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(I, I wanna grow up too)
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"Uncle Marshall, will you tell us a bedtime story?"
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Here we go
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Now, once upon a time not long ago
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There was a little rapper about to blow
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But his album came, and it was not good
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I think it went lead or double copper-wood
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So these silly little fans, they were misled
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By a nerdy Internet computer hip-hop head
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"Me and you, Clef, we're gonna make some cash"
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"Grab this silver paint and let's paint my ass"
Block noteFrames Canibus as a failed rapper propped up online
TargetCanibus
MeaningThe storybook opening says Canibus was expected to break through but released a poor-selling album, blames a computer-oriented hip-hop advocate for misleading fans, and caricatures Canibus and Wyclef Jean plotting a gimmick instead of making credible music.
WordplayLead and copper parody gold and platinum sales certifications. The nursery-story form infantilizes the target; silver paint mocks the metallic body paint associated with Canibus's debut imagery.
ContextCanibus's commercial reception and association with Wyclef are the background. Wyclef is a secondary target because he is included in the quoted scheme.
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Hey, mister, would you care to bear witness to
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The ass-whippin' I'm about to administer
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To this ass-kissin' little vaginal blister?
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Stanibus, little Marshall Mathers' sister
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And in this corner, we have the "Mr
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Not-Havin'-It," it's the Mad, sinister
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Dr. Evil, with his bag of tricks for
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This little antagonistic faggot
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Dick-sucking ex-LL Cool J fan from Windsor
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I'm 'bout to murder little Kenny-Fag-Kaniff-sta
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You're bastard, I ain't wanna have to diss ya
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Canibus, where the fuck you at? I miss ya
Block noteIntroduces Canibus as an absent and diminished battle opponent
TargetCanibus
MeaningEminem announces an administered beating, strings together sexual and gendered insults, folds Canibus into the obsessive Stan character, contrasts Dr. Evil's tricks with the weak opponent, references Canibus's LL Cool J feud and Canadian connection, then directly calls for him to answer.
WordplayWitness/administer/blister/sister/sinister/tricks for/Windsor/Kaniff-sta stacks extended internal rhyme. Stanibus fuses Stan with Canibus; the boxing-corner presentation turns the song into a mock bout.
ContextCanibus's earlier battle with LL Cool J and connections to Canada are used as biographical attack material. The slurs are preserved historical lyric text, not editorial language.
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Canibitch, oh, Canibitch
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Wherefore art thou, Canibitch?
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Please, tell me what happened with
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That style that you were rappin' with?
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Canibitch, oh, Canibitch
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Are you from Los Angeles
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New York, or just a janitor
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From Canada? Oh, Canibitch
Block noteChorus attacks Canibus's name, style, and identity
TargetCanibus
MeaningThe refrain feminizes the Canibus name, asks where his earlier rapping style went, and mockingly cycles through Los Angeles, New York, janitorial work, and Canada to suggest he lacks a stable artistic identity or standing.
WordplayCan-I-Bus becomes Can-I-Bitch/Canibitch. 'Wherefore art thou' gives a mock-Shakespearean search for a vanished rapper; Los Angeles/janitor/Canada is an intentionally absurd location-and-occupation rhyme.
ContextThe title directly flips Canibus's name and debut album Can-I-Bus.
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Now, at first, I ain't really understand this shit
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Picture me, for a second, and imagine it
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Chillin' in the Bat Mansion, relaxin', when
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All of a sudden some bullshit comes across the scanners, it's
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Canibitch, on some 'Stan Lives' shit
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It creeped me out at first; man, this is sick
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But me, bein' just as sick, this conflict
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Gets my dick harder than arithmetic
Block noteAnswers Canibus's Stan-themed provocation
TargetCanibus
MeaningEminem narrates relaxing in a comic-book mansion before detecting Canibus's 'Stan Lives' material. He first calls the fixation disturbing, then says his own appetite for conflict makes the provocation exciting rather than frightening.
WordplayBat Mansion and scanners turn a rap response into a superhero alert; sick/conflict/arithmetic forms a clipped rhyme run, with arithmetic used for a deliberately juvenile sexual simile.
ContextCanibus had used Stan-related framing in attacks on Eminem, so Eminem recasts him as the obsessive fan from his own song.
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And I know how you jealous ones envy
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I shoulda knew better from the first few letters you sent me
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The first two letters, you were tellin' me shit like
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You respect me, like any other regular MC
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The third letter, you asked how come I ain't return
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None of the messages at Shady Records you left me
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The fourth letter: "Slim, you're really startin' to upset me"
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The fifth letter told me you were comin' to get me
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The sixth letter, there's a bomb threat on our building
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This crazy motherfucker's really tryna kill me
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So I went back and read the first few letters that said
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Some shit about a message you left
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Oh shit, that's not a "E", that's an "A"
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This dude wants to leave me a 'massage,' he's gay
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Right away, I'm on the phone with Dr. Dre
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"We got a bogey," "Marshall, I'm on the way"
Block noteReimagines fan letters as escalating Canibus threats
TargetCanibus
MeaningEminem describes six supposed letters that move from respect to demands, anger, a threat, and a bomb warning. He then pretends to discover that Canibus requested a 'massage' rather than leaving a message, turns that spelling joke into a homophobic taunt, and summons Dr. Dre as if responding to an intruder.
WordplayThe numbered letters imitate the escalating correspondence in Stan. Message/massage is the central misreading; bogey continues the Batcave-style surveillance story.
ContextThe sequence is fictional comic storytelling built around Canibus's Stan references rather than a verified record of six real letters.
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Canibitch, oh, Canibitch
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Wherefore art thou, Canibitch?
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Please, tell me what happened with
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That style that you were rappin' with?
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Canibitch, oh, Canibitch
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Are you from Los Angeles
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New York, or just a janitor
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From Canada? Oh, Canibitch
Block noteSecond chorus repeats the vanished-style accusation
TargetCanibus
MeaningThe repeated hook again says Canibus lost the style that earned attention and has no convincing artistic or geographic identity, ending with the name flip.
WordplayRepetition makes Canibitch both a nickname and the answer to the song's mock search.
ContextThis occurrence is retained separately to preserve the user's supplied order.
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So, in two seconds flat, Dre's at my crib
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Only thing is, we both know where this kid lives
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And neither one of us have Canadian citizenship
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"Shit, oh, Dre, wait a minute, that's it
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All we gotta do is use a bit of turbo-boost
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We can fly over the border" "Let's Go", phoosh
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So we're off to Toronto and we're gainin' speed
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(Pff, "Uh") "What was that? Oh, Jermaine Dupri"
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"Fuck it," keep goin', no time to waste
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"Wait, back up, hit him one more time, in case"
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"Okay," fuck, now he's draggin' under the car
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"Oh well, only thirty more thousand miles"
Block noteRuns over Jermaine Dupri as a side target
TargetJermaine Dupri
MeaningOn the fictional trip to Toronto, the car hits Jermaine Dupri. Eminem and Dre identify him, deliberately reverse over him, and continue driving while his body drags under the car.
WordplayThe abrupt sound effect and deadpan road-trip dialogue make a violent aside into slapstick; the exaggerated thirty-thousand-mile distance extends the cruelty.
ContextJermaine Dupri had traded disses with Eminem and Dr. Dre, making him a distinct secondary target rather than part of the Canibus narrative.
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Meanwhile, me and Dre are tryna conversate
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Just tryna find a reason for the constant hate
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And tryna figure out what happened to 'Germaine Propane'
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"He couldn't have fell off that hard" Ain't no way
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What happened to the way you was rappin'
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When you was scandalous?
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That Canibus turned into a television evangelist
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Plus, he raps with his regular voice
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(Puf, puf, puf, puf) "What was that?" "Pet Shop Boys"
Block noteMocks Canibus's artistic decline and swipes at Pet Shop Boys
TargetCanibus
MeaningEminem and Dre discuss the cause of Canibus's hostility, pun on a propane-advertising character to say he fell off, compare his newer style to television evangelism, and dismiss his regular voice. Gun-like sound effects then treat Pet Shop Boys as another object struck on the journey.
WordplayGermaine Propane/Germaine exaggerates falling off; scandalous/Canibus/evangelist carries the rhyme while 'regular voice' attacks delivery. The Pet Shop Boys cameo is a literal drive-by gag.
ContextPet Shop Boys had released 'The Night I Fell in Love,' a fictional Eminem encounter; their appearance here functions as a secondary rebuttal.
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So, we pull up to the bridge where he last was spotted
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His corpse was still movin', but his ass was rotted
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And he kinda smelled a little like Courtney Love
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I figured if I stick him with a fork, he's done
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So I stabbed him twice, kept jabbin'—Christ
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He won't die, this guy's like a battered wife
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He's like Kim: he keeps comin' back for more
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But he won't fight back, I cracked his jaw
Block noteFinds and repeatedly attacks a supposedly unresponsive Canibus
TargetCanibus
MeaningThe story reaches the bridge where Canibus was last seen, describes him as decayed yet still moving, compares his smell to Courtney Love, and depicts repeated stabbing and punching. The final lines say he repeatedly returns but never actually fights back.
WordplayBridge and corpse imagery continues the Stan suicide motif. Fork/done and battered-wife/Kim references mix horror with deliberately offensive comparison.
ContextThe scene is fictional battle-rap narrative; Courtney Love and Kim are references, not track-level targets.
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Hold up, 'Bis, quit foldin' up
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Punch me in the chest, make my shoulders touch
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Do something, at least one punchline
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Come on, 'til the meter reads nine, nine, nine-
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Ty nine percent of my fans are blond
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'Bis, come on, answer me, man, respond
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Tell me 'bout the sun, rain, moon and stars
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Intergalactical metaphors from Mars
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Raw to the floor, raw like Reservoir Dogs
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Bite another line from Redman's song
Block noteChallenges Canibus to produce a punchline and mocks his writing
TargetCanibus
MeaningEminem demands that Canibus stop collapsing, land a punch, and answer. He interrupts 'ninety-nine' to joke about his blond fan base, parodies Canibus's cosmic vocabulary, and accuses him of biting a Redman lyric.
WordplayThe broken nine-nine-nine/ty-nine line is an enjambed number gag. Sun, rain, moon, stars, Mars, and intergalactical metaphors caricature Canibus's technical-science style; raw/Reservoir Dogs/Redman extends the rhyme.
ContextCanibus was known for dense scientific and cosmic imagery; the Redman accusation is presented as Eminem's lyric claim, not independently verified here.
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Suddenly, the stub of a dead man's arm
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From a midget reaches out from under the car
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It's J.D., this motherfucker won't die, neither
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Dre starts sprayin' him with cans of ether
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We swamped the bitch and then stomped the bitch again
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"Compton" "Detroit, bitch, talk some shit again"
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"Stomp him" "Switch feet" "Stomp him" "Switch again"
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"Dre, all right, he's dead, dog, quit kickin' him
Block noteReturns to the Jermaine Dupri side feud
TargetJermaine Dupri
MeaningA small arm reaches from under the car and is identified as Jermaine Dupri. Dre sprays ether, both men stomp him while invoking Compton and Detroit, and Eminem finally tells Dre the target is dead and to stop.
WordplayThe 'midget' insult targets Dupri's height. Ether is both a chemical and a nod to 'Ether' as diss-track shorthand; switch feet/switch again makes the stomping a chant.
ContextThis block resumes the earlier fictional vehicle attack on Dupri and emphasizes the Dre–Dupri conflict.
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I think Stanibus jumped off the bridge again" ("Ahh")
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"Damn," "He disappeared, yo, he's gone, he did it again"
Block noteEnds the story with Canibus repeating Stan's disappearance
TargetCanibus
MeaningEminem concludes that 'Stanibus' has jumped from the bridge again and vanished, making Canibus reenact the fate of Stan rather than defeat Eminem.
WordplayStanibus and 'did it again' turn a one-song narrative callback into a recurring compulsion attributed to Canibus.
ContextThe bridge-jump is a direct fictional callback to Stan and to Canibus's use of Stan-related material.
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Canibitch, oh, Canibitch
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Wherefore art thou, Canibitch?
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Please, tell me what happened with
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That style that you were rappin' with?
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Canibitch, oh, Canibitch
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Are you from Los Angeles
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New York, or just a janitor
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From Canada? Oh, Canibitch
Block noteFinal chorus restates the name and style attack
TargetCanibus
MeaningThe last refrain again asks what happened to Canibus's former style and mocks his identity through the Canibitch name flip and absurd location sequence.
WordplayThe unchanged repetition closes the bedtime story like a nursery refrain.
ContextIt is stored as a separate block because it is physically repeated in the supplied lyric text.

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