Eminem Breaks down his bars on Rap Genius

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Eminem took sometime away from murdering high price call girls, to break down his rapidty raps .. http://genius.com/eminem


i'll start cutting and pasting shyt ... soon

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Right For Me

Smuggled in Ronald Reagan Dug him up; Donald Fagen While juggling waffles baking A fukkin' McDonalds egg and cheese sausage bagel finagle Eminem – Right For Me

Eminem:
Each verse I tried to do a little more. It’s just fun for me when things start connecting. “Oh shyt, this is gonna rhyme with this, and this is gonna rhyme with this.” It just starts coming out. I don’t know if anything’s necessarily better or worse than the last thing, or whatever, but it’s just fun for me to do that. It’s like a puzzle, and I’m always trying to come up with the perfect solution.

Couple of shots of Jäger
Public intoxication, dis-fukkin'-combobulation
Flooded with thoughts of anger
When a phrase hits me, sometimes I start building out from there. Like let’s say it was “fukk with this operation.” The phonics, me and Royce talk about this shyt all the time. We sit here and spend so much time connecting all these twenty syllable words and phrases, and most people don’t catch them. They catch the last rhyme, the –ation in operation. They don’t hear that “couple of shots of jager” connects to “operation.”

 

[CASHAPP]

I wanna see him acknowledge the Lauryn Hill lines...

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Talking About Prhyme


PRhyme – PRhyme

Premo’s sound never goes out of style. That rawness he has is incredible. The production on the PRhyme album is updated but still sounds like Premo. It reminds you of those Gang Starr records. The kicks and the snares are ridiculous.



never did a record with him though

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

talks about making beats

I like going on stage to this beat. I don’t even know if people care that much about me producing things. It’s fun for me to make a beat, but it doesn’t give me the same feeling or gratification as rapping. I’m not really tech savvy. I still use an MPC 2000. That’s probably a cardinal sin now in hip hop. Everyone’s onto other things. I just use that because I don’t have time to learn something else. I don’t have the patience.

be a producer and never learn to use other tools bruhs ..

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Like this weed is laced ain't it, it tastes tainted The whole place fainted, I woke up with my face painted Spaced out like Sci-Fi TV, "fukk ICP, buy my cd!" Eminem – 'Til Hell Freezes Over


If you get distance, with the beef happening on records and not in a battle, then days go by, weeks. I’m an M.C in the middle of it, and I’m talking about it with my friends. Now I’m heated, and now I do wanna fight you. My friends have hyped me up to it. My boy has probably said “Yo, when you see that person, you need to fukk them up.” Same with their camp. So that’s why it becomes some other shyt, instead of a face-off in an actual rhyme battle.

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Shady XV intro

I slap Linda Ronstadt with a lobster, throw her off a balcony Just so happens she's fond of algae Eminem – Shady XV

Let’s say I’m writing, and I lock onto Linda Ronstadt. I’m in the studio and I chuckle. Someone hears me and is like, “What the fukk are you laughing at?” It’s because I thought of something funny that rhymes with something. I’m not gonna not say this, because it’s funny, regardless of whether or not it’s fukked up. If it happens to connect and there’s some kind of humor in it, some reason for it to rhyme with something else, then I’m going to say it.

When I’m pushing boundaries, I want to make sure that I keep myself in check. I want you to know that this rhyme might be fukked up or funny or not, or whatever. I’m aware of it and I know I’m probably fukked up for saying it.

I don’t think it’s any different than what comedians do. Have you ever seen Lisa Lampanelli? She takes the piss out of herself while she says these ridiculous things. You’re like, “That was fukked up,” and then she comes right behind it with some self-deprecating thing about herself. She’s figured out a way to weave certain things together that’s very clever.




he picked the most random shyt to break down

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Picking in da club as a lead single ..


[Produced by Dr. Dre & Mike Elizondo] 50 Cent – In Da Club

We couldn’t decide on the first single from Get Rich. It was going to be either “If I Can’t” or “In Da Club.” We were torn, so me, 50, Paul, Chris Lighty, and Jimmy Iovine decided to flip a coin.

 

[desp]

Smuggled in Ronald Reagan Dug him up; Donald Fagen While juggling waffles baking A fukkin' McDonalds egg and cheese sausage bagel finagle Eminem – Right For Me

Eminem:
Each verse I tried to do a little more. It’s just fun for me when things start connecting. “Oh shyt, this is gonna rhyme with this, and this is gonna rhyme with this.” It just starts coming out. I don’t know if anything’s necessarily better or worse than the last thing, or whatever, but it’s just fun for me to do that. It’s like a puzzle, and I’m always trying to come up with the perfect solution.

Literally saying shyt just to rhyme

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Working on Stan

And even if I could it'll all be gray, but your picture on my wall It reminds me, that it's not so bad, it's not so bad Eminem (Ft. Dido) – Stan

When I heard “your picture on my wall,” I was like “Yo, this could be about somebody who takes me too seriously.” So I knew what I was going to write about before I wrote it. A lot of times when I’m writing songs, I see visions for everything I’m writing. This was one of those.

[Produced by Mark the 45 King] Eminem (Ft. Dido) – Stan
I remember Mark The 45 King sent me that beat. And when I first heard it, I was like, “Holy shyt.” But I didn’t know it was going to be so big. When I was writing it, I just thought, “Whoa, people are going to get sick of this because it goes on for so long.”

 

[CHILLL]

not interested

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

RAPGOD

Kneel before General Zod this planet's Krypton No Asgard, Asgard So you be Thor and I'll be Odin, you rodent, I'm omnipotent Eminem – Rap God

I’ve always been into comic books. Spiderman, Hulk, old Batmans, Supermans — mostly vintage Marvel shyt from before I was born. Just being able to have those pieces of history is crazy. I would not want to face off with somebody comparing comic book knowledge, but I know a pretty good amount.

Ungh, school flunky, pill junkie But look at the accolades, these skills brung me Eminem – Rap God

I don’t ever want to be too braggadocious. If I’m going to brag, let me pull it back with lines like “school flunky, pill junkie.” I’m a fukking waste of life. I’m a waste of sperm. I am a fukking outcast of society, I am a piece of shyt. But I know how to rap. Other than that, I’m a fukking scumbag. I’m worthless. Or this is what I’ve been told.

I'm beginnin' to feel like a Rap God, Rap God Eminem – Rap God

The hook was the first phrase I thought of when I heard the track. I thought “Okay, this has something to it and might be catchy but — I’m a “rap god”? Why? If I’m going to say that, I need to validate that.”

I don’t want to say it’s the crutch, exactly, but the theme of the whole song is: this is the only thing I know how to do. I don’t know how to do anything else, aside from play a little bit of basketball. Except if the Lions called me. I’m down to be receiver or something, or a running back. I’d be good for that.

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Lighters

Had a dream I was king, I woke up, still king Rap game’s nipple is mine for the milking Bad Meets Evil (Ft. Bruno Mars) – Lighters


Because of the Martin Luther King quote — “had a dream” — someone thought “milking” was a play on M.L. King. It’s not. But I’ve thought that about other people’s lines. Sometimes me and Slaughterhouse will talk, and I’ll be like “Yo, you meant this?” And he’ll be like “No,” and I’m like, “You should tell people you meant that.”

I should have told that guy that’s what I meant. That “milking” thing is pretty cool.

 

[Mike Otherz]

the editor of that site, used to be a music critic at the new yorker magazine. very influential. never gave em a good review. but now em helping him build his employers brand. prolly cause nas own like 0.00001%. but dame taught us. never work for another man, thats like calling him daddy.

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

D-12 + Outsidez


I been to mushroom mountain Once or twice but who's counting But nothing compares To these blue and yellow purple pills D12 – Purple Pills3

Sometimes, a full melody will hit me and the words fall out easily. Other times, I just get a basic idea of a melody and whatever the rhythm is doing, however many syllables it is. Ham-bur-gers. Sometimes it will be the last word that will hit me, and it will be like “Okay, now fill in the blanks.” And sometimes it will just get the beginning phrase, like with “Purple Pills.” I think a lot of that material just came from walking around the studio. We’re just goofballs man. We would just clown..

My salsa makes all the pretty girls want to dance My salsa, look out for my next single, it's called My Salsa My salsa, salsa, salsa, salsa D12 – My Band

We would always be in the studio, just goofing. We would walk around the studio just saying dumb shyt. We’d say “This thing just popped up in my head, let me go lay it.” So, my band, my salsa. I just said it.

We got my man Pacewon behind the board Outsidaz (Ft. Bizarre, Eminem & Pacewon) – Take The Whole World With Me

This was between Infinite and The Slim Shady EP, when I started making a transition in my rhyme style. We brought Pace in, before we had ever gone out to visit the Outsidaz in New Jersey. Pacewon came to my house on the east side. Me and Bizarre went to go pick up Pace at the airport. I was like, “Oh shyt. Pace is going to come to my house?” He slept on my couch. We just had him for a week, going back and forth to the studio to record shyt with him. He had just been in the Fugees video, for that song “Cowboys.”


I been down with the Outz for ten thou-sand years Outsidaz (Ft. Axe, Aziz, Eminem, Pacewon, Slang Ton & Young Zee) – Rush Ya Clique

Me and Bizarre used to go back to New Jersey to visit the Outsidaz, when we were in their group. They owned a whole house, but upstairs was a studio called The Outhouse. Young Zee owned the equipment.