《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。

《The Monster》最初由Frequency、Alias、Bebe Rexha和乔恩·贝利恩等人创作，取样自Bebe Rexha歌曲《Monster Under My Bed》。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。

当歌曲创作完成后，制作人Frequency将歌曲提供给了Shady唱片公司的执行副总裁瑞格斯·莫拉莱斯。在听完这首歌曲后，瑞格斯·莫拉莱斯便要求得到歌曲的一些片段，并将其送至埃米纳姆的手上。之后埃米纳姆接受了这首歌曲，并在歌曲中加入他个人的说唱部分，同时对伴奏进行了调整。

歌曲是埃米纳姆与蕾哈娜之间继《Love the Way You Lie》、《Love The Way You Lie (Part II)》和《Numb》之后的第四次合作。埃米纳姆认为蕾哈娜是完成这首歌曲演绎的合适人选，因为他认为大众将他们都视为“疯狂的人”，并将这些想法都告诉了蕾哈娜。

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy

I wanted the fame but not the cover of Newsweek

Oh well guess beggars can't be choosey

Wanted to receive attention for my music

Wanted to be left alone in public excuse me

For wanting my cake and eat it too and wanting it both ways

Fame made me a balloon 'cause my ego inflated

When I blew see but it was confusing

'Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf

Abused ink used it as a tool when I blew steam wooh

Hit the lottery oh wee

But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet

It was like winning a used mink

Ironic 'cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink

I'm beginning to lose sleep one sheep two sheep

Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith

But I'm actually weirder than you think

'Cause I'm

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy

Well that's nothing

Well that's nothing

Now I ain't much of a poet but I know somebody once told me

To seize the moment and don't squander it

'Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow

So I keep conjuring sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from

Yeah pondering'll do you wonders

No wonder you're losing your mind the way it wanders

Yodel odel ay hee hoo

I think it went wandering off down yonder

And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen

'Cause I need an interventionist

To intervene between me and this monster

And save me from myself and all this conflict

'Cause the very thing that I love's killing me and

I can't conquer it

My OCD's conking me in the head

Keep knocking nobody's home I'm sleepwalking

I'm just relaying what the voice in my head's saying

Don't shoot the messenger I'm just friends with the

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy

Well that's nothing

Well that's nothing

Call me crazy but I have this vision

One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian

But until then drums get killed and I'm coming straight at

MC's blood gets spilled and I'll

Take you back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track

Give every kid who got played that

Pumped up feeling and sh*t to say back

To the kids who played him

I ain't here to save the f**king children

But if one kid out of a hundred million

Who are going through a struggle feels it and relates that's great

It's payback Russell Wilson falling way back

In the draft turn nothing into something still can make that

Straw into gold chump I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack

Maybe I need a straight jacket face facts

I am nuts for real but I'm okay with that

It's nothing I'm still friends with the

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed

Get along with the voices inside of my head

You're trying to save me stop holding your breath

And you think I'm crazy yeah you think I'm crazy

Well that's nothing

Well that's nothing

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

此前埃米纳姆联手蕾哈娜的单曲《Love the Way You Lie》从家庭暴力的角度进行了深刻探讨，而此次他们的合作则将重点集中于精神方面的问题。整首歌曲以蕾哈娜冰冷的声音作为开场和副歌，而埃米纳姆则以其特征性的鼻音风格完成了他的说唱部分。从歌词角度上分析，埃米纳姆对他的生活以及如何在名利场上生存开始深思。

《The Monster》的音乐录影带于2013年12月16日释出，由Rich Lee执导。

视频中蕾哈娜饰演埃米纳姆的治疗师，帮助埃米纳姆对抗他的心魔。她让埃米纳姆观看关于“暴力”、“家庭”和“成瘾”的影像。当乘坐电梯时埃米纳姆开始重新思考他的事业和生活。此时重现了他事业的一些瞬间，包括《My Name Is》、《Lose Yourself》和《The Way I Am》的音乐录影带片段以及他与埃尔顿·约翰在2001年格莱美奖颁奖礼的合作。电梯停止后，埃米纳姆发现一个装着“过去的自已”的铁笼。铁笼中过去的自己抛出被撕碎的纸片。在阅读了纸上的内容后，埃米纳姆选择了离去。