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Release Date
18 December 2020
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Length
35 tracks
Music To Be Murdered By - Side B (Deluxe Edition) was released on December 18, 2020 as a deluxe edition of Eminem's tenth studio album of the same name. Similar to Eminem's previous two albums, it was released without any prior announcement. It contains a bonus disc with sixteen new tracks, with guest appearances by Skylar Grey, DJ Premier, Ty Dolla $ign, Dr. Dre, Sly Pyper, MAJ, and White Gold. A music video accompanied the album's release for "Gnat", directed by Cole Bennett. The music video for "Higher" premiered on January 23, 2021. Lyric videos for "Tone Deaf" and "Alfred's Theme" were also released. In May 2021, a remix of "Killer", featuring Jack Harlow and Cordae, was released.
The week the deluxe edition was released, the album saw a 1,125% boost in sale units from the previous week, moving 94,000 units. This brought the album back up to the 3rd spot on the Billboard 200 album chart in its 48th week, a 196-spot jump from the week previous, breaking a 50-year-old Billboard 200 record previously held by Bob Dylan with "Self Portrait" which made a 193 spot jump.
"Side B" was met with generally positive reviews. Robert Christgau appraised the release as "more proof that Eminem loves rhyme as compulsively as MF DOOM himself", adding that, "If he’s not as playful or surreal about it as DOOM, he sure does enunciate better, with a timbral dexterity never quashed by the rock-inflected production style that Dr. Dre laid on him decades ago and oversees here." While highlighting lyrics from "Alfred's Theme", "Tone Deaf", "Black Magic", and "These Demons" on "Side B", he also observed "more braggadocio and less delight in these words for their own sake than in the Side A's".
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