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Ryan (Royce) is a society misfit due to his genius writing talent ; He knows the solution to complicated things like biophysics, he even writes it in a more complicated langage (hieroglyphics). Hence his writing skills as a rapper ; getting complicated metaphores into even more complicated ones (like this set of bars).

He ends the set by stating that this song is his admission/confession to having a morbid and violent wit/smarts

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He is going to be however he wants to be and do whatever he wants to do. The “retarded” act of playing with pots and pans at that age symbolizes that free will. As if saying “If I’m retarded, be it, I'mma prove that I can make something productive of it.”

After which he deems himself “man of the kitchen”, leader of the world he’s orchestring. In parallel to a bigger stage for the metaphor, where he takes on the world with his crazy music making.

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Making you, and the social/media critics, pissed off by deflecting responsibility of his controversial content onto his alter-ego, Slim Shady.

A couple of other mentions in said headlines :

I’m Slim, the Shady is really a fake alias
To save me with in case I get chased by space aliens
- Any Man, 1999

Still Shady inside, hair every bit as dyed
As it used to be when I first introduced y'all to my skittish side
And blamed it on him when they tried to criticize
Cause we are the same, bitch
- Evil Twin, 2013

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Dr. Dre, Em’s producer.

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Jimmy is not Eminem, even though in 8 Mile his name was Jimmy. It’s Jimmy Iovine, music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.

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Em is the producer of this beat, as well as some of Trick’s other songs. Check on the track list of “The Villan.”

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Rock Bottom is a record label based in Detroit.

Rock Bottom Ent. features people such as Blackface, Big Herk etc. Blackface, whilst being a friend of Proof before he passed, is also associated with BMF (Black Mafia Family).

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Wonder Boy Entertainment is a record label in Detroit.

“What up doe” is a popular greeting in Detroit.

In some versions of the song, instead of Wonder Boys he says “Chedda Boyz”, which is yet another Detroit crew.

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Those lines are pretty much all what the video’s about.

About how Marshall Mathers is more likely to call Trick-Trick to back him up in a fight, and to roll in heavy. Mostly because the police are a gang with no power in the D.

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