"Phenomenal" is a single by American hip-hop artist and record producer

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, from the soundtrack album '' Southpaw (Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture)'', released on June 2, 2015. Eminem also released a song called "

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" which is also on the '' Southpaw'' soundtrack.

Background

To promote the single's release, it previewed in trailers for the film '' Southpaw'', starring

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. In the ending of the video,

shouts, 'I am Phenomenal'. This informed people that the new Eminem song was titled "Phenomenal". After that,

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used a longer snippet of the song for a new commercial of Beats Solo HD2 with

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. On June 1, Eminem released another longer snippet of 15 seconds. On June 2, the audio was released on EminemMusic. The song was written by Eminem, Luis Resto and Mario Resto. It also contains vocals by Liz Rodriguez and Mario Resto. The single was produced by

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Music video

Eminem posted a video on YouTube as a sneak peek for the upcoming music video. The video premiered on July 3, via Apple Music. Filmed at Universal Studios in California and directed by

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, the video features Eminem as a person with superhuman abilities although suffering from memory loss. He gets out from the hospital by knocking out some security guards and comes out on the streets. He finds a stranger (

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) on a rickshaw who seems to applaud his abilities. He tells Eminem to come with him and 'finish what we started' to which Eminem asks that he should tell him who he is and what will happen should he not follow him, to which the stranger replies, "You will fall". Unconcerned, Eminem takes a bike and accidentally jumps into a car with an anonymous person (

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) inside. He orders him to get out of his car after the person requests him to take a

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with him. The chase ends when Eminem falls at the ground floor of a building which seems to be a stage having

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standing at the corner saying, "Right on time". Eminem is then shown to grab a mic and standing facing the lights till the camera shuts off. The video was later released on October 1, 2015 via

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. On 4 November, 2015, a video showing the making of the music video was released. As of December 2024, the music video had been viewed more than 49 million times on YouTube.

Commercial performance

"Phenomenal" entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at number 47 as the week's highest-ranking debut, powered by first-week digital download sales of 77,000 copies. The song peaked at number 4 at the ''Billboard'' Hot Rap Songs chart.

Charts

Weekly charts

Certifications

References

External links

* {{Authority control Eminem songs 2015 singles 2015 songs Aftermath Entertainment singles Songs written by Eminem Songs written by Luis Resto (musician) Songs written for films Song recordings produced by DJ Khalil Interscope Records singles Shady Records singles Music videos directed by Rich Lee