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Eminem – Everything
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“Everything” is an unreleased Eminem track that was reportedly made in 2007-2008, during the recording sessions for his sixth studio album. It was reportedly meant for a
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Eminem – Mockingbird
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Possibly the least offensive Eminem song ever, this Encore track is directed and dedicated to his daughters. Eminem acknowledges that growing up with his media image and Kim’s drug
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Bad Meets Evil (Ft. Mike Epps) – I'm On Everything
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Track 5 from Hell: The Sequel, Eminem & Royce sing a humorous song about drugs (no surprise when Eminem enters the studio, just look at songs like “Purple Pills”) and about how
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Eminem – Bad Guy
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“Bad Guy” is a sequel to Eminem’s song “Stan”, which was released as a single from The Marshall Mathers LP. “Stan” is about a crazed fan who kills himself, his girlfriend and their
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Eminem – Lose Yourself
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“Lose Yourself” is the theme song from Eminem’s semi-biographical 2002 movie 8 Mile. Eminem is narrating the life of the film’s protagonist, Jimmy, up until the third verse, where
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Eminem (Ft. Eye-Kyu) – It’s O.K.
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Eminem is rapping about his struggles, but he makes it clear that he has got hope for the future.
Based on a promotional poster, this was one of three intended singles from the
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Eminem – Just Lose It
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Released as the first single off of Encore, Em goes very far with scatological humor, Michael Jackson jokes and one of the most distinctive choruses in Em’s career.
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Eminem – The Way I Am
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The second single from Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP, also featured on his 2005 album Curtain Call: The Hits
In the tradition of most of Eminem’s follow-up singles, “The Way I Am
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Eminem – Beautiful
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Considered by both fans and critics as the strongest song on Relapse. This song had begun to be written while sitting in rehab.
Via MTV:
There’s only one song on the record that
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Ca$his – Everything is Shady
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Everything is Shady is a song performed by “Ca$his” on the hip hop compilation album, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up. It was produced by Rikanatti, and was written by R. Johnson and R
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Bad Meets Evil (Ft. Claret Jai) – Take From Me
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From the Bad Meets Evil album Hell: The Sequel
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Eminem – Kamikaze
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On the album’s title track, Em continues his criticism of trap and mumble rap. He also responds to the negative reception of his 2017 album Revival. In the chorus, he even compares
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Eminem – Stepping Stone
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“Stepping Stone” is the latest in a series of songs apologizing to people who have been negatively affected by Em’s career. The previously released “Headlights” and “Bad Husband
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Eminem & Jessie Reyez – Nice Guy
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This song is about Eminem’s relationship status, and being confused about some of his relationships, but just trying to be the “nice guy” in it all.
He similarly mentioned
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Eminem (Ft. Dido) – Stan
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In this song, Eminem corresponds with a crazed fan who becomes increasingly unhinged as the story progresses. This is one of his most well-received singles and was listed at #15 on
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Eminem – Evil Deeds
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“Evil Deeds” transitions nicely from the opening skit “Curtains Up” and into the next track, “Never Enough”. The song, with its hectic Dre produced beat, untraditional flow and
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Eminem – When I'm Gone
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In “When I’m Gone,” Eminem shares a personal story about his relationship with his daughter Hailie and how his absence is influencing her, the family and himself. Despite the
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Brent Pella – Eminem Disses Everything (MGK Response) (Parody)
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[Intro:Brent Pella] / Yeah, you know sometimes I just wanna punch the world in the dick / I hear a lot of people out there talking trash / So to everybody that hated on me, this
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Eminem – Fubba U Cubba Cubba (Freestyle)
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[Intro] / "We on" / "Shady" "45" / [Verse] / I done figured this / Rap shit out, I map shit out strategically / Timin' is everything, and it seems to be the key / To my success, it
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Eminem (Ft. Dina Rae) – Drug Ballad
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Em’s love song!
Slim tells us about his love/hate relationship with alcohol, solvents, ecstasy, and who knows what else. Basically any substance he can cram in to his body, a
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JAY-Z (Ft. Eminem) – Renegade
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“Renegade” serves as a “fuck you” to critics who said JAY-Z had forgotten his ghetto roots with his new found riches, and moralizers who said Eminem was a bad influence on children
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Eminem – Soldier
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In the seventh song off The Eminem Show, Em details his dealings with the law because of his weapons charges, and boasts his fearless nature with them–which is contradicted a song
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Eminem – Rap God
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“Rap God” is Eminem’s braggadocious ode to himself and his career. Over its six-minute run-time, he references comic books, throws back to his old songs, and raps crazily fast.
In
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Busta Rhymes (Ft. Eminem) – Calm Down
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Busta Rhymes and Eminem come together for “Calm Down,” their fourth collaboration after their first in 2003 on the “Hail Mary (Ja Rule Diss)” along with two other collaborations in
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Eminem (Ft. Sia) – Guts Over Fear
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On this track Eminem contemplates his legacy and career. He dwells on the feeling that he has no emotion left and that he is singing the same old song. He regrets the pain he has
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Eminem – Arose
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On the introspective album closer “Arose”, Eminem details how he nearly died in 2007 due to an overdose on pills. He catalogues his thought process in what could have been his
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Eminem (Ft. D12) – Under The Influence
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A D12 collaboration on The Marshall Mathers LP. It describes the classic antics of the Dirty Dozen and foreshadows the sound of 2001 album Devils Night.
This track ironically
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Eminem – Stimulate
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Seemingly a late cut from The Eminem Show (2002), “Stimulate” finally saw a widespread release 20 years later on the Expanded Edition of the album.
Prior to that it could be found
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Eminem (Ft. Juice WRLD) – Godzilla
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Eminem and late rapper Juice WRLD team up for the first time on “Godzilla,” where they compare themselves to monsters. In particular, they become Godzilla, a fictional sea monster
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Eminem – Believe
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“Believe” is the second track on Revival, and Eminem starts rhyming from where he left off on “Walk On Water”.
The track marks Eminem’s first take on a modern trap beat. His flow
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Eminem – Insane
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As described in the New York Times:
Word sounds are the genesis of “Insane,” a song on “Relapse” where he accuses his stepfather of raping him as a child. “It’s pretty much all
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Nick Lutsko – Eminem as a Talking Heads song
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[Verse 1] / I've got a rhyming disease / In my head, everything rhymes / I write and write until I can't / 'Til my brain hurts / Lyrics in my head all the time / I've made a lotta
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Eminem – Lose Yourself (Original Demo Version)
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Eminem recorded this version before completely rewriting the song to make it fit with the Jimmy Smith/B-Rabbit character from the 8 Mile movie.
This version was released for the
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Eminem – If I Had
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The lyrics of this song were comprised after a week of things going consecutively wrong for Eminem in the summer of 1997 and were recorded at a later point (winter time) of the
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Juice WRLD, Eminem & benny blanco – Lace It
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“Lace It” sees the reunition of Juice WRLD and Eminem over a bass-filled benny blanco production, while also serving as the lead single of Juice WRLD’s final posthumous album, The
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Bad Meets Evil – Raw
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Royce & Eminem trade verses focusing on two different meanings of “raw.” While Royce focuses on the meaning of a raw MC, Marshall’s verse is full of sexual innuendos.
This is the
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Eminem – Ricky Ticky Toc
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Bonus Track from Encore, basically in freestyle form no real chorus, Eminem talks about everything from Growing Up to Dr. Dre to 50 Cent.
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Eminem – My Name Is
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The song that vaulted Eminem onto the national stage. This was the second single from Eminem’s major label debut The Slim Shady LP (the first was “Just Don’t Give a Fuck,” which
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Eminem (Ft. Hailie Jade) – My Dad's Gone Crazy
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Eminem says that he let Hailie come to the studio with him one day, she said “My dad’s gone crazy” into the mic, and he decided to put it into one of his songs.
He was criticized
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Eminem (Ft. Dina Rae) – Cum on Everybody
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Eminem’s official dance song from the Slim Shady LP in 1999. Some of the lyrics bear a resemblance to legendary comedian Groucho Marx’s misanthropic, self-effacing style of humor.
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Eminem (Ft. Anderson .Paak) – Lock It Up
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On “Lock It Up” Em again teams up with Anderson .Paak. The two have earlier collaborated on “Medicine Man” from Dr. Dre’s Compton album. In addition, they have collaborated on “
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Eminem – 8 Mile: B-Rabbit vs Papa Doc
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This final rap battle is the climactic point of the film. Papa Doc wins the coin toss and elects to “let that bitch go first.” Aware that Doc has a lot of potential material about
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Eminem (Ft. Mekhi Phifer, Njeri Earth, Obie Trice & Omar Benson Miller) – 8 Mile: 313 Cypher (Chin Tiki Girls)
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Taken from Eminem’s acting debut “8 Mile”. The character B-Rabbit spits a freestyle with his crew in a parking lot.
On the semi-official Don’t Call Me Marshall CD, B-Rabbit’s verse
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Eminem – Fall
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“Fall” continues Kamikaze’s main theme of criticizing the current state of the rap game while also responding to critics of his then-previous album, Revival, which was—and remains—
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Eminem – Space Bound
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A summer love song that gets pretty visceral. Em describes a budding relationship that turns abusive. It’s pretty affectionate, too, considering how graphic it gets at times.
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