Eminem Unveils Villainous "VENOM (Music from The Motion Picture)" Music Video from Tom Hardy's Venom & Kamikaze [Shady Records]
A couple months ago,
Eminem
surprise released his tenth studio album,
, overnight between Thursday, August 30th into the early morning hours of Friday, August 31st with no prior announcement whatsoever.
Kamikaze
first caught my attention because of its front and back album artwork, an obvious homage to the
Beastie Boys'
genre-shaping 1986 debut,
License to Ill
, complete with cleverly scrawled
"TIKCU5"
and
"FU-2"
fighter jet tags. An obvious rebuttal to
Eminem
's widely-loathed and seemingly half-a$$ed 2017 album,
Revival
,
Kamikaze
, however, made headlines for homophobic slurs on
-assisted "Fall" allegedly, aimed towards controversial rapper/producer
Tyler, The Creator
. While, yes, this is unfortunate
Em
is still using such homophobic slurs in 2018, honestly, is anyone really all that surprised? Not that it makes it right, but
Eminem
has, unfortunately, been using racial, homophobic, misogynistic, and hateful speech since
"My Name Is"
from his commercial break-through,
The Slim Shady LP
(1999.) Despite all this controversy, I personally, enjoyed
Kamikaze
as much as one could/should; while this isn't
Eminem
's best album, it's also, far from his worst, especially, for an emcee nearly 30 years into his storied career. While we, here at
The Witzard
, DO NOT promote or endorse such hateful language... at this point, we really shouldn't be surprised by
Marshall Mathers
and his repeated attempts at garnering the spotlight however he can; even though, he's undoubtedly, one of the most skilled lyricists Hip-Hop, and music as a whole, has ever seen!
Aside from the aforementioned tracks,
Kamikaze
also, includes
Machine Gun Kelly (MGK)
feud re-igniting track,
"Not Alike,"
to which
MGK
responded with lackluster
"Rap Devil."
Eminem
, soon responded with
Ether
'ing diss track,
to which
Machine Gun Kelly
responded with a... Tweet, which read: "2 weeks and 3 interviews later..." as well as a couple
Emojis
, silly hashtags, and a
Dancing with The Stars
meme. Yes, this is the state of
Hip-Hop
in 2018! DISCLAIMER: I'm a life-long
Spider-Man
super-fan, so, in my humble opinion, one of
Kamikaze
's saving graces was album closer
"Venom (Music from The Motion Picture.)"
Somehow, for whatever reasons, this is a
Spider-Man
-less
Live Action/Super-hero
film starring
Hollywood
hunk and former rapper
Tom Hardy
as
Spidey
's greatest adversary,
Eddie Brock/Venom
. Just this past Thursday night, on the eve of
Venom
's world-wide release,
Eminem
unleashed a sinister music video for
"Venom (Music from The Motion Picture)"
wherein a
Revival
CD births a S
ymbiote
, which wreaks havoc upon the dimly-lit
New York City
streets. Sample
"Ain't no telling when this choke-hold / On this game will end, I'm loco / Became a
Symbiote
, so / My fangs are in your throat, ho / You're snake-bitten with my—venom!" Also, featured within the film (which I have yet to see!) are
Venom
-themed tracks from
PUSHA-T
and supposedly,
, as well as a score composed by frequent
Childish Gambino
collaborator
Ludwig Göransson
.
