NEW MUSIC!!!! Eminem - Berzerk

The biggest news to come out of the VMA’s (No Miley) was that Eminem announced that he had a new single on the way and that his new album Marshall Mathers LP 2 would be out on 5^th November. The announcement came in the form of a new Beats by Dre advert with a snippet of the new single ‘Berzerk.’

The new album will be executive produced by Dr Dre and Rick Rubin, now if you have any knowledge of hip hop at all you will know that this is huge.

So the song itself… its produced by Rick Rubin, samples Billy Squire’s ‘The Stroke’ and gives more than a nod to rap pioneers Beastie Boys, who were of course also produced by Rubin. The track like the title suggests is berserk, its scatter gun, its schizophrenic and it will definitely get stuck in your head. It’s a classic Eminem style single, not pure, straight hip hop but it will get on the radio and will stuck in your head. As always if you want to hear Em at his best you will have to wait until the album drops. This is nothing new.

I’m a huge Eminem fan and even I’ve had to give it a few listens but it’s starting to grow on me.  It’s not going to reinvent the hip hop wheel but it’s not supposed to. It gets on the radio, it gets in your head, and it hypes the album…job done.