Eminem – Gnat (Audio, Lyrics, Video)

Eminem is here with “Gnat”. Listen, stream, buy, watch the video, mp3 download and read the lyrics to the song produced by D.A. Got That Dope. The video was directed by Cole Bennett.

Eminem Gnat

For the first time in recorded history, the Stans correctly predicted the release of an Eminem album. And now that the dust has settled and Music To Be Murdered By: Side B has landed in full glory, the day is ripe for the unpacking of Slim’s seemingly infinite bars. Seeing as he officially selected “Gnat” to be the project’s lead single, providing another new Cole Bennett-directed video in the process, it feels like an appropriate starting point.

Once again reuniting with D.A. Got That Dope, with whom he originally linked on Music To Be Murdered By, Em deftly weaves topical observations into his bars, touching on the COVID-19 pandemic without getting overtly politicized. He also makes sure to offer a subtle jab at his old sparring partner Machine Gun Kelly, though it’s more of a casual flick on the ear; still, it’s always fun to see Em’s competitive instincts kick in, reminding any challengers that he’s got nothing but time. Where the track truly comes alive is in the climactic beat-switch, as D.A. brings in a truly magnificent horn section that imbues Em’s dexterous bars with a touch of class.

Eminem – Gnat (prod. D.A. Got That Dope)

Watch Video

Lyrics

[Intro]
Yeah, yeah, sick
(d.a. got that dope)

[Chorus]
They say these bars are like COVID (Bars are like COVID)
You get ’em right off the bat (You get ’em right off the bat)
Infected with SARS and Corona (Infected with SARS and Corona)
Like you took a bite off of that (Damn)
And it goes from martian to human (Yeah)
That’s how the virus attacks (That’s how the virus attacks)
They come at me with machine guns (Brr)
Like trying to fight off a gnat

[Verse 1]
Still stackin’ my chips, hoes, higher than Shaq on his tiptoes
Atop the Empire State Buildin’, this shit is like child’s play, children
I will not annihilate, kill them, I’ll fuck around and pile eight million
Dead little juveniles, wait, chill, then, I’ll await my trial date ’til then
Ain’t nothin’ you say can ever trump (Nah), mic, pencil get killed (Yeah)
If you’re hypersensitive, I wasn’t referencin’ the vice president, chill (Chill)
I mean my penmanship at times tends to get ill, violence but with skill
That’s why I hence when I write ends up with the mic and pencil gettin’ killed (Yeah, hold up)
And I’m still ride or die for the squad (Yeah)
So you know which side that I’m on
If a battle line’s ever drawn, but if I get involved
It’ll be like K9’s in a brawl
But not similar to Mike Vick at all
‘Cause even if I don’t have a dog in the fight
They ain’t never gonna get rid of the fight in the dog
Got stripes like a tiger, so you might get mauled, a mic in the palms
Like claws, I can swing right for your jaw and rip it off with one swipe of the paw
Bitch, you still on my dick or naw? (Naw)
If I suck, your wife is a straw (Straw)
I’m sick and I’m not gonna cover my mouth next time that I cough

[Chorus]
They say these bars are like COVID (Bars are like COVID)
You get ’em right off the bat (You get ’em right off the bat)
Infected with SARS and Corona (Infected with SARS and Corona)
Like you took a bite off of that (Damn)
And it goes from martian to human (Yeah)
That’s how the virus attacks (That’s how the virus attacks)
They come at me with machine guns (Brr)
Like trying to fight off a gnat (Yeah, yeah)

[Verse 2]
And d.a. got that dope he sends to me (Uh-huh)
It’s like pneumonia symptoms and contracting COVID instantly
Which is what separates my flow from theirs, so that no one gets even close to this to pose a risk to me
So vocalistically (What?), that’s social distancing (Yeah)
Flow going viral, you best stay strapped
With that Lysol and get way back
Get that Pine-Sol and that Ajax
‘Cause this dry cough is just like football umpires callin’ a playback
Bitch, back the fuck up like fifteen yards, these rhymes call for a face mask (Face mask)
‘Nother fourteen-day quarantine, they’re cordoning off everything
This shit lookin’ like a horror scene, like me metaphorically (Damn)
‘Cause them stay-at-home orders seem like they just keep getting more extreme
Who knows when this nightmare will end (Marilyn)? Like Monroe, Norma Jean
Still got that heroin lyrical drip with that morphine and that Thorazine
‘Cause I’m so fuckin’ dope (Dope) and you’re a fiend
And that’s the one thing that hasn’t changed (Nope), for some semblance of normalcy
But I might need that Hydrochloroquine ’cause I got that (Yeah)
The Dark Horse, I’m a knight-mare
Mom fed me Valium like air
Thought that’s why they called it a high chair (Woah)
I got a contact like eyewear
Woah, wait a minute, bitch, let me lie here
20/20 hindsight in my side mirror
Every year, you drop the ball like Times Square
My hair trigger whenever I get an idea
Fuck, now my name rings out like a sponge mop
And my drip was a drop
In the bucket, so that gun shot
You just heard just now in that one spot
Just came from the nine mil’ that I just got
That’s big bucks and I got a full money clip and I’m loaded
I ain’t even mean to go the fuck off
I’m still totally inappropriate with an opiate
Groping it while I’m holding it like a trophy
I’m hoping a little codeine’ll get me OD’in’
Woah, everything is slow, I begin to floating
I know that I’m getting loaded, the pen exploded
Hiroshima with the flows, a utopia
With the dope, I’m an OG, I’m like the G.O.A.T.​
Here to get your goat little bit of sodium, it’s assault (A salt)
When I’m at the podium, at your throat, holy camoly
I’m in the zone with the shit I’m on
Get Imodium and a commode because nobody’s even close
You’re petroleum to plutonium, you’re a phony
I’m at the crib with your ho, got her at the pole like voting with no clothing
Stripped down to a toe ring and here we go with the gloating
I’ve got my nose in the air like a Boeing
Then I got into a little bit of an argument with her
So I took a little lick of a Klonopin at dinner
Then I hit her with the motherfucking ottoman and bit her
Then I shot her in the liver, delivered her to the bottom of the river
But I’m probably gon’ jump in the water with her
With a wad of money ’cause I got a lot of it
And when it come to drippin’, I be soppin’ like a hundred mile an hour
Never runnin’ out of either one of ’em, I gotta get it ’cause

[Chorus]
They say these bars are like COVID (Bars are like COVID)
You get ’em right off the bat (You get ’em right off the bat)
Infected with SARS and Corona (Infected with SARS and Corona)
Like you took a bite off of that (Damn)
And it goes from martian to human (Yeah)
That’s how the virus attacks (That’s how the virus attacks)
They come at me with machine guns (Brr)
It’s like trying to fight off a gnat (Fight off a gnat)