Eminem MMLP2 New Album: Rapper Premieres Monster Music Video Featuring Rihanna Before Lion's Game [WATCH]
After sharing the teaser last week, Eminem finally unveils the highly-anticipated visual for "The Monster" featuring Rihanna, which is the fourth single off his phenomenally successful album, "The Marshall Mathers LP 2."
Directed by Rich Lee, who has frequently worked with the Detroit rapper in the past, opens in a dark and gloomy setting, as Eminem sits on a couch in a room that appears to be a therapist office. Dr. Rihanna, dressed in a black turtleneck suit and blue lipstick, quietly observes her patient watching several iconic clips of his own old music videos and news footage, which are accompanied by words like "Violence," "Family," and "Fame" flashing on the television screen.
Soon after the brief introduction, as the "Pour It Up" singer belts out the chorus, "I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed / Get along with the voices inside of my head / You're trying to save me, stop holdin' your breath / And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy," Slim Shady falls into a deep sleep and finds himself trapped in an elevator, being forced to observe his image from his very first 1999's music video "My Name Is," in which Dr. Dre played the part of his therapist.
Eminem also observes himself in the 2002's "Lose Yourself" visual and his computer-graphic freefall in "The Way I am." Lastly, the elevator stops on a rooftop in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where he finds yet another version of himself locked in a cage, throwing loose leaf sheets of past songs towards him. As Eminem walks away, the locked up himself rages against the bars of his prison.
The "Monster" is currently the top song in the country, while Eminem's latest double platinum-selling "MMLP2" is closing in on a million and a half in sales.
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