Asylum

Release date: 28th August 2012

About This Track

Slaughterhouse and Eminem stage a hostile takeover on 'Asylum', a track built around the image of inmates seizing control of an institution. Eminem's hook sets the scene with clinical precision: the doctors are dead, the nurses restrained, the lunatics have barricaded themselves inside. It is a straightforward metaphor for artistic dominance, delivered with the kind of cold certainty that makes the conceit stick. The verses match that intensity. Joell Ortiz arrives with chainsaw imagery and untamable aggression, his flow fracturing and reassembling across bars that pivot from boast to threat. Crooked I follows with similar force, the two rappers treating the asylum framework less as a gimmick than as a licence for maximum hostility. The production sits somewhere between menace and theatre, gunshots and screams in the intro setting a tone the verses then sustain through sheer lyrical velocity. What emerges is less a song about mental institutions than a statement of competitive dominance, the metaphor serving as a container for the kind of unrelenting technical display that defined the group's approach.

"Asylum" is a track by Slaughterhouse, released 28th August 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Asylum

[Intro: Eminem]

(Gun cocking and firing over people screaming and running)

Yeah, yeah, yo

Yo!

(This just in)

[Hook: Eminem]

The lunatics now run the asylum

The doctors are dead, nurses are tied up

They've taken it over and barricaded themselves inside it

The lunatics now run the asylum

I said the lunatics now run the asylum

The doctors are dead, nurses are tied up

They've taken it over and barricaded themselves inside it

The lunatics now run the asylum

[Verse 1: Joell Ortiz]

I walk around with OJ's glove knowing it fit

Fif to the toilet we taking over this shit

The Yaowa waited, salivated like man I know I can spit

I was knocking for quite some time but you wouldn't open this bitch

You turn green when I enter, probably can't breathe

Now y'all trees in the winter, nobody can't leave

For all those that was doubtful I got a scalpel

And a mouthful of vowels to make a party stampede

You brag about swag and your feminine trends

I belittle your riddle you Skittles with Eminem's friends

So I ain't trying to play with you, this chainsaw crack jokes

On Cain's brother brah, disable you

I'm an untamable animal with aim from a moving train

I could graze your decaying tooth

And my straight jacket just came unloose

I'm reporting live this is (Breaking news)

[Hook: Eminem]

The lunatics now run the asylum

The doctors are dead, nurses are tied up

They've taken it over and barricaded themselves inside it

The lunatics now run the asylum

I said the lunatics now run the asylum

The doctors are dead, nurses are tied up

They've taken it over and barricaded themselves inside it

The lunatics now run the asylum

[Verse 2: Crooked I]

Psycho, like no, bitch made, nigga so

This grave, digga go, insane

I got the switchblade to your throat, move it's not smart

I'll slice and watch you bleed all over the pop charts

Me and the Slaughters run the asylum, I'm feeling

Like DiCaprio rapping on Shutter Island

This industry is pussy, guess who's gonna hit it the meanest

Give her the penis, hit the bitch in her Venus

To this game I'm addicted and fiendish, I'm predicted to bring this

G shit to it's pinnacle zenith, lyrical genius

So sick with ridiculous English, niggas get squeamish

When they hear this criminal linguist

Fall back it's the take over, y'all wack and ya cake over

I escape from the padded room, grab a broom and rape a male rapper's womb

[Hook: Eminem]

The lunatics now run the asylum

The doctors are dead, nurses are tied up

They've taken it over and barricaded themselves inside it

The lunatics now run the asylum

I said the lunatics now run the asylum

The doctors are dead, nurses are tied up

They've taken it over and barricaded themselves inside it

The lunatics now run the asylum

[Verse 3: Royce Da 5'9]

I've witnessed the worst happening

The hurt moment when I'm purse snatching

I'm perp going berserk boning Miss nurse Ratched

When we spit you get the pug face

Your bitch swallowed my five dollar foot long on the subway

If sane people are rich why should I sit around?

Play me and end up like the back of this hospital gown, ass out

Drink drink drink drink, pass out

Y'all feel me right?

When I was young I was loud, I used to be like "I'LL KILL YA!"

Now I be like "You know I'll kill ya right?"

If y'all don't like it y'all can lick my dick

'Cause we built this house we live in brick by brick

[Hook: Eminem]

The lunatics now run the asylum

The doctors are dead, nurses are tied up

They've taken it over and barricaded themselves inside it

The lunatics now run the asylum

I said the lunatics now run the asylum

The doctors are dead, nurses are tied up

They've taken it over and barricaded themselves inside it

The lunatics now run the asylum

Track details

Asylum

2012

Asylum

Asylum

Production & Engineering