Samples and Interpolations
Trivia
- The word “unaccommodating” means not fitting in with the wishes or demands of others; unhelpful.
- “Unaccommodating” features , continuing a trend Eminem began on The Marshall Mathers LP 2 of collaborating with younger, emerging talent, such as , , and . This album expands on that approach, featuring three such artists — two more than either of the previous three albums.
- Eminem ends his first verse with a controversial reference to the 2017 Manchester Arena attack. On May 22, 2017, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device, killing 22 people as they left an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. Grande later received treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the lyric drew immediate backlash from her fans on social media, with #EminemIsOverParty trending.
- Eminem previously interpolated Young M.A. on “The Ringer” from Kamikaze by singing the main phrase from her song “OOOUUU.” He later revisits the phrase on “These Demons” from Music to Be Murdered By – Side B.
Words from Eminem
“When [Young M.A.] put out “OOOUUU,” I was like, “Yo, she’s dope,” and I started kinda following her a little bit. And then I started watching every video she put out. I was more so intrigued by her persona — she just carries herself like a star. But she also had the bars, and I was like, “Man… she’s really got bars!” So then I just went down a wormhole of, like… the “EAT” freestyle she did, then she did Flex, and how she was just calm, murdering it on Flex, but she barely even raised her voice. She was just calmly killing it. I was like, “Oh my God. […] I wanna put her on the album. I wanna do something with her.” … I hit her up and was like, “Yo, I got this intro to the album, and I want you to be the first thing that people hear after that.”