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'Bout time that you wake the fuck up, smell the pot smoke Eminem – Must Be the Ganja
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This is a chillaxed version of “wake up and smell the coffee” (or Folger’s crystals)

Refers to an actual coffee pot smoking when its finished, and then the obvious meaning of marijuana smoke.

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technically it’s steam, not smoke.

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I thought in this verse hes referring to weed not being the poison everyone thinks it is and as people realise this they are waking up from the state where they believed it was a poison and opening themselves up to the consumption of weed

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Here Eminem is referring to Stoners, cause we always hit the bed too late, and when we wake up we cant wait to Waken'Bake
Bout time for me to light up another J

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Must Be the Ganja Eminem – Must Be the Ganja
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In a tradition stemming back to his earliest albums, Eminem is always sure to include a “drug song” for your party mixes. Even though he was sober for the recording of this, he has plenty of experiences to draw back on in order to make this song.

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A lot of people ask me stupid fuckin' questions Eminem – Criminal
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Em holds a noticeable pause after “A lotta people ask me”, presumably to draw our attention in. He then drops his punchline with his answer: “stupid fucking questions”.

His statement with a rainstorm in the background is a callback to the intro to the last song of the SSLP, “Still Don’t Give a Fuck”. It is later reused on the intro to Relapse’s “Underground” as well.

As for the “stupid fucking questions” Em is getting asked, most of them deal with fans wondering if he actually did the things he claimed on the last LP in real life. The Slim Shady LP was filled with stories of rape and murder, but even though he claimed killing his wife or raping the women’s swim team on a song, it is the listener’s responsibility to have the common sense of identifying those bars for what they are; shock value entertainment.

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I'm the kind of guy that's mild but I might flip and get a little bit wilder Eminem – Stay Wide Awake
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Most serial killers are able to fit into their surroundings well due to their incredible lying ability, so to the general public they are generally viewed as laid back people. But when it becomes time to kill, they absolutely lose their shit and become animals.

Also a reference to the Australian-born serial killer Christopher Wilder who was responsible for a string of murders across Florida and the southern United States during the 1980’s.

The letter W looks like an M upside down. If you literally flip the letter M, it turns the word mild into wild.

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Crazy wordplay

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I'm the type, that might flip and get a little bit crazy)
― Obie Trice (Ft. Eminem) – Lady

I feel like he wants to make this very clear

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I see my target, put my car in park, and approach a tender
Young girl by the name of Brenda and I pretend to befriend her Eminem – Stay Wide Awake
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Slim uses a similar technique in one of the earlier skits on the album (“Tonya”), where he convinces a young girl that he is a good guy by giving her a lift while it is raining outside, then proceeds to duct tape her mouth shut and rape her.

By naming the “problem girl” in this situation Brenda, Em might be alluding to the 2Pac classic “Brenda’s Got a Baby”. The fact that he’s looking for a pregnant woman in the first 2 lines might indicate some relation to Pac’s Brenda.

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eminem says he enters central park, its winter in the middle of december ….(most famous central park images in winter in december are of home alone 2:Lost in new york) the pigeon lady in central park park was played by one Brenda fricker.

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Also the Brenda Pac talks about is only twelve years old, Em attempts to hunt a 12 year old preggo.

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Just wanna note that in “I see my target, put my car in park, and approach a tender” – ‘Tender’ sound like ‘Tinder’. Which is probably something that he would use to catch his “victim”, set an encounter with her on the Tinder and then go mett her. But I know Tinder did not even exist at the time. Is just a coincidence I noticed.

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The name Brenda could allude to Brenda Carol Ball, a victim of the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. Brenda disappeared in Washington state in 1974, and only her skull was recovered at a mountain site months later, evidence that after being raped and killed, Bundy had decapitated her.

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Brenda is name of a Ted Bundy victim

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Fuckin' doctor, I ain't understand a damn word he said
I planned to relapse the second I walked out of that bitch Eminem – Underground
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It seems Em hated his experience at rehab. That’s what the whole theme of the album is about, how rehab didn’t do anything for him, he’s going to “relapse” either way. The Dr. West Skit to open the album makes fun of his doctors and how useless they were at fixing the addiction.

Should be noted that this is just Slim Shady speaking. Marshall Mathers the person seems to appreciate what rehab did for him, but making a “thank you note” album would be a lot less interesting.

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Murderin', I'd rather go vinn-vinn, and now you see just how the Eminem – Stay Wide Awake
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This is onomatopoeia for the sound that a chainsaw makes. Slim has used the same ad-lib on some of his previous songs, since the chainsaw is his preferred instrument of torture.

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and Untitled too

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He also used it on “Business”, too.

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One of the times he has said vrinn vrinn is in Kill You from the Marshall Mathers LP

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Fe-fi-fo-fum, I think I smell the scent of a placenta Eminem – Stay Wide Awake
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A reference to a famous line from the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk

“Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman”

But a placenta is the organ that connects a fetus to the uterus of a pregnant woman, so this line indicates Slim Shady is on the prowl for a preggo.

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He’s insinuating that he’s the one who killed a Brenda in 2Pac’s “Brenda Got a Baby”

In the song the 13 year old girl gets pregnant and dumps the baby in the garbage.

“She didn’t know, what to throw away and what to keep
She wrapped the baby up and threw him in the trash heep”

This is why he says he smells the scent of placenta.

Eventually she resorts to prostitution and ends up getting killed.

“Prostitute, found slain, and Brenda’s her name, she’s got a Baby”.

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Also, take a look at how he basically composed entire lines with just two alternating rhymes (ABABAB…), creating amazing rhythm. Check out how he adjusts his accent in the song to make the words rhyme.

I smell the scent of a placenta. I enter Central

and later:

Sit down beside her like a spider, hi there girl, you mighta

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Notice how he is using alliteration of S (smell, scent, placenta, etc.), which can be reference to his devil nature (sibilance) and also fit with “Fe-fi-fo-fum” alliteration. This S alliteration also appears further in this verse:

Sit down beside her like a spider

The sibilance was also used in other Relapse track –

Eminem - My Darling — Genius
My Darling Lyrics: Yeah, look / If I were to rap about the crap that's out / That's the route you probably want me to take / 'Cause you're just dyin' to know what I think / Hear my take on some other

Full of poison, and make a noise like a snake before I kill ‘em

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I just get on the mic and spit it
And whether you like to admit it (Err), I just shit it
Better than ninety percent of you rappers out can Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
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This is the thing that separates Em from other “shock value” rappers: he can actually rap. If he wasn’t such an accomplished lyricist people would just view him as the white dude who raps about killing his wife for attention. But since everyone knows he can “shit it” with the best of them, they just can’t stop listening to him since they don’t know what he’ll say next.

Eminem chooses to refer to his style as “shitting it”, even though most rappers generally call it “spitting it”. This implies that his style is out of control and half the time he just says whatever comes into his head, but it is still better than almost everyone else.

The words “shit it” here are accompanied by the sound of someone pooping, just to make the point perfectly clear.

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But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
Then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
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Em uses a rather backhanded argument for gay marriage, stating that if we find Tom Green humping a dead moose to be hilarious, we can’t just turn around and treat gay marriage as disgusting. Em isn’t your typical gay rights activist, but he has made it clear he’s fine with gay marriage; he treats everyone equally awful.

The line is followed with a disgusted “EWW” in the background from the fictional gay character Ken Kaniff (from Connecticut). In this song and others when Em mentions homosexual things like “a man and another man eloping” it usually follows an ad-lib from Ken Kaniff. Ken gets his own skit on this album, and it was rated number 2 in our list of Most Explicit Sex Scenes in Rap History.

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Pretty contradictory that Ken says “ew” to this..

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