Gnat
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About Gnat
On “Gnat,” the third promotional single from Eminem’s B-Sides version of "Music to Be Murdered By", the veteran rapper covers such topics as the COVID-19 pandemic, his former addiction to valium, and Donald Trump’s administration. The song’s music video was directed by Cole Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade, who also shot the music video for the standard album’s “Godzilla” back in January 2020. Upon the December 2020 release of Side B and the “Gnat” video, Cole tweeted: .
Gnat Lyrics
[00:03.67] Yeah, yeah, sick
[00:05.16] (D.A. got that dope)
[00:06.16] They say these bars are like COVID (bars are like COVID)
[00:07.89] You get 'em right off the bat (you get 'em right off the bat)
[00:09.54] Infected with SARS and Corona (infected with SARS and Corona)
[00:11.33] Like you took a bite off of that (damn)
[00:12.85] Then it goes from Martian to human (yeah)
[00:14.62] That's how the virus attacks (that's how the virus attacks)
[00:16.34] They come at me with machine guns (brr)
[00:17.98] Like trying to fight off a gnat
[00:19.74] Still stackin' my chips, hoes, higher than Shaq on his tiptoes
[00:23.02] Atop the Empire State Buildin', this shit is like child's play, children
[00:26.37] I will not annihilate, kill them, I'll fuck around and pile eight million
[00:29.55] Dead little juveniles, wait, chill, then, I'll await my trial date 'til then
[00:33.62] Ain't nothin' you say can ever Trump (Nah), mic, pencil get killed (yeah)
[00:36.94] If you're hypersensitive, I wasn't referencin' the vice president, chill (chill)
[00:40.04] I mean my penmanship at times tends to get ill, violence but with skill
[00:43.69] That's why I hence when I write ends up with the mic and pencil gettin' killed (yeah, hold up)
[00:48.38] And I'm still ride or die for the squad (yeah)
[00:50.84] So you know which side that I'm on
[00:52.28] If a battle line's ever drawn, but if I get involved
[00:54.05] It'll be like K9's in a brawl
[00:55.64] But not similar to Mike Vick at all
[00:57.49] 'Cause even if I don't have a dog in the fight
[00:58.99] They ain't never gonna get rid of the fight in the dog
[01:01.75] Got stripes like a tiger, so you might get mauled, a mic in the palms
[01:04.30] Like claws, I can swing right for your jaw and rip it off with one swipe of the paw
[01:07.86] Bitch, you still on my dick or naw? (Naw)
[01:09.49] If I suck, your wife is a straw (Straw)
[01:11.14] I'm sick and I'm not gonna cover my mouth next time that I cough
[01:14.13] They say these bars are like COVID (bars are like COVID)
[01:15.87] You get 'em right off the bat (you get 'em right off the bat)
[01:17.49] Infected with SARS and Corona (infected with SARS and Corona)
[01:19.13] Like you took a bite off of that (damn)
[01:20.58] Then it goes from Martian to human (yeah)
[01:22.41] That's how the virus attacks (that's how the virus attacks)
[01:24.23] They come at me with machine guns (brr)
[01:25.97] Like trying to fight off a gnat (yeah, yeah)
[01:29.78] And d.a. got that dope he sends to me (uh-huh)
[01:31.85] It's like pneumonia symptoms and contracting COVID instantly
[01:34.94] Which is what separates my flow from theirs
[01:36.73] So that no one gets even close to this to pose a risk to me
[01:39.16] So vocalistically (what), that's social distancing (yeah)
[01:42.88] Flow going viral, you best stay strapped
[01:44.51] With that Lysol and get way back
[01:46.12] Get that Pine-Sol and that Ajax
[01:47.97] 'Cause this dry cough is just like football umpires callin' a playback
[01:51.64] Bitch, back the fuck up like fifteen yards, these rhymes call for a face mask (face mask)
[01:55.87] 'Nother fourteen-day quarantine, they're cordoning off everything
[01:58.92] This shit lookin' like a horror scene, like me metaphorically (damn)
[02:01.85] 'Cause them stay-at-home orders seem like they just keep getting more extreme
[02:05.17] Who knows when this nightmare will end? Like Monroe, Norma Jean
[02:08.75] Still got that heroin lyrical drip with that morphine and that Thorazine
[02:12.59] 'Cause I'm so fuckin' dope (dope) and you're a fiend
[02:15.50] And that's the one thing that hasn't changed (nope), for some semblance of normalcy
[02:18.79] But I might need that Hydrochloroquine 'cause I got that (yeah)
[02:22.73] The Dark Horse, I'm a knight-mare
[02:24.28] Mom fed me Valium like air
[02:25.98] Thought that's why they called it a high chair (whoa)
[02:27.57] I got a contact like eyewear
[02:29.10] Whoa, wait a minute, bitch, let me lie here
[02:31.13] 20/20 hindsight in my side mirror
[02:32.57] Every year, you drop the ball like Times Square
[02:34.23] My hair trigger whenever I get an idea
[02:36.38] Fuck, now my name rings out like a sponge mop
[02:37.95] And my drip was a drop
[02:39.19] In the bucket, so that gun shot
[02:40.88] You just heard just now in that one spot
[02:42.64] Just came from the nine mil' that I just got
[02:44.86] That's big bucks and I got a full money clip and I'm loaded
[02:47.36] I ain't even mean to go the fuck off
[02:48.83] I'm still totally inappropriate with an opiate
[02:51.09] Groping it while I'm holding it like a trophy
[02:52.69] I'm hoping a little codeine'll get me OD'in'
[02:54.41] Whoa, everything is slow, I begin to floating
[02:56.19] I know that I'm getting loaded, the pen exploded
[02:57.83] Hiroshima with the flows, a utopia
[02:59.34] With the dope, I'm an OG, I'm like the G.O.A.T
[03:01.16] Here to get your goat little bit of sodium, it's assault
[03:02.90] When I'm at the podium, at your throat, holy camoly
[03:04.78] I'm in the zone with the shit I'm on
[03:06.02] Get Imodium and a commode because nobody's even close
[03:08.02] You're petroleum to plutonium, you're a phony
[03:10.03] I'm at the crib with your ho, got her at the pole like voting with no clothing
[03:12.64] Stripped down to a toe ring and here we go with the gloating
[03:15.10] I've got my nose in the air like a Boeing
[03:16.40] Then I got into a little bit of an argument with her
[03:18.43] So I took a little lick of a Klonopin at dinner
[03:19.92] Then I hit her with the motherfuckin' ottoman and bit her
[03:21.38] Then I shot her in the liver, delivered her to the bottom of the river
[03:23.43] But I'm probably gon' jump in the water with her
[03:25.19] With a wad of money 'cause I got a lot of it
[03:26.42] And when it come to drippin', I be soppin' like a hundred mile an hour
[03:28.25] Never runnin' out of either one of 'em, I gotta get it 'cause
[03:30.10] They say these bars are like COVID (bars are like COVID)
[03:31.62] You get 'em right off the bat (you get 'em right off the bat)
[03:33.28] Infected with SARS and Corona (infected with SARS and Corona)
[03:34.96] Like you took a bite off of that (damn)
[03:36.57] Then it goes from Martian to human (yeah)
[03:38.21] That's how the virus attacks (that's how the virus attacks)
[03:39.92] They come at me with machine guns (brr)
[03:41.81] Like trying to fight off a gnat (fight off a gnat)
[00:05.16] (D.A. got that dope)
[00:06.16] They say these bars are like COVID (bars are like COVID)
[00:07.89] You get 'em right off the bat (you get 'em right off the bat)
[00:09.54] Infected with SARS and Corona (infected with SARS and Corona)
[00:11.33] Like you took a bite off of that (damn)
[00:12.85] Then it goes from Martian to human (yeah)
[00:14.62] That's how the virus attacks (that's how the virus attacks)
[00:16.34] They come at me with machine guns (brr)
[00:17.98] Like trying to fight off a gnat
[00:19.74] Still stackin' my chips, hoes, higher than Shaq on his tiptoes
[00:23.02] Atop the Empire State Buildin', this shit is like child's play, children
[00:26.37] I will not annihilate, kill them, I'll fuck around and pile eight million
[00:29.55] Dead little juveniles, wait, chill, then, I'll await my trial date 'til then
[00:33.62] Ain't nothin' you say can ever Trump (Nah), mic, pencil get killed (yeah)
[00:36.94] If you're hypersensitive, I wasn't referencin' the vice president, chill (chill)
[00:40.04] I mean my penmanship at times tends to get ill, violence but with skill
[00:43.69] That's why I hence when I write ends up with the mic and pencil gettin' killed (yeah, hold up)
[00:48.38] And I'm still ride or die for the squad (yeah)
[00:50.84] So you know which side that I'm on
[00:52.28] If a battle line's ever drawn, but if I get involved
[00:54.05] It'll be like K9's in a brawl
[00:55.64] But not similar to Mike Vick at all
[00:57.49] 'Cause even if I don't have a dog in the fight
[00:58.99] They ain't never gonna get rid of the fight in the dog
[01:01.75] Got stripes like a tiger, so you might get mauled, a mic in the palms
[01:04.30] Like claws, I can swing right for your jaw and rip it off with one swipe of the paw
[01:07.86] Bitch, you still on my dick or naw? (Naw)
[01:09.49] If I suck, your wife is a straw (Straw)
[01:11.14] I'm sick and I'm not gonna cover my mouth next time that I cough
[01:14.13] They say these bars are like COVID (bars are like COVID)
[01:15.87] You get 'em right off the bat (you get 'em right off the bat)
[01:17.49] Infected with SARS and Corona (infected with SARS and Corona)
[01:19.13] Like you took a bite off of that (damn)
[01:20.58] Then it goes from Martian to human (yeah)
[01:22.41] That's how the virus attacks (that's how the virus attacks)
[01:24.23] They come at me with machine guns (brr)
[01:25.97] Like trying to fight off a gnat (yeah, yeah)
[01:29.78] And d.a. got that dope he sends to me (uh-huh)
[01:31.85] It's like pneumonia symptoms and contracting COVID instantly
[01:34.94] Which is what separates my flow from theirs
[01:36.73] So that no one gets even close to this to pose a risk to me
[01:39.16] So vocalistically (what), that's social distancing (yeah)
[01:42.88] Flow going viral, you best stay strapped
[01:44.51] With that Lysol and get way back
[01:46.12] Get that Pine-Sol and that Ajax
[01:47.97] 'Cause this dry cough is just like football umpires callin' a playback
[01:51.64] Bitch, back the fuck up like fifteen yards, these rhymes call for a face mask (face mask)
[01:55.87] 'Nother fourteen-day quarantine, they're cordoning off everything
[01:58.92] This shit lookin' like a horror scene, like me metaphorically (damn)
[02:01.85] 'Cause them stay-at-home orders seem like they just keep getting more extreme
[02:05.17] Who knows when this nightmare will end? Like Monroe, Norma Jean
[02:08.75] Still got that heroin lyrical drip with that morphine and that Thorazine
[02:12.59] 'Cause I'm so fuckin' dope (dope) and you're a fiend
[02:15.50] And that's the one thing that hasn't changed (nope), for some semblance of normalcy
[02:18.79] But I might need that Hydrochloroquine 'cause I got that (yeah)
[02:22.73] The Dark Horse, I'm a knight-mare
[02:24.28] Mom fed me Valium like air
[02:25.98] Thought that's why they called it a high chair (whoa)
[02:27.57] I got a contact like eyewear
[02:29.10] Whoa, wait a minute, bitch, let me lie here
[02:31.13] 20/20 hindsight in my side mirror
[02:32.57] Every year, you drop the ball like Times Square
[02:34.23] My hair trigger whenever I get an idea
[02:36.38] Fuck, now my name rings out like a sponge mop
[02:37.95] And my drip was a drop
[02:39.19] In the bucket, so that gun shot
[02:40.88] You just heard just now in that one spot
[02:42.64] Just came from the nine mil' that I just got
[02:44.86] That's big bucks and I got a full money clip and I'm loaded
[02:47.36] I ain't even mean to go the fuck off
[02:48.83] I'm still totally inappropriate with an opiate
[02:51.09] Groping it while I'm holding it like a trophy
[02:52.69] I'm hoping a little codeine'll get me OD'in'
[02:54.41] Whoa, everything is slow, I begin to floating
[02:56.19] I know that I'm getting loaded, the pen exploded
[02:57.83] Hiroshima with the flows, a utopia
[02:59.34] With the dope, I'm an OG, I'm like the G.O.A.T
[03:01.16] Here to get your goat little bit of sodium, it's assault
[03:02.90] When I'm at the podium, at your throat, holy camoly
[03:04.78] I'm in the zone with the shit I'm on
[03:06.02] Get Imodium and a commode because nobody's even close
[03:08.02] You're petroleum to plutonium, you're a phony
[03:10.03] I'm at the crib with your ho, got her at the pole like voting with no clothing
[03:12.64] Stripped down to a toe ring and here we go with the gloating
[03:15.10] I've got my nose in the air like a Boeing
[03:16.40] Then I got into a little bit of an argument with her
[03:18.43] So I took a little lick of a Klonopin at dinner
[03:19.92] Then I hit her with the motherfuckin' ottoman and bit her
[03:21.38] Then I shot her in the liver, delivered her to the bottom of the river
[03:23.43] But I'm probably gon' jump in the water with her
[03:25.19] With a wad of money 'cause I got a lot of it
[03:26.42] And when it come to drippin', I be soppin' like a hundred mile an hour
[03:28.25] Never runnin' out of either one of 'em, I gotta get it 'cause
[03:30.10] They say these bars are like COVID (bars are like COVID)
[03:31.62] You get 'em right off the bat (you get 'em right off the bat)
[03:33.28] Infected with SARS and Corona (infected with SARS and Corona)
[03:34.96] Like you took a bite off of that (damn)
[03:36.57] Then it goes from Martian to human (yeah)
[03:38.21] That's how the virus attacks (that's how the virus attacks)
[03:39.92] They come at me with machine guns (brr)
[03:41.81] Like trying to fight off a gnat (fight off a gnat)
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