Eminem releases the music video for “Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, second single from his 12th solo studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace). The video includes a lot of old footage, including never before seen footage of Hailie playing on the guitar.
“Somebody Save Me,” featuring Jelly Roll, produced by benny blanco, Emile Haynie and Eminem himself, is a closing track off Eminem’s 12th solo studio album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace) on which Marshall delves into his addiction to prescription medication, a battle that nearly claimed his life due to an overdose in 2007. The song portrays “an alternate reality” where Eminem never got clean off drugs, and as a result, missed many milestones in his family. This song is thematically similar to “Arose,” the last song off of Em’s album Revival, in which he also addresses his drug addiction and its impact on his loved ones.
The lyrics of “Somebody Save Me” are about Eminem’s relationship with his family during his past drug addiction, and are written from the perspective of an alternate reality where he died before his daughter Hallie’s graduation. The song opens up with a recording of one of his children, Alaina, begging him to eat dinner which he denies. All three verse of the songs are dedicated to one of his kids, namely Alaina, Hallie, and Stevie, apologizing for his addiction disrupting the family. He openly regrets not being able to be a proper father, saying he “[doesn’t] even deserve the father title.” After the songs intro and in-between each verse, a snippet of Jelly Roll’s “Save Me” plays, where he says “somebody save me, me from myself” among other parts of the original song after each verse.
Even though the song was not released or announced as a single before, it debuted at No. 27 on US Billboard Hot 100. After sampling the song, Jelly Roll’s original song “Save Me” was also back into the top charts.
Few days after the release of the album, Jelly Roll took to Instagram where he posted a picture of alongside Eminem with the caption: “I always say my childhood hero’s lived somewhere between Willie Nelson and Eminem. As a teenager (and still today) I could recite every song on the Slim Shady album, the Marshal Mathers album and the Eminem show. When I bonded out of jail at 17 years old and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they would also play the “lose yourself” beat when I came out on stage at the freestyle battles. I related to every word Eminem wrote. I understand him and felt like he understood me, which was rare cause I spent most of my life feeling misunderstood. So you can imagine how I felt when I got that the call that Eminem would be sampling my song “Save Me” on his new album. And for him to use the song to discuss the other side of what could’ve happened if he would’ve allowed his demons to win brought me to tears. If you haven’t heard it yet , check out “Somebody Save Me” on Eminem’s new album “the death of slim shady” special shout out to Paul Rosenberg , you’ve been nothing but kind to me and treated me like family and gave me opportunities I didn’t deserve, forever grateful.”
You can watch the music video below:
