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Zeus by Eminem

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Eminem

Zeus

Release date: 18th December 2020

From Music to Be Murdered By: Side B
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About This Track

The fourteenth track on 'Music to Be Murdered By: Side B', featuring New York artist White Gold, finds Eminem in combative form. The song's title invokes the god's-eye perspective of the chorus, where he positions himself above the fray of criticism and cancellation attempts. The production carries White Gold's hook about clouds and altitude whilst Eminem works through a catalogue of grievances and boasts.

The verses move from personal disputes to industry apologies, most notably a direct address to Rihanna over a leaked song. Eminem frames himself as both target and aggressor, referencing his underground roots at Rawkus and his ongoing facility with wordplay. The second verse turns sharper, addressing what he calls a climate hostile to his continued presence, invoking Aunt Jemima syrup as shorthand for cancel culture before pivoting to European tour success and financial security.

The internal rhyming and multi-syllabic schemes remain technically dense throughout, even when the subject matter skews juvenile. White Gold's chorus provides the structural anchor, the Zeus metaphor doing double duty as both elevation and detachment from the noise below.

"Zeus" is a track by Eminem, from the album Music to Be Murdered By: Side B, released 18th December 2020. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Eminem.

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Lyrics

Zeus

[Verse 1: Eminem]

She says I am trash, but she listens to Tekashi (Damn)

Bitch, you lost me (Yeah)

Fair weather, wishy-washy

She thinks machine washed me (What?)

Swear to God, man, her favorite rapper wish he'd cross me (Yeah)

I love conflict, got a obnoxious (What?) subconscious (Yeah)

I'm afraid to unlock it (Nah)

Keep those monsters in the closet

I'm what an idiotic ('Otic) savant is (Savant is)

But I've been throwin' down gauntlets since that underground Rawkus (Yeah)

Where I planted my roots (What? Yeah)

That's how I had a whole planet that roots for me

As in the group, and no one thinks dark as I think (Nah)

So imagine the havoc these black thoughts are to wreak (Tariq)

As in Trotter, I keep slaughterin' beats

Shout out to Beatminerz and T-Minus

But, me, long as I breathe, promise to be honest

And wholeheartedly, apologies, Rihanna

For that song that leaked, I'm sorry, Ri

It wasn't meant to cause you grief

Regardless, it was wrong of me, but

[Chorus: White Gold & Eminem]

I be on my own (Yeah), head up in the clouds like Zeus

When they say, "You ain't the GOAT", I come down like, "Who?"

But I got my head in the clouds like Zeus

Swear I can see the game from a bird's-eye view, ayy

Bitch, you talkin' to a rap god, ayy

Girl, you talkin' to a monsta, ayy

You could give your whole damn life to the music thing

They gon' turn around like they don't love you

[Verse 2: Eminem]

Yeah, they woke a giant up

So when I get back on my feet, don't wonder why in the

Fuck is my head in the clouds (Nah)

G5 with the stewardess, gettin' head in the clouds (Haha)

Mile-high club (Why?), I give a flying fuck (Fly and fuck, no)

Punchliner just tryin' to survive in this climate of vaginas (Bitch)

Who dyin' to cancel my ass like Aunt Jemima syrup

I'm a shit-stirrer, you're a dime-a

Dozen, said I couldn't do it

Hit Europe, kicked the door in, put a foot through it (Ugh)

Like a stirrup (Stirrup)

Used to have to sit and watch them bills pile up (Yeah)

Now I just sit back and watch them bills pile up (Haha), but

[Chorus: White Gold & Eminem]

I be on my own (Yeah, woo), head up in the clouds like Zeus

When they say, "You ain't the GOAT", I come down like, "Who?"

But I got my head in the clouds like Zeus

Swear I can see the game from a bird's-eye view, ayy

Bitch, you talkin' to a rap god, ayy

Girl, you talkin' to a monsta, ayy

You could give your whole damn life to the music thing

They gon' turn around—

[Verse 3: Eminem]

I've seen them come and go

I've seen the hugest (Hugest) debuts ('Buts)

I've had a great view to see the (See the) game through (Through)

And Drake, they're gonna turn on you (You) one day too (Too)

And the more you win, the sooner (Sooner) they do

They'll be calling you a trash bin

Sayin' that your new one isn't better than your last and

Even if it is, once they start to turn their backs

They ain't never comin' back in

They did it to Chance

Next they'll be mentionin' Future in the past tense (Yeah)

Or sayin' "Adiós" to Migos

I ain't dissin', I'm just tryna keep the shit a C-note (Yeah)

Same people been tryna do the shit to me, so

I call them people (Peephole)

Because they're so easy to see through 'em (See through 'em)

But a fighter's all I knew how to be

I got the shit beat out of me (Yeah)

Tripped and fell and blew out a knee (Pop)

Popped it back in and hopped up like, "Fuck it (Fuck it)

Best two out of three", yeah

Man, I gotta be doin' (What?) somethin' right

I got eleven years of sobriety (Yeah)

So the only bottom I'ma be hittin' is if it's sodomy

Wait, I mean, you would think that somebody handed a saw to me (Sodomy)

How I'm choppin' these bars

They keep wantin' me to rap responsibly

When I'm constantly passin' the buck like the fuckin' Dollar Tree

But I'ma always remind you that I came from poverty

Black people saved my life, from the Doc and Deshaun

And all that we want is racial equality

R.I.P. Laquan McDonald, Trayvon, and Breonna

Atatiana, Rayshard, and Dominique

Eric Garner and Rodney King

No, we can't get along 'til these white motherfuckin' cops

Who keep murderin' Blacks are off the streets (Off the streets)

And, as far as squashin' beef, I'm used to people knockin' me

But, just not in my camp

And diplomatic as I'm tryna be

Last thing I need is Snoop doggin' me

Man, Dogg, you was like a (Yeah) damn god to me

Nah, not really (Haha)

I had "dog" backwards

But I'm startin' to think, all these people takin' shots at me

Shit, it's no wonder

[Chorus: White Gold, White Gold & Eminem]

I be on my own, head up in the clouds like Zeus

When they say, "You ain't the GOAT", I come down like, "Who?"

But I got my head in the clouds like Zeus

Swear I can see the game from a bird's-eye view, ayy

Bitch, you talkin' to a rap god, ayy

Girl, you talkin' to a monsta, ayy

You could give your whole damn life to the music thing

They gon' turn around like they don't love you

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Track details

From Music to Be Murdered By: Side B

2020
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Album
Music to Be Murdered By: Side B
Music to Be Murdered By: Side B
Eminem
Release year
2020
  1. —Guns Blazing
  2. —Alfred’s Theme
  3. —Alfred (Intro)
  4. —Book of Rhymes
  5. —Discombobulated
  6. —Favorite Bitch
  7. —Higher
  8. —Black Magic
  9. —Gnat
  10. —Killer
  11. —She Loves Me
  12. —Thus Far (Interlude)
  13. —Tone Deaf
  14. —Zeus
  15. —These Demons
  16. —Key (Skit)

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Writer
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Producer
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Keyboards
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