Eminem Drops 2 Chainz & DJ Premier Collab As New Album Bonus
Eminem is increasing his new albumThe Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)by teaming up with two legends on the venture’s bonus version: DJ Premier and 2 Chainz.
Em and 2 Chainz every rap an extended verse on the Preem-produced track “Kyrie & Luka.”
The monitor, named after Dallas Mavericks stars Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, is produced by Premier, who makes use of components of Eric B. & Rakim’s 1987 basic “Move the Crowd” within the new track’s beat.
The so-called “Steve Berman Edition” of Eminem’s new venture, which is on sale till Friday (July 19), comes with a skit that includes the Interscope Records vice chairman, who initially appeared on Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP and its follow-up, The Eminem Show.
In addition, it accommodates two bonus songs, the aforementioned “Kyrie & Luka” and “Like My Shit.”
Keeping with the NBA theme of “Kyrie & Luka,” 2 Chainz makes two basketball references on the track. In one, he raps, “Things are going left like Julius Randle,” the Knicks participant who has been criticized for his “inability to drive right.”
Chainz stays on subject by closing his verse with a reference to Kyrie Irving, one of many gamers talked about within the track’s title: “Just like Kyrie, I got this shit handled.”
The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) is about to make an enormous splash on the Billboard charts, judging by its first-week gross sales projections.
HITS Daily Double reported on Monday (July 15) that the venture is anticipated to earn between 270,000 and 290,000 album-equivalent items in its opening week.
This would safe Em a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200, dethroning Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department after a dominant 12 consecutive weeks atop the chart.
It would additionally mark the Detroit rap legend’s eleventh No. 1 album, placing him degree with Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand. Only Drake (13), Swift (14), JAY-Z (additionally 14) and The Beatles (19) have extra.
While the 270-290K ballpark sits on the decrease finish of the spectrum for Eminem, whose 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP opened with a staggering 1.78 million items, The Death of Slim Shady may nonetheless outsell newer efforts like Revival (267,000) and Music to be Murdered By (279,000).