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I’m Gone

By DJ Kay Slay · Targeting Benzino

I’m Gone is a diss track by DJ Kay Slay targeting Benzino. The recording also credits Eminem and Obie Trice. The song belongs to Eminem's public conflict with Benzino and The Source, which produced multiple response records in the early 2000s.

Released2004

Annotated2

ExplicitYes

CONNECTED RECORD

Where this track sits

Timeline: Eminem vs. Benzino

Addressable transcript

Lyrics & breakdown

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[Intro: Eminem & Obie Trice]
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Kay Slay! (Yeah) Yo..
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Drama King! (Yeah!)
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Check it out, check it out, O. Trice!
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(Shady Records nigga, it's going down once again, boy)
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It's just a scratch, man (Let's go, Em)
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[Verse 1: Eminem]
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I murder this ink as soon as I touch the page
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You ain't gon' have no other choice but to rush the stage
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And charge the mic, and I hope you got the heart to fight
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Cause you gon' have to, cause you ain't got the smarts to write
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Something that good, to try to come back at me with
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What you gon' do, try to out-rap me with that happy shit?
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You motherfuckers crack me up, talking 'bout you gonna smack me up
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Ya'll won't even back me up
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Throw up your paws, you pussies can't even scratch me hard
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It's like fucking cats de-clawed trying to jack me off
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You think I'm afraid? What you tryna' throw some fear in me?
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You think I'm dumb enough to roll with no security?
Block noteQuestions the target's judgment
TargetBenzino
MeaningWhat it means: In “You think I'm dumb enough to roll with no security?,” DJ Kay Slay characterizes Benzino as unintelligent, careless, or unable to understand the situation being addressed. Why it was said: The song belongs to Eminem's public conflict with Benzino and The Source, which produced multiple response records in the early 2000s. The insult makes the target's decisions part of the evidence: a poor response can be framed not as strategy, but as proof that Benzino never understood the contest.
ContextThe song belongs to Eminem's public conflict with Benzino and The Source, which produced multiple response records in the early 2000s.
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I'm doing my best to try to show maturity
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But don't sit there and stare at me like hoes and sneer at me
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Like it's supposed to be scaring me
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Like I won't leap clean over this fuckin' V.I.P. rope and throw this chair
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At anyone close or near me, trying to approach me physically
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Cause he don't spit lyrically
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And he knows that my flow's so sick, his ho's on my dick
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And he's so sick of hearing me, my posters are starin' at him
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But I don't think he knows the severity
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Of what it could escalate to or that it could grow so seriously
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If I go hysterically, cause I guarantee
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There's no one in here that would resort back to childhood
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Any quicker than I would, or hit you with plywood
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Especially when I'm sipping on this liquor and tonic
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One swig of this bottle I'mma go upside your head so hard with it
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The mark from it'll be so dark that it'll leave a scar so big
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You'll be able to read a label from the motherfuckin' sticker that's on it
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I'm sick of the nonsense
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Shit is ridiculous and I refuse to let it get to this point
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Where I'mma let you sit on my conscience, I'm gone, bitch (Yeah)
Block noteMakes the confrontation explicit
TargetBenzino
MeaningWhat it means: In “You'll be able to read a label from the motherfuckin' sticker that's on it,” DJ Kay Slay addresses Benzino directly and makes the situation described in the quoted line the point of confrontation. Why it was said: The song belongs to Eminem's public conflict with Benzino and The Source, which produced multiple response records in the early 2000s. Naming or plainly addressing Benzino removes the safety of a subliminal and makes the quoted claim something the target can either answer or leave standing.
ContextThe song belongs to Eminem's public conflict with Benzino and The Source, which produced multiple response records in the early 2000s.
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[Chorus: Obie Trice & Eminem]
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I'm gone, bitch
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Shady Records motherfucker, we gone, bitch
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I said we gone, bitch
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So long, bitch
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Catch up if you can (Woo)
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We moving on, bitch
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[Verse 2: Obie Trice]
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Now who you know been to Kyoto, Tokyo
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Off of one debut, screaming, "I'm in Janai yo!"?
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Obie Trice, showed you right
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He done seen overseas, he's not a prototype (nah)
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Nobody's protégé, Em only showed O. the way
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Fuck what the media say
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If you listen to music then you should know that O. Trice fused it
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In a matter where he speaks how the streets views it
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Choose, to translate it through the art of music
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And started using it reaching the youth
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Influenced by the truth in it (truth!)
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And as a boy, a man, I ran from boys in vans
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Do the knowledge, acknowledge and try to comprehend
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Hand full of contraband
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A product of my environment, narcotics and violence
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Inspires the content, but my intent is
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To retire these tired-ass writers in si-lence (yeah!)
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Cause haters they hate us cause Shady became famous
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And claimed the rap game when they thought he'd be nameless (hah!)
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But racist accusations won't change us
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Let the truth be told, you think O. will be over here
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Like, "Master, show them you got soul!"
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No, anybody knows us knows that's not how we roll
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So, I still push the bucket
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If I ain't trust it I wouldn't fuck with it
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But fuck it, I'm gone bitch!