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[Eminem]
May I have your attention please?
May I have your attention please?
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
We're gonna have a problem here..

Y'all act like you never seen a white person before
Jaws all on the floor like Pam, like Tommy just burst in the door
and started whoopin her ass worse than before
they first were divorce, throwin her over furniture (Ahh!)
It's the return of the... "Ah, wait, no way, you're kidding,
he didn't just say what I think he did, did he?"
And Dr. Dre said... nothing you idiots!
Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement! (Ha-ha!)
Feminist women love Eminem {*vocal turntable:
chigga chigga chigga*} "Slim Shady, I'm sick of him
Look at him, walkin around grabbin his you-know-what
Flippin the you-know-who," "Yeah, but he's so cute though!"
Yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
But no worse, than what's goin on in your parents' bedrooms
Sometimes, I wanna get on TV and just let loose, but can't
but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose
"My bum is on your lips, my bum is on your lips"
And if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss
And that's the message that we deliver to little kids
And expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is
Of course they gonna know what intercourse is
By the time they hit fourth grade
They got the Discovery Channel don't they?
"We ain't nothing but mammals.." Well, some of us cannibals
who cut other people open like cantaloupes {*SLURP*}
But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope
{*EWWW!*} But if you feel like I feel, I got the antidote
Women wave your pantyhose, sing the chorus and it goes

Chorus: Eminem (repeat 2X)

I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up?

[Eminem]
Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell his records;
well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!
You think I give a damn about a Grammy?
Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me
"But Slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird?"
Why? So you guys could just lie to get me here?
So you can, sit me here next to Britney Spears?
Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs
so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst
and hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first
You little bitch, put me on blast on MTV
"Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee!"
I should download her audio on MP3
and show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD {*AHHH!*}
I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups, all you do is annoy me
so I have been sent here to destroy you {*bzzzt*}
And there's a million of us just like me
who cuss like me; who just don't give a fuck like me
who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing but not quite me!

Chorus

[Eminem]
I'm like a head trip to listen to, cause I'm only givin you
things you joke about with your friends inside your living room
The only difference is I got the balls to say it
in front of y'all and I don't gotta be false or sugarcoated at all
I just get on the mic and spit it
and whether you like to admit it {*ERR*} I just shit it
better than ninety percent of you rappers out can
Then you wonder how can kids eat up these albums like valiums
It's funny; cause at the rate I'm goin when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person in the nursin home flirting
Pinchin nurses asses when I'm jackin off with Jergens
And I'm jerkin but this whole bag of Viagra isn't working
And every single person is a Slim Shady lurkin
He could be workin at Burger King, spittin on your onion rings
{*HACH*} Or in the parkin lot, circling
Screaming "I don't give a fuck!"
with his windows down and his system up
So, will the real Shady please stand up?
And put one of those fingers on each hand up?
And be proud to be outta your mind and outta control
and one more time, loud as you can, how does it go?

Chorus 2X

[Eminem]
Ha ha
Guess there's a Slim Shady in all of us
Fuck it, let's all stand up
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THIS SONG IS ABOUT:

how the Information age (internet, new media, etc.) is all about doing the most outrageous, absurd drivel just to get ATTENTION...

hence, the song begins: "May I have your ATTENTION please? May I have your ATTENTION please?"

then it talks about attention-getting stunts, like Tom Green humping a dead moose, Aguilera/Spears/Durst/Daly sexcapades to get headlines...as well as Pam Anderson & Tommy

so Em playfully joins in the game, & says outrageous things -- like that he killed Dre...& talking about Viagra, etc.

he mocks how people are drawn in & attracked to the outrageous -- as w/ his parody of feminists saying that he grabs his you-know what, etc...

the point is that in this day in age, the attention goes to the vapid outrageous, so you play along -- by creating a persona (the Real Slim Shady)

amazingly, and ironically, this song comes right before Whatever You Say I Am on the CD... that song deals with an opposite reaction to the media/papparrazzi era that we live in... in that song he reacts violently against it -- but in this song (The REal Slim Shady) he has fun with it...

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You can like some rap and dislike some. If you think you can't, you're just a closed minded asshole.

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Eminem is easily the deepest rapper there is. He raps to be funny, deep, make money, to send messages, etc. He has songs for just about every mood anyone can be in. I'm pretty sure eminem has at least 1 song that ANYONE can relate to. He has so many different songs about so many different topics. This song, for example, is his skill of not caring and being funny(he succeeded). Eminem is very talented and very deep. Maybe the best ever ???

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First off, whatever the media is trying to do with Eminem, I don't care. I like the majority of his music, and that's all that counts.

Second and lastly, all you cheese warriors pissing and moaning about how you hate Eminem, here's some suggestions:

Grow some fucking balls and stop whining If you really hate Eminem, why the fuck are you looking at his lyrics? Learn to type. Just because you're on the internet doesn't give you the excuse to talk like a retard. Get a decent argument. "Eminem iz shit" really doesn't cut it you bunch of under sexed morons.

Ted (that's me for all the nimrods) > Every cunt that has come on here so far and expressed their undying hate for Marshall Mathers. I rule.

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The only reason i like eminem is cause he's donesn't gove a fuck which you gotta respect. Just like Andrew W.K, System Of A Down and Rage against the machine he isnt afraid to sing what he really thinks, even though he might seem extra rude and obnoxious, at least he's not fake. Lets see Britney Spears or N*SYNC or all them do a song like this, not goina happen

fuck yeah someone with a brain its about fucking time

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This song is like totally awesome he is like the best ever he is soooooo cute!!!!!!!

But I think he's married to Kim. Hee hee.

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OK i dont understand u people, i came on this site to cheak out wht the lyrics mean, hench "songmeanings.net" and i get a bunch of shit about 'eminem sux', so dont read the lyrics then...leave this space for people who like him and want to discuss his lyrics....In my personal opinion Eminem is a genious....Hate him or love him he ahs made tons of money so he is sitting back laughing at y'all now. I actually dont like rap at all 5o cent, j-z all that shit is just that, shit!!! but there is something about eminem that i really like, not cause he is hot or what ever, i just love his lyrics. Some of his songs are really meaningful, like mocking bird and others are just plain hillarious. Good pick me up songs. He has major balls: he says stuff other people dont dare to and thats y i love him. Y'all wont believe that my favorite type of music is Metal, well it is, and i like it cause (like eminem) they say what they wanan say and they are sellouts!!! ROCK ON EMINEM...

There is no meaning to this song, it's just offensive and in bad taste!

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bad taste? go fuck yourself u prick. it's rap music. what do u expect? u think he's gonna change shit up for the sake of being tasteful? fuck that. he doesn't care what people think or who it offends. he's speaking his mind, something this nation has forgotten to do.

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It was funny to read the first page of the comments. rainbow8711 said "..it doesn't really matter because no-one even likes eminem anymore, it's totally uncool to like him (finally) and whats more, he has totally dissolved into the depths of music world along with spice girls, take that and westlife. whats that you say, westlife are still around. oh shit well we can but hope..."

I laughed and asked myself "WTF?" until I saw the year on that post: 2002. Forward to 2010, his most recent album is one of the best-selling of the year, and most people I know like his stuff, even if they're not fans of rap. Just earlier today, I put on this song for classmates and everyone was singing along! Eminem is far too iconic for rap to be forgotten, and we're certainly not going to be forgetting him anytime soon.

Anyway, this song is pretty good. Much of his stuff is good; there is some that I don't like, but the stuff that I do like outweighs what I don't. Keep it up, Em! And give us more fun pokes at society and the media.

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first things first, i hate rap, i despise it in fact. However i do like this song cause its pretty funny and eminem does hold anything back, i like that.

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NO..if u really love music...u'll love woteva sounds good...even if u r more of a punky person like me..but i still enjoy hiphop/drum n bass etc