Em is ridiculing rapper Vanilla Ice: the creator of “Ice Ice Baby” who Eminem was often (unfairly) compared to in his early days. Em felt the need to distance himself from non-lyrical white rappers in the beginning of his career, that’s why he dissed many of them on this album.

Vanilla Ice wearing dreadlocks:

Em refuses to lie like a politician so that his fans can have a drug free role model. He refers to former president Bill Clinton with this, who admitted to smoking weed on an MTV program, but later retracted the statement, claiming that he “didn’t inhale” (bullshit!).

Also a reference to another famous Clinton lie, where he claimed he “did not have sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky, only to be found lying once again. This ties in with the next line about “getting fucked more than the president does”. (The album came out in ‘99 while Clinton was still president).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs

President Bill Clinton had some chubb-chasing good times with mademoiselle Lewinsky, playing his saxophone several times.

The dialogue from their sextape was later discovered (and annotated by RG users!)

Also, note how Eminem says that if he said he never did drugs, he would lie and get fucked/sexed more than President Clinton does. Yet on the exact same album, he calls himself a pathalogical liar and takes somebody else’s girl in the hit song “My Name Is.”

This is just another one of the many examples of Marshall balancing the Eminem and Slim Shady persona duality in his music. The technique is most noteable on The Marshall Mathers LP.

Sonny Bono (of Sonny & Cher) died when he hit a tree in a skiing accident.

Similarly, Eminem likes to “hit” (smoke, i.e. “take a hit”) the “trees” (marijuana)

Em also mentions this in “Who Knew.”

When a broken bone punctures the skin it is called an open or compound fracture. It is the most severe type of fracture (as you can imagine).

Interesting note: this is a RARE SITUATION IN RAP where the radio edit is better than the original! These lines (“I strangle you to death then I choke you again / and break your fucking legs til your bones poke through the skin”) are replaced with:

A hell spawn dropping a stealth bomb
6 mics in The Source – they borrowed one from LL’s arm

The Source magazine rates rap albums on a 1-5 mic scale, but Em got an extra one from L.L. Cool J’s arm (watch out Em! Canibus and L.L. alias Mr. Smith got into beef because Canibus mentioned his tattoo).

Canibus was a well respected lyricist at this time, so if someone were to ghostwrite for him they would have to make sure it was very good in order to match the quality of Canibus' other releases. But even if it was the greatest thing you had ever written, Em is still capable of destroying it, since he is the “cancer of rap” (cancer cells destroy other cells on your body).

This is also a playful reference to Canibus' accusation that Eminem ghostwrote LL Cool J’s Canibus diss “Ripper Strikes Back” – an accusation at the heart of their beef.

Although Canibus and Eminem have traded insults back and forth in the past, they usually diss eachother in the form of compliments (girly beef!).

Also Cannabis is known for “killing” Cancer. So even if Eminem represents Cancer and you try to kill him with something you wrote for Canibus representing Cannabis you won’t succeed.