Naruto’s Penultimate Villain Madara Inspires Song by Rapper Eminem

Marshall Mathers (the American rapper better known as Eminem) dropped a shocking track on Friday — a song based on the Naruto manga and anime’s penultimate villain, Madara Uchiha. The “MADARA (feat. Neil Kaplan & Hideyoshi)” song is a collaboration between Eminem and Filipino rapper Ezekiel “EZ Mil” Sapiera, featuring Madara’s English voice actor Neil Kaplan and Japanese rapper Hideyoshi. A music video for “MADARA” is now streaming with the lyrics:

Eminem posted a short preview the video on social media while quoting song’s lyrics: “Out of all the rappers I’ve slain who have come at me I never felt guilt, cuz it wasn’t murder, just suicide ‘Cause really they all got themselves killed.”

EZ Mil updated his own social media profile with an image of “MADARA”:

Kaplan responded to a post that name-checked (not all) the artists on “MADARA”: “There’s also another voice on this track…”

Hideyoshi also posted a clip with the caption, “A thousand shadow clones… but only one Shady. The final presence has awakened.”

Madara Uchiha was one of the primary antagonists and the penultimate villain of the Naruto manga series and Naruto Shippūden anime series. Masashi Kishimoto serialized the manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1999 to 2014. The manga has spawned the Naruto and Naruto Shippūden television anime series, original video anime (OVA) projects, several anime films, spinoff manga, the Boruto sequel manga and anime series, a series of novels, stage plays, and video games.

Kishimoto announced a new Naruto manga at New York Comic Con on Saturday. The Naruto anime staff also announced that the upcoming limited anime series will be a crossover with fellow ninja anime series Ninku.

Sources: EZ Mil’s YouTube channel, Eminem’s X/Twitter account, EZ Mil’s X/Twitter account, Neil Kaplan‘s X/Twitter account, Hideyoshi’s Instagram account via Music Natalie, Billboard