Eminem, fresh off a surprise cameo in Pete Davidson's Santa-themed "Stan" update, dropped off Music to Be Murdered By - Side B on Friday.
Toward the end of the new collection, Em enlists White Gold for the lyrically expansive "Zeus," which kicks off with a few lines addressing the quality of 6ix9ine's catalog and Em's still-heavily-discussed feud with recent Tickets to My Downfall chart-topper Machine Gun Kelly:
At the end of the first verse, Eminem—noting a "re-promise to be honest"—offers an apology to Rihanna over a leaked track that saw him rap "Of course I side with Chris Brown, I'd beat a bitch down too." The leak came to light in November of last year, ultimately resulting in a statement from an Em spokesperson to XXLexplaining that the leak was "over 10 years old." The rep said Em scrapped the line and rewrote it, adding that he and Rihanna "have a great relationship."
In "Zeus," Em says the leak "wasn't meant to cause [Rihanna] grief" while also stating it was "wrong" to have written the line in the first place:
Stream "Zeus," which also sees Eminem warning Drake of the pitfalls of top-tier fame and paying tribute to victims of police brutality, in full below via YouTube:
Music to Be Murdered By - Side B is out now on all streaming services.
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