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Square Dance Eminem – Square Dance
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This song has political roots while also serving as a diss towards Canibus.

In fact, the song may be a direct response to Canibus’s song “Draft Me”, in which Canibus threatens an unnamed rival and expresses a desire to fight in the war on terror, even including a quote by George Bush at the end of the song. In “Square Dance”, Eminem attacks Canibus and delivers an anti-draft, anti-war, anti-Bush message.

The beat sounds kind of similar to “Bad Influence”, an earlier Em song with a beat made by the Bass Brothers. Jeff Bass again shows up in the composer credits on “Square Dance”, but Em appears to have taken the lead on creating this “Square Dance” beat.

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8 years

this was also a mockery of everything at that time, funny as hell. Square Dancing,, who really wants to? 😩😂

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3 years

“this was also a mockery of everything at that time, funny as hell. Square Dancing,, who really wants to?” mhhmm not really square dance is a metaphor for not doing the same thing as everyone… “I square dance ‘cause I’m sick of rapping circles” Marshall Mathers

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I didn’t know about canabitch’s political view and always wondered why em connected this political song to canabitch. I get it now. Cool. This may be Em’s best song in my opinion… production lyrics, performances… it’s just really good. Also the philosophy and view point.

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American Psycho II D12 (Ft. B-Real) – American Psycho II
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Sequel to ‘American Psycho’ from D12’s debut album ‘Devil’s Night’
This song is featured on D12’s second album ‘D12 World’ featuring B-Real from Cypress Hill

The song, as with its predecessor, discusses how members of D12 are completely insane.

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'cause when 50 got shot up in Jamaica
Queens, Eminem – Ricky Ticky Toc
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If you hadn’t known already, 50 was about to get a deal and then he got shot 9 times and was barely able to survive.

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Ricky Ticky Toc Eminem – Ricky Ticky Toc
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Bonus Track from Encore, basically in freestyle form no real chorus, Eminem talks about everything from Growing Up to Dr. Dre to 50 Cent.

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Love You More Eminem – Love You More
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A bonus track off of Encore, Eminem goes into further detail about his and Kim’s unstable relationship. Most of the songs about he and Kim up until this point were just hateful towards her, but this song tries to show why they are the way they are. The main point is that no matter how fucked up the two of them are, there is this undeniable love between them that keeps them together.

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The song also emphasises on the fact that we’ll always love what isn’t good for us

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It's the Mr. Picked-on-Christopher-Reeves-just-for-no-reason
Other than to—just to tease him
'Cause he was his biggest (*burp*) fan
He used to be Superman, now I'm pourin'
Liquor on the curb in his name for him
"Eminem, you wait 'til we meet up again, fucker
I'm kickin' your ass for everything you've ever said!" Eminem – My 1st Single
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Christopher Reeve was an American actor, director, and producer who was most famous for his role as the iconic Superman in the 1978 film of the same name.

In 1995, Reeve suffered a paralysis from the neck down due to a horse riding accident. Since then, Em has made and would continue to make countless punchlines and pokes at the deceased actor. Here, Em admits that there was no rational reason as to why—he just felt like it.

Em mocks how he thinks Christopher’ll want to respond to all his jokes made about him. It’s also another subtle joke, as Reeve won’t be to “kick anyone’s ass” at all since he’s paralyzed.

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This track and album were released following the death of Christopher Reeve. The next time Reeve and Em meet, it will be in the afterlife.

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My 1st Single Eminem – My 1st Single
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In this song off of the album Encore, Eminem pokes fun at mainstream artists by making a ‘1st Single’ that has no qualities of a Single, and is more like a happy-go-lucky song about nothing important. Many people consider this one of his worst songs, because of the lyrics which make no sense.

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In this song off of the album Encore, Eminem is poking fun at his 1st single off every album (My Name Is, The Real Slim Shady, Without Me).

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Eminem admits he was on drugs while recording most of the songs of Encore and this song sounds a lot like done by someone high.

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This is actually was supposed to be his first single that’s literally why he says “supposed to be my first single” and not “this is my first single”. He was on drugs when he recorded this so he ended up rapping about crazy things and they just went with it and kept the song for a later release when he is more famous and can afford to put out such a song. He then went on to make a song fit to get played on the radio – just don’t give a fuck.

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5 years

I think this is a great song it’s a fun song when you chilling with your friends clowning

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yeah but if i understand it correctly that’s what he was going for didn’t he?

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[Verse 3: Eminem] Eminem (Ft. Hailie Jade) – My Dad's Gone Crazy
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In classic Dr. Dre style, the beat shifts up for this verse: a synth line and a few string notes are added

This is to represent that the first two verses were mostly joking and now Em is changing the pace and making it more serious

He does this in “I’m Shady” off The Slim Shady LP and “Hello” off of Relapse where the first two verses are joking and the third verse gets serious

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