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The melancholic closer “Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, off Eminem’s most recent album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), has a stunning new video out.
The video, which brings the song’s heartbreaking message to life, shows Eminem regretting being a dad because of his demanding music career and previous drug addiction.
The Detroit native is heard passionately reciting his melancholy rhymes as he watches vintage family photos of his three kids behind a glass screen.
Later in the film, Em is shown helplessly watching his former self collapse in the bathroom—possibly as a result of a heroin overdose—before he yells at the unconscious younger Marshall Mathers in bed, hoping to rouse him.
In one particularly moving moment, the legendary rapper spits, “Right now, I’m just weak / As I fall further down in this deep hole / And farther in the ground that I sink / As they lower me in my coffin, I feel the tears all fallin’ down on my cheek.” Em’s children are pictured burying him at his burial.
In the video, Jelly Roll also makes an appearance. He uses the song’s catchy hook to channel his own demons.
Two heartbreaking songs on The Death of Slim Shady are devoted to Eminem’s children: “Temporary” and “Somebody Saves Me.”
Hailie Jade, his eldest daughter, is honored in this heartfelt tribute song, which even includes recordings of her early singing.
“Temporary,” which has lines like “So Hailie Jade, I wrote you this song / To help you cope with life now that I’m gone,” is meant for Hailie to listen to when her father passes away. It also features frequent collaborator Skylar Grey on the hook.
Em also urges his 28-year-old daughter to look after her siblings and her uncle when he’s no longer around: “Look after Alaina, Stevie and Uncle Nate / And sweetie, be strong, I know I was your rock.” The rapper’s voice even breaks slightly when he says the next line: “And I still am, saying goodbye is just not / Ever easy, why you crying? Just stop.” At the end of the song, Eminem admits that “Temporary” is “the hardest thing I ever wrote.”
With nearly 280,000 equivalent units sold in its first week, Eminem’s highly acclaimed album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 list, demonstrating its popularity as yet another release in his impressive catalog.
The previous single, “Houdini,” was also a hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number two with a humorous, celebrity-filled music video and clever jabs at R. Kelly and Megan Thee Stallion, among other people.