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Coincidentally, this album broke a record for first weeks sales with 1.76 Million Copies sold, so I’d say orders are looking pretty good the first week.

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Em later references this line in “Hailie’s Song”: a true love song dedicated to his daughter that doesn’t involve any corpses.

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From Rolling Stone

Em says Hailie has heard his record and loves it, but he knows she’s too young still to get much more than the beats. “When she gets old enough, I’m going to explain it to her,” Em says. “I’ll let her know that Mommy and Daddy weren’t getting along at the time. None of it was to be taken literally.” He shakes his head ruefully. “Although at the time, I wanted to fucking do it.”

I would pay good money to listen in on this conversation.

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This is the moment in the story where you realize most of what he was saying was just hyperbole or completely made up. However just because his principal didn’t actually beat him up and his mom didn’t actually knock his brain out of his head, it doesn’t mean they didn’t make his life difficult for him.

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In his mother’s book “My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem” she states

“[This line] was horrible and upsetting, because I’d contracted toxemia-blood poisoning-when I gave birth to him and hadn’t been able to breast-feed.”

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This verse is a freestyle used on a TV show when he was on, never too late to recycle old freestyles.

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This song replaced “Kim” on the clean version of The Marshall Mathers LP (it also appears on the deluxe version of the album and the UK and Australian version). Smart move to take a song about murder off the clean version and to replace it with a song all about not doing drugs!

Mr. Shady gives the students at South Park Elementary a lecture about drugs. And he does it with spot-on Mr. Mackey, Cartman, and Wendy Testaburger impersonations.

The song is titled “Kids” on the Raw and Uncut compilation album.

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Em refers to the eccentric nature of his Slim Shady alter-ego, taking the common idiom “having a screw loose” to an extreme by saying he likely has “a couple of screws” loose in his head.

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This was the first song Eminem ever produced himself. This line is showing that Em is proud of his newfound ability to produce by asking Dre to turn the beat up.

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When asked in an interview what this album was going to sound like Eminem stated:

[If] you get the clean version of my next album it’s gonna sound like this: ………………..

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