Eminem released his 12th album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) on Friday, and as per usual, made it a point to call out people of the times including Sean “Diddy” Combs and Alec Baldwin.
On the LP’s ninth track, “Fuel,” the Grammy-winning artist and fellow rapper J.I.D make it a point to address some of the biggest stories in culture today: the several sexual assault allegations against Combs and the tragic death of Halyna Hutchins on the Rust set when a revolver that star Alec Baldwin was handling went off.
In Eminem’s second verse of the song, he raps: “I’m like a R-A-P-E-R (Yeah) / Got so many S-As (S-As), S-As (Huh) / Wait, he didn’t just spell the word, ‘Rapper’ and leave out a P, did he? (Yep).” When rapped, the lyrics “P, did he?” clearly sound like “P. Diddy.”
As the verse continues, the artist offers RIPs to Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur, before tying Tupac’s death back to Combs. The lyrics read: “R.I.P., rest in peace, Biggie / And Pac, both of y’all should be living (Yep) / But I ain’t tryna beef with him (Nope) / ‘Cause he might put a hit on me like Keefe D did him.”
The part of the verse refers to the claims that Combs offered Tupac’s alleged murderer, Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, $1 million to kill the famed rapper and his manager, Suge Knight.
Toward the end of the same verse, Eminem addresses the Rust tragedy, rapping: “Fuck around and get popped like Halyna Hutchins / Like I’m Alec Baldwin, what I mean is buckin’ you down, coup de grâce then.”
In another song on The Death of Slim Shady, “Antichrist,” the artist also references the horrible video released earlier this year of Combs assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016, specifically calling out the bit of the video in which the music mogul kicked her several times.
The lyrics read: “Next idiot ask me is gettin’ his ass beat worse than Diddy did / But on the real, though / She prolly ran out the room with his fuckin’ dildo / He tried to field goal punt her, she said to chill / Now put it back in my ass and get the steel toe.”
Eminem’s new album comes the same day former Vibe editor-in-chief Danyel Smith published an op-ed in The New York Times Magazine claiming that Combs threatened that she would be “dead in the trunk of her car” for refusing to let him see his magazine cover ahead of publication. On Friday, a judge also dismissed Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial for the shooting of Hutchins in New Mexico.
