AFTER sparking outrage with his last album by making a joke about the Manchester Arena bombing you’d think EMINEM would steer well away from it — but clearly not.
The Stan rapper has reignited the controversy by making light of the terror attack that claimed the lives of 22 people again in new surprise record Music To Be Murdered By Side B.
He takes it one bit further by also making light of the Boston Marathon in 2013 when three spectators were killed.
In Favorite B***h, Eminem sings: “And I know nothing is funny about the Manchester bombing, But we got something in common, both of us are alarming, foul, disgusting, and awful, so repugnant and ugly.
“I could give the Boston Marathon a run for its money.”
Earlier this year he defended lyrics in Unaccommodating in which he rapped “I’m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’” in reference to the ARIANA GRANDE concert at Manchester Arena in 2017.
He insisted “certain sections” of his songs were “designed to shock the conscience” and were “not made for the squeamish”.
In the new album, an extended version of the one released in January and surprised the music world today, he also takes aim at BILLIE EILISH who previously said she is “terrified” of the rapper.
In Alfred’s Theme, he says: “But really I’m just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes, which is really childish and silly, but I’m really like this, I’m giving nightmares to Billie Eilish.”
He also reignited his favourite feud with ex-girlfriend MARIAH CAREY by comparing her to an outcast, in These Demons, when he says: “I got a question, what rhymes with Pariah?”
And he hits back at fellow rapper SNOOP DOGG – a long term pal of Em’s mentor DR DRE – who majorly snubbed him in his top ten artists of all time earlier this year.
In Zeus, Slim Shady says: “As far as squashing beef I’m used to people knocking me, but just not in my camp, and diplomatic as I’m trying to be last thing I need is Snoop dogging me.
“Man, Dogg, you was like a damn god to me, man not really, I had dog backwards.”
There are some worthy targets in Eminem’s typically punchy songs.
A regular theme throughout the album is Covid-19, washing his hands while singing ‘Happy Birthday’ midway through one track, and there are mentions for disgraced names including HARVEY WEINSTEIN, BILL COSBY and R. KELLY.
In the suitably named Tone Deaf, Em, real name Marshall Mathers, sings: “Does Bill Cosby sedate once he treats the cheesecake and the decent steak?
“You think getting rid of me’s a piece of cake? I’m harder than finding Harvey Weinstein a date. And that’s why they say I got more lines than Black Friday.”
However he does show remorse and “wholeheartedly apologies” to RIHANNA in reference to an alternative version of his song Things Get Worse surfacing on the internet last year in which he said he sided with CHRIS BROWN over his assault on the singer’s then-girlfriend in 2009.
In new record Zeus, Em says: “For that song that leaked, I’m sorry, Ri.
“It wasn’t meant to cause you grief, regardless, it was wrong of me.”
Maybe he’s going soft in his old age.
