Eminem Slammed for Lyric About Ariana Grande and the Manchester Bombing

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Eminem surprised the world last week when he released a new album, “Music To Be Murdered By.” However, like so many times in the mercurial rapper’s career, he’s courting controversy with his lyrics.

Eminem recently surprised his fans by dropping a brand new album titled, Music to be murdered by. While the album is loaded with some great collaboration with people like Ed Sheeran, Skylar Grey and the late rapper Juice WRLD, it is his song ‘Unaccommodating’ which managed to raise eyebrows. In the track, the singer raps about the 2017 terror attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, and the lyrics did not go down well with many of his fans who thought Eminem’s words were insensitive. 

Eminem has come under fire over his new tune Unaccommodating, which features “sickening” references to the 2017 bombing at Ariana Grande’s Manchester Arena gig.

On “Unaccommodating,” the second track on his new album Music to Be Murdered By, Eminem alludes to the Manchester Arena bombing that killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017. He raps, “I’m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’ on the game/Like I’m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.”

Fans are slamming Eminem after the rapper's new surprise album contains a controversial lyric about the 2017 Manchester bombing that killed 22 people during an Ariana Grande concert.

Eminem has come under fire over his new tune Unaccommodating, which features “sickening” references to the 2017 bombing at Ariana Grande’s Manchester Arena gig.

"This is unnecessarily hurtful"

Following the surprise drop of Eminem's Music to Be Murdered By LP Friday (Jan. 17), fans were outraged by a reference to the 2017 concert bombing at Ariana Grande's concert in Manchester on the track "Unaccommodating." 

Eminem is back with his new album, Music to Be Murdered By, and as usual he’s courting controversy. On the project’s second track, “Unaccommodating” featuring Young M.A, the Detroit rapper drops a headline-baiting reference to the 2017 terrorist attack at Ariana Grande’s Manchester, England concert.

Eminem’s new “Music to Be Murdered By” album has an album title and cover that pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock, suggesting a collection full of light-hearted mayhem. But a couple of its tracks reference real-life mass murders that occurred at concerts in recent years — the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Music Festival shootings and the Manchester bombing.

From rapping about how he's petty but wont paint toes, to sorta comparing himself to a plunger, to bringing up , there's a lot to digest in Eminem's new "Unaccommodating" song. Overnight, the controversial Detroit rapper , and it's safe to say that Ariana Grande fans are pissed about how he turned the tragic into a lyric.

Eminem came under fire on Friday after he released his surprise album Music to Be Murdered By.

'Eminem' and 'controversy' are two words you expect to find in the same sentence. At the end of last year leaked audio, allegedly from the rapper, included the lyrics, ‘I'd side with Chris Brown, I'd beat down a bitch too.’ Now his eleventh album - which dropped overnight - has also hit headlines for the entirely wrong (and most distasteful) reason.