!
  81. Greer14
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    It is one of his better albums. I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of the old Em but also show how times are changing with him teaming up with younger artists.
  82. Te
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Really good album, I really enjoyed it, it was fire, literally every track.
  83. tripleb
    Jan 22, 2020
    4
    eminem is back with some hot garbage. better than his last few, but not by much
  84. THErealBOBS
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    A combination of “The Eminem Show” and “Relapse”. A clear minded Eminem. Slim Shady at his best on this one. The pocket is INSANE
  85. Lenouy
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    I was waiting this quality since longtime between excellent production feat young MA, juice Wrld and a very good Ed sheran (surprisly) its a bomb !
  86. thesepulverizer
    Jan 22, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Really not very good at all. Lyrics are corny, flow isn’t particularly compelling, production don’t match his lack of melody.… Expand
  87. ToxicTrojan
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Good album. Emimem is still the best rapper. Listen to the GOAT. Hope for a European tour in 2020
  88. AlexisN
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El mejor álbum del 2020… Expand
  89. AdhamOssama
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Top notch album, Eminem has been one of music’s hugest stars for more than two decades, yet over the years he’s increasingly taken on the tendencies of the cult artist — the deepening sense of embattled insularity, the hapless angst, the lack of interest in the genre he once transformed. On his 11th album, all the old enemies are present: the women who do him wrong, the family members who messed him up, the rappers you may or may not that now feels more like a cudgel than a gift, as if he’s leaning into the shredding-for-shredding’s-sake, Yngwie-Malmsteen-of-hip-hop accusations that have dogged his recent albums, particularly 2018’s confrontationally dreary Kamikaze. “Similes and idioms/Giddy up!” he demands on “Little Engine.” And they definitely do, at times to stunning effect, though the dervish humor and gremlin bounce that made his original Silly Putty-psycho shtick an American classic remain in relatively short supply.


    He does seem to have thrown a little more intellectual, thematic, and emotional elbow grease into this record. The title of Music to Be Murdered By alludes to a 1958 collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and film composer Jeffrey Alexander, and Hitchcock’s voice appears in segues throughout. Eminem piles on movie references, calling on everything from Reservoir Dogs to Rocky to 8 Mile. But no real concept, cinematic or otherwise, develops — unless **** me and **** you too” is a concept, in which case this is a veritable Tommy. “Such a wide range of emotions/Migraines, but why the **** am I takin’ these Motrins?/Ibuprofens, like a drop of rain in the ocean/And you’re my fix on the days when I’m broken/But the **** about to go sideways, I just know it,” he raps on the dispirited “Never Lose Again,” one of many examples of his still-unimpeachable genius for dazzlingly ornamented lyrical decadence: us. The Dr. Dre-produced album-opening “Premonition” lashes out at the critics who haven’t liked his last two albums: “Rolling Stone stars, I get two and a half outta five, and I’ll laugh out loud/’Cause that’s what they gave B.A.D. back in the day.” The 2.5-star review of LL Cool J’s 1987 album, Bigger And Deffer, that he’s evidently referencing comes from the 2004 print edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, which isn’t online. But when it comes to airing out his grudges, no amount of having to drive around Michigan looking for a Barnes & Noble will hold Eminem back. It’s the kind of monkish attention to detail that bespeaks a true craftsman.


    Musically, he gestures toward the current hip-hop world a little more intentionally than his hermetic-sounding albums have tended to in the recent past. The buoyant “Godzilla” features leftover verses from the recently departed emo-rap icon Juice WRLD, serviceably sutured into Eminem rhyme clusters delivered in a rapid-fire blur that’s almost microtonal. Anderson .Paak lends his light Cali-soul growl over Dr. Dre’s springy beat on “Lock It Up”; the brutally mean-spirited breakup song “Farewell” has a lithe, reggae-tinged beat from Southern rap producer Ricky Racks. The best production moment is “Yah Yah,” a frenetically grinding, Busta Rhymes-sampling posse cut with Black Thought of the Roots, Em’s Detroit buddies Royce da 5’9″ and Denaun of D12, and Q-Tip soulfully singing the hook.

    In a new lyrical wrinkle, Em steps into the role of political commentator and protest voice, with mixed results. On the grueling, six-minute “Darkness,” the album’s most ambitious performance, he attempts to inhabit the mind of the gunman responsible for the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival that took 58 lives. His impulses are in the right place (the song’s intense video ends by imploring “When will it end?” and then asks people to register to vote). But the song itself doesn’t stretch much outside Eminem’s lyrical comfort zone: “If I bet you I’ll be in tomorrow’s paper, who would the odds favor?” he raps, placing the person responsible for the worst mass murder in U.S. history within the same needy-lonely-white-guy emotional valence as “Stan.”

    The most egregious self-owning oversight on Music to Be Murdered By, especially in the context of “Darkness,” is “Unaccommodating,” featuring fire-breathing Brooklyn rapper Young M.A. Eminem undercuts an impressively manic spree of rhymes by tossing in a half-assed allusion to another concert tragedy: “I’m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’ on the game/Like I’m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.” Within hours of its release, the song prompted a statement of condemnation from the mayor of Manchester. For Eminem, acknowledgements of our shared humanity may occasionally happen in the abstract, but specific instances in his music are still hard to come by.    … Expand
  90. justwaitonit
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Just too gooood ☄️☄️☄️☄️
  91. brodiegotoofast
    Jan 22, 2020
    3
    An Abomination. It's sad to see how he's ruining his legacy, if it weren't for his fanbase. This brodie was done.
  92. ShadyyBabyy
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its a Great Album and lil haters rate it down Because the Favourite Artist is under Eminem… Expand
  93. dark-phoenix
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    Please, stop making songs with Ed Sheeran, Eminem. i thought we all had agreed he's not good, and his presence makes it very hard for you to seem intimidating. Other than that it was a good album.
  94. Kamikaze93
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    Eminem’s best work in years. His lyrics are top-notch in this project. Plus, all the features are so good.
  95. Kanao
    Jan 22, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. These em stans acting crazy like always. Had to bring them back to earth with a real review.… Expand
  96. erputaso
    Jan 22, 2020
    4
    More bland uninspired trying to hip on the new generations Eminem music. That Ed Sheeran track is the worst **** ive heard in a while
  97. NOTGJames
    Jan 22, 2020
    0
    By far his worst album. While other albums had atleast one good song, this just has none. There's no heart in the songs, no real meaning to the lyrics, just bad.
  98. Suspect2020
    Jan 22, 2020
    9
  99. Kareen
    Jan 22, 2020
    10
    This album it’s amazing, really love how Eminem is getting this music so far
  100. certifiedkilla
    Jan 22, 2020
    2
    I don’t know how or why people are giving this album a 10/10. Fast lyrics and controversial topics do not make this fresh or amazing. This album was so hard to sit through and actually listen to. I couldn’t enjoy it or really understand the topic. Sorry Em but this wasn’t it.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. RapReviews.com
    Feb 11, 2020
    60
    He clearly cares about his output, but “Music To Be Murdered By” is, unfortunately, another mixed bag of tricks, propped up by lyrical acrobatics and underwhelming production.
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  2. Punknews.org (Staff)
    Jan 30, 2020
    70
    If they look hard enough, any artist could find criticism of their work online. That’s sort of the curse of the Information Age. But not everyone overreacts quite as much as Eminem does. But if his fears grow tiring, his lyrical ability can still give you something to admire, even if the album is somewhat uneven.
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  3. Pitchfork
    Jan 27, 2020
    55
    It is not, strictly speaking, a good record—Eminem hasn’t made one of those in a decade—but it boasts enough technical command and generates just enough arresting ideas to hold your attention.
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