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Much like the medieval times when a son would be shipped off to learn a trade, Ja-P is still young in the rap game (just graduated from high school recently).

He also slightly altered his name, which is done in other songs too.

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On other songs on this album, Ja-P can be heard singing. Two such examples are “I Know” and the ending of the song “Cut You Loose”.

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This refers to the place where he puts the body after he “bites her in the fucking neck”. Also a reference to another song on the Goblin album called “Analog” where he tells the girl to “meet him by the lake”. After she meets him there, he’ll “bite her in her fucking neck” and throw her to the “bottom of the fucking lake”.

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Vinnie Paz is filling you in on the Roswell conspiracy

In 1947, a spaceship supposedly crashed into the New Mexican desert and debris from the “flying disk” was taken by the military to the nearby Fort Worth

Although there are only a few eyewitnesses, this case was famous across the USA and some believe that the pilots' little blue bodies are being poked and prodded in Area 51

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“Californ-I-A” is a shout out to Dr. Dre who helped popularize the phrase on his collaboration with 2Pac and Roger Troutman: “California Love”.

https://youtu.be/rVr-MyRblA4?t=160

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LeatherFACE was the deranged killer in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, and Everclear is a brand of spirit that contains either 75% or 95% alcohol. Mixing these two probably wouldn’t be pretty.

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This recording has Eminem showing Dr. Dre how to perform his lines, with the same chorus and Nas verse as the T.I. version.

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A play on the common theme of incorporating X and O together. X marks the spot for treasure, and kitchens mark O’s (hoes). Because a good woman should always be cooking.

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This can be seen as both a Canibus and Canada diss!

Canibus and Eminem never saw eye to eye and LL Cool J, another foe of Canibus, once alleged that he was born in Canada in “Back Where I Belong”

And you really from Canada / And you been fronting all this time

Though he was really born in Kingston…

Eminem also had beef with the U.S.’s neighbors to the north, because his songs

constitute hate propaganda and thus are in violation of the Canadian Criminal Code

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Right off the bat, Eminem’s killing his opponents.

What he’s also referring to is that as soon as he starts spittin', any MC facing him is discouraged and disheartened by Em’s masterful delivery… his verses “eat at an MC’s heart” in the same way that termites eat away wood.

There is possible word play here, as “eating an an MC” could be a play on “eating at a McDonalds.” Eminem used to love eating at McDonalds, as he stated in his book The Way I Am.

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