Sadism is gaining pleasure from inflicting pain. Masochism is pleasure from harming ones'self. A sadomasochist, therefore, is somebody who gains pleasure from self-inflicted pain. From this we have three possible intepretations…

• “Sadomasochist MC, I bite myself” (Bites his own style, because he’s that original)

• “Sadomasochist MC, I bite myself” (To scare off other emcees for shock value)

• “Sadomasochist MC, I bite myself” (Plays off of his surname in his pseudonym)

Monch is word-playing off of his name over and over 3 times with “biting hints” with self-referential, 3rd person wordplay, playing off of his “Monch” surname. It’s because he is “Monch” and “munches” on his own verses, when spitting too ill on the mic. He basically gets off on inflicting too much pain that he creates to his own rapping, so he “bites himself” to get a taste of what it feels like when not beating other emcees down.

Note that the song is called “Evolve” and sadomasochism is a progressive, abnormal disorder that gets worse overtime. Monch has now “accustomed to liking how his own style” disturbingly similar to how Hannibal got Ray Liotta to eat his own brains.

Intrestingly, Pharoahe actually does “bite” himself in this song. A portion of this verse was taken from his unaccredited verse at the end of the De La Soul song“Oooh,” which was released back in 2000. . Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHj79PDtEmY#t=56

This isn’t the 1st time, Em has claimed to “fuck with Nicki” as they did their groundbreaking collab in “Roman’s Revenge” and also, surprisingly complimented her MC skills. Maybe this is another co-sign of how he, always felt afterward?

You wanna know about the Nicki Minaj line? I wasn’t saying anything that everyone wasn’t already thinking. I mean, obviously I’ve worked with Nicki. I did a song with her. She’s a phenomenal rapper, and phenomenal looking. [Laughs.] I mean look, it was right there. I thought it was funny. I think she sees the fun in it too, but no, I haven’t spoken to her about it. It’s just hip-hop.

Imitating her accent, Em makes a humble(?) request to butt fuck Nicki Minaj, who responded to it, out of the same dirty Em-humor, with a joke diss in the song “I’m Out” by Ciara:

Man, fuck you and your lady, gun butt you, ‘cause you’re shady

On a 2018 interview with DJ Whoo Kid she commented:

Eminem one time said he want to put something in my anus, so I didn’t get mad, y'all, I mean it’s Em, it’s Slim Shady, you just gotta take that.

His use of the adlib (Danish) in the previous line is also significant, because ‘Dame’ is ‘Lady’ in Danish.

A MAC is also a machine-pistol, so she’s asking for a gun holster, since she can’t stop “firing shots” (bars) at her competition and needs to cool off the heat.

Funny enough Nicki ended up getting a deal with MAC years later.

These lines are trying to show that this predicament of dancing with the devil can happen to anybody. He uses angels of an example of how even they can become devils

Lucifer is depicted as a fallen angel in Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost

We all “Fall of Grace” as young ones with humble beginnings and begin to learn as a figure of speech, how messed up life gets as we grow up, realizing it has always been this way, before we were born. Serpents represent the sources of a lie, told in the form of stories, sins are the consequences.

Angels (as kids) symbolize innocence, thus in a way harmlessness and ignorance. Devils (as teenagers) are what we grow into; rebellious, evil, violent, misanthropic, careless, vain, selfish, egotistical, etc.

Falling from the top, implies “The apple (from the Garden of Eden)” did indeed “fell far from the tree” (Of Knowledge of Good & Evil) society are the roots, the family is the tree and the children are the branches.

Quadruple entendre:

• Eminem wasn’t even on most people’s radar when he was coming up, and remained in the underground until Dre found him in 1999. He was so insignificant to the masses that he at times felt like he didn’t exist.

• Hip-hop was so predominately black at the time Em was coming up that a lyrical white rapper was practically a myth back in the time of Eminem’s rise. Most of the white rappers in the mainstream like Vanilla Ice back then weren’t lyrically impressive, so someone like Em technically didn’t/couldn’t exist.

• White is noted as a reflection of light on the electromagnetic spectrum, meaning it’s not visible; unless there is light pointed at an object. Eminem therefore is saying the only way and reason he is visible is because of black emcees in rap, literally and figuratively. He gave “contrast” (like TV colors) to Hip-Hop’s predominately Black background as wordplay. When you increase the contrast, all of a sudden “white exists”.

• This song is made from Slim Shady’s perspective, apparent by the crazed lyrical content and cadence. Slim Shady, in truth, does not exist; he’s a nothing but a figment of Eminem’s imagination and therefore this line refers to people going crazy over Slim Shady’s controversial lyrics and skin color when in reality, he doesn’t exist.