“Venom” is a dark, aggressive, and intensely frantic hip-hop track released in 2018 as the titular theme song for the Marvel anti-hero film of the same name. Produced by Eminem himself alongside Luis Resto, the track features a heavy, slow-rolling trap drum beat layered with a dramatic, horror-movie-style string loop and a brooding, rumbling sub-bass. The production creates an eerie, claustrophobic, and high-tension atmosphere designed to mirror the chaotic psychological war between a human and a symbiotic monster.

Lyrically, the song is a masterful, highly complex exercise in rapid-fire rhyming and metaphor, where Eminem compares his own destructive, boundary-pushing impact on the music industry to the toxic, violent control of the Venom alien. He delivers the track with a frantic, shape-shifting vocal flow, building up to a highly unique, raspy, and aggressively multi-tracked chorus where he violently contorts the word “Venom.” The track’s raw kinetic energy, complex multi-syllabic rhyme schemes, and comic-book dark aesthetic made it a massive streaming hit worldwide.