Eminem has compared himself to Salman Ramadan Abedi, the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande concert in 2017. Eminem was also criticised for the lyric on social media. One Twitter user said that “if Eminem had any amount of decency he would remove the song from all platforms”. “It’s completely unnecessary and damaging.”Along with his new album, Eminem also shared the music video for his track Darkness, which appears to have been inspired by the October 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that claimed the lives of 58 people. It features guest stars including Ed Sheeran, Q-Tip, and late rapper Juice WRLD, who died aged 21 in December.

Source: The Irish Times January 17, 2020 13:41 UTC