The Greatest Non Hits
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Let's take a trip down memory lane and dive into the endless universe of overlooked songs from our past! 🌌 In this age of music streaming, have you ever played a game with your friends where you listen to the deep tracks of old albums and debate which ones were the most underrated? Well, guess what? Chris and Tim have invented that game, and it's an absolute blast! 😄
Whether you're walking your dog, driving your car, or taking an early morning run, 🎸🎙️ these two music enthusiasts will take you on a journey through each studio album we all know and love. Tim will even serenade you with a little guitar, while Chris drops some mind-blowing knowledge about the songs.
But here's the best part – they'll listen to and rank the top 3 non-hits from each album! 🏆 It's like discovering hidden gems that never got the recognition they deserved. And don't worry, there's plenty of comic relief sprinkled throughout each episode to keep you entertained and laughing your socks off! 🤣
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The Greatest Non Hits
Eminem: The Slim Shady LP
Eminem's "The Slim Shady LP" is more than just an album—it's a cultural phenomenon that challenges and entertains with its provocative themes and masterful storytelling. What if the raw, gritty streets of Detroit could produce not just music, but a movement? Our latest episode dissects Eminem's transformative journey, examining how he turned personal struggles into art that speaks to millions. We traverse through the dynamic Detroit music scene of the late 90s, spotlighting the rise of artists like Kid Rock and Jack White, while celebrating the groundbreaking partnership between Eminem and Dr. Dre that propelled the album's legendary status.
Through a meticulous exploration of tracks like "My Name Is," "Guilty Conscience," and "Role Model," we unpack the intense storytelling, dark humor, and societal critiques that define Slim Shady's narrative. Not only do we compare Eminem's storytelling prowess to iconic TV dramas like "Law and Order," but we also dive into how his provocative lyrics sparked conversations and controversies alike. With references from iconic figures such as Dr. Dre to unexpected parallels with personas like Garth Brooks, our discussion navigates the chaotic mix of emotions evoked by Eminem's artistry.
As we celebrate the cultural significance of "The Slim Shady LP," we also reflect on themes of resilience, nature versus nurture, and the power of music as a mirror to the human experience. We reminisce about favorite tracks that defined an era, capturing the trials and triumphs of both personal and societal struggles. Whether you're a longtime fan or curious newcomer, this engaging episode offers a fresh perspective on Eminem's work, emphasizing the unpredictable journey through art and expression. Join us for an unforgettable exploration of one of hip-hop's most influential albums.
That's all we ever do man is talk shit.
Speaker 1:We need to get fine bitches and fat vibes. No, what we need to do is put our money in savings bonds. No, what we need to do is get our songs on JLB man. Shut the fuck up. All of us never do shit about nothing. We're still broke as fuck and living home with our moms.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 6:Thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris, and playing my name is my co-host, tim, and we're going to be listening to the Slim Shady LP, which is the second studio album by American rapper Eminem aka Marshall Mathers, which is his birth name, and aka Slim Shady Slim Shady is an alter ego. There's a lot of really intense rapping that we're going to listen to on this album. We all know who Eminem is and we all know this album Coming into this though I don't think Tim and I really got into the deep stuff into this, it's been a pleasure and very interesting, an interesting experience to listen to this album all the way through, from beginning to end, just for the darkness of it. But also you get a sense for who he is as a person and the struggles that he had, you know, living in, um uh, an impoverished part of detroit.
Speaker 6:Um, I think he grew up at like eight mile and ryan like eight or nine mile and ryan's trailer park and really rough, you know, and predominantly a black area of of detroit, and in the early 90s, late 90s, it was tough. I mean, I lived in that area during that time period so I had not a front row seat, but yeah, I knew who he was, I, I you know there were legends about him in rap battles, but he also had tough times. I think in 97, he lost his job at.
Speaker 4:GM, I think where he worked.
Speaker 6:He has been evicted and so he goes out to LA, because you all saw the movie 8 Mile. After that, he went out there, competed in rap battles I think the rap olympics were going on at the time and this is how he got his start where, um, I think it was, there was an intern for interscope records um, I'm not sure if the name matters, um, but nevertheless, um, he and he got a copy of the EP from Eminem, brought it back to the CEO of Interscope. He passed it on to Dr Dre. Dr Dre was like who the fuck is this? This is awesome. We got to get this guy.
Speaker 6:Well, he's white, I don't care, I don't care if he's purple, this guy, he's got talent. Blah, blah, blah. So they hooked up and you know the rest was history then, not long after. That whole thing is when they recorded this in 98, released it february of 99. Um, I can recall, you know, just being a working stiff in the detroit area. You know, driving from, you know, one business meeting to another late at night, being like what the hell am I?
Speaker 4:doing.
Speaker 6:Kind of a thing. And they're like, I wait, there's not a rock station like WLZ, wheels 98, seven. And they're like, okay, is it? You're the two up and coming people. It was kid rock and Eminem, two different styles, but they were both going to be successful, even though their albums hadn't come out nationally just quite yet. The first song was my Name Is what Tim Is Playing Right Now. He was doing a freeform jazz kind of thing.
Speaker 6:I'll tell you what we're going to have to do Jazz Odyssey, so he's doing a Jazz Odyssey kind of a thing. Thank you, derek Smalls, aka Spinal Tap. Now you're rocking it. So, anyway, I kind of digressed a little bit. Where was I? Well, anyway, yeah, they rap battle between Kid Rock and Eminem and people are calling in, and it was sort of like 60-40 Eminem kind of. It was really kind of even, but maybe the radio station was recording people who were calling in and yeah Eminem, oh yeah Kid Rock that kind of thing.
Speaker 6:It served both. There was a swell of interest in the Detroit area with artists of all genres. I even think Jack White was coming up at that time. Seven Nation Army All three of those guys really came about in the suburbs of Detroit in the late 90s. It was kind of a cool time when I look at it from that point of view. Nevertheless, we're going to listen to this whole album. There's a ton of tracks. There are some skits. We're not going to rank the skits, but at the end we're going to rank our top three non-hits from the entire album, as we always do. So what else can I add here before Tim joins?
Speaker 4:us.
Speaker 6:He's going to be packing it up soon. And what?
Speaker 3:else do we have?
Speaker 6:A lot of interesting tracks on this. A lot of fighting with his girlfriend, a lot of sex with your mom, a lot of jokes, a lot of hilarity, a lot of serious stuff. He was bullied man man, you know, sex with your mom. A lot of jokes, a lot of hilarity, a lot of serious stuff. He was bullied man man, he was harassed. I mean just it tells a story.
Speaker 6:Like when you listen to the album, I mean you're, you're laughing and you're so impressed with the genius of, of his, of. You know just the, the wordsmithing of it's, it's poetic, it's, it's, it's. I mean it's gross. I mean really really fucking gross at times. But but you can't take you, I mean you can't not listen to it. You know you and you have to admire somebody who can, you know, just do this kind of thing on the fly and you can, you can tell like you feel for him. You know, and you're on, you're in his corner, you're on his side because you've been there before, but you know that he's had it worse than you, kind of a thing. Um, before I go any further, tim is settled in. How's it going bud?
Speaker 5:it's going well here all right do you?
Speaker 6:are you feeling what I'm feeling?
Speaker 5:I am. You know he's got a tough life.
Speaker 6:Maybe getting fired from his one job helped him take a risk, Like a lot of a lot of situations that happen like that, and but it seemed like it was like one thing after another, like it seems like he backtracks in his life, like going back to high school and just getting just well the crap beat out of him.
Speaker 5:Black eyes, you know he's who knows, maybe in the hollywood he's be bullied as well. Who knows, like later in life?
Speaker 6:I don't know, just like always just the, the perpetuant white rapper, that I don't know you know I don't know back up against the wall to everybody, right but I think this is, this is the turning point in his life. Yeah, because leading up to this, yeah his life has been shit, you know right and after. This, I think, is you know, he carries still probably a lot of like the, the mental trauma after having getting a ton of money and acclaim and respect and success in his life which brings other. But that, yeah, that'd be yeah exactly.
Speaker 5:Are you you?
Speaker 6:know, are you prepared for that going from being dog shit to being right? You know, having everything at your fingertips. And you know, I think he had problems, like after this album, but he kind of got things straightened out, like after this album, but he kind of got things straightened out. He seems like a super well-adjusted person now and even though that's that stuff in the past is still there, you know.
Speaker 3:I'm not afraid anymore.
Speaker 5:Well, yeah, no, it's, it's. It's a very rags to riches story. Honestly, in a way, he was one of the very poorest that made it up.
Speaker 6:There's no denying that, like you know, well, yeah, and this, this made him, this is, this is what made him famous initially, is what we're gonna listen to. So, uh, I think, uh, I we're excited, I'm excited, tim is excited, bit scared.
Speaker 5:I'm afraid.
Speaker 6:Okay, Well well hopefully, after this one, you won't be afraid anymore. You want to listen to the skits too, they were listening to the skit.
Speaker 5:This is a skit.
Speaker 6:Yeah, we got to listen to all the skits. This is a okay. Every, almost every other thing that we there's not a lot of dead space in this. Yeah Right, yeah, it's like a public service. Now, there's no like beats or anything underneath it, it's just random stuff. So here, here we go. It's. This is called public service announcement. Again, it's a skit.
Speaker 9:Announcement brought to you, in part by Slim Shady. The views and events expressed here are totally fucked and are not necessarily the views of anyone, however. However, the events and suggestions that appear on this album are not to be taken lightly. Children should not partake in the listening of this album with laces in their shoes. Slim Shady is not responsible for your actions. Shout out to Run DMC Upon purchasing this album. You have agreed not to try this at home, anything else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't do drugs. My name is Slim Shady. Don't do drugs, alright. This I didn't really get into it shots of labby siffra.
Speaker 5:I got the okay yeah.
Speaker 6:I've seen a guy who did like a remake of this in some way.
Speaker 5:That's where they got this. This riff, oh they got. When did that come out? Um dude, does it say 1974? Oh, this riff, oh they got. When did that come out Um 1974?
Speaker 1:Oh okay, nice, good call, pregnant. What the fuck is he talking about? I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate. Dr Grey said Slim Shady, you a base hit. Watch your face, red man, you wasted. What the fuck is he talking about? I felt like I'm someone else cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt, got pissed off and ripped Pamela Lee's tits off and smacked her so hard. I knocked her close back cause I just fought. I smoke a fat pound of grass and fall on my ass faster than a fat bitch who sat down too fast. Come here, slut Shady. Wait a minute. That's my girl dawg. I don't give a fuck. God sent me to piss the world off. My name is Off the road.
Speaker 5:Let's go, then, my name is Jeez.
Speaker 6:Slim Shady's an evil guy. Evil version of Marshall. Yeahady's an evil guy. Evil version of Marshall yeah, marshall's like. He's the straight voice.
Speaker 1:My English teacher wanted to flunk me in junior high. Thanks a lot. Next semester I'll be 35. I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler, stapled his nuts to a stack of paper, walked in a strip club, had my jacket zipped up, blast a bartender Then stuck my dick in a tip cup. It's so expressive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in a spaceship while they're screaming at me. Let's just be friends. Explicit and a story Blunt. I told her. I grew up to be a famous rapper. Make a record about doing drugs and name it after you know. You blew up when the women rushed your stance. You try to touch her hands like some screaming usher fans. This guy, white Castle, shout out to Usher I'm a finder. Dear Dave, thanks for the support. Asshole, my name is, my name is. My name is. My name is. My name is. Oh, hey, my name is my name is my name is.
Speaker 5:It's hard to remember People's names. My name is, my name is, but you gotta try your best.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it's tough for me every time Maybe my name is.
Speaker 5:My name is Attribute a A. Thing.
Speaker 1:Stop the tape. This kid needs to be locked away. Get him. Dr Dre, don't just stand there, operate. I'm not ready to leave. It's too scary to die. I'll have to be carried inside the cemetery and buried alive. Am I coming or going? I can barely decide. I just drank a fifth of vodka. Dare me to drive Go ahead. All my life I was very deprived. I ain't had a woman in years. Here he is, harry Poms. Ow Ow.
Speaker 6:That was ours. What, what? Here he is, harry Poms Bang.
Speaker 1:Ah, it's terrible. It's only a dream, it's a dream.
Speaker 3:And you change.
Speaker 6:It's too awful. Deeper and deeper. A little freeform jazz, tell you what we're gonna have to do.
Speaker 3:Jazz odyssey. Alright, I'll tell you what we're going to have to do Jazz.
Speaker 6:Odyssey. There's no jazz on this, this one's called.
Speaker 5:Guilty Comedy.
Speaker 8:Oh gosh this isn't a skit.
Speaker 2:Just say no, okay, dr Dre's office. This is Dre.
Speaker 1:Conscience. I'm telling you you need a place to stay. You'll be safe for days if you shave your legs with Renee's razor blades?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but if it all goes through like it's supposed to, the whole neighborhood knows you and they'll expose you. Think about it before you walk in the door. First Look at the store clerk. She's older than George Burns. She's George Burns. Shut up, shoot that bitch. Can you afford to blow this shit? Are you that rich?
Speaker 1:Shut up. This is the guilty conscience.
Speaker 6:I think the friendship Started during this the recording. This one maybe came Tight.
Speaker 5:Don't listen to Slim. He's bad for you. That's what it said, yeah.
Speaker 8:Meet Stan, 21 years old. After meeting a young girl at a rave party things start getting hot and heavy in an upstairs bedroom. After a rave party his conscience comes into play.
Speaker 1:Now listen to me. While you're kissing a cheek and smearing a lipstick, slip this in a drink. Now, all you gotta do is you're kissing her cheek and smearing her lipstick. Slip this in her dream. Now all you gotta do is nibble on this little bitch's earlobe.
Speaker 2:Yo, this girl's only 15 years old. You shouldn't take advantage of her. That's not fair Yo look at her, bush.
Speaker 1:Does she got hair? Fuck this bitch right here on the spot, bare Till she passes out. So awful man, fuck that. Hit that shit for a dog and bell Jeez.
Speaker 8:Meet Grady, a 29-year-old construction worker. After coming home from a hard day's work I'm here for the gangbang walks in the door of his trailer park home to find his wife in bed with another man. What the fuck. All right, calm down, relax and start breathing.
Speaker 9:Fuck that shit. You just bought this bitch a team. I thought you were just talking dirty. Some dude trying to get off fox slitting her throat.
Speaker 2:cut this bitch's head off dirty. It's getting dark. That's what I did, Be smart, don't be a retard.
Speaker 1:You're going to take advice from somebody who slapped deep on what you say. What's wrong? They think I remember. Kill you, motherfucker. Temper, temper. Mr Drake, mr NWA, mr AK, coming straight out of Compton. You're going to make a nice thing Personal. You're going to tell this man not to be violent. He don't need to go.
Speaker 2:Go the same route that I went. Been there, done that. Oh fuck it. What am I saying? Shoot them both. Brady, where's?
Speaker 9:your gun at Thought you were just talking dirty. Well I was. I was being serious.
Speaker 6:Okay, all right, that's a palate cleanser.
Speaker 5:That was guilty conscious.
Speaker 6:We just listened to it.
Speaker 1:This is brain damage. Shout out to the bikers.
Speaker 6:With flat tires.
Speaker 1:Make sure the tires are pumped up. I think there are any tea drinkers listening.
Speaker 6:There are Shout out to you.
Speaker 5:Especially you.
Speaker 6:Tea and rap just uh, oh yeah, some shady episodes on. Yeah, let me get some tea, I'll come back. You said some really sick stuff. Go detention. Nah, that bully wants to beat your ass and I'm gonna let him Brain damage. Ever since the day I was born, you said some really sick stuff.
Speaker 1:They say I never knew which way I was going, but everywhere I go they keep playing my song Brain damage Ever since the day I was born Drugs, what they used to say I was on. They say I never knew which way I was going, but everywhere I go they keep playing my song Brain I was going, but everywhere I go they keep playing my song. Way before my baby daughter Haley, I was harassed daily by this fat kid named D'Angelo Bailey, an eighth grader who acted obnoxious because his father boxed us. So every day he'd shove me in the lockers. One day he came in the bathroom while I was pissing and had me in the position to beat me into submission. He banged my head against the urinal till he broke my nose, soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed We'll be right back Janitor's storage booth, kicked the door in sleuths and ripped out the foreign screws, grabbed some sharp objects, brooms and foreign tools. This is for every time you took my orange juice, I stole my seat in the lunchroom and drank my chocolate milk. Every time you tipped my tray and it dropped and spilled. I'm getting you back, bully. Now I want some for good.
Speaker 1:I cocked the boomstick back as strong heart as I could and beat him over the head. I broke the wood, knocked him down, stood on his chest with one foot, made it home later that same day, started reading the comic and suddenly everything became gray. I couldn't even see what I was trying to read. I went deaf and my left ear started to bleed. My mother started screaming what do you want? Let's hit again With the remote control. Yeah, wow, oh, that's pretty intense man, yikes, yikes. I never knew which way I was going, but everywhere I go, they keep playing my song Brain damage ever since the day I was born. Drugs, what they used to say I was on. I'm not going to hurt you, I'm just going to bash your brain.
Speaker 3:I'm going to bash it. Right the fuck in.
Speaker 5:I'll just lighten it up with some.
Speaker 6:Yeah, let's make this even darker Shining.
Speaker 1:Yeah, put a little shine on it, jack Nicholson Wow.
Speaker 6:But if you don't change your face, I'm going to change it for you. Yeah, there's a little bully quote there from the Stead brothers, wow, shout out to the O'Doyles, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I guess Exactly Banana peels.
Speaker 5:What's going on? This is Saul Rosenberg, your faithful attorney. Saul Rosenberg Banana peels. What's going on? This is Saul Rosenberg, your faithful attorney, saul Rosenberg.
Speaker 6:Oh God, this is a rough copy of your album. It does sound like Saul, you know.
Speaker 3:I just got to be honest with you. Can you tone it down a little bit, because there's only so much I can explain. Give me a call and I'll bring all my shoes and my glasses with me.
Speaker 1:What is life? Life is like a big obstacle. Bring all my shoes and my glasses with me. My feelings are hurt. I always rub them and they would never fall off.
Speaker 3:This piece is called Lick my Lap Pump. I kinda look a little silly and my feelings are hurt.
Speaker 1:I'm tired of life. I'm tired of backstabbing ass snakes with friendly grins, life just keeps happening. Tired of always giving in when it's bottling in Tired of never having any years, tired of having skinny friends. So don't crack in many days. Tired of not having a deal. Tired of having to deal with the bullshit without grabbing the steel.
Speaker 5:Tired of drowning in my sorrow, tired of having to borrow a dollar for gas.
Speaker 1:It's sad. Yeah, it is sad, me too. I like that line. It's good. If I had a magic wand, I'd make the world suck my dick without a condom on while I'm on the john. If I had a billion bucks, it wouldn't be enough because I'd still be out robbing all my trucks If.
Speaker 7:I had one wish. I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss. But yeah, this is how you feel when you've just had a bunch of shit, just fall on top of you.
Speaker 6:You're just feeling so defeated there's no way out.
Speaker 1:We've all been there. I like how they harmonize at the end of the.
Speaker 6:You guys are talking about drugs. It's like the barbershop, that is, the barbershop raga. That's where the raga is. There is a little bit of barbershop raga. It's never enough. Huh, it's never enough. You're rich. I'm a sharp drugger.
Speaker 7:Just life, just keeps happening.
Speaker 5:Life is like hey, guess what?
Speaker 6:And you're like what You're like what.
Speaker 3:You know that. If is the middle word in life, all right.
Speaker 6:Here's another skit. So what's going on? What are they doing this?
Speaker 5:album is wild. 97 Bonnie and Clyde.
Speaker 4:Oh God.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, this is where, yeah.
Speaker 5:I don't like this one. Yeah, this is dark Slim Shady's. Do you want to like this one?
Speaker 6:This is dark Slim Shady's. Do you want to do this one?
Speaker 5:Yeah, we can.
Speaker 9:Just say no, Alright.
Speaker 5:I'm skipping.
Speaker 6:No, you can play.
Speaker 5:I mean parental advisors or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah this is explicit. I'm not Hi, yeah. Just the two of us For all I got in this world.
Speaker 7:Dada we.
Speaker 1:Just the two of us. Just the two of us. Nobody in this world is ever gonna keep you from me. I love you. Come on, hey, hey, we going to the beach. Grab a couple of toys and let Dada strap you in the car seat. I resisted. Before she's taking a little nap in the trunk. Oh, that smell.
Speaker 4:Dada wants to run over a skunk that has heart.
Speaker 3:Dada is the son, but you know your mama.
Speaker 1:She's one of those type of women that do crazy things, and if she don't get away she'll throw a fit. Don't play with D.
Speaker 5:Is this the cover? The cover looks like. Yeah, this is the cover.
Speaker 6:Yeah good call. Yes, the back of the car.
Speaker 2:Dada is the egg, dada is the egg. Dada is the police of the police at Richard Hulsenbeck.
Speaker 5:Thank you, Richard Hulsenbeck. Shout out to Dada Richie H.
Speaker 1:There's a place called heaven and a place called hell. A place called prison and a place called jail, and that is probably on its way to all of them except one.
Speaker 6:Shout out to.
Speaker 1:Hamtramck.
Speaker 5:Shout out to Studio 8.
Speaker 1:For a day where this is recorded, it's probably 8 Mile and Woodward around there. Thank you, dada soon as we get to the water 97, me and my daughter, just the two of us, just the two of us. And when we ride I'm not a breed anymore Just the two of us, just you and I, just the two of us, just the two of us. And when we ride, just the two of us, just the two of us. Mom.
Speaker 6:When this is all over with. We should get it apart.
Speaker 1:Katie, don't cry honey. Don't get the wrong idea. Mama's too sweepy to hear you screaming in her ear. That's why you can't get it to wait. But don't worry, Dad made a nice bed for mommy at the bottom of the lake. Here you want to help dad, that's. And now, right now, which one of you is?
Speaker 6:mom Shout out to Dr Detroit Three Whee.
Speaker 1:This is wild. Tell mama you love her and we'll go clean the sand, build a castle and junk. But first just help dad with two more things out the trunk. Just the two of us, just the two of us. And when we ride, just the two of us, just the two of us. Just you and I, just the two of us.
Speaker 5:It's like some Law and Order shit right here when we ride.
Speaker 1:Just the two of us.
Speaker 6:Yeah. I'm like looking at like a photo of him. He's like, oh, he's all serious, he's got the hoodie on.
Speaker 5:When you look at him.
Speaker 9:He looks like he's, he's like dead inside. You know like that's right.
Speaker 6:But he pulls it off with such authenticity. The content backs it all up. You know it's feeling, it it's very real.
Speaker 5:It's very real.
Speaker 1:It's not there's no bullshit.
Speaker 6:Even how weird this is. Yeah, this is messed up and it's not going to be in my top three. I'm just telling you right now it's creeping the both of us out. Okay, it's just more. Do you mean a palate cleanser? Or maybe just do a little stewie?
Speaker 4:like love and hope and trust and confidence okay, that's good that was pretty good, all right it's zoe um kelly did not have me call, however, I just listened to eminem in her car. It is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard in my entire life and I seriously want to call his fucking agent and tell them how fucking disgusting he is. It like makes me upset. I'm now nauseous and Okay, that was the bitch skit this song's called.
Speaker 3:Roll Mom.
Speaker 6:Okay, sorry.
Speaker 5:The price is wrong bitch. Okay, I like that Bitch, I don't care.
Speaker 1:Oh, bitch, you got jacked bitch.
Speaker 5:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6:Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. Shout out to the late Sonny Bono, hit by a tree. That's in poor taste, oh wow. And lately I'm on edge Grabbed vanilla ice and ripped out his blonde reds.
Speaker 5:Every girl I ever went out with Is gone bad. Follow me and do exactly what the song says Smoke, weed, take pills, drop out of school, kill people and drink, jump behind the wheel. That's special.
Speaker 1:Bring your green hat. How the fuck can?
Speaker 5:I'm white ignoring skill cause. I stand out like a green hat with an orange bill, but I don't get paid. Bring your green hat.
Speaker 1:How the fuck can I be white? I don't even exist. I get a clean shave bathe, go to a rave, die from an overdose and dig myself a grave. Well, isn't that special. My finger won't go down. How do I wave? And this is how I'm supposed to teach kids how to behave. Now follow me, oh my gosh.
Speaker 6:I thought you were just talking dirty. I think Garth Brooks had an alter ego Like Chris, something or other, I can't remember. I have no idea. But that's what you do you create like an evil alter ego so you can say stuff like this, and it's like well, it's not me, it's the alter ego, right. And beat up four corn leghorn with an acorn. I'm, by this, norman, it's Norman Bates.
Speaker 1:With the formative traits of premature birth. That was forming a slate. Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel. Will someone please explain?
Speaker 7:to my brother.
Speaker 3:You must take this fine cassava melon over to him. Show him what you got, but don't let him have it.
Speaker 7:You gotta tease him a little. When you see your mom with a thermometer Sharp than a razor, don't let him have it. You gotta tease him a little. My dad decided.
Speaker 6:That your mom was really hot and maybe we should just both bang her. That's the barbershop raga right there. Don't you want to grow up to be just like me? I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree. You probably want to grow up to be just like me Barbershop raga Off the road.
Speaker 1:Yes, got it.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 4:I'm not afraid they're a little. Yeah, it's got good.
Speaker 5:It's got good musical aspects to it in the background too yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 6:The music is the background and it's yes, I like that's the good part about dr dr dray too. He does, he's good, he's good at selecting like cool stuff. It's very cool stuff, yeah, yeah I never meant to.
Speaker 10:This is lounging.
Speaker 6:I never meant to. Mrs Lounge is here.
Speaker 3:Give you mushrooms, girl.
Speaker 1:I never meant to Mushrooms.
Speaker 3:Bring you to my room.
Speaker 6:I think Jeff Bass and Mark Bass, or Jeff Bass and Mark Bass. They also co-wrote Role Model, along with Hem and Hem.
Speaker 5:Okay.
Speaker 6:I guess the bitch skit was Zoe Winkler Shout out to Zoe. The Paul skit was Paul Bunyan Rose, that guy, you know that sound like Saul. Yeah, anyway, I don't know. Sorry, I just completely ignored.
Speaker 1:The lounge Is that how you do it?
Speaker 5:No, not really it's a good palate cleanser actually.
Speaker 6:Okay, maybe that's what those are. They're built-in palate cleansers.
Speaker 1:Exactly. But now you're sitting in the corner crying. And now it's my fault, my fault. I went to John's rave with Ron and Dave and met a new wave blind babe With half of her head shaved, a nurse aide who came to get laid and tied up with first aid tape and raped on the first date. Susan, the next heroin addict, who just stopped using, who got booze and alternative music, told me she was going back into using again. I said wait first try to solution the jam. It's better than heroin hand to bruise in a jam. Come here, let's go in here. Who's in the den? It's me and Kelly. My bad, let's try another room there's so many lyrics it's literally like impossible to follow.
Speaker 6:What the fuck is he?
Speaker 1:talking about Fuck Butt naked and run in the woods. Oh hell, I might as well try him. This party is so trash.
Speaker 6:Oh dag, I ain't mean for you to eat the whole bag. I never meant to give you mushrooms, girl. They're talking about mushrooms. Yeah, he does talk about drugs a lot. I never meant to bring you to my world, but now you're standing in the corner crying and now it's my fault, my fault, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:I never meant to give you mushrooms, girl, I never. He needs to self-soothe, I guess, from all this and that's trauma. Then he makes more trauma, I'm sorry. Soothing was always drugs and tapes, and then he raps about them and then it gets like ultra-personal about what somebody else told him yeah.
Speaker 6:It's wild. She's like tripping up mushrooms and that.
Speaker 5:Right, no, right, no, bring you to my world. But now you're sitting in the corner crying, and now it's my fault, my fault.
Speaker 1:Susan, where you going, you better be careful. Leave me alone, dad. I'm sick of getting my hair pulled. I'm not your dad. We're trying to swallow your tongue. Want some gum? Put down the scissors. Could you do something dumb, I'll be right back. Just chill, baby, please. I gotta go find Dave. He's the one who gave me these, John. Where's Dave at before I bash you, he's in the bathroom. I think he's taking a cab. Wait just a minute. We need an ambulance. There's a girl upstairs talking to plants Chopping her hair off, and there's only two days left of spring break. How long do these things take to wear off? There's a lot of barbershop. Well, it depends on how many you had. I took three. I can't follow all the lyrics so fast. It's a dream. It's too awful.
Speaker 6:Shouting the seasons out there. I mean those we have to name, not those on mushrooms. They're tripping.
Speaker 5:This is crazy.
Speaker 3:You know that if is the middle word in life. If you can keep your head when all about you're losing there's a blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. I mean, I know I can't, I'm a little man.
Speaker 6:Ok, what was that from Apocalypse? Now, that's right, I'm a little man, I'm a little man.
Speaker 5:Okay, what was that from Apocalypse? Now that's right. Yeah, I'm a little man. I'm a little man. Another skit here.
Speaker 6:Kniff. Kniff is a road in Detroit. Hamtramck Shout out to Hamtramck, but this is his last name. Ken Kniff is spelled K.
Speaker 3:The street is with a, c, oh thank you, I need to make a collect call Number. Oh, the number is six Two and.
Speaker 4:At the tone. Please say your name.
Speaker 6:Kenneth Kniff. That's when they had collect calls. The person on the receiving end pays for it. They have to agree, Right? Hey there cock boy, who's this?
Speaker 3:This is Ken Keneff. Who? Ken Keneff from Connecticut, little bitch From Connecticut, yeah you want to get?
Speaker 4:How about?
Speaker 3:in Connecticut. You want to get a hotel room with me? Oh, it's our room. Yeah, you want me to lick your ass, Eminem. Yo who is this, Kate? Hey, you want me to fucking. Melt in your mouth and not in your hands. Melt in your ass, you little cock boy.
Speaker 8:What the fuck is he talking about.
Speaker 3:Fuck you little bitch. Oh, you think I'm lying, huh?
Speaker 5:Okay, weird.
Speaker 6:I mean, we used to do that, I remember. I mean just like when you can't call your friends and you just be like some of the other people. That's a thing. Ken Kinnick, ken.
Speaker 1:Kinnick, I'm Connecticut. I like this, yeah, but this is.
Speaker 6:Come on, everybody they misspelled the comma. C-u-m-o.
Speaker 1:Oh, never mind. Come on, everybody, get down tonight. Come on, everybody, get down tonight. Come on, everybody, get down tonight. Come on, everybody, Get down tonight. Come on, everybody Get down tonight. Come on everybody. Yo yo, yo, yo yo. Come on, everybody, get down tonight. I tried suicide once and I'll try it again. That's why I write songs where I die at the end Because I Cause I don't give a fuck. Like my middle finger was stuck. Come on, swing, baby. I'm on stage in front of a sellout crowd. We get out loud. All y'all. Get the hell out now. Fuck rap, I'm giving it up, y'all. I'm sorry, this is your record release party. I'm bored out of my goal. So I took a hammer and nailed my foot To the floorboard of my Ford. Guess, I'm just a sick, sick master. There's one sandwich short of a picnic basket, one Excedrin tablet short of a full medicine cabinet.
Speaker 5:I feel like my head has been shredded like lettuce and cabbage. I'm a shopper, I got it Lettuce and cabbage, that was good.
Speaker 1:I've been dressed up like a mummy, with my wrist slit.
Speaker 5:Oh God See, then I just get like he talks about blood and it's just so gory and nasty sometimes, ugh Damn, sometimes like a bloody fuck. People were unpredictable back then. Yeah, it was they were fisticuffs it's a lot of collect, calling.
Speaker 3:Just say no, mommy.
Speaker 8:Dada exists. Mama, mama, mama.
Speaker 9:All right, well, isn't that special.
Speaker 6:That one struck my ear at just the right time. Come on everybody. I kind of like that.
Speaker 5:Definitely. He's definitely going to be, I guess, in both parts. Nice groove to it, yeah, yeah, yeah. What is the hit? My name Is, and that's it, I think. So what do?
Speaker 6:you think? I don't know, I don't think you get anything when you just look at it, the number of plays just eclipses everything else. I mean role modeling, yes. I mean role modeling, yes, and 97, 97 by me. Clyde, no way.
Speaker 1:What about 99 in 2000?
Speaker 6:Yeah, Well, maybe you should make. You should make a song for each year.
Speaker 1:And just, I'm just.
Speaker 9:This is called Rock Pop.
Speaker 6:I mean, for some people this is like serious man. If you're like you're rolling down an eight mile, it's like 20 below. Life's been kicking in the ass. It's cold, Car stalls out. Walk back home. The trailer park.
Speaker 3:Mom's all drugged out.
Speaker 1:Expansive vocabulary and vivid imagination, unapologetic outrageousness. Outro Music I like this song.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it's. It's not like all demented, like those other songs.
Speaker 5:The ones where you feel for him and he doesn't have these split personality things going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those are good ones. I could be taking them to shops to pawn them. I got a couple of rings and a brand new watch. You want them, cause I ain't never went gold off one song. I'm running up on someone's lawn with guns drawn. That's rock bottom. When life makes you mad enough to care, that's rock bottom.
Speaker 6:When you want something bad enough to stare, that's rock bottom. When you feel like you've had it up to here. Yeah, see, this is a song that I Right no-transcript, I'm down with that. Just don't give a fuck. Do you have your top three down yet?
Speaker 5:We've got a few more songs left. Not really I'm winging it here, I am too. I think I've got a few more songs left. Not really I'm winging it here, I mean, I am too. I think I've got a couple so far.
Speaker 1:Let's see what the end crop brings. There's too much stuff going on in that Right. I don't know how I like this song.
Speaker 3:You want a pass? The interest of time, let's do it.
Speaker 5:All right.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 5:It's aggressive.
Speaker 8:Yeah, it's too much.
Speaker 6:This is soap skit.
Speaker 9:Soap opera.
Speaker 4:This piece is called I Lick my Love Pump on the beach.
Speaker 8:Are you all to destroy me? You know, Roger, that's not what I want to do. I love her. Then we're gonna be together Never.
Speaker 5:He knows that he needs a little palate cleanser in his own album.
Speaker 6:Oh yeah, definitely you need one after that song. Yes, man, as the world turns, we all experience things in life. Tell you what we're gonna have to do, that we all must go through. It's like a concept album. They're like on soap operas now they do the soap opera skit and then, as the world turns, you know, interesting, yeah, the skits kind of introduce.
Speaker 1:Subterranean. Ah okay, yes, jack-o'-lantern, you know it's interesting. Yeah, the skits kind of introduce such a thing.
Speaker 1:Ah, okay, yes, jack-o'-lanterns. Outside us, baby, and we suing the courts Cause we dope as fuck and only get a two in the source. Yo, they never. Should have booted me out of reform school, deformed fool taking the shit in a warm pool. So they threw me out the Ramada Inn. I said it wasn't me, I got a twin. Oh, my god, it's you not again. It all started when my mother took my bike away cause I murdered my guinea pig and stuck him in a microwave. After that it was straight to the 40-ouncers, slapping teachers and jacking off in front of my counselors.
Speaker 3:Class clown freshman dressed like Les Nesman Fuck the next lesson I passed the test guessing and all the other kids said oh wait, just a minute, only class to lever pass is phys ed.
Speaker 1:Maybe Shout out to the phys floppers out there, the high divers Go through day by day. We drive around in million dollar sports cars While little kids hide this tape from their parents Like bad report cards Outsiders. And we sue in the courts Cause we dope as fuck and only get it two in the source, hyperchondriac hanging out at the laundry mat. We're all the raunchy fat, white, trashy, blonde spiat Dressed like a sailor standing by a pane of garbage.
Speaker 1:It's almost dark and I'm still trying to nail a trailer park bitch. But he's gonna tell Nina because nobody knows. So Bobber listens, doesn't he?
Speaker 1:That's a lot going on here on the killer. But so I got a cat to burn. You were buying fucking. You cheated on me. Saw the house he ran up in and shot a fucking porch up, kicked the door down to murder this divorce cut. Looked around the room. That's when I seen the bedroom door shut. I know you're in there, bitch. I got my gun popped. You might as well come out now. She said come in, it's unlocked. I walked in, spread across the bed naked Watching gay porn. She said come here, big boy, let's get acquainted. I turned around and brought it Twisted my ankles and it's rained it.
Speaker 1:She came at me at full speed. Nothing can stop her. I saw her five times and every bullet bounced off her. I started to beg no, please, let go. But she swallowed my fucking leg whole Like an egg roll, with one leg left. Now I'm hopping around crippled.
Speaker 6:I grabbed my pocket knife and sliced you can't get an award edgewise with this guy.
Speaker 5:I'm zoned out. Oh my god.
Speaker 6:Oh my god, they like listen to it once and they're like we need some screaming right over this one. Yeah, cherry on top.
Speaker 1:I like the scratching.
Speaker 6:They put scratching in here every now and then. I like the way they.
Speaker 5:Mic check.
Speaker 6:Mic check. Exactly. Okay, that's mixed for me. He's your husband. Okay, that was. As the World Turns, this is I'm Shady, who came through with two glocks to terrorize your world.
Speaker 1:Told you how to slap dicks and murder your girl, gave you all the finger and told you to sit and twirl, sold a billion tapes and still scream fuck the world. So come and kill me while my name's hot and shoot me 25 times in the same spot. I think I got a generation brain washed. The pot pills are smoke pot till they brains rot. Stop their. I think I'm feeling this Catching.
Speaker 6:Yeah, you make them feel, you so everybody got my sitter.
Speaker 1:I'm a coming that organ in the background. I like happy things. I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees. I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful, like when my teachers suck my wee-wee in preschool the ill type. I stab myself with a steel spike While I blow my brain out just to see what it feels like, cause this is how I am in real life. I don't wanna just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice. I don't want to just die a normal death, I want to be killed twice. I just want to scare somebody with a gun thread when they high off the drugs. They haven't even done yet. So bring the money by the knife. I'm a little off this drive. I try to keep it positive and play it cool. Who?
Speaker 2:knows.
Speaker 1:Nicolette, I can't. Biggest fan, I'm popular.
Speaker 5:Downers, downers, downers.
Speaker 1:I like that organ. It's tolerable. I don't have herpes. My dick's just itching. It's not sickness, it's for being AIDS infested. I don't know yet.
Speaker 3:It's tolerable.
Speaker 1:I'm too scared to eat ice mushrooms. I got acid. I got tabs and aspirin tablets.
Speaker 6:I'm your brother when you need. I like how it looks, I like how this doesn't like. The organ doesn't jive with the words.
Speaker 5:I like this one. It's got like a catchy, catchy vibe. Yeah, it's too awful.
Speaker 3:That's only a dream I'm Shady.
Speaker 10:I'm Sadie and that's my name. I reckon you ain't familiar with these hair parts.
Speaker 6:Oh, this is bad meets evil.
Speaker 10:There's a story behind that.
Speaker 6:Eminem Royce Da 5'9.
Speaker 10:Two outlaws took this whole town over. Sheriffs couldn't stop them. Quickest damn gunslingers I've ever seen. Okay.
Speaker 9:All right.
Speaker 10:Oh wow, hey I haven't shot this far.
Speaker 1:It's buried under here, yeah, it's gonna be great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 7:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's pretty good. Gotta tease him a little Royce the 5'9". That's a little Roistified, but that's pretty good, cause this is what happens when bad meets evil, and we at the trees till we look like Vietnamese people. He's evil and I'm bad. Like Steve Siegel, I fought the law cause.
Speaker 1:I don't agree with police either. Shit me. Neither we ain't eager to be legal, so please leave me with the keys to your Jeep Eagle. I breathe ether in three lethal amounts while I stab myself in the knee with a disease needle Release and raise on anybody in squeezing range Cold enough to make the seasons change in the oh gosh. Wow, he's insane. No, I'm not, I just want to shoot off and I'm pissed off because I can't find a decent game.
Speaker 7:The disaster of dreads. I'm bad enough to commit suicide and survive long enough to kill my soul after I'm dead, when in danger. It's funny, actually. My flavor's similar to a waiter. Because I serve any stranger with money. I spray a hundred men until they drink chains, while slipping bullets in point-blank rings like they was punches.
Speaker 6:Oh, wow.
Speaker 7:There's a little Basuki in the background. Basuki, or whatever, from all angles of us. Flash your mag loud enough to cast an avalanche and bust a volcano's erupt.
Speaker 1:Hello, hey, what's up? We're coming to get you. They knew it's us. I used to be a loud mouth, remember me? I'm the one who burned your house down. Well, I'm out now and this time I'm coming back to blow your house up and I ain't gonna leave you with a window to jump out up. Give me two fat tabs and three shrooms, and you won't see me like fat people in steam rooms and when I go to hell. A lot of shrooms in this album. Yeah, let's just deal with that takes everything, all the time
Speaker 7:yeah, how do? You even function. I think the mushrooms are probably an inspiration?
Speaker 6:I think, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm not a freak anymore.
Speaker 6:Yeah, he was probably doing a lot of drugs he was going to work and they're like you're on drugs so we're going to fire you.
Speaker 10:Just say no. That's the story of when bad meets evil. Two of the most wanted individuals in the county made Jesse James and Billy the Kid look like law-abiding citizens. It's too bad. They had to go out the way they did, Got shot in the back coming out of that old saloon. But their spirits still live on to this day. Shh Wait, Did y'all hear that?
Speaker 8:What the fuck is he talking about.
Speaker 6:Oh wow, that was uh, that was different. A lot of people ask me the last song.
Speaker 1:Still don't give a fuck Am I afraid of death? Hell yeah, I'm afraid of death.
Speaker 2:Like love.
Speaker 1:A lot of people think that I worship the devil.
Speaker 5:Nancy, not now. Yeah, he's getting real About death.
Speaker 1:Look, I can't change the way I think and I can't change the way I am. But if I offended you, real about that? A lyricist without a clue. What year is this? Fuck a needle. Here's a sword Body pierced with this, living the mug, never giving a fuck. Give me the keys. I'm drunk and I've never driven a truck, but I smoked dope in a cab. I'll stab you with the sharpest knife I can grab. Come back the next week and reopen this cab. A killer instinct runs in the blood. Empty and full clicks and bur.
Speaker 6:It's getting angry, it's building up.
Speaker 1:I can feel it yeah.
Speaker 5:Let's talk about brains again.
Speaker 1:The beat is like really heavy. It's like building a team louder. Yo, I'm still gonna do To all the people I've offended. Fuck you too. Every time I reminisce, yo, I miss my past, but I still don't give a fuck. Y'all can kiss my ass. I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you and cut you so fast. When your blood spilled it was still blue. I'll hang you till you dangle and chain you with both ankles and Outro Music. What?
Speaker 6:Yeah, it's like, it's just so, it's going, it's going. This song has like enough lyrics for the whole album.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be good on words for a long time. You know, let me listen to that. Some Herbie Antock after this yeah A rough good. Oh shit, Y'all can kiss my ass.
Speaker 5:I wanted an album so rugged Nobody can touch it, spent a million to track and went over my budget.
Speaker 1:But how in the fuck am I supposed to get out of debt? I just murdered the alphabet. Drug sickness got me doing some bug switches. I'm a thorn from cracks so bad my blood is deep. I don't rap to get the women Fuck bitches. Give me a fat slut that cooks and does dishes. Never ran with a clique, I'm a posse Kamikaze Strapping a motherfucking bomb across me. From the second I was born my mama lost me. I'm a cross between Mance and Isham and Ozzy. I don't know why the fuck I'm here in the first place. My worst day on this earth was my first birthday Retarded. What did that nurse say?
Speaker 5:Brain damage retarded.
Speaker 1:What did that nurse say? Brain damage? I was going during the earthquake. Yeah, you too, all the friends I used to have. I miss my past, but but I still give a fuck, I'll kiss my ass, kiss my ass, ass, ass.
Speaker 6:Like the falling.
Speaker 10:Tell you what we're going to have to do.
Speaker 5:Our top three.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it gets like little kid chimes and it's so fucking weird, oh my god yeah it's like wow, ah, all right yeah, all right, I'm gonna be pissed off for the next month, I know I just I need some we, something to calm you down. Just uh, there's a need to mellow out after this, but let's ah that feels it feels better. Okay, A little wordy for that. What's your, what's your top three man?
Speaker 5:I'm going to go um rock bottom. Number three oh yeah Actually. No, yeah, yeah, yeah Actually.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going three Okay, rock bottom number three.
Speaker 6:Okay, I'm going to say, I'm going to say brain damage is my number three.
Speaker 5:Okay, that was almost kind of a tearjerker. Yeah, the ones that. It's the one that made me feel sorry for him.
Speaker 6:Right, exactly, it kind of like sets the tone for you know why he's a sympathetic character.
Speaker 5:So right, all right, yeah, so that's my number three. Um, I guess I just don't give a fuck. I'm gonna go number two I like that those two those two, just don't give a fuck the first one that gets a lot of listens.
Speaker 6:Yeah, the first one. Yeah, that still don't give a fuck. That was the last one we just heard. Jerk down with number two. Just don't give a fuck.
Speaker 5:It had a good musical. Come on everyone. Actually, you know what? No, come on on everyone. That's number two.
Speaker 6:Come on everybody yeah, come on everybody. Yeah, come on. You know what I'm gonna go with that. That's my number two, as best barrels ever yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, it was kind of catchy, you know, didn't? It had sort of like a little vibe to it. It was catchy yeah okay, that's my number two as well.
Speaker 5:What's your number one? I'm going role model. Yeah, yep, I think I don't know that he would be a role model. I don't know if he cares. He doesn't want to be a role model, definitely Whatever. He's just, I guess, artistic with his lyrics, autistic with his lyrics, crazy, yeah, not afraid to say anything. Descriptive Paints, this whole weird dystopian. Yeah, yeah, I know, that's my number one too.
Speaker 6:Yeah, it was A was a role model, yeah, and the lyrics were just like everything was just like one after the other thing, after the other thing, and he's just he's, he's throwing out like pop culture references and it's so like relatable and it's like so clever and everything rhymes so well. So yeah, I'm, I'm with you. So yeah, well, I like the come on everybody. It was. I mean, that's like a little gem in there, you know.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I feel like to the academics. You know they could write an eight-page paper, you know, double-spaced about what this says, what is critique of society and of himself?
Speaker 6:Yeah well, it's high art for poverty you know, and the struggles of, of you know, the working class in a post-apocalyptic, late stage capitalistic trailer parks and, exactly you know, domestic disputes with children and your drug addicts. And well, yeah, you could also be like a part. It may be an argument for um your ability to like the nature versus nurture like right. You're a product of your environment, kind of a thing, and this is art reflected in that, with a very like a smart, just like a smart human being who rose from it.
Speaker 6:Um, but who he is, you know? Versus maybe somebody who like a donald trump who was brought up on park avenue yeah, right you're. You know you can. There's something just to put a positive spin on it. There's something within us Like he represents what could happen if you fight. Yeah, but I mean.
Speaker 6:Charcoal and the diamond, yeah, but I mean, underneath it all, there's also like a purity and there's a, a scared little kid. Yeah, scared little kid who knows right from wrong and wants to choose the right path, even though he's just getting the shit beat out of him day after day.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 6:It just only fueled a fire, and I'm going to make it.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 6:And kudos to him. So I think, are we good? Yeah, All right.
Speaker 1:Off the road. Let's go, all right right, all right, everybody.
Speaker 6:We zip it in and zip it out. Love you, bowtied all right.
