On Monday (March 9) Eminem shared the new music video for “Godzilla,” the latest visual from his new album Music to Be Murdered By. The video is directed by Lyrical Lemonade’s Cole Bennett, and is dedicated to the late rapper Juice WRLD, who is featured on the song’s hook.
The video begins with Eminem in a Costco-like warehouse store, where he begins rapping, “I can swallow a bottle of alcohol and I’ll feel like Godzilla.” We then see the rapper beginning to chug a bottle of Godzilla, with his face on the bottle. The drunk rapper then begins to wander around the store clearly hallucinating, and runs into an array of characters some of which are played by himself, before he vomits up a pile of lego chunks.
The rapper then lands on top of a mountain of his entire discography, and raps to the shoppers in the store. He later runs through a parking lot where he is accidentally punched in the face and knocked out by Mike Tyson.
At the hospital, we see his longtime collaborator Dr.Dre playing up to his title in a white lab coat and blue scrubs alongside Eminem who is also playing a doctor. Eminem then spits his last verse before Bennett signs us off with a special tribute to the 21-year-old rapper Juice WRLD.
A black and white video of Juice laughing plays, accompanied by a voiceover from the rapper. “I hope everybody havin’ a good day. I hope everybody accomplished something significant. Even if you didn’t accomplish anything significant, don’t be discouraged. Just aim to accomplish something significant tomorrow and the next day and so on. If anybody is going through anything, I hope and pray you get through it. And just know you do have the strength to get through whatever the f— you going through, no matter what it is.”
Music to be Murder by was released in January, with “Godzilla” being its standout track. Both from Chicago, Bennett and Juice WRLD were close friends. Bennett is best known for his work directing videos for not only Juice WRLD, but Vic Mensa, Chance the Rapper, Famous Dex, Lil Pump, Smokepurpp, Lil Xan, Blueface, Ski Mask the Slump God, Jack Harlow, and more. His most notable video on his Youtube channel is Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams,” which has surpassed 400 million views.
Listen to Music to Be Murdered By below.