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Michael Spinks was a boxer in the 1980’s. His nickname was Jinx.
Eminem actually jinxes himself a bit here: he uses the fighter’s name twice
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Ginsu is a knife manufacturer. Em makes a verb outta it meaning to chop the victim up, probably skin her too.
"Fuck it," keep goin', no time to waste
"Wait, back up. Hit him one more time, in case."
"Okay," fuck, now he's draggin' under the car
"Oh well, only thirty more thousand miles!" Eminem – Can I Bitch
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Em’s first ever single “My Name Is” started the hook with the lyrics “hi, my name is”. Since it was such a big hit and played so much, people now associated the word “hi” with Eminem whenever they hear it.
Don’t believe us? Try listening to someone saying “my name is” to you without saying “chka chka Slim Shady” in your head.
Also, there might be another layer of meaning there: “high” is a homonym for “hi” and at the time, Eminem was a self-proclaimed symbol of drug use (Drug Ballad is an iconic song off the same album). So, the line also makes sense interpreted like ‘you think of my name whenever you say “high”’. Parallel valid meanings are commonly hidden in Em’s art, see e.g. here and here. [Em, even if this wasn’t intentional, just tell us you meant that, like you tell Slaughterhouse to do!]
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Anthrax is an acute disease caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis.
In 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others.
Take a look at this timeline for more info
The correction saying that Eminem is talking about Saran Wrap isn’t true.
Commercial products are wrapped in cellophane; Saran Wrap is the stretchy plastic that you put over leftovers. It would be like calling elastic bands ‘hair bands’; similar properties but two entirely different materials.
This is also a reference to someone opening Em’s album. Albums are wrapped in saran wrap, and once opened and listened to will cause the listener to Gasp. A play on words as well wrappin / rapping.