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The brace antecedently reached the milestone with "Love the Way You Lie."
Eminem and Rihanna are joining YouTube’s Billion Views Club arsenic a duo erstwhile again. More than a decennary aft its release, the pair’s “The Monster” euphony video has surpassed the 10-digit milestone connected the platform, a feat they antecedently achieved unneurotic with “Love the Way You Lie.”
In the grungy video, the Fenty mogul plays the Detroit rapper’s watchful therapist arsenic helium views a compilation of his large vocation moments connected a TV, arsenic good arsenic footage touching connected his struggles with substance abuse. At 1 point, helium fights against the constraints of a straitjacket portion caregiver Ri rolls her eyes.
“I’m friends with the monster that’s nether my bed/ Get on with the voices wrong of my head,” she sings, changed into a leathery outfit and acheronian lipstick. “You’re trying to prevention me, halt holding your breath/ And you deliberation I’m crazy, yeah, you deliberation I’m crazy/ Well, that’s nothing.”
“The Monster” dropped successful 2013 arsenic portion of Em’s The Marshall Mathers LP2. It was, well, a monster hit, spending 4 weeks astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100.
Before that, the rapper and Ri had already known they were susceptible of making golden successful the workplace together. “Love the Way You Lie” — which presently boasts much than 3 cardinal views connected YouTube — dropped successful 2010 and spent 7 weeks astatine No. 1 connected the U.S. singles chart.
Overall, the summation of “The Monster” to the billions hallway of fame marks Eminem’s ninth video to articulation the club, pursuing “The Real Slim Shady,” “When I’m Gone,” “Mockingbird,” “Rap God” and more. It’s Rihanna’s 12th ocular to scope the milestone, joining the ranks of “Work,” “Umbrella” and “Stay,” to sanction a few.
Add your presumption to the 1 cardinal and counting connected Eminem and Rihanna’s “The Monster” by checking retired the video above.
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