Great song and it leads to one of the few times I'm being a bit of a Youtube Stan (you know those annoying guys who write, "The song begins at ..." and only listen to Eminem's parts) when it comes to this. Not because Royce is bad in this song - their "conversations" add something special to it - his verse is good (though I'm a bit sceptical about the lyricism. I'll need to analyze that, but am too tired to do so) and I laughed at the "swagger" line, but the voice Eminem is using is simply mesmerizing.
It's also great storytelling, you almost feel as if you are in that car. The background sounds add to that.
His Relapse references are geat too.
"she told me to quit calling her cunt, I said I can't/cunt" (I laughed outright).
"oh you can't read and you can't write, you told me that last night" - the voice he's using at this point is just haunting. A mixture of condescending and false compession, the exact emotion he wanted to express, I guess.
"I laughed like she deserved it / she didn't think I'd act like this in person" - again that voice.
And I love that hock. I've been singing it under my breath the entire day (which earned a couple of bewildered looks).
So... Great song
. One of the best on the CD.Thoughts?
. You know, I wouldn't be too surprised if that theory is true...
