Fifteen-time Grammy winner Eminem released a surprise album on Friday, where he covered everything from inappropriate comments he made to fellow musician Rihanna to the coronavirus pandemic. The album Music to be killed by – Side B is the second album Eminem dropped this year and a follow-up to January’s Music to be killed by. In Side B he apologizes for a song that he leaked last year that sided with Chris Brown after Brown attacked Rihanna. “And wholeheartedly, [I give] apologies, Rihanna / For that song that leaked / Sorry, Ri / It wasn’t meant to cause you grief / Anyway, I was wrong, ”raps Eminem on his new album. Rihanna and Eminem have collaborated on several occasions, including their hit ‘Love the Way You Lie’.
In another song called “Black Magic,” Eminem talks about Colin Kaepernick, the quarterback who was one of the first NFL athletes to kneel during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against black people. He also mentions Laquan McDonald, Breonna Taylor and other black people who have been killed by police in recent years. Eminem was referring to the pandemic all the time, shouting at one point, “This pandemic has put us in recession, we need to reopen America / black people dying, they want equal rights, whites want haircuts.” The album comes on the heels of a holiday season. SNL sketch Eminem appeared while parodying his song ‘Stan’.
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