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Yo (Na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na)
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I dedicate this to you (Hahahaha, yo)
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To all my fans, keepin' y'all in health
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Let's tell this Whitey Ford to go fuck himself!
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'Cause it's cruel when you cause a bad heart condition
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In which I create, 'cause that's my mission
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So listen close to what we say, because
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This type of fag claims to never be gay
Block noteDedication turns into an attack on Everlast
TargetEverlast
MeaningThe mock dedication names Everlast's Whitey Ford persona, jokes that Eminem's mission is to aggravate his heart condition, and ends with a homophobic insult. Each line converts a ceremonial introduction into a hostile warning.
WordplayThe health-wish setup is inverted into a threat; Whitey Ford is Everlast's blues-oriented alias.
ContextQuitter followed the Eminem–Everlast exchange and repeatedly weaponizes Everlast's real heart attack. The homophobic language is preserved as supplied historical text, not endorsed editorial wording.
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I knew you was jealous from the day that I met you
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I upset you 'cause I get respect, I bet you (What?)
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I'm even liked better by your niece and nephew (C'mon)
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And now you hate Fred because Lethal left you (Aw)
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Peckerwood mad, 'cause his record went wood
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No respect in the hood, fled to his neck of the woods
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Got in touch with his roots, found the redneck in his blood
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And said, "Heck, country-western rap records are good"
Block noteCalls Everlast jealous and mocks his genre change
TargetEverlast
MeaningEminem says Everlast resented his respect and even lost allies' loyalty. He calls Everlast's sales weak, says he retreated from hip-hop to rediscover white rural roots, and caricatures the move into blues/country rap as a desperate identity change.
WordplayRecord went 'wood' parodies gold or platinum certification; roots/redneck/country-western turns musical evolution into racial and commercial ridicule.
ContextEverlast moved from House of Pain rap to the guitar-led Whitey Ford sound; Fred Durst and DJ Lethal are contextual figures in the surrounding feud.
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So he picks the guitar up and he strums a few notes
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He can't rap, or sing, but he wants to do both (Haha)
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Puts an album out and rules for part of the year
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Then Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit come from out of nowhere
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It's the start of an era, rock-rap's harder this year
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No one's tryin' to hear some fuckin' old fart in a chair
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Sittin' on stage, strummin' acoustic guitar in your ear
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So you start to get scared, sit back and spark an idea
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Figure you can diss me to jumpstart your career?
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I'll punch you in your fuckin' chest, 'til your heart kicks in gear (Bitch)
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And fuck your underground buddies' nameless crew
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Like I'ma say they names, so they can be famous too
Block noteSays newer rap-rock acts displaced Everlast and rejects his allies
TargetEverlast
MeaningThe passage mocks Everlast's singing and guitar playing, credits Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit with eclipsing him, and portrays his diss as a career-revival scheme. The heart punch returns to Everlast's medical history, while the last lines refuse to name his underground associates so they cannot gain publicity.
WordplayStart an era/jump-start your career contrasts a scene change with an attempted publicity restart; the literal heart 'kick in gear' makes a cruel mechanical joke from a medical condition.
ContextThe unnamed associates are later identified more directly in Part II as Dilated Peoples members.
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You just a quitter and you bitter, 'cause I came along
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And the days of House of Pain are gone
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And if you talk about my little girl in a song again
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I'ma kill you, I'ma kill you
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You just a quitter and you bitter, 'cause I came along
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And the days of House of Pain are gone
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And if you talk about my little girl in a song again
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I'ma kill you, I swear to God, I'ma kill you
Block noteChorus brands Everlast a bitter quitter
TargetEverlast
MeaningEvery chorus line says Everlast abandoned House of Pain, resents Eminem's arrival, and crossed an absolute line by referring to Eminem's daughter. The repeated threat is presented as retaliation for another family reference.
WordplayQuitter/bitter is the central rhyme and verdict; repetition escalates the warning from a hook into a vow.
ContextEminem understood an Everlast lyric as referring to Hailie, although Everlast later said it referred to Halley's Comet. That initiating meaning remains disputed.
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Heart attack to stroke from the crack you smoke
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To the rap you wrote, your fuckin' answer back's a joke
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And I'ma tell these motherfuckin' fans the truth
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The reason why you dissed me first and I answered you
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You said I passed you in a lobby and I glanced at you
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Like I ain't notice you? Bitch, I had a show to do
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Like I'm supposed to be star-struck, come over to you
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You better shut your fuckin' mouth while you O-for-two
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Back in '94, Limp opened the show for you
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Rocked the crowd better and stole the whole show from you
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Took your motherfuckin' DJ and stole him too
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So you fall in a slump and get all emotional
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So now you sing and mix slang with blues and pluck strings
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Confused as fuck, 'cause now your music sucks dick
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Mr.-Mr. Ass Kisser to get accepted in rap quicker
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But never last, and Everlast is a
Block noteRebuts Everlast's account of the feud and mocks his career
TargetEverlast
MeaningEminem calls Everlast's response and health-related drug imagery weak, says Everlast began the exchange, and disputes the claim that he deliberately ignored him in a lobby. He says Limp Bizkit once outperformed Everlast and took DJ Lethal, then attacks Everlast's blues-rap mix and ends by splitting the stage name into 'never last.'
WordplayO-for-two scores two failed attacks; never last/Everlast is the block's culminating name flip.
ContextThe lobby encounter and DJ Lethal's movement from House of Pain to Limp Bizkit were public components of the dispute.
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Quitter and you bitter, 'cause I came along
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And the days of House of Pain are gone
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And if you talk about my little girl in a song again
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I'ma kill you, I'ma kill you
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You just a quitter and you bitter, 'cause I came along
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And the days of House of Pain are gone
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And if you talk about my little girl in a song again
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I'ma kill you, I swear to God, I'ma kill you (Aight, look, listen)
Block noteRepeated family-boundary warning
TargetEverlast
MeaningThe second chorus repeats that Everlast quit his defining group, is bitter about Eminem's success, and will face retaliation if he mentions Hailie again. The closing spoken cue shifts from hook to a more direct address.
WordplayThe same quitter/bitter rhyme reinforces the song's thesis through repetition.
ContextThe threat is documented as lyric content and should not be read as an editorial instruction or verified real-world plan.
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So this is what we ask of our fans:
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If you ever see Everlast, whoop his ass
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Hit him with sticks, bricks, rocks, throw shit at him
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Kick him, spit on him, treat him like a ho, bitch-slap him
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Do it for me, do it for Fred, do it for Limp
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Do it for rock, do it for rap, do it for Kid
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Do it for Ice-T, do it just to do it, fuck it
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He's a bitch, he ain't gon' hit you back, he's nothin'
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Shit, in five years, we'll all be eatin' at Whitey's
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And he'll be bussin' tables in that bitch, cleanin' the toilets
Block noteCalls on fans to assault Everlast and predicts career collapse
TargetEverlast
MeaningEminem directly asks listeners to attack and humiliate Everlast, invokes figures and genres associated with the conflict, says Everlast will not fight back, and predicts that Eminem's circle will eventually patronize a restaurant where Everlast works a low-status job.
WordplayThe imagined restaurant named Whitey's extends the Whitey Ford persona into a future humiliation; the accumulating verbs deliberately intensify the violent rhetoric.
ContextThese are explicit violent lyrics preserved for analysis, not encouragement. Fred, Limp, Kid, and Ice-T are invoked as allies or comparisons, not targets.
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Ayo, fuck this, cut this shit off
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Ayo, Head (Hold up a minute)
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That's why I fucked your mother, you fat motherfucker
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(Kill Whitey) Ha-ha-ha
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(Kill Whitey) Detroit, what? What?
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(Kill Whitey) Yo, yo
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(Kill Whitey), Haha, look
Block noteIntroduces the Hit 'Em Up-styled second part
TargetEverlast
MeaningThe repeated chant names Everlast's Whitey Ford persona as the target and places Detroit behind the attack. It announces a more openly violent second movement.
WordplayRepetition works like a crowd chant; the parenthetical title compresses Whitey Ford into 'Whitey.'
ContextPart II deliberately borrows the confrontational format of 2Pac's 'Hit 'Em Up.'
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First off, fuck your songs and the shit you say
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Diss my wife, but at least I got a bitch, you gay
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You claim to be a Muslim, but you Irish White
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So fuck you, fat boy, drop the mic, let's fight
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Plus, I punch you in the chest, weak hearts I rip
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Whitey Ford, 40 and white, lethargic ass dickhead
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I keep 'em comin' while you runnin' out of breath
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Steady duckin' while I'm punchin' at your chest, you need to rest
Block noteAttacks Everlast's family disses, identity, age, and health
TargetEverlast
MeaningEminem rejects Everlast's songs, answers the attack on Kim with a homophobic insult, mocks the combination of Irish identity and Muslim faith, challenges him to fight, and repeatedly turns age and a weak heart into images of breathlessness and defeat.
WordplayWhitey Ford/forty/white and chest/rest create tightly linked sound patterns; 'weak hearts I rip' makes the medical attack literal within battle rhetoric.
ContextEverlast had converted to Islam and suffered a serious heart attack; both facts are used here as insults rather than neutral context.
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Dilated, go ask your people how I'll leave ya
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With your three CDs nobody sees when they released
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Evidence, don't fuck around with real MCs
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You ain't ready for no underground beef, so fuck geeks
Block noteExtends the attack to Everlast's Dilated Peoples associates
TargetDilated Peoples
MeaningEminem tells Dilated Peoples to ask what his retaliation can do, belittles their album visibility, names Evidence, and says the group is unprepared for an underground rap conflict.
WordplayPeople/Evidence/MCs converts artist and group names into direct address; unseen CDs becomes a sales insult.
ContextEverlast's initiating appearance was on a Dilated Peoples remix, making the group and Evidence secondary participants in the feud.
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I let you faggots know it's on for life
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But Everlast might die tonight, haha
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Fat boy murdered on wax and killed
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Fuck with me and take a heart pill, you know
Block noteThreatens to end Everlast's career and life on record
TargetEverlast
MeaningEminem says the feud is permanent, predicts Everlast's death that night, describes him as murdered on wax, and closes with another heart-medication taunt.
WordplayMurdered on wax distinguishes lyrical destruction from the violent imagery surrounding it; heart pill returns the running medical motif.
ContextThe text fuses battle-rap career death with literal threats and requires that distinction in editorial presentation.
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Grab .380s when you see Slim Shady
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Call the doctor to heal your heart
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They shocked you back to life at the clinic
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But you 'bout to get relapsed any minute
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Honky, I hit 'em up
Block noteChorus remakes Hit 'Em Up around Everlast's heart condition
TargetEverlast
MeaningThe hook answers Everlast's .380 reference, orders medical help, recalls his resuscitation, and predicts another cardiac episode before landing on the borrowed 'hit 'em up' phrase.
Wordplay.380, doctor, shocked, clinic, and relapse turn the feud into a cruel emergency-room narrative; 'hit 'em up' explicitly signals the 2Pac model.
ContextThe .380 image comes from the Everlast line Eminem interpreted as a shot at him; its Hailie/Halley's Comet meaning is disputed.
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Hahaha
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Yo, check this out
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You faggots ain't even on my level
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I'ma let D12 ride on you, bitch-made ass faggots
Block noteHands the group retaliation to D12
TargetDilated Peoples
MeaningEminem claims the opposing rappers are beneath his level and announces that D12 will take over the attack. The plural wording points beyond Everlast to his associated underground group.
WordplayRide on carries both musical participation and confrontation meanings.
ContextThe following verses are performed by D12 members and alternate between Everlast and Dilated Peoples targets.
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Yo, get out the way, yo, get out the way, yo
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Whitey Ford's heart just stopped
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Eminem shocked him back, he had another heart attack
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Whitey Ford's gettin' his ass floored for talkin' back
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Little faggot Hamburglar, I'll show you where the burgers are
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At your own restaurant, while I'm servin' ya
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Drop and stomp your whole heart, 'til it stops
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Call the cops, I'ma beat your ass while they watch
Block noteKon Artis turns Everlast's health and restaurant into threats
TargetEverlast
MeaningKon Artis imagines Everlast's heart stopping again, says Eminem revives him only to continue the beating, invokes Everlast's food business with a Hamburglar joke, and ends by claiming police would witness the assault.
WordplayHeart stopped/shocked/heart attack sustains the medical chain; Hamburglar/burgers/restaurant turns Everlast's business into a McDonald's-style taunt.
ContextThis is a guest verse in the same Everlast diss and is annotated to the song's principal target.
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Ha, ha, now we got the whole industry makin' fun of you, Erik
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Where's your House of Pain now? It's only one of you, Erik
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You a petty coward, you ain't ready to steady go a round
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With some killers from 7 Mile to the motherfuckin' Belle Isle Bridge, ha
Block noteKuniva contrasts isolated Everlast with Detroit backing
TargetEverlast
MeaningThe lines say the industry now mocks Everlast, ask where House of Pain went, call him alone and cowardly, and oppose him with a geographically broad Detroit crew.
WordplayRepeating Erik personalizes the attack; 7 Mile and Belle Isle map local identity onto the threat.
ContextHouse of Pain's breakup and D12's Detroit identity are the factual anchors for the contrast.
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Grab .380s when you see Slim Shady
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Call the doctor to heal your heart
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They shocked you back to life at the clinic
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But you 'bout to get relapsed any minute
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Honky, I hit 'em up
Block noteSecond repetition of the cardiac chorus
TargetEverlast
MeaningThe repeated hook again turns the .380 reference and Everlast's clinical resuscitation into a prediction of relapse, then ties the section to 'Hit 'Em Up.'
WordplayThe exact repetition makes the medical imagery function as a recurring refrain rather than a new allegation.
ContextThis is the second occurrence and is preserved separately to maintain supplied order.
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Got in his ass and now this faggot wanna mention me still?
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This ain't no freestyle battle, Everlast gettin' killed with his chest open
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Tryna throw a fuckin' punch, but you just chokin'
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Havin' a stroke and now you learn why crackers never earned a dime
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'Cause you suck, motherfucker, you should learn to rhyme
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Talkin' about you packin' pistols, but it's funny to me
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You ain't never been in trouble, you just wanna be me
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I'm a paleface killer whale
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On his way to fuckin' prison, pistol whippin' tail
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Ha, Erik, remember when I passed you in the lobby that day?
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That shit was obvious, you pro'bly was gay, ha
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Now it's all about Country, you gave up Hip-Hop
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49 thousand copies the week your shit drop
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While my sales makin' records break
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Two and a half million scanned by the second week
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Motherfucker, I hit 'em up
Block noteCompares authenticity, sales, and the disputed lobby encounter
TargetEverlast
MeaningEminem says Everlast keeps invoking him, dismisses the exchange as more serious than a freestyle, and attacks his health, rhyming, gun claims, and authenticity. He revisits the lobby incident, mocks the shift from hip-hop to country, and contrasts Everlast's reported first-week sales with Eminem's multi-million pace.
WordplayChest open/choking/stroke extends the health motif; paleface killer whale exaggerates Eminem's own white-rapper persona; lobby/obvious/probably links the encounter by internal rhyme.
ContextThe sales numbers and lobby interpretation are artist claims inside the diss, not independently verified figures in this annotation.
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I'm from Detroit's Puritan Ave. where bullets tear you in half (Haha)
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Fuck the music, we got a Uzi for all you fags
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Get the shit out of our stereo, Dilated, you violated
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Now you 'bout to get annihilated, we gon' bury you
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Iriscience, get choked up and yoked up
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All you underground bitches, get your throats cut
Block noteProof targets Dilated Peoples and Rakaa Iriscience
TargetDilated Peoples
MeaningProof opens with Detroit threats, orders Dilated Peoples out of the stereo, says the group will be annihilated, names Iriscience, and broadens the attack to the underground associates supporting Everlast.
WordplayPuritan/tear you in and stereo/Dilated/violated build multisyllabic rhyme; 'choked up and yoked up' doubles vocal failure with physical restraint.
ContextRakaa was then commonly billed as Iriscience and is included separately in the track-level targets because he is named.
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What the fuck, is you stupid? I choke Whitey Ford
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With his fuckin' guitar cord and stuff him in cardboard
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Chopped up in a box, with 16 parts
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I stomped on his heart
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D12, Amityville, fuck your mother while you watch
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Keep your restaurant locked and block your door
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'Cause we hit 'em up, like motherfuckin' Tupac Shakur
Block noteSwifty McVay adds horror imagery and names the Tupac template
TargetEverlast
MeaningSwifty imagines strangling Everlast with his guitar cord, dismembering and boxing him, stopping his heart, threatening his restaurant, and explicitly compares the collective assault to Tupac Shakur's record.
WordplayGuitar cord weaponizes the instrument used to mock Everlast's crossover; cardboard/parts/heart/locked door builds a macabre sequence before the direct intertextual credit.
ContextThe passage is violent battle rhetoric and openly acknowledges 'Hit 'Em Up' as its structural model.
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You a Black Jesus, heart attack, seizures
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Too many cheeseburgers, McDonald's Big Mac greases
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White Devil, washed-up honky
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Mixed up cracker who crossed over to country
Block noteFinal short verse reduces Everlast to health, food, and crossover insults
TargetEverlast
MeaningEminem invokes Everlast's 'Black Jesus' title, predicts heart attacks and seizures, blames fast food, and ends by ridiculing a white rapper who crossed from hip-hop into country-influenced music.
WordplayBlack Jesus/White Devil is a title-and-color reversal; cheeseburgers and Big Macs connect weight, heart health, and the earlier restaurant motif.
ContextThe religious and racial phrases are lyric attacks, not editorial descriptions of Everlast.
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Yo, ayo, cut this shit off
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Shit, fuck him
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That's it, I'm done, I promise, I'm done
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That's it, I'm sorry (No more)
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I promise
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I just believe in kickin' a man while he's down
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Goddamn, I quit
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Mention my daughter's name in a song again, you fuckin' punk
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Ayo
Block noteOutro claims finality while repeating the Hailie boundary
TargetEverlast
MeaningEminem orders the track stopped, repeatedly claims he is finished and apologizes, then undercuts that restraint by admitting he likes attacking a defeated rival. He closes by warning Everlast never to mention Hailie again, followed by a final ad-lib.
WordplayDone/promise/sorry/quit parodies closure and echoes the title 'Quitter' before the final direct warning.
ContextThe closing grievance again rests on Eminem's interpretation of Everlast's line, an interpretation Everlast disputed.

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