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Tony Yayo is a member of G-Unit records and rap group.

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Em’s label, Shady Records has an entourage (army) of many artists such as Obie Trice, 50 Cent, D12 and Stat Quo (at the time).

He’s playing 50’s line

It’s 50, a.k.a Ferrari F-50

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Reference to Eminem’s 2000 hit single “Stan” from The Marshall Mathers LP.; the song is about a fictional, obsessive Eminem fan. Since then the term Stan has meant either any Eminem fan, or any fanatical follower of a rapper.

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Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s manager, disparaged Canibus while Eminem was describing their conflict in the Tim Westwood interview cited in the annotation of the first Eminem sample, above.

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Em is saying here that ever since he reached 13 he started to act like a man; he didn’t take no shit from anyone and proved his ability to stand his ground.

He wouldn’t even take shit from himself literally and figuratively since he shut his asshole. Also 13 is typically the age puberty begins to change the body

Also in a lot of songs he talks about changing from 12 to 13, he does it in “My Name Is”, “I’m Back”, and “Music Box”

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Ever since he put out his very first underground album, Infinite which did not perform well and gave Em poor receptions from the hip hop community, he’s been giving it 110% with every lyric he spits… He went from being an Amateur on Infinite to being the Rap God that we know him as today.

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