Songfacts®:

• Eminem's Music to Be Murdered By album art and title reference the 1958 spoken word LP Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music to Be Murdered By. The only record Hitchcock ever released, it comprises a collection of bits of the director's macabre humor in between songs.
  
  Several of the Music to Be Murdered By cuts contain allusions to Hitchcock; Eminem based "Alfred's Theme" around the theme song to the Master of Suspense's anthology TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. That tune is Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," originally written by the French composer for solo piano in 1872 and orchestrated in 1879. It was Hitchcock's longtime musical collaborator Bernard Herrmann who suggested the piece to the British director for his TV series.
• The song finds Eminem freestyling about his rapping skills, lyrical expertise and durability, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on his life.
• The track is included on the deluxe version of Eminem's Music to Be Murdered By project. It is one of 16 new songs the Detroit rapper incorporated on the Side B edition. Released on December 18, 2020, 11 months after the main album, Em quips:
  
  It's all there
  Then call the pallbearer
  It's Music to B? Murdered By again, why stop?
  Overkill like a pipe bomb in your pine box
  
  Having already been murdered once, a deluxe edition is surely overkill. Slim compares it to a bomb placed in a coffin of an already dead person.
• As per his usual habit, Eminem references some fellow celebrities during the song. He alludes to a 2019 interview given by Billie Eilish, in which she admitted to being frightened of the rapper.
  
  But really I'm just fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes
  Which is really childish and silly, but I'm really like this
  I'm giving nightmares to Billie Eilish.
  
  When asked to choose her favorite rapper between Eminem and Childish Gambino by Noisey, Eilish ranked Gambino first by "one billion per cent."
  
  "I was scared of Eminem my whole life," she added. "Terrified."
• Eminem produced "Alfred's Theme" himself. It is one of five tracks on Music to Be Murdered By for which he has sole production credits; two songs and three skits.
• Eminem wrote the song with his friend, Detroit musician Luis Resto. The pair have worked closely together since Slim's third major-label album, The Eminem Show. Resto's other collaborations with him include co-producing the Oscar-winning song "Lose Yourself."