Welcome back to another episode of Rolltaku Reviews and today I'm gonna be reviewing the Eminem album "Music To Be Murdered By" released on January 17th 2020

Scoring & Rating:

The way I'm gonna do this is I'm gonna score on 3 categories (Features Lyrics Production) and the max score for each categories is 10 for a max total of 30 (intros skits bonus tracks will not count)

0-3 (Horrible)

6-9 (Bad)

12-15 (Average)

18-21 (Good)

24-27 (Great)

30 (Amazing)

1. Premonition (2/10)

Premonition is the first track of this surprising release, it starts off with this horror movie type of sample which I think is a rip from a Alfred Hitchcock movie. Then the beat drops which this is produced by Dr Dre and yeah there isnt really special with this track its just Eminem using a fast flow on an simple bassy 808's production. Oh and there is one thing that really annoys me about this track no one cares about how Revival flop that album was garbage and this is not a great way of starting this track its just an man ranting about how fuckin awful the sales of his come back album was.

2. Unaccommodating (1/10)

Unaccommodating has the first feature of the album, and that is female NY rapper Young M.A. and she doesn't fit on this track at all it sounds like she doesnt give two shits about this and just acted lazy while a ballistic 47 year old Eminem spits random nonsense that is either cringe or not true at all especially this line "Each thought'll be so toxic, it'll block the wind through your esophagus Stop it, cutting off your oxygen And I hit them pads like a boxing gym" and let me talk about the elephant in the room the Ariana Grande line.... Look this line is very fuckin shity and disrespectful, you have the audacity to rap about an tragic event that killed many people and ruined families lives forever. And to you a rapper that has rapped lines about tradgies in the past 20+ years i dont think this is funny at all you could have thought of another bar than that but overall this track sucks.

3. You Gon' Learn (3/10)

You Gon' Learn the main feature of this track is fellow Detroit rapper and close friend of Eminem and that is Royce Da 5'9. The production on this track which was done by Royce himself is just an simple synth production with drums added in to the mix. Royce's verse here is good but it could be a lot better my favorite line from him has to be "I'm walkin' across a suicidal tightrope intentionally While the demons comin' out of me Wifey's on the side of me talkin' sense into me" but overall thats the only good thing about this track. The hook is really annoying here it sounds lazy watered down, if this was just a solo Royce track this would be dope but nope Em fast flow on every beat like this.

4. Those Kinda Nights (1/10)

Those Kinda Nights features pop singer Ed Sheeran which this isnt the first time these 2 did a track together. Those Kinda Nights is more of a track that you play in the club but if the atmosphere at the club is dead and unlively just like this track is, but yeah its just cringe especially the line about Lean Back with Fat Joe. I actually have no idea why Ed is even on this track he doesn't fit with the style of the track overall cringe all around.

5. In Too Deep (0/10)

In Too Deep is an very interesting track for a couple of reasons. 1. it feels like a love song but with many different scenarios going wrong at the same time especially with this line "She's asleep, you're texting me around two Crying face emoji, you say this is me without you We're sneaking out to meet at cheap hotel rooms" what is even the point of this track, we heard many tracks like this in the past and they prove absolutely nothing in the long run overall nothing special with this one just a sterotypical bad breakup joint

6. Godzilla (0/10)

Godzilla has one of the most interesting features on this whole album. Godzilla features Juice Wrld who sadly passed away in December 2019. So this is his first Posthumorous release since his passing all he does on this track is the hook, I dont listen to Juice World so I cant really say anything about his feature here. But moving on what is even the point of this track Eminem acting like he is Godzilla sounds like a type of track he has done in the past. I think he is comparing himself to Godzilla because he is an legendary monster but still cringe it hurts including the ending verse.

7. Darkness (2/10)

Darkness is the second Royce Da 5'9 produced track of this album the main sample of this track is, Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound Of Slience" and if you listen to the lyrics of the track its about being in perspective of an violent person (I'm not gonna talk about the subject matter of this track) but this is the same nonsense that I heard on other Eminem tracks such as Mosh and White America overall just an angry ranting Em track with nothing else to prove.

8. Leaving Heaven (1/10)

Leaving Heaven features long time Eminem feature and singer Skylar Grey, Leaving Heaven is pretty much about 2 halves of 1 man the reason that I say this is because I think he is reflecting on the mistakes he made in the last 20+ years but Em did this on Recovery 10 years ago so it falls right on its face. The production on this track is just a simple dark instrumental with some guitar playing done by Skylar, I understand he is trying to be concious but it falls right on its face.

9.Yah Yah (4/10)

Yah Yah has the most features on this track, the features on this track are Royce Da 5'9 once again, NY legend and frontman of the legendary hip hop band The Root's its Black Thought, Q Tip from A Tribe Called Quest makes an feature here. And finally D12 member Denaun AKA Kon Artist, the production which is done by Mr Porter who has worked with Em and with D12 uses a sample from the classic Busta Rhymes joint "Woo Wah (Got Yall In Check)" the only sample being used in this the intro which goes on and on. Making it water down, the verses on this track Em's verse on here was bad this production doesn't fit him at all I can see this being more on an D12 album than anything else. Royce's verse was in the catagory of struggle bar to meh I wouldn't blame him for having an terrible verse like this because this beat is awful, Q Tip does somethings in here but all he does is the hook and thats it so what's the point of having Q Tip just doing the hook and not having a verse, Denaun doesn't really much either for the track. Let's address the elephant in the room the Black Thought verse, I admit it is a great verse with bars such as "I'm the king of the blood sport on mics I'm from an era you had beef, y'all prolly fist fought on sight Get your ass beat at the basketball court on spite Then tell your wife to put your life support on ice" but I think Black Thought should have not been on this track he wasted this awesome verse on a production that someone on Audacity can make.

10. Stepdad (0/10)

Stepdad is a track that i'm gonna be perfectly honest got my attention, because it was produced by one of my favorite producers The Alchemist we havent seen an Em + Alc track since 2006 when he produced a couple of tracks for the Shady mixtape "The Re-Up", the production is good its the key Alchemist sound the synths heavy drums and bass. But the quality of the lyrics is shit really Em complaining about another family member first it was your mother on the first 2 studio albums (SSLP & MMLP) and we heard this same scenario so many times in the past otherwise this waste of an potential Alchemist instrumental.

11. Marsh (1/10)

Marsh has to be one of the worst vocal sounding tracks on this album, first off all we still sticking with this lame trap 808s production which doesn't fit your style of hip hop. secondly the bars are the cringest shit I have ever heard for example "A halfwit, I'll aim at, then I'll Been fire bitch, I can outrap Reynolds" and finally and using Autotune I and did I hear you say "its lit" Marshall just stop your not Travis I understand your making fun of Trap but ripping of peoples key trademarks its not even clever its stale humor.

12. Never Love Again (0/10)

Never Love Again is pretty much just another filler track, nothing really happens with this. The production sounds like its flatlining and dying the lyrics don't help the cause also overall this is very very boring.

13. Little Engine (0/10)

Little Engine or should I say the 47 rapper think he could rap fast and not sound like he is having an anurism. This track begins with another audio clip riff from Alfred Hitchcock, Little Engine is produced by Dr.Dre a collab that we seen for many years however the production goes from nice and calm to having an mental breakdown to Em having his own breakdown, some parts of this track the verse doesnt fit with the BPM especially with this line "Chick ran up like, "Marshall on fire" I looked down and said, "No, I'm not, you're a liar" She said, "No, your music".

14. Lock It Up (2/10)

Lock It Up features west coast rapper/singer Anderson Paak I like his verse on this track but here comes Marshall to ruin the vibe of this track. The production is an heavy 808's production which I heard thoughout this album on majority on this track, just like with the Ed Sheeran track this fits more towards an party atmosphere which isnt my style of hip hop so another skip.

15. Farewell (0/10)

Farewell the first thing you can hear with this track is an sample from the reggae pop song "No Games" by Serani and what is Em trying to do with this. I feel like this is a jab towards Rap Reggae something that Drake has been doing for the last couple of years, and why is he singing Em doesnt fit on reggae tracks like this at all Farewell feels like an mad scientist experiment gone horribly wrong and that is all I gotta say about Farewell.

16. No Regrets (0/10)

No Regrets features Houston rapper Don Toliver, and all he does is just the hook for this track and thats really about it overall just another Eminem trap track nothing more and nothing less.

17. I Will (2/10)

I Will is the final track of the album and it is another posse cut and a bit of a case of irony, this track features Royce Cali rapper KXNG Crooked and NY rapper Joell Ortiz so if you can piece it all together this is an Slaughterhouse cut track after 2 years of breaking up. Let me talk about the irony as I previously mentioned whats the point of making another Slaughterhouse track if not all the members of the group as you can see Joe Budden is absent from this track and also 2 of the members of the group are independent rappers now. I Will is an okay track but I can't enjoy this with how the rest of the album went from start to finish. Em your sending the wrong signals to fans of these artists, that "Oh Slaughterhouse is coming back Paul Rosenberg actually listened" but nope this is just a quick cash grabs of past Shady Records memories overall im sad that Joell and Crooked had to be on this waste of a time track and a derailment of an album.

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Features (6) Royce Da 5'9 Black Thought Q Tip Anderson Paak KXNG Crooked Joell Ortiz

(6/30) (Bad)

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