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Eminem drops surprise new album with video calling for changes to gun laws

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Eminem has dropped a surprise album — and it’s politically charged.
The rapper’s eleventh studio album, Music To Be Murdered By, was released Friday as well as the video for the track “Darkness,” which calls for an overhaul of U.S. gun laws.
The six-minute video eerily shows a concert shooting playing out with both the dramatization and lyrics referencing the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, when Stephen Paddock opened fire into a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival. It was the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds.

The video for the song, which samples Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence,” also included footage of news broadcasts from several other recent mass shootings across the country.
The end of the video sees Eminem (real name: Marshall Mathers) staring at a wall of TV screens as the news reports play, one after another. Each screen then turns to an image of the American flag. The words, “When will this end?” then appear across the screen followed by, “When enough people care.”

The last messages urge people to register to vote with the note, “Make your voice heard and help change the gun laws in America.” A link to the performer’s own website is also included, which has a page with various organizations — including Sandy Hook Promise, Brady United Against Gun Violence
and Everytown for Gun Safety — that are working to put “an end to senseless gun violence, or to help survivors and their families.”
Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, which is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, applauded his efforts.

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