For his next stunt, Eminem will release a new single.
On Tuesday (May 28), Em posted a joint Instagram video with magician David Blaine to announce the name and release date of his new single: “Houdini” will arrive first on Friday.
In the video, Eminem calls Blaine on FaceTime to ask for his help. “Listen, I need your help with something,” the rapper says. “Yeah, whatever you need,” Blaine replies. “Well, first of all, I just want you to know that you're the best to ever do it,” Eminem says, to which Blaine replies, “We should do something together sometime.”
“What I was wondering is, how far can we go with this magic? Can we do a trick or something?' Eminem asks. Blaine then grabs a glass of red wine from a nearby cafe and downs the wine before biting into the glass itself, prompting gasps from the audience as the glass shatters in his mouth.
“So for my last trick,” says Eminem, “I'm going to wipe out my career.”
“Oops, what?” Blaine says with shards of glass still in his mouth, before the screen fades to black except for this message: “'Houdini' 5.31.24.”
The song will be the lead single from Eminem's already announced 11th album, The Death of Slim Shady. The project will be his first in four years, following his 2020 Billboard 200 album Music to be murdered by.
Notably, this is the second major single called “Houdini” to be released in the past year, with Dua Lipa penning her own ode to the Hungarian-American escape artist in November.
While we don't have an exact release date for The Death of Slim Shady, a teaser released last month promised it would arrive in “summer 2020.”
Watch Eminem and David Blaine's video below:
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