queen + paul rodgers sang at the beginning of beautiful by eminem.
queen + paul rodgers sang at the beginning of beautiful by eminem.
who sings at the beginning of beautiful by eminem?
queen + paul rodgers
after the skit "mr. mathers", where eminem is recovered to a hospital, "déjà vu" addresses his overdose in 2007 and drug dependency during his hiatus from music. on the song, eminem also explains how this has affected him in the last five years, to the point where his daughter has become scared of her father's behavior. "beautiful", a ballad which samples "reaching out" by queen + paul rodgers, also deals with the same time period where eminem believed he had "reached rock bottom" and lost hope for his future. eminem felt it was important to include "beautiful" on the album as a reminder to himself as well as "anybody who is in a dark place [...] that you can get out of it". after "crack a bottle", a collaboration with dr. dre and 50 cent, "relapse" ends with "underground". on this final track, eminem sought to bring back to his music and lyrics the subject matter and punchlines reminiscent of "the hiphop shop times" (the hiphop shop was a clothing store in detroit where local rappers, including eminem, would compete in freestyle battles), before he had become famous and thus did not have worry about the explicit content of his lyrics.
relapse (eminem album)
in february 2017, eminem appeared on "no favors", a track from big sean's album "i decided". in the song, eminem calls the newly elected president donald trump a "bitch", and also raps about raping conservative social and political commentator ann coulter, who is a trump supporter, with a variety of foreign objects. coulter responded to the lyrics, stating, "i think it's unfortunate that the left, from berkeley to eminem with his rap songs, has normalized violence against women, as eminem has done." eminem participated in the 2017 bet hip hop awards' annual cypher, using his verse, a freestyle rap called "the storm", to further criticize trump and the administration for, among other things, trump's focus on national football league players' protests during "the star spangled banner" over hurricane maria recovery efforts and lack of gun control reform in the wake of the 2017 las vegas shooting. eminem ended the cypher by giving an ultimatum saying that trump supporters cannot be his fans. the verse received wide praise among other rappers following its release. in october 2017, eminem appeared on "revenge", a track from pink's album "beautiful trauma".
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