50 Ways

50 Ways

Eminem

“50 Ways” is a leaked track that was rumored to be from the scrapped Eminem project, King Mathers. It has the questionable distinction of being the last song to date that Eminem wrote about his desire to murder his wife/ex-wife Kim – while the song doesn’t name her, it includes intimate details about the couple’s chaotic sex life and Kim’s cocaine issues. It makes frequent references to the older Kim murder ballads, particularly “‘97 Bonnie and Clyde”.

The song samples Paul Simon’s 1975 track “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”, amusingly casting Paul as Shady’s shrink. Eminem previously sampled this song on “Murder, Murder”, from his own Slim Shady EP.