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Eminem has refers in several of his songs saying that he is a “White Devil with horns” also that him and everyone else knows that he is CRAZY! Saying that he should be chained down and restrained cause he is that crazy.

This now goes well with his music video for “The Monster”

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Matthew spent so much time thinking about his brother, Stan, and Eminem’s role in his death that it left him burnt out and exhausted. He was 6 at the time, 19 now, and has finally come to a conclusion on what Eminem’s fate should be.

Interestingly, this video footage from Eminem’s Wembley Stadium concert in 2014, 1:39 into the video, it is stated that Stan drove off the bridge with his pregnant girlfriend in 2002. If so, then Matthew would be 8 years old at the time of Stan’s death, not six, meaning that it had probably taken another 2 years of mental derangement to motivate Stan to commit suicide. Later in the video, it is documented that Matthew began plotting vengeance against Eminem in 2013 as portrayed in this song, so it is correctly assumed that he would have been 19 years old.

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Eminem laid off his dad for the most part in his last album Recovery since he was mostly focusing on his own personal struggles and his everyday life. But this third verse makes it clear that he isn’t past bashing his dad on a record and is going to do a whole lot more in the future.

When he talks about sending a message, he is also referring to a literal message written with the pad and pen from from the previous line. This refers to the letters Eminem wrote to his dad when he was a kid, and this is emphasized by the last line being spoken as if he was writing a letter.

There is a 7 syllable rhyme here:

There’s no meth-od-to-the-pad-and-pen
The only mess-age-that-I-have-to-send is, Dad

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Eminem doesn’t know what father and son talks are like because his dad bounced on him at a young age. But he wonders if they are similar to the way he was able to “talk” to neglected youths through his music and help influence their lives, almost as if he was a father figure in the lives of teens who did not have understanding parents themselves

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Eminem was bullied when he was younger throughout school, but now that he is a successful rapper who was taken under the wing of Dr. Dre, he’s now doing better than the people who bullied him while he was younger.

  • Eminem attended Lincoln High School through his teenage years which is based in Warren, Michigan.

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Here Em references the media’s obsession with him, a topic he has spoken on before. He is warning the paparazzi that if they try snooping around his house, he might go out and “cold cock” (sucker punch) one of them to send a message.

The “don’t knock” sign is a reference to a literal sign that Em has posted on his door to keep paparazzi away. But the line is also a reference to Jay-Z’s classic track “Can’t Knock The Hustle”.

On the other hand, Em invites the critics to stay, since “misery loves company” and they’ll soon regret their choice.

A play on words with the fly(zipper of your pants) open and thus getting cold-cocked(getting a cold penis)…

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He can’t sleep for probably 2 unspecific reasons, it’s either :

  • Creepy dreams that keeps him worried
  • Thinking of goals as of (Dreams) he wants to accomplish

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Miley’s been smoking some “purple kush”, which is purple weed. The purple comes from low temperature conditions and harvesting late in the flowering stage, when the red chloroplasts show over the dying green ones. The purple color is commonly believed to be a sign of HIGH QUALITY.

Marijuana users are known to put on shades as well because of the red eyes they may experience whenever marijuana is smoked.

Miley’s is also referring to being high on purple drank. Purple drank is usually a mix of cough syrup and sprite. Other names for purple drank are: Sizzurp, lean & drank.

This is most likely not what she meant though since the ‘effect’ that ‘drank users’ experience is called ‘leaning’.

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A joint mixed with Tobacco and Marijuana is usually called a spliff.

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DOUBLE ENTEDRE!

Referring to either Presidents George W. Bush Senior or Junior with them thinking like a president making big moves, Nas is also saying he does this also.

Nas is also talking about burning Marijuana tree’s with burning bushes

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