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Eminem’s ‘disgusting’ Ariana Grande lyrics about Manchester Arena bombing slammed by fans



Eminem has faced fierce backlash online hours after releasing a surprise new album that features a lyric appearing to make light of the Manchester Arena bombing. 

The American rapper released Music To Be Murdered By on Twitter accompanied by a music video condemning gun violence. 

One of the tracks, titled Unaccommodating, addresses his feud with Machine Gun Kelly, and features the line against a backdrop of bomb sound effects: “But I’m contemplating yelling ‘Bombs away’ on the game/Like I’m outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.”


Twenty-two people were killed in the terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert in May 2017.

Eminem’s reference to the tragedy sparked a wave of criticism, with many saying they were “disgusted” at the 47-year-old rapper. 

“I am disgusted how did he or his team think this was okay? he’s trash,” wrote one Twitter user.

“Eminem literally just used a horrific terrorist attack that killed 22 innocent adults/children for a punchline in a song. I am disgusted,” said another.

One person called on the rapper to “have some respect”, writing: “This is so messed up! Many people (mostly children) were injured at this concert and some even lost their lives, and he thinks it’s ok to put this lyric in a song? @Eminem maybe try and have a little respect, and don’t use a terrorist attack to gain clout.”

One said: “Even if you don’t like Ariana Grande, commenting so poorly over a bombed concert, a literal terrorist attack, is gross.”

It’s the second time the rapper has referenced the Manchester Arena bombings in his lyrics.

In a 2018 freestyle battle rap, with a spoken caveat at the beginning that “nothing’s off limits” to get a reaction from the crowd, he rapped:

“Squashed in between a brainwashing machine/Like an Islamic regime, a jihadist extreme radical/Suicide bomber that’s seeing/Ariana Grande sing her last song of the evening/And as the audience from the damn concert is leaving/Detonates the device strapped to his abdominal region/I’m not gonna finish that, for obvious reasons”

Ariana Grande has so far not responded to the lyrics in Unaccommodating.

Eminem released the album under the caption: “It’s your funeral.”

It is the rapper’s first full-length release since 2018’s Kamikaze, and contains 20 tracks and a long list of featured artists.

As well as Ed Sheeran and late rapper Juice WRLD – who died in December, aged 21 – Anderson Paak, Skylar Grey and Young MA all appear.

As well as the album, Eminem shared the music video for the single Darkness, which appears to have been inspired by the October 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting in which 58 people were killed. 

It features a middle-aged white man firing an automatic weapon at concert-goers from a hotel room window high above the ground.

Gunman Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,100 rounds of ammunition from his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel before turning the gun on himself.

At the end of the Darkness video, a message reading “When will this end? When enough people care” appears on the screen.

Viewers are also urged to register to vote to change gun laws in the US.

This isn’t the first time Eminem’s made light of mass murder in his songs. In 2003, he famously referenced 9/11 on 50 Cent’s Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ track Patiently Waiting.

“S*** what you know about death threats, cause I get a lot/Shady Records was 80 seconds away from The Towers/Some cowards f****** with the wrong building/They meant to hit ours,” he rapped on the song.



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