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"When Eminem told fans listening to his Sirius XM radio station Shade45 yesterday that Relapse&amp;apos;s second single &amp;quot;3AM&amp;quot; has a darker tone than the snarky &amp;quot;We Made You,&amp;quot; he wasn&amp;apos;t joking. In fact, &amp;quot;darker&amp;quot; is an understatement &amp;#x2014; &amp;quot;3AM,&amp;quot; which leaked late yesterday, casts Eminem as a serial killer as he drops the choppy rhyme &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s 3 a.m. in the morning, put my key in the door, bodies laying all over the floor and I don&amp;apos;t know how they got there, but I guess I must have killed them.&amp;quot; Em said he already filmed a video for the single in his native Detroit, but considering the grisly nature of the lyrics, the clip may be destined for an R rating. (Hear the track at Rap Radar.)\r\n&amp;quot;3AM&amp;quot; features some of Em&amp;apos;s classic, wickedly witty wordplay: Kicking off with the line &amp;quot;I remember the first time I dismembered a family member,&amp;quot; there&amp;apos;s a verse about how Slim strangles his cousin with Christmas lights, cuts him up into little pieces and drinks his blood. Then as a bridge between two verses, Em quotes the creepiest line from Silence of the Lambs, &amp;quot;She puts the lotion in the bucket, she puts the lotion on the skin, or else she gets the hose again.&amp;quot; Em has also developed some kind of crush on Kim Kardashian, name-checking the reality star (and her ass) in both &amp;quot;We Made You&amp;quot; and this track. Kim, maybe double-lock your door &amp;#x2014; you do share a name with someone Em has rhymed about murdering before.\r\nEminem&amp;apos;s serial killer fetish first came to light when 50 Cent revealed that a track featuring Em called &amp;quot;Norman Bates Motel,&amp;quot; a reference to Alfred Hitchcock&amp;apos;s Psycho, would appear on Fiddy&amp;apos;s Before I Self-Destruct. Despite the grisly lyrics, &amp;quot;3AM&amp;quot; does boast an awesome Dr. Dre beat, and Slim Shady&amp;apos;s dexterous cadence is evidence of the extra time he was given experimenting with his prose while Dre alleviated the pressure of producing Relapse. Still, if Em&amp;apos;s claim that &amp;quot;3AM&amp;quot; mirrors the overall tone of Relapse is true, we&amp;apos;ll need a night light to make it through this album when it hits stores May 19th.\r\nRelated Stories:\r\n&amp;#x2022; Eminem Opens Up About &amp;quot;Relapse,&amp;quot; Acting in Shade45 Interview: &amp;quot;I Am Back&amp;quot; &amp;#x2022; Eminem Takes &amp;quot;Relapse&amp;quot; Viral With Rehab Clinic Website &amp;#x2022; Eminem Confirms Two 2009 Albums: &amp;quot;Relapse&amp;quot; Due May 19th"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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