The Dying of Slim Shady is forthcoming as Eminem releases his new tune ‘Houdini,’ a single aimed toward making his “profession disappear.”

“Little child satan with the forked tongue and it’s stickin’ out,” raps Eminem within the opening verse, earlier than he provides, “Nonetheless a white jerk pullin’ up in a Chrysler to the cypher with the Vics, Percs and a Bud Mild shirt.”

Elsewhere on the monitor, the rapper shouts out the ‘Scorching Lady Summer season‘ star: “If I used to be to ask for Megan Thee Stallion if she would collab with me/Would I actually have a shot at a feat?/I don’t know, however I’m glad to be, again like abra-abracadabra.”

In April, after an look on the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit, Eminem introduced that his upcoming new album — his first since 2020’s Music to Be Murdered By — could be titled The Dying of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace).

Eminem continued to vow kill to off his alter ego — popularized by 1999’s The Slim Shady LP — with a fake true crime present concerning the character’s dying, and adopted that up with an precise obituary that revealed within the Detroit Free Press earlier this month.

“Followers ‘will always remember’ controversial rapper,” acknowledged the obituary, which boasted the headline “Slim Shady Made Lasting Impressions.”

“A product of Detroit who started his profession there as a rogue splinter within the flourishing underground rap scene of the mid to late Nineties, Shady first grew to become a family identify in 1999 with the debut of his playfully deranged single ‘My Identify Is,’ which — together with its uniquely eye catching video — uncovered the younger artist and his lyrics to a wider viewers,” learn the pretend obit. “In the end, the very issues that gave the impression to be the instruments he used grew to become calling playing cards that outlined an existence that might solely come to a sudden and horrific finish.”

‘Houdini’ retains the dying of Slim Shady theme going with its magical subtext — “For my final trick, I’m gonna make my profession disappear,” Eminem instructed David Blaine in a teaser video on Tuesday — and by name-checking the magician and escape artist who died on the age of 52. Marshall Mathers himself turns 52 in October.

From Rolling Stone.