Unaccommodating
by Eminem (featuring Young M.A)

Album: Music to Be Murdered By (2020)
Charted: 36
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Songfacts®:

  • The word "unaccommodating" can be defined as someone who is not compliant. During his two verses, Eminem lives up to the title by being his most belligerent and politically incorrect. He compares his wildly destructive behavior to terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden and serial killers like John Wayne Gacy. Slim Shady's message to his critics: this is what he does and he's not going away anytime soon.
  • Eminem ends his first verse with a controversial reference to the Manchester Arena attack in 2017.

    I'm contemplating yelling 'Bombs away' on the game
    Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting


    On May 22, 2017, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device, killing 22 people who were leaving an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. Eminem is comparing the impact of his music on the industry, to the destruction created by the bomber.

    Grande has received treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and her fans immediately condemned the lyric on social media, getting the hashtag #EminemIsOverParty trending.
  • Eminem's renowned form for offensive lyrics includes a previous reference to the Manchester Arena attack on his 2018 acapella freestyle "Kick Off."

    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
  • Eminem enlists queer female hip-hop star Young M.A. to rap the first verse. The Brooklyn MC's rhymes are standard braggadocio fare about her come-up and hard work.

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