This 1999 single is likely the first thing you heard by Eminem unless you saw him as a freestyle rapper in Detroit as a kid.
It earned Eminem his first Grammy, for best Rap Solo Performance. Cowritten by Marshall Mathers (Eminem), Andre Young (Dr. Dre) and Labi Siffre (Labi Siffre,who was credited because of the significant sample of his song "I Got The..."), the song was meant to be humorous and light-hearted, but ended up being also pretty groundbreaking.
That was the version that Labi Siffre approved.
He expressly did NOT approve this version, which contains some homophobic slurs - calling it "lazy writing". But we'll talk more about that another day.
Eminem released it anyway.
Yes, of course, he did perform ths song live, like in this performance at the legendary Whisky A Go Go on the fabulous Sunset Strip.
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