Eminem Gives Fans Behind-the-Scenes Look at “Houdini” Video

On Monday (June 10), Eminem gave fans an exclusive look at the making of his “Houdini” music video. More specifically, they can see Marshall Mathers jump and climb around as his superhero alter ego Rapboy.

“Don’t try this at home,” Em tells the camera. “I do my own stunts.”

In a quick montage, the Detroit MC is seen scaling a building, engaging in some slow-motion fight choreography and slapping his face on the ground. The video then closes out with Em, donning his signature Slim Shady blond hair and white T-shirt, yelling about how his shoe came off.

The funny clip comes after “Houdini” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Monday, marking Eminem’s highest-charting song in over 10 years.

Eminem Makes Fun of Himself in New “Houdini” Music Video

Em clowning himself in his behind-the-scenes look makes sense considering he made fun of himself extensively in the final cut of “Houdini.” The original music video dropped alongside the single on May 31, and finds Rapboy defending Detroit from an evil Slim Shady who time-traveled from 1999 to 2004. Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Royce 5’9″, The Alchemist, Boogie and more appear in the visual, which now has over 60 million views on YouTube.

The single will likely appear on Em’s forthcoming album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coupe de Grâce), which he’s been teasing since April.

Watch Funny Behind-the-Scenes Clip of Eminem’s “Houdini” Music Video

🎥 I do my own stunts.  #Houdini video shoot behind the scenes- don’t try this at home!!! pic.twitter.com/LKypN6N53A

— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) June 10, 2024

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Eminem – Houdini [Official Music Video]

See 30 of Eminem’s Craziest Lyrics of All Time

Song: “Infinite”

Year: 1996

Crazy Lyrics: “I let the beat commence so I can beat the sense in your elite defense/I got some meat to mince, a crew to stomp and then two feet to rinse/I greet the gents and ladies, I spoil loyal fans/I foil plans and leave fluids leaking like oil pans/My coiled hands around this microphone are lethal/One thought in my cerebral is deeper than a Jeep full of people/MCs are feeble, I came to cause some pandemonium”

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Song: “Lose Yourself”

Year: 2002

Crazy Lyrics: “His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy/There’s vomit on his sweater already: mom’s spaghetti/He’s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready/To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting/What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud/He opens his mouth but the words won’t come out/He’s choking, how? Everybody’s joking now/The clock’s run out, time’s up, over/Blaow!”

Eminem “Stan” music video.

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Song: “Stan”

Year: 2000

Crazy Lyrics: “If you relax a little, I’m glad I inspire you, but Stan/Why are you so mad/Try to understand, that I do want you as a fan/I just don’t want you to do some crazy s**t/I seen this one s**t on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick/Some dude was drunk and drove his car over a bridge/And had his girlfriend in the trunk, and she was pregnant with his kid/And in the car they found a tape, but they didn’t say who it was to/Come to think about it, his name was, it was you, damn”

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Song: “Deja Vu”

Year: 2009

Crazy Lyrics: “That’s the devil in my ear, I been sober a f**kin’ year/And that f**ker still talks to me he’s all I can f**kin’ hear/Marshall, come on we’ll watch the game, it’s the Cowboys and Buccaneers/And maybe if I just drink half I’ll be half buzzed/For half of the time, who’s the mastermind behind that little line/With that kind of rationale man I got half a mind/To have another half of glass of wine, sound asinine”

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Song: “313”

Year: 1996

Crazy Lyrics: “I’ll stop the alphabet at S and got it down to a T/I’m sure your bound to agree, a sweet MC crashes the spot/I’ll make the roof hot like I was Rock Master Scott/Your a*s forgot, so just in case you don’t remember me/I’ll run your brain around the block to jog your f**king memory/It’s either them or me man, kill or be killed/You will be sealed your casket closed, you still will be billed”

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Song: “3 a.m.”

Year: 2009

Crazy Lyrics: “Sitting nude in my living room, it’s almost noon/I wonder what’s on the tube, maybe they’ll show some boobs/Surfing every channel until I find Hannah Montana/Then I reach for the aloe and Lanolin/Bust all over the wall panelin’/Dismantlin’ every candle on top of the fireplace mantle and/Grab my flannel and my bandana then kiss the naked mannequin man again”

U.S. President George W. Bush holds a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House July 15, 2008 in Washington, DC. President Bush urged the US Congress to act quickly on a plan to shore up housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and also to lift a ban on offshore drilling to help increase domestic oil production.

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Song: “Love Me”

Year: 2002

Crazy Lyrics: “There’s a certain mystique when I speak, that you notice/’Cause it’s sort of unique ’cause you know it’s me/My poetry’s deep, and I’m stillmatic, the way I flow to this beat/You can’t sit still, it’s like trying to smoke crack and go to sleep/I’m strapped, it’s known any minute I could snap/I’m the equivalent of what would happen if Bush rapped/I bully these rappers so bad lyrically/It ain’t even funny, I ain’t even hungry, it ain’t even money/You can’t pay me enough for you to play me/It’s c**kamanie you just ain’t zany enough to rock with Shady”

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Song: Xzibit’s “Don’t Approach Me” featuring Eminem

Year: 2000

Crazy Lyrics: “And it’s a disgrace Hailie can’t play with her toys/In the front yard, without you drivin’ by, honkin’ your horn/Screamin’ some s**t, leanin’ out your windows, beepin’ and s**t/Or pullin’ up in my drive like I won’t leap in your whip/And so these kids tell their friends and relatives where I live/So my address ends up on the internet again/So then, I do an interview with Spin, tellin’ them/That if someone comes to my crib, I’ma shove a gun in their ribs/And reporters blow it out of proportion”—Eminem

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Song: “Bagpipes From Baghdad”

Year: 2009

Crazy Lyrics: “You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture/I’m the miracle whip, trickster/My signature sound when a tube of lipstick’s around/I’m bound to put it on in an instant, wow man/What an ensemble, what an assortment of pharma-ceuticals/this beautiful pill dust in my palm, my cuticles get residue just from touchin the bottle/Never knew I could remind me so much of my mama”

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Song: “Drips” feautring Obie Trice

Year: 2002

Crazy Lyrics: “Now I don’t wanna hit no women, but this chicks got it coming/Someone better get this b***h before she gets kicked in the stomach/And she’s pregnant, but she’s egging me on, begging me to throw her/Off the steps on this porch, my only weapon is force/And I don’t wanna resort to violence of any sort/But why’s she shoving me for?/Doesn’t she love me no more?/Wasn’t she hugging me four minutes ago at the door?/Man, I’m this close to going toe-to-toe with this w**re”—Eminem

Kim Mathers appears in Macomb County Circuit Court March 26, 2007 in Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Mathers’ ex-husband, Marshall Mathers, also known as rapper Eminem, filed a motion seeking to prohibit her from making derogatory, disparaging, inflammatory and otherwise negative comments about him in public, claming that her comments could harm the couples’ daughter Hailie.

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Song: “Soldier”

Year: 2002

Crazy Lyrics: “I spit the illest shit ever been dropped in two-inch/So ticky-tock, listen as the sound ticks on the clock/Listen to the sound of Kim as she licks on a c**k”

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Song: “Criminal”

Year: 2000

Crazy Lyrics: “The mother did drugs, hard liquor, cigarettes and speed/The baby came out, disfigured ligaments indeed/It was a seed who would grow up just as crazy as she/Don’t dare make fun of that baby ’cause that baby was me/I’m a criminal, an animal caged who turned crazed/But how the f**k you supposed to grow up when you weren’t raised?”

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Song: “I’m Back”

Year: 2000

Crazy Lyrics: “I take seven kids from Columbine, stand ’em all in line/Add an AK-47, a revolver, a .9, a MAC-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine/And that’s a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time”

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Song: “Just Don’t Give a F**k”

Year: 1999

Crazy Lyrics: “I’m buzzing, dirty dozen, naughty rotten rhymer/Cursing at you playas worse than Marty Schottenheimer”

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Song: “’97 Bonnie and Clyde”

Year: 1999

Crazy Lyrics: “Wake up, sleepyhead we’re here, before we pway/We’re gonna take mama for a wittle walk along the pier/Baby, don’t cry honey, don’t get the wrong idea/Mama’s too sleepy to hear you screaming in her ear (ma-maa!)/That’s why you can’t get her to wake, but don’t worry/Da-da made a nice bed for mommy at the bottom of the lake/Here, you wanna help da-da tie a rope around this rock? (yeah!)/We’ll tie it to her footsie then we’ll roll her off the dock/Ready now, here we go, on the count of three/One, two, free, whee! (woosh!)”

Eminem “No Love” music video

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Song: “No Love”

Year: 2010

Crazy Lyrics: “They call me a freak ’cause I like to spit on these p***ies before I eat ’em/Man, get these wack c**ksuckers off stage, where the f**k is Kanye when you need him?”

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Song: Bad Meets Evil’s (Eminem and Royce 5’9″) “Living Proof”

Year: 2011

Crazy Lyrics: “Your body language is sayin’ your confidence is gone/Well pick ya a*s up lil homie, come on/You just gone sit there and take it or make ’em suck it/Tell em where to shove it straight up/You gon’ make love to the world or you gon’ f**k it/The last time that life kicked me in the a*s/I pulled down it’s pants and put a foot up its a*s/Man, what a catastrophe it’d be for me to be a b***h-a*s p***y”—Eminem

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Song: “My Name Is”

Year: 1999

Crazy Lyrics: “My English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high/Thanks a lot, next semester I’ll be 35/I smacked him in his face with an eraser/Chased him with a stapler/Stapled his nuts to a stack of papers/Walked in the strip club, had my jacket zipped up/Flashed the bartender, then stuck my d**k in the tip cup/Extraterrestrial running over pedestrians/In a spaceship while they’re screaming at me/‘Let’s just be friends!’”

“Forever” music video.

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Song: “Forever”

Year: 2009

Crazy Lyrics: “I’m Hannibal Lecter, so just in case you’re thinking of saving face/You ain’t gonna have no face to save by the time I’m through with this place.”

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Song: “Till I Collapse”

Year: 2002

Crazy Lyrics: “I got a list, here’s the order of my list that it’s in/It goes Reggie, Jay-Z, Tupac and Biggie/André from OutKast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas and then me”

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Song: “Nail in the Coffin”

Year: 2002

Crazy Lyrics: “You gonna ruin my career, you better get one/Like I’ma sit and fight with you over some s**t, b***h-c**t/That made me put up with her psycho-a*s over six months/And only spread her legs to let me hit once”

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Song: 50 Cent’s “Psycho” featuring Eminem

Year: 2009

Crazy Lyrics: “Beat the Octomom to death with a Cabbage Patch Kid/Attack a snatch yeah there’s somethin to jack a batch in/Impregnated then shoot up the embryo sack with Mac-10s/Triplets, quadruplets, and a couple of back-to-back twins/That fetus is fallin out all over, Jack is back again”—Eminem

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Song: “Doe Rae Me” a.k.a. “Hailie’s Revenge” featuring D12 and Obie Trice

Year: 2003

Crazy Lyrics: “F**kin punk p***y f**k you chump/gimme a one-on-one see if I don’t f**k you up/Tryin to jump the Ruff Ryders and they cut you up/And you put Jada on a track, that’s how much you suck/D**k in the industry, swear that you in the streets hustlin’/You sit behind a f**kin’ desk at The Source butt-kissin'”—Eminem

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Song: “Shady CXVPHER”

Year: 2014

Crazy Lyrics: “But I may fight for gay rights, especially if that dyke is more of a knockout than Janay Rice/Play nice? B***h I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice/Like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance/’Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens”

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Song: Jadakiss and The Lox’s “Welcome to D-Block” featuring Eminem

Year: 2004

Crazy Lyrics: “Welcome to D-Block, the mighty mighty D-Block/The place in New York City where Diddy won’t even walk/Its D-Block, the part of Yonkers I wouldn’t be caught/Without two pistols on me that’ll be cocked in each pocket/D-Block don’t even stop to talk, you just keep walking”—Eminem

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Song: Nicki Minaj’s “Roman Revenge” featuring Eminem

Year: 2010

Crazy Lyrics: “Twisted-a*s mind, got a pretzel for a brain/An eraser for a head, f**kin’ pencil for a frame/You don’t like it, then peel off, b***h/Every last woman on Earth I’ll kill off/And I still wouldn’t f**k you, slut/So wipe the smile on your grill off/I swear to God I’ll piss a Happy Meal off”—Eminem

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Song: “The Real Slim Shady”

Year: 2000

Crazy Lyrics: “Will Smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps to sell records/Well, I do; so f**k him and f**k you too/You think I give a damn about a Grammy/Half of you critics can’t even stomach me, let alone stand me/But Slim, what if you win, wouldn’t it be weird/Why, so you guys could just lie to get me here/So you can sit me here next to Britney Spears/S**t, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs/So I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst/And hear ’em argue over who she gave head to first”

Eminem “Love The Way You Lie” Music Video

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Song: “Love the Way You Lie” featuring Rihanna

Year: 2010

Crazy Lyrics: “I’m tired of the games, I just want her back/I know I’m a liar/If she ever tries to f**kin’ leave again, I’ma tie her to the bed and set this house on fire”

Eminem “Rap God” music video.

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Song: “Rap God”

Year: 2013

Crazy Lyrics: “Uh, summa-lumma, dooma-lumma, you assumin’ I’m a human/What I gotta do to get it through to you? I’m superhuman/Innovative and I’m made of rubber so that anything you say is ricochetin’ off of me and it’ll glue to you and/I’m devastating, more than ever demonstrating/How to give a muthaf**kin’ audience a feeling like it’s levitating/Never fading, and I know the haters are forever waiting/For the day that they can say I fell off, they’ll be celebrating”

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Song: “Godzilla”

Year: 2020

Crazy Lyrics: “I don’t wanna hurt ’em, but I did, I’m in a fit of rage//I’m murderin’ again, nobody will evade/I’m finna kill ’em and dump all their f**kin’ bodies in the lake/Obliterating everything, incinerate a renegade/I’m here to make anybody who want it with the pen afraid/But don’t nobody want it, but they’re gonna get it anyway/’Cause I’m beginnin’ to feel like I’m mentally ill/I’m Attila, kill or be killed, I’m a killer bee, the vanilla gorilla/You’re bringin’ the killer within me outta me/You don’t wanna be the enemy of the demon who entered me/And be on the receivin’ end of me, what stupidity it’d be/Every bit of me’s the epitome of a spitter/When I’m in the vicinity, muthaf**ker, you better duck/Or you finna be dead the minute you run into me/A hundred percent of you is a fifth of a percent of me/I’m ’bout to f**kin’ finish you, b***h, I’m unfadable/You wanna battle, I’m available, I’m blowin’ up like an inflatable/I’m undebatable, I’m unavoidable, I’m unevadable/I’m on the toilet bowl, I got a trailer full of money and I’m paid in full”