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Kill You by Eminem

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Eminem

Kill You

Release date: 22nd May 2025

From The Marshall Mathers LP (25th Anniversary)
Track 2
4:24
Hip-Hop/RapMusic
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About This Track

The opening track from Eminem's second major-label album sets the tone with a litany of violent imagery and confrontational provocation. The lyrics adopt multiple shock-value personae, from a figure threatening graphic harm to women to a voice mocking the moral panic surrounding his work. The chorus refrain is built around an explicit threat of murder, delivered with the cartoonish menace that would define much of the record's approach.

The second verse includes a direct taunt at critics who blamed his music for real-world violence, Eminem rapping that he's 'triple platinum and tragedies happened in two states' before claiming 'I invented violence'. The line refers to school shootings in Colorado and Arkansas, framing the song as a deliberate provocation aimed at those who sought to hold him accountable for societal harm. The track's catalogue of gore and misogyny is presented as performance, though the line between satire and sincerity remains deliberately blurred.

The 25th Anniversary reissue places the song back in circulation a quarter-century after its original release, a period in which the cultural tolerance for such content has shifted considerably.

"Kill You" is a track by Eminem, from the album The Marshall Mathers LP (25th Anniversary), released 22nd May 2025. The track is 4:24 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Eminem.

About the Artist

Eminem

Eminem

Lyrics

Kill You

When I just a little baby boy
My momma used to tell me these crazy things
She used to tell me my daddy was an evil man
She used to tell me he hated me
But then I got a little bit older
And I realized she was the crazy one
But there was nothin' I could do or say to try to change it
'Cause that's just the way she was

They said I can't rap about bein' broke no more
They ain't say I can't rap about coke no more (ah)
Slut, you think I won't choke no whore
'Til the vocal cords don't work in her throat no more? (Ah)
These motherfuckers are thinkin' I'm playin'
Thinkin' I'm sayin' the shit 'cause I'm thinkin' it just to be sayin' it (ah)
Put your hands down bitch, I ain't gon' shoot you
I'ma pull you to this bullet, and put it through you (ah)

Shut up slut, you're causin' too much chaos
Just bend over and take it like a slut, okay Ma!?
Oh, now he's raping his own mother, abusing a whore
Snorting coke, and we gave him the Rolling Stone cover?
You goddamn right, bitch, and now it's too late
I'm triple platinum and tragedies happen' in two states
I invented violence, you vile venomous volatile bitches
Vain Vicodin, vrinn vrinn, vrinn
Texas Chainsaw, left his brains all
Danglin' from his neck, while his head barely hangs on
Blood, guts, guns, cuts
Knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts

Bitch I'ma kill you
You don't wanna fuck with me
Girls neither, you ain't nothin' but a slut to me
Bitch I'ma kill you
You ain't got the balls to beef
We ain't gon' never stop beefin' I don't squash the beef
You better kill me

I'ma be another rapper dead
For poppin' off at the mouth with shit I shouldn't have said
But when they kill me
I'm bringin' the world with me
Bitches too, you ain't nothin' but a girl to me

I said you don't
Wanna fuck with Shady
('Cause why?)
'Cause Shady, will fuckin' kill you
(Ah-haha)

I said you don't
Wanna fuck with Shady
(Why?)
'Cause Shady, will fuckin' kill you

Bitch I'ma kill you! Like a murder weapon, I'ma conceal you
In a closet with mildew, sheets, pillows and film you
Fuck with me, I've been through hell, shut the hell up
I'm tryin' to develop these pictures of the Devil to sell 'em
I ain't ask to rap, but I rap on acid
Got a new blow-up doll and just had a strap-on added
Whoops! Is that a subliminal hint? No
Just criminal intent to sodomize women again
Eminem offend?
No! Eminem'll insult
And if you ever give in to him, you give him an impulse

To do it again
Then, if he does it again
You'll probably end up jumpin' out of somethin' up on the 10th
Bitch I'ma kill you, I ain't done this ain't the chorus
I ain't even drug you in the woods yet to paint the forest
A bloodstain is orange after you wash it three or four times in a tub
But that's normal ain't it Norman?
Serial killer hidin' murder material in a cereal box on top of your stereo
Here we go again, we're out of our medicine
Out of our minds, and we want in yours, let us in
Or I'ma kill you

You don't wanna fuck with me
Girls neither, you ain't nothin' but a slut to me
Bitch I'ma kill you
You ain't got the balls to beef
We ain't gon' never stop beefin' I don't squash the beef
You better kill me

I'ma be another rapper dead
For poppin' off at the mouth with shit I shouldn't have said
But when they kill me
I'm bringin' the world with me
Bitches too, you ain't nothin' but a girl to me

I said you don't
Wanna fuck with Shady
('Cause why?)
'Cause Shady, will fuckin' kill you
(Ah-haha)

I said you don't
Wanna fuck with Shady
(Why?)
'Cause Shady, will fuckin' kill you

Eh-heh, know why I say these things?
'Cause lady's screams keep creepin' in Shady's dreams
And the way things seem, I shouldn't have to pay these shrinks
This eighty G's a week to say the same things tweece
Twice? Whatever, I hate these things
Fuck shots, I hope the weed'll outweigh these drinks
Motherfuckers want me to come on their radio shows
Just to argue with 'em cause their ratings stink?
Fuck that

I'll choke radio announcer to bouncer
From that fat bitch to all seventy-thousand pounds of her
From principal to the student body and counselor
From in-school to before school to out of school
I don't even believe in breathin', I'm leavin' air in your lungs
Just to hear you keep screamin' for me to seep it

Okay, I'm ready to go play
I got the machete from O.J.
I'm ready to make everyone's throats ache

You faggots keep eggin' me on
'Til I have you at knife point, then you beg me to stop?
Shut up, give me your hands and feet
I said, shut up when I'm talkin' to you
You hear me? Answer me
Or I'ma kill you

You don't wanna fuck with me
Girls neither, you ain't nothin' but a slut to me
Bitch I'ma kill you
You don't got the balls to beef
We ain't gon' never stop beefin' I don't squash the beef
You better kill me

I'ma be another rapper dead
For poppin' off at the mouth with shit I shouldn't have said
But when they kill me
I'm bringin' the world with me
Bitches too, you ain't nothin' but a girl to me
Bitch, I'ma kill you

You don't
Wanna fuck with Shady
('Cause why?)
'Cause Shady, will fuckin' kill you
(Ah-haha)

I said you don't
Wanna fuck with Shady
(Why not?)
'Cause Shady, will fuckin' kill you

Hahaha, I'm just playin' ladies
You know I love you

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Track details

From The Marshall Mathers LP (25th Anniversary)

4:242025
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Album
The Marshall Mathers LP (25th Anniversary)
The Marshall Mathers LP (25th Anniversary)
Eminem
23rd May 2025
Track number
2
Release year
2025
  1. 1Public Service Announcement 2000
    0:26
  2. 2Kill You
    4:24
  3. 5Who Knew
    3:48
  4. 6Steve Berman (feat. Steve Berman)
    0:54

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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mel-Man
    Producer
    Dr. Dre, Mel-Man
    Bass
    Mike Elizondo
    Guitar
    Sean Cruse
    Keyboards
    Camara Kambon
    Assistant Engineer
    Jim McCrone
    Mastering Engineer
    Brian Gardner
    Mixing Engineer
    Dr. Dre, Richard Huredia
    Recording Engineer
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