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Music To Be Murdered By, Eminem's 11th
studio album, was a midnight surprise
dropped quietly in the wee hours this
morning, packaged with assists from Black
Thought, Ed Sheeran, Q-Tip, Anderson .Paak,
Juice WRLD — the 21-year-old Chicago
rapper who died on Dec. 8 — and others.
Among them you’ll find skills; the voice of
Alfred Hitchcock (from whom Mathers cribbed the album's title) and a cross-section of
popular hip-hop's varied, favored production styles. But it's the video released in tandem, for
the song "Darkness," that appears to be the album's centerpiece and fulcrum.
A No. 1 smash released in January 2019, "7 Rings" uses
the melody of "My Favorite Things" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II from
"The Sound of Music." The cut has 10 credited songwriters, including the Broadway duo
and Grande. The suit does not name
Rodgers and Hammerstein or mention "My
Favorite Things.“ The suit alleges that
during a meeting with Universal Music
Group in June 2017, Stone played several
tracks, including "I Got It.“ Stone says
that one of the defendants, Thomas Lee
Brown, is a music producer who worked
with Grande on at least five studio
albums and was at the meeting.
