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A street from Detroit, where live the Runyon Avenue Soldiers, Eminem’s friends.

It’s also a record label started by Kon Artis and Kuniva of D12.

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Kicking in the door and opening fire. The sound of the action racking a round followed by touching it off.
The context can be derived from the next line: You can hear ‘em holla Goon Squad in this bitch. Which isn’t just a record label, but also a colloquialism for an element’s worth of thugs.

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Get high with him so you can understand what he’s saying.

CLEVER PLAY ON WORDS!

Mash is a game about imagining what your future could be like.

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Slim Shady is so full of rage and the desire to kill that he could kill your whole family without even trying to. This is actually a reference to one of the only true parts of the whole Amityville movie; Ronald DeFeo did actually kill his whole family, then tried to blame it on someone else. Once the police discovered he was the actual murderer he said:

“Once I started, I just couldn’t stop. It went so fast.”

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Amityville is a small village in Long Island, New York. It is best known for its “haunted” house on 112 Ocean Avenue that led to The Amityville Horror). Basically in the movie a whole lot of demonic shit happened there since the house was built on a tribal burial ground. Eminem is saying his hometown of Detroit is like a real life version of Amityville, because terrifying shit happens there every day.

Note the Amityville story was allegedly based on true events but later proven to be a hoax.

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Play on the word “horn”:

  • Horn means "motivation" So he needs something to make him up for it, to make him horny.
  • Horn could also refer to the weapons of a bull, so he'll only get horny if the opponent is strong enough to stab his clavicle bone.

Your clavicle bone is your collar-bone.


Also:

I need a glass of Patron
Bad as I need a horn stabbing my clavicle bone

He used to have a problem with alcohol and he doesn’t need it anymore—it’s like a gambling addict saying “I need to play some blackjack like I need another hole in my head.” The need is nonexistent.

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Whether Em and Royce are at a magnum opus or not, their fans will stay loyal. Rodriguez repeats the word “echo” three times to simulate an actual echo, like a stadium or to emphasise the perpetual following of their fans.

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Ah, his gun registration apparently did not become legal soon enough.

This album came out on May 23, 2000, and then the very next month, Eminem was charged with carrying a concealed weapon without a license (and assault with a deadly weapon).

But Em re-affirms his heat will be legal soon in an August 2000 interview with Spin.

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“Amityville” is the name of a town in Suffolk County, NY; also the setting for The Amityville Horror.

Pretty sick place… but Em claims that Detroit is sicker. He spits about evil acts and gruesome events that happen in the town.

The track was originally supposed to feature Outsidaz members Young Zee and Pacewon, but Dr. Dre complained that the album had too many features, which resulted in Eminem removing their verses and making the last one himself. Pacewon confirms this in an interview and adds that he believes that their verses have been permanently deleted

This resulted in a rift between Eminem and Pacewon specifically. The latter has released diss tracks aimed at Eminem since this episode.

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Em, via Spin:

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism. If anything is at least going to lessen it, it’s gonna be rap.

Being a white and hugely sucessful rapper, Eminem made a lot of white kids more comfortable with embracing hip-hop culture, instead of rejecting and degrading it like their parents.

He addressed the racial aspect of his career in the song “White America”.

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