Eminem drops surprise album, advocates changes to gun laws

Rapper Eminem once again dropped a surprise album, releasing “Music to Be Murdered By” on Friday — along with a video that calls for changes to gun laws.

follow-up to 2018′s “Kamikaze” — also released without warning — was anunced on Twitter just after midnight.

Detroit rapper’s new music video for “Darkness,” one of album’s 20 tracks, depicts a shooting at a concert. lyrics and storyline of video specifically allude to 2017 mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas that left 58 people de, making it deliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. It closes with audio and video foot of news brocasts from or recent mass shooting around U.S. and an appeal to register to vote.

“When will this end? When eugh people care,” res text at end of video. “Register to vote at vote.gov. Make your voice heard and help change gun laws in America.”

A link to music video on Eminem’s website encours viewers to contact or visit several gun violence prevention organizations, including Everytown for Gun Safety and Sandy Hook Promise.

cover art features blood spatter and a bearded Eminem cl in a suit and fedora and holding a shovel. An alternate cover features same splatter, with a w hatless Eminem holding both a hatchet and a gun to his he in an hom to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 album of same name: “Inspired by master, Uncle Alfred!” Eminem tweeted.

“Music to Be Murdered By” is Eminem’s 11th studio album, according to his website.

Among many collaborators, album features Ed Sheeran, Skylar Grey, Anderson .Paak and Juice WRLD, 21-year-old rapper who died in December.