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A reference to rapper Gucci Mane and his hit single “Wasted”.

Royce is wearing clothes that are part of the Gucci clothing like while getting “white boy wasted,” meaning as intoxicated as a white rock star (which is pretty wasted), which is what Gucci’s song is about.

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Michael Jackson, the crazy King of Pop, was rumored in 1987 to have purchased the bones of Joseph Merrick (aka “The Elephant Man”), a man with severe deformities who became a fixture of freakshows in Victorian England. Eminem is molesting this guy’s deformed skull and putting it back like nothing even happened:

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To be “caked” means to be extremely wealthy (as “cake” means money). Entenmann’s is a company famous for its cakes

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Em collaborated with Rihanna on his next album, Recovery, and scored a massive hit on the song, titled “Love the Way You Lie”

He’s also making a pun of the words “see man”, and making it sound like “semen”.

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Many before him have broken barriers in music; he’s not the first to do so

Emphasis on the word “king” – Elvis was known as “The King.”

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It was lines like these that led Ontario Attorney General Jim Flaherty to attempt to prevent Eminem from performing in Toronto a few months after this song came out, saying:

I personally don’t want anyone coming to Canada who will come here and advocate violence against women … I read the words, the words were not subtle. They were violent, they advocated violence, they praised violence against women, physical assaults, battery on women and that’s not acceptable to me.

While the content of the lyric is indeed rather nasty, the assonance is quite beautiful. Take note of how Eminem stresses the “o” sound: “Slut, you think I won’t choke no whore ‘til the vocal cords don’t work in her throat no more?”

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Eminem mocks the critics who predict that he will soon be sent to jail solely based off of his controversial lyrics. But if we learned anything from Tupac, it’s that you can still put out a successful album shortly after getting locked up.

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T.I. opens with a double entendre: he is a rebel for the hell of it, but he’s also referencing the book Rebel for the Hell of It, a biography of 2Pac.

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He is done trying to spit game to chicks and having to go through the motions to have sex with them. “Straight from the hip” and “cut to the chase” are both phrases that imply great speed, so Slim just wants sex with no strings attached; and he isn’t afraid to make it clear to these women that this is all he wants.

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Philly Blunts are a popular type of cigar wrapper (in fact, they are the origin of the term “blunts”). Weezy just lets the ends of his blunts burn out, because he has enough money to go get more weed and doesn’t want to risk burning his fingers

Also, he says “Let It Burn” because of the breakup between Chili and Usher. Usher had a hit song called Let It Burn after he broke up with Chili.

Wayne also takes another shot at Gillie Da Kid who often calls himself the “King of Philly”.

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