Eminem and Jelly Roll Release Official Music Video for ‘Somebody Save Me’

Eminem and Jelly Roll have dropped the powerful visuals for their genre-blurring collaboration, ‘Somebody Save Me’, which interpolates Jelly's chart-topping hit, ‘Save Me’.

The newly unveiled official music video was directed by Emil Nava of Ammolite Machine, who has helmed iconic visuals for Rihanna, Post Malone, Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa and more.

The cinematic ‘Somebody Save Me’ video captures the angst and self-reproaching feel of the track, with Eminem exploring an alternate reality where he never overcame his addiction to prescription medicine, which almost killed him due to an overdose back in 2007. The legendary rapper has now been sober for 16 years.

As is highlighted in the heartbreaking opening sequence in the video, Eminem imagines a scenario where he is sleeping after taking some drugs, and his daughter comes in to try and rouse him but he dismisses her, telling her to “shut the door”.

Eminem stands watching footage of family-members in a sparse warehouse, accentuating the feeling that Eminem is anxiously letting these false memories play out in his head.

Eminem name-checks his three children, Hailie, Alaina and Stevie, during the song, as well as his brother, Nate, and his two sons, Carter and Liam, with the grainy snapshots that play throughout ‘Somebody Save Me’ intensifying the intimacy of the track.

Jelly Roll touched on what a special moment this collaboration was for him, with the ‘Need a Favor’ hitmaker underlining how Eminem has been a huge influence on his own career.

Jelly took to socials to pay tribute to Eminem, “I always say my childhood [heroes] lived somewhere between Willie Nelson and Eminem. As a teenager (and still today) I could recite every song on the Slim Shady album, the Marshal Mathers album and the Eminem show. When I bonded out of jail at 17 years old and was sneaking into cyphers and battles in Nashville they would also play the “lose yourself” beat when I came out on stage at the freestyle battles. I related to every word Eminem wrote. I understand him and felt like he understood me, which was rare cause I spent most of my life feeling misunderstood. So you can imagine how I felt when I got that the call that Eminem would be sampling my song “Save Me” on his new album. And for him to use the song to discuss the other side of what could’ve happened if he would’ve allowed his demons to win brought me to tears”.

The track appears on Eminem's 2024 album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), which arrived in July, and finds the Grammy-winning artist killing off his notorious alter-ego.

For the full lyrics to ’Somebody Save Me’, see below:

“Somebody save me

Me from myself

I've spent so long livin' in hell

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Another pill as I start to spiral

Message to my daughters

I don't even deserve the father title

Hailie, I'm so sorry

I know I wasn't there for your first guitar recital

Didn't walk you down the aisle

Missed the birth of your first child

Your first podcast, lookin' down, sweetie

I'm so proud of how you turned out

Sorry that I chose drugs and put 'em above you

Sorry that I didn't love you enough to

Give 'em up, how the fuck do

I not love you more than a pill?

Lookin' up to the ceilin' from this floor, wonder will

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Somebody save me

Me from myself?

I've spent so long livin' in hell

They say my lifestyle

Is bad for my health

It's the only thing that seems to help

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Alaina, sorry that you had to hear me fall in the bathroom

Sorry that I missed your gradu—, wait, Nate, I should just congratulate you

On bein' a dad to Carter and Liam, look at you

Little bro, sorry I left you

Sorry that I'll never get to

Hold or hug my little nephews

Stevie, I'm sorry, I missed you

Grow up, and I didn't get to

Be the dad I wanted to be to you

Things I wanted to see you do

This is my song from me to you

Sorry I gave up, but I'm just so defeated

God, what the fuck do you want me to do?

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Somebody save me

Me from myself

I've spent so long livin' in hell

They say my lifestyle

Is bad for my health

It's the only thing that seems to help

-

I've been starin' at that video of Hailie

Almost daily of her playin' a guitar

In hopes maybe that'll give me the power to fight

But the addict in me's a coward, he told me that I can't do it

Had a second chance, blew it

It's like I'm stuck inside an alternate reality, but I know (What?)

I'll turn it around and be able to

Walk her and Lainie one day

To the altar as proud as can be

Right now, I'm just weak

As I fall further down in this deep hole

And farther in the ground that I sink

As they lower me in my coffin, I feel the tears all fallin' down on my cheek

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I'm a lost cause

Baby, don't waste your time on me

I'm so damaged beyond repair

Life has shattered my hopes and my dreams

I'm a lost cause

Baby, don't waste your time on me

I'm so damaged beyond repair

Life has shattered my hopes and my dreams”

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