Music to Be Murdered By Songwriting Credits by Eminem

Music to Be Murdered By is the eleventh studio album by Eminem, released as a surprise on January 17, 2020 on Aftermath/Interscope Records. It was another unannounced release continuing the surprise-drop strategy from Kamikaze, thematically framed around the aesthetic of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 album of the same name, incorporating Hitchcock audio clips and a horror-cinema concept that runs through the artwork and several track intros. Eminem wrote all lyrics across the 20-track standard edition; the album features an unusually large number of collaborators including Juice WRLD (who died in December 2019, a month before the release), Young M.A, Ed Sheeran, and Anderson .Paak, among others. The production ranges from trap-influenced beats by producers like Swizz Beatz and DJ Khalil to more traditional hip-hop constructions, with the overall sonic variety intended to span the current landscape of rap production rather than commit to a single aesthetic. 'Darkness,' the album's most discussed track, uses a first-person narrative from the perspective of the Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock before revealing the subject and pivoting to a plea for gun control advocacy, making it the most directly political single track in Eminem's catalog. Music to Be Murdered By debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and reached the top five in multiple countries, and a deluxe edition titled Music to Be Murdered By: Side B followed in December 2020.