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Jaws all on the floor like Pam like Tommy just burst in the door
And started whoopin' her ass worse than before
They first were divorced, throwin' her over furniture (Agh!)
- The Real Slim Shady
Em: I wrote this line because I had recently had a sharkskin floor installed in my home. Hence…Jaws.
And you can't stop me from droppin' each March
With a brand new CD for these fuckin' retards ("duhh")
- Criminal
Em: My plan really was to drop an album every March…then I became a drug addict.
[Chorus: Rihanna]
- Love the Way You Lie
Em: you should hear me do this song in accents….it's WAAYY better..
[Produced by Eminem & Jeff Bass]
- Square Dance
Em: I like going on stage to this beat. I don't even know if people care that much about me producing things. It's fun for me to make a beat, but it doesn't give me the same feeling or gratification as rapping. I'm not really tech savvy. I still use an MPC 2000. That's probably a cardinal sin now in hip hop. Everyone's onto other things. I just use that because I don't have time to learn something else. I don't have the patience.
Like this weed is laced ain't it, it tastes tainted
The whole place fainted, I woke up with my face painted
Spaced out like Sci-Fi TV, "Fuck ICP, buy my CD!"
That's what I'm screaming while I'm handing out promo tapes of my debut
- Til Hell Freezes Over
Em: If you get distance, with the beef happening on records and not in a battle, then days go by, weeks. I'm an M.C in the middle of it, and I'm talking about it with my friends. Now I'm heated, and now I do wanna fight you. My friends have hyped me up to it. My boy has probably said "Yo, when you see that person, you need to fuck them up." Same with their camp. So that's why it becomes some other shit, instead of a face-off in an actual rhyme battle.
[Hook]
- FACK
Em: It was a goofy fucking song. I was taking a lot of fucking pills at the time. Ambien will make you do crazy shit. Imagine if you took it all day long.
Note: Seriously, going back to FACK in a song and making it the titular song on the album really is some kamikaze shit.
Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who?
My name is, chka-chka Slim Shady
Hi, my name is, huh? My name is, what?
My name is, chka-chka Slim Shady
- My Name Is
Em: Dre put on the Labi Siffre record, and I was just like "Hi! My name is!" That beat was talking to me. I was like, "Yo, this is it, this is my shot. If I don't impress this guy, I'm going back home and I'm fucked." I knew Dre wasn't an easy person to please. I made sure that everything he had a beat for, I had a rhyme ready to go, or I came up with a rhyme on the spot.
"My Name Is" was the first thing that came out of my mouth that first day I was at Dre's house. I don't know if we released what I did the first day or if I re-did it, but it was basically the same. I didn't understand punching, or believe in it. So I would just go from the top of the song all the way down. I was never flying in hooks. Everything was live, one take. If I got all the way to the fucking end, and messed up the last word, I'd be like "Run it back, let's do it again." I remember Dre was like "Yo, are you fucking crazy? Let's just punch." I didn't like that concept because I wasn't used to it. When we were recording here in Detroit, in the beginning, I was saving up my money to go in. We only had an hour, you know? I'm like "One take down, alright, let's go to the next song. Fuck it." That's what I was used to.
Note: In case y'all ain't know, My Name Is was the song that made Eminem famous. That shit was everywhere on TV (This was before the social media age and before internet forums were really a thing or organized) for a few years.
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