Eminem, Elevator | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 23^rd edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we highlight “Elevator” performed by provocative, award winning rapper, Eminem.

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 23^rd edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we break down “Elevator” performed by Eminem.

“Elevator” appears exclusively as the fourth track on the Refill portion of Relapse: Refill, released by Eminem in 2009. In the context of Relapse: Refill, the nearly five-minute-long “Elevator” appears as the 24^th overall track.  Written alongside Luis Resto, Eminem produced the track.  Following the intro, the rapper delivers the recollective chorus: “He’d [Proof] say, ‘What if you went platinum?’ I’d just laugh at him / ‘That’s not happening, that I can’t fathom’ / Eighty-some million records worldwide later / I’m living in a house with a fucking elevator.’” Word. From there, Eminem does what he does over the course of three verses – shock, shock, shock.  At the end of his first verse, he spits, “Chainsaw slaughters, turn your daughters into sawdust / I never thought it’d come to this, I oughta just be honest, but.”

In the second verse, Eminem gets far more controversial, asserting, “’Sorry, Lance, Mr. [Adam] Lambert and [Clay] Aiken ain’t gonna make it / They get so mad when I call them both faggots.’” Yikes! Throughout his career, controversy has played a key role, particularly when it comes to the homophobic f-slur.  The verse is also colorful thanks to the fact Em “lashed out at the doctor in my last operation / Shove the Wiener Schnitzel up his ass, hopped away…” and insults other so-called rappers (“I can’t believe I leave for one second / And you pussies queef all over the rap game, naked”).  There’s a third verse too, where again, Eminem mentions “Elevator in my house,” adding, “I blew the fuck up, a hamster in the microwave, I’m / Thinking ‘bout an escalator now, steps, I hate ‘em.” Flex on.  Of course, he also manages to insult another celebrity: “So you can suck my dick with Amy Winehouse’s teeth.” Charming, Eminem… Notably, “Elevator”, a non-single from Relapse: Refill, spent one week on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching no. 67 in 2010.

Eminem // Relapse: Refill // Aftermath // 2009

Eminem, Elevator: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 23 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Aftermath; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]