Eminem

Released: January 1, 1998

Songwriter: Eminem

Producer: Bass Brothers

[Intro]
Get down tonight
Get down tonight
Get down tonight
Get down tonight
What up? What up? What up? Get down tonight
Outsidaz. Get down tonight
Outsidaz. Get down tonight
[?] Young Zee Get down tonight
[?]

[Verse 1]
My favorite color is red, like the blood shed
From Kurt Cobain's head when he shot himself dead
Women all grabbin' at my shish kabab
Bought Lauryn Hill's tape so her kids could starve
(“I hate white people”)
You thought I was ill and now I'm even more so
Shit, I got full-blown AIDS and a sore throat
I got a wardrobe with an orange robe
I'm in the fourth row, signin' autographs at your show
I just remembered that I'm absent-minded
No, I mean I've lost my mind, I can't find it
I'm freestylin' every verse that I spit
‘Cause I don't even remember the words to my shit (Um, one, two)
I told the doc I need a change in sickness
And gave a bitch herpes in exchange for syphilis
Put my EP on your Christmas gift list
You want to get high? Here, bitch, just sniff this!

[Hook]
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 (Get down tonight)
Come on everybody (Get down tonight)
Come on everybody (Get down tonight)

[Verse 2]
I tried suicide once and I'll try it again
That's why I write songs where I die at the end
‘Cause I don't give a fuck, like my middle finger was stuck
And I was wavin' it at everybody, screamin' "I suck!" (I suck!)
I go on stage in front of a sell-out crowd
And yell out loud: "All y'all get the hell out now!"
Fuck rap, I'm givin' it up, y'all, I'm sorry
"But Eminem, this is your record release party!"
I'm bored out of my gourd, so I took a hammer
And nailed my foot to the floorboard of my Ford
Guess I'm just a sick, sick bastard
Who's one sandwich short of a picnic basket (I ain't got it all)
One Excedrin tablet short of a full medicine cabinet
I feel like my head has been shredded like lettuce and cabbage (Ohh)
And if you ever see a video for this shit
I'll probably be dressed up like a mummy with my wrists slit

[Hook]
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 (Get down tonight)
Come on everybody (Get down tonight)
Come on everybody (Get down tonight)

[Verse 3]
Got bitches on my jock out in East Detroit
‘Cause they think that I'm a motherfuckin' Beastie Boy
So I told 'em I was Mike D
They was like, "Gee, I don't know, he might be!"
I told 'em, "Meet me at the Rockfest concert" (Oh really?)
I'll be standin' by the Loch Ness Monster" (Okay)
Peace out (Bye!)
Then I jetted to the weed house, smoked out
'Til I started bustin' freestyles, broke out
Then I dipped quick back to the crib, put on lipstick
Crushed up the Tylenol and ate it with a dipstick
Made a couple of crank calls collect (Brrrt)
"It's Ken Kaniff from Connecticut, can you accept?"
I want to make songs all the fellas dub
And murder every rich rapper that I'm jealous of
So just remember when I bomb your set
Yo, I only cuss to make your mom upset

[Hook]
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 (Get down tonight)
Come on everybody (Get down tonight)
Come on everybody (Get down tonight)
Come on everybody (Get down tonight)

A legendary hip-hop icon who started as an underground battle rapper in Detroit, Marshall “Eminem” Bruce Mathers III (1972 – present) has developed a career full of controversy, wild swings, and some of the most noteworthy raps in the history of the genre.

Eminem has broken countless barriers, shifting and impacting the culture in several ways. In June 2017, “Stan” was added into the Oxford Dictionary, and in 2019, to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. He was the first rapper to win the Grammy Award for Best Album for three consecutive albums. “Rap God” set the Guinness World Record for most words in a song. He was also the first rapper to win an Oscar. His albums The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show became certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2011, making him one of the few artists to have more than one Diamond album. This has helped him become the highest selling hip-hop artist of all time. In January 2020, with his 11th studio album Music to Be Murdered By debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200, Eminem became the first artist in history to have 10 consecutive #1 debuts.

Produced and co-signed by Dr. Dre, Em had an unprecedented run of success from 1999 up until 2003, releasing three well-reviewed multi-platinum albums, stealing the show on countless collaborations, and even starred in a hit movie. However, it all came crashing down around 2004, when a string of problems ranging from drug dependence to depression to the tragic death of best friend Deshaun “Proof” Holton in 2006 led to a long hiatus from music and a pair of what were, by his own admission, sub-par albums.

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