Eminem Becomes A City-Hovering Villain Doing 'Venom' On The Empire State Building

Tom Hardy is Venom; we know this much to be true. Nevertheless Eminem made his own impressive play for superhero (antihero?) Greatness on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night (October 15) by performing his song “Venom” at the best of the Empire State Building.


You’re probably thinking, “Oh cool, the best of the ESB. I did that If I was 14.” And sure, same. However this dude goes to the top — meaning the observation deck where we’ve surely all been by right now — and then he goes further up the spire.


And then, somehow, he travels up even higher, to the point where the fog at such an elevation creates an ominous sheen on the entire ordeal. It’s pretty cool, and yes it finally explains the building's wild nighttime light show found by New Yorkers earlier this month.


To be fair, this is much less of an efficiency than a high-stakes, vérité music video, although Em pulls it off with his trademark fierceness and determination to defeat the city. It’s all piece of the show’s annual week of filming in Brooklyn as instead of its typical residence in L.A. — And this time, at least Jimmy made someone other than Guillermo ascend the fantastic Art Deco landmark. By elevator.


Guillermo, of course, makes a brief appearance to awkwardly embrace Em and be his buddy as they climb up to the spire. I hope he wasn’t made to pick up all of the microphones Em discarded while in the building because there really are a lot of those. I feel legitimately bad for the person who'd to.


“Venom” appears both on Em’s new album, Kamikaze (which dropped in late August), and on the soundtrack to the film of the same name. As far as I can tell, there really are no scheduled screenings to watch the movie at the best of the ESB, which is a missed possibility for sure.


As a substitute, you could watch Em complete his impressive feat and live vicariously through him in the video above.