Eminem, Tobey | Song Review 🎵

Eminem, assisted by fellow Detroit rappers Big Sean and BabyTron, drops a banger with “Tobey,” the second single from The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce).

“Tobey Maguire got bit by a spider, but see, me, it was a goat / If you want space, I hope you take your helmet off soon as you get up to Venus and choke.” Woo! “Tobey” follows “Houdini” as the second single from The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), the 12^th studio album by Academy and Grammy award-winning rapper, Eminem. Notably, Em’ enlists fellow Detroit rappers Big Sean and BabyTron for the assist. What a come-up for the prolific BabyTron. Eminem produced “Tobey” with marvy ayy, John Nocito, Daniyel Carlton McDowell, and Lyrical Lemonade mastermind, Cole Bennett.  Clocking in south of five minutes, all three rappers get the opportunity to spit ill shit.

BabyTron, the youngest of the three, is the first rapper heard, dropping the chorus (excerpted above) followed by the first verse. In the verse, he agilely raps about being legally blind (“I’m allergic to rojo and legally blind, all I’m seein’ is ‘go’), smoking (“Up in my Tesla, I’m rollin’ up ‘Ishers, I stopped at Valero, think I should quit smoking”), and his drip.  The flow is flowin’! Big Sean arrives for the second verse, dropping no shortage of compelling one-liners and keeping the flow electrifying. “I’m the Ayatollah snatching your controller,” he spits, adding, “Bitch, I come from the D where they BMFing / Where they movin’ them keys like a chord progression.” Ooh-wee! Following the second iteration of the chorus, the main attraction, the GOAT (“Yet, here I sit on your list though at five (Hm)”), Eminem, drops the third and final verse. Em’ drops plenty of lyrical gems and courts controversy, which he admits. “Y’all thought you were sick, you were misdiagnosed (nope) / I’m dope, and you’ll never have this high a dose.” That’s cold 🥶! He keeps it a buck towards the end of the verse asserting, “Cement my legacy, I definitely did controversy, I always fed on, I need it / Treat it like a truck, hit it head-on, I meet it.” Accompanied by colorful, hard-hitting, sleek production, Eminem, Big Sean, and BabyTron ‘do the damn thing’ on “Tobey” which is > than “Houdini”. 

Eminem // The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) // Shady / Aftermath / Interscope // 7.14.24

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