In Eminem's version Spiderman superhero origin story, it's not a radioactive spider sinking its teeth into it – it's a goat. The rapper spins this new narrative on his latest single, “Tobey,” which is set to appear on his upcoming studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), when it arrives on July 12th.
The single features Big Sean and BabyTron, whom Eminem casts as the other two rap figures in his version of the three Spider-Men showing each other the meme. “Tobey Maguire got bitten by a spider, me? Must've got bit by a goat,” he raps on the song's third verse, later spitting, “Beyond crazy, Shady's gone, but hey, maybe, I'm the GOAT/With Big Sean and BabyTron, and that's why he's on where the hell is it?'
BabyTron takes over the first verse and chorus on the record. The Michigan rapper leaves bars for rides and riches before passing the mic to Big Sean, who also hails from Detroit. He calls out the city, which is important to all three artists on “Tobey,” rapping, “Got new addresses, got no reception/Got love and hate coming from both directions/Bitch, I come from the D where the BMFing/Where they moin' them kiss like a chord.
A music video for “Tobey” will arrive on Friday, July 5. Eminem first teased the Cole Bennett-directed visual last week. The preview featured Big Sean and BabyTron standing behind Eminem and wearing a Jason Voorhees mask while ripping apart an off-frame figure with a chainsaw while blood spurts everywhere.
The figure is likely the alter-ego of rapper Slim Shady. In front of her The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), Eminem has fully leaned into his track to kill that side of himself. In May, he posted a fake obituary on Detroit Free Press which read: “His complicated and tortured existence has come to an end, and the legacy he leaves behind is no closer to resolution than how this character left this world.”
He continued: “Eventually, the very things that seemed to be the tools he used became calling cards that defined an existence that could only come to a sudden and horrible end… May he truly find peace in an afterlife that he could not find Earth.”
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