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Playing off the common abbreviation R.I.P. The arguably meaningful “again” here is set to work out R.A.P. as initials to the expression; Fed up with the drama and stress, he raps to vent it off and “Rest[s] Again Peacefully.

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Lotto insinuates that he’ll beat him in this battle so bad, that Rabbit will go home depressed and commit suicide. But since he sarcastically “likes” him he doesn’t want to be the one he commits suicide to.

Also, white males are statistically the most likely to commit suicide in the United States.

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Em had just gotten fired from Gilbert’s Lodge, 5 days before Christmas and Hailie’s birthday. He felt like he had hit rock bottom, and every move he made could have severe consequences.

This line starts a series of impressive multi-syllable rhymes: “circus net”, “Percocet”, “nervous wreck”, “deserve respect”, “work a sweat”, “worthless check”, “burst this TEC”, “reverse this debt”.

This is a metaphor to mean that he’s walking a very fine line.

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Em’s real name is Marshall, so “Fire Marshall” has become one of his nicknames. This has popped up before on songs like “Seduction, “Session One”, “Legacy”, “Mr. Porter”, “Still Don’t Give a Fuck”, and “Square Dance”. Man, this motherfucker is Hussein.

“Fire Marshall” is a character played by Jim Carrey, “The Fire Marshall Bill” a crazy fireman who used to set everything on fire for proving people that playing with fire is dangerous.These are comedy TV series.

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In the actual song, you can hear some crying in the background, and in past Eminem interviews he explains that Kim’s way of getting out of things was crying.

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Playing on the “quickest damn gunslingers..” line that makes up an important theme of this album, Royce references his “shotty” right from the get go.

More specifically, the shotgun he has will “lobotomy your hair". This is a sly metaphor, as he compares major brain damage with a trivial hair do. Bit of an under exaggeration?

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With this kind of lyrical prowess they come up with in their verses, nobody can say that rap doesn’t need the “BAD and EVIL” regime. They are the regime this GAME needs to stay alive.

Royce compares himself and Eminem to the Detroit (their hometown) Pistons of the NBA, who during the 80s were known as “The Bad Boys” because of their physical style of play. Isiah Thomas was their star player

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Come at ‘em with a Bigfoot pedigree and maybe you’ll stand a chance.

Pedigree is also a term used for describing one’s lineage, so if one comes from a big foot pedigree, he’s practically a monster, and that’s who you need to be to go against them.

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A “ratchet” usually refers to a gun

The book of Matthew tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. A controversial book that could be considered “a book of matches” as in a book of tools meant to set fire (controversy)

What’s he about to do with this stuff? He could shoot the book then set it on fire, light a candle and read the book, etc. The important thing is that with the fire and religion and all, these lyrics allude to Hell, which fits the title of the song

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Bad just came through the blast that Evil set with his opening verse.

Possibly also a reference to “Boom”, one of Royce’s earlier singles.

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