创作者Bebe Rexha表示，歌曲的创作灵感来源于她本人试图走出低迷时期的经历。
《The Monster》是美国说唱歌手埃米纳姆与巴巴多斯歌手蕾哈娜共同演唱的一首歌曲，歌词及曲谱由埃米纳姆、蕾哈娜、Bebe Rexha、乔恩·贝利恩、布莱恩·弗莱泽、Aaron Kleinstub和M. Athanasiou等人创作。歌曲被收录在埃米纳姆第八张录音室专辑《The Marshall Mathers LP 2》，于2013年10月29日作为专辑的第四支单曲发行 。歌曲发布后在英国、法国、加拿大以及澳大利亚等国家的单曲排行榜上登顶，并于2013年12月21日登上美国公告牌百强单曲榜首位，在该位置停留四周 。2014年8月，歌曲获MTV音乐录影带大奖“最佳男歌手录影带”、“最佳合作”以及“最佳导演”等三项提名。2015年2月，歌曲获第57届格莱美奖“最佳说唱合作”奖歌曲歌词英文I'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazy (crazy)I wanted the fame, but not the cover of NewsweekOh well, guess beggers can't be chooseyWanted to receive attention for my musicWanted to be left alone in public excuse meFor wanting my cake，and eat it too，and wanting it both waysFame may be a balloon cause my ego inflatedWhen I blew seep it was confusingCause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leafAbused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steamHit the lottery (oh wee)With what I gave up to get it was bittersweetIt was like winning a used minkIronic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrinkI'm beginning to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheepGoing cuckoo and kooky as Kool KeithBut I'm actually weirder than you thinkI'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazy (crazy)Well that’s nothin'Well that’s nothin'Now I ain't much of a poetBut I know somebody once told me to seize the momentAnd don't squander itCause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow、so I keep conjuringSometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from(Yeah,ponder it, do you wonder ，no wonderyou're losing your mind， the way it wanders )I think you've been wandering off down yonderand stumbled on Jeff VanVonderenCause I needed an intervention in this to intervenebetween me and this monsterAnd save me from myself and all this conflictCause the very things thatI love is killing me and I can't conquer itMy OCD is clonking me in the headKeep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkingI'm just relaying what the voice of my head sayingDon't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the...I'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazyWell that’s not fairWell that’s not fairCall me crazy, but I had this visionOne day that I'd walk amongst you a regular civilianBut until then drums get killed I'm coming straight atEmcees,blood get spilled and I’llTake it back to the days that I’d get on a Dre trackGive every kid who got played thatPumped up feeling and shit that say backTo the kids who played 'emI ain't here to save the fucking childrenBut if one kid out of a hundred millionWho are going through a struggle feels it and relates， that's greatIt's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back In the draftturn nothing into something, still can make ，that straw in the gold chump，I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystackMaybe I need a straight jacket face factsI am nuts for real, but I'm okay with thatIt's nothing, I'm still friends with a...I'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazy (crazy)I'm friends with the monsterThat's under my bedGet along with the voices inside of my headYou're trying to save meStop holding your breathAnd you think I'm crazyYeah,you think I'm crazy (crazy)Well that’s not fairWell that’s not fair译文我是妖魔的朋友来自床底和脑海中的声响淡定相处你想拯救我么别屏息期待奇迹你觉得我疯了呵呵 你觉得我疯了我渴望声名 但不想要新闻周刊的头条关注好吧 我想作为乞丐没法太挑拣我希望我的音乐得到关注众目睽睽下又希望不要被烦搅 真是抱歉鱼和熊掌 我偏要兼得声名让我如气球急剧膨胀看吧 最终破裂开来 这让人迷惑因为我想要的全部 就是成为歌词纸上的李小龙落墨无意 我却用它点起滚滚的蒸汽炉一把中头彩 哦耶想想我舍弃了什么 苦乐参半好像一路牺牲赢得一件二手的貂皮衣真是讽刺 我如此自我膨胀 需要心理医生把我缩回去我开始失眠 一只羊 两只羊变得像 Kool Keith 一样古灵精怪但我比你想象得更加诡怪因为我我是妖魔的朋友来自床底和脑海中的声响淡定相处你想拯救我么别屏息期待奇迹你觉得我疯了你觉得我疯了何止是疯狂 这不值一提何止是疯狂 这不值一提我不是诗人 但有人告诉过我要攫住机会 不要浪费因为你永远不知道可能明天一切都烟消云散所以我努力创造 有时我都不知道这些想法从何而来是啊 深思可以创造奇迹难怪你失去理智 任由思绪徘徊 阿拉拉蒂啦我想思绪的来源不知所以 最后不觉想起了Jeff VanVonderen因为我需要有人在我和这头恶魔之间筑起高墙拯救我于痛苦之间 来阻止这场厮杀因为曾经我的最爱反而让我生不如死 我无力抵抗这种感觉我的强迫症如鲠在喉 让我无力门外敲门声不断 家中无人 我已陷入梦游之中我只是在传达脑海里的恶魔的讯息别怪罪传话的我 我只是在和恶魔为伴我是妖魔的朋友来自床底和脑海中的声响淡定相处你想拯救我么别屏息期待奇迹你觉得我疯了你觉得我疯了何止是疯狂 这不值一提何止是疯狂 这不值一提大可叫我癫狂无所谓 但我却有了这种憧憬总有一天我也能像普通人一般行走在你们身旁但除非音乐的鼓点就此消沉 否则我依旧会用犀利的话语让说唱界血流成河我希望还能回到过去唱着Dr. Dre的歌曲的日子里让所有遭受欺负的孩子们得到勇气让他们鼓起自信向那些欺凌他们的恶少们以血还血但我特么才不是来拯救弱小儿童的但如果人群中真有人受尽痛苦折磨 但听到我的歌 能得到力量 这让我很感激这算是回报 好比Russell Wilson在首轮完全被人忽视但克服了困难成就一番事业点石成金 即使千难万险 我也要亲自让不可能化为可能也许我疯癫到要穿上拘束衣 面对事实吧我就是个疯子 但对此我悠然自得这都不算什么 我只是在和恶魔为伴我是妖魔的朋友来自床底和脑海中的声响淡定相处你想拯救我么别屏息期待奇迹你觉得我疯了你觉得我疯了我是妖魔的朋友来自床底和脑海中的声响淡定相处你想拯救我么别屏息期待奇迹你觉得我疯了你觉得我疯了何止是疯狂 这不值一提何止是疯狂 这不值一提
