Jelly Roll‘s “Save Me” is getting a second life on Eminem‘s new album The Death of Slim Shady, which dropped Friday (July 12) and features a surprise duet with the country star on its final track, an emotional open letter to the rapper’ s kids.
The tune, labelled “Somebody Save Me,” greatly examples Jelly’s 2023 hit, which got toNo 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November after Lainey Wilson got on the remix. The Detroit rap artist’s brand-new track opens up with a recording of him brushing off a more youthful variation of his 31-year-old child Alaina’s appeals for him to find consume with her, after which the “Son of a Sinner” artist’s voice enters..
“Somebody save me, me from myself,” Jelly sings in the fragment. “I’ve spent so long living in Hell.”
Em continues to devote bars to all 3 of his children– he’s additionally Dad to 28-year-old Hailie and 22-year-old Stevie– freely excusing his previous background of picking medicines over his kids. “I don’t even deserve the father title/ Hailie, I’m so sorry/ I know I wasn’t there for your first guitar recital,” he raps.“Alaina, sorry that you had to hear me fall in the bathroom … Stevie, I’m sorry, I missed you grow up and I didn’t get to be the dad I wanted to be to you.”
In in between Slim’s knowledgeables, Jelly’s psychological carolers discolors in and out. “They say my lifestyle is bad for my health,” he belts. “It’s the only thing that seems to help.”
The shock partnership transpires a month after Eminem and the “Need a Favor” musician collaborated for a real-time efficiency of the previous’s “Sing for the Moment” as component of NBC’s Live From Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central unique. Jelly sang the section of Aerosmith’s “Dream On” experienced in the hip-hop titan’s The Eminem Show hit.
“Em reached out, his team reached out and said, ‘Would you be interested in doing this?’” Jelly spurted to Entertainment Tonight of the efficiency inJune “I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was a joke until I met Eminem himself … As soon as I met Eminem, it was like the coolest moment ever, man.”
The Death of Slim Shady includes a total amount of 19 tracks, consisting of the formerly launched songs “Houdini” and “Tobey,” the last including Big Sean and BabyTron. It comes 4 years after 2020’s Music to Be Murdered By, which debuted atNo 1 on the Billboard 200..
Listen to Eminem and Jelly Roll’s shock duet “Somebody Save Me” listed below.
