Eminem New Album MMLP2 2013: Rapper Releases New Music Video Rap God [WATCH]
After previewing the teaser last week, Eminem releases the official music video for "Rap God," the most popular and challenging track off his chart-topping, now-platinum, "The Marshall Mathers LP 2."
Directed by Rich Lee, the video to the Detroit emcee's six-minute supersonic wordplay has reportedly been filmed at the Russell Industrial Center complex, just north of downtown in Slim Shady's hometown of Detroit, Michigan.
The self-proclaimed "Rap God" clad in a classic black suit and a matching tie, completing his sharp look with a pair of dark shades and his signature platinum blonde hair. He opens up the visual by doing an impression of Max Headroom, and this frantic head bobbing continues all throughout the music video.
"Look, I was gonna go easy on you not to hurt your feelings / But I'm only going to get this one chance / Something's wrong, I can feel it (for six minutes, Slim Shady, you're on) / Just a feeling I've got, like somehting's about to happen," Eminem playfully raps the introduction over a catchy techno beat, standing in front of a trippy multicolor screen.
Soon after, the "Monster" rapper gets strapped up to a chair where he takes in information as computer cameras scan his archives of novels, comic books, vinyl records and television moments. Flashes of fellow rappers Busta Rhymes and Run D.M.C. pop up on multiple television screens as he references them in the track. Once he wakes up from his unconscious state, he becomes something more than a human being, perhaps the "Rap God," floating in the air and causing chaos while he delivers one of his best lyrical performances to date.
The visual ends with Eminem walking across water, making an evident biblical reference. "Why be a king, when you can be a God?" he asks before he collapses down from his exhaustion from intense rhyming.
Eminem's "MMLP2" returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week with over 120,000 copies sold.