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Maggie’s Pa is a metaphor for government and military interests. Cops fuck with people of other races for “kicks.” The military bombs and destroys cities for reasons that don’t seem valid. The National Gurard protects the government’s interests, which is why they would be standing outside his door.

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When you are just a lowly worker, your ideas don’t matter since you have no power.

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Maggie’s Farm is the American Social Environment. “Maggie” and her family are all different aspects of The USA. Working on the farm is being part of the American, or developed world, working class.

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Paula Jones is a former Arkansas state employee who sued former U.S. President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. The lawsuit was dismissed before trial on the grounds that Jones failed to demonstrate any damages.

Honestly, would you harass Miss Jones sexually?

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When this song was recorded, Eminem had beef with the Detroit rap duo The Insane Clown Posse (ICP). He jokes that you can paint yourself and build a fan base like the Jugalos if you want to get signed.

This is also possibly a reference to “I.C.P.” being on the back of the Slim Shady EP release party flyer.

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Bizarre is referencing the episode of Diff'rent Strokes, in which two of the kids are abducted by a strange man while hitchhiking. He initially acted like a “Good Samaritan” and a very nice guy by giving the two of them a ride, and inviting them to his apartment.

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Bizarre is commenting on the downward spiral the cast of Diff'rent Strokes took.

To be more specific, let’s split the lyrics and look at each line individually:

Gary Coleman (1968 – 2010) declared bankruptcy in 1999. Todd Bridges (born 1965, still alive) battled Cocaine Addiction in his 20s, and Dana Plato (1964 – 1999) ODed on Painkillers.

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Stan is a song from Eminem’s sophmore album The Marshall Mathers LP, about an obsessed fan of Eminem who eventually kills himself and his pregnant girlfriend because Eminem won’t return his letters. In the case of this song, Stan would be outside of Eminem’s house in a tinted window car with a gun waiting to harm Eminem.

Little did Slim know, this would come into fruition 13 years later!

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Limp Bizkit was supposed to guest on “Quitter,” one of Eminem and D-12’s Everlast-dissing songs, which calls on fans to physically attack the former House of Pain MC. Fred Durst called and bowed out, inspiring Em to call Durst and the rest of Limp Bizkit “cowards” and “sissies” and ridicule their hit “Rollin'”. But that wasn’t the main reason Eminem made this diss track.

Eminem made this diss track because of a comment DJ Lethal made in December during the Limp Bizkit’s visit to “TRL.” Lethal, who was in House of Pain with Everlast but was also friends with Eminem, at first said of their beef, “They’re both men, they’ll work it out.” But he added that if the two were to take their differences outside the realm of their respective records, “Everlast would definitely win, you know what I mean?”.

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At the end of Christina Aguilera’s performance at the 2000 VMAs, Durst entered onstage and performed part of his band’s song “Livin' It Up” with Aguilera, surprising the audience due to the differences between their music styles and also because Eminem previously accused in his song (The Real Slim Shady) that Aguilera and Durst had had a sexual relationship (denied by both Durst and Aguilera).

After eliciting charged reactions from his fans, Durst stated: “I already told you guys before, I did it all for the nookie, man.” The feud died weeks later. Aguilera denied Durst’s statement: “He got no nookie.”

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