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A song about how Eminem gave this girl Susan mushrooms.

Via Eminem: The Stories Behind Every Song:

When Jeff Bass came up with the “mushrooms” line, Eminem got to thinking about an incident in which one of his friends had a bad acid trip. “He was talking about how worthless he was and how fucked up his life was,” recalled Eminem, who took it on himself to reassure the guy, who was going through a bout of depression.

In this fictional scenario, Em’s friend is a girl, and he’s not quite as helpful…

Eminem also made a “Pizza Mix” of this song.

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What did Eminem say about "My Fault"?
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In his 2000 book Angry Blonde Eminem explained how the song came to be:

The “Lounge” skit that goes before “My Fault” actually inspired the mushroom song: Jeff from FBT and I were in the studio and we had just knocked out a song, but we were trying to come up with more shit. Jeff was just sitting there, fuckin' around, singing a song that went something like “I never meant to…” Now, he never said, “give you mushrooms.” I finished it off and we both just started singin' it. We were laughin' and jokin' around and shit, until he went into this faster, more up-tempo rendition. He started singing, “I never meant to give you mushrooms, girl, I never…” And I just finished the hook off. It was really late at night, so we just came back and knocked it out the next day. We made the track first and then I took it home and wrote to it.
“My Fault” is actually sort of a story about one of my friends who had a bad acid trip. But it was a dude, though. He was having a bad trip and was talkin' about how he was worthless, how he didn’t have a job, and how he was just fucked up. He was going through a depressed stage and was even crying. I told him, “Yo, it’s okay.” So I thought, “What if I wrote it about a girl who’s fucked up having a bad mushroom trip?” It was actually going to be a single. I had done a clean version of it and put it on the Celebrity Death Match soundtrack. Interscope didn’t want to release it as a single, though, ‘cause if I came with that after “My Name Is” instead of “Guilty Conscience”, I would’ve looked like a fuckin’ bubblegum artist. Two goofy songs right back-to-back. That probably would’ve fucked me up till this day. The song… not the ‘shrooms.

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