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Eminem

Maxine

Release date: 12th November 1996

From Infinite - Single
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About This Track

Eminem and Denaun Porter produce a track that sketches three separate encounters with a woman named Maxine, each narrator offering a different angle on her life and choices. The song opens with a phone conversation between the producers and Maxine herself, establishing a conversational tone before the verses unfold. Eminem's opening verse catalogues Maxine's circumstances with clinical precision: a sex worker with a sugar daddy, someone whose reputation precedes her, whose transactions are transactional and whose health risks are real. Denaun Porter's contribution shifts the frame toward exasperation, addressing someone caught in a cycle of infidelity and nightlife that she promises to break but never does. A third voice, credited as Three, recounts a more straightforward pickup, though it too ends with Maxine's name, suggesting the song is less interested in her as a character than as a recurring type. The track treats its subject without sentimentality or moral grandstanding, instead offering a portrait of survival and contradiction. It's a song about sex work, disease, and the gap between intention and behaviour, delivered with the matter-of-factness of people who know these stories from proximity rather than theory.

"Maxine" is a track by Eminem, from the album Infinite - Single, released 12th November 1996. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Eminem.

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Maxine

[Produced by Eminem & Mr. Porter]

[Intro: Maxine & Denaun Porter]

Maxine!

Hello

Can I speak to Maxine?

Yeah, this is me, what's up?

What up?

Who dis?

Denaun

Yeah, what's up?

What are you doing?

Nothing, just laying in bed

Huh?

Nothing, just laying in bed

Why?

I don't know, thinking about something freaky to do

[Verse 1: Eminem]

I know this crack fiend Maxine who needs a vaccine

She tests positive but tells you that her act's clean

Plus she got a sugar daddy

Gassin' every hooker that he takes in to crook her badly

If you mistook her, sadly, on her reputation

You're in jeopardation, if you ain't got no preparation

When you stepped away, son, she got her face done

Lookin' provocative, she'll let you knock it if

You press the issue, and get undressed to kiss you

If you match the price, otherwise she won't look at you twice

But when you catch the lice, or get the urgency

To go to the emergency 'cause it burns to pee

Don't bring your germs to me, 'cause I ain't tryna hear it

While you're fightin' your fuckin' disease tryna clear it

[Verse 2: Denaun Porter]

Sometimes I wonder, what's your purpose in life?

That is to get with every brother and unveil one of his kids

Shit, you livin' trife

Got three kids at home, and club-hoppin' every night

You say it's gonna stop

But it just… slows… down…

And then speeds back to a regular pace, there is no end to this

Mystery, whatever your reason even is to be

You say you wanna be with me, but how can you say that

When you got niggas hidin' in your closet?

I refrain from gettin' angry, but you keep on actin' strangely

[Verse 3: Three]

I met this girl last week, she was a freak, she liked that meat

So I stepped on it and then asked my homies

And chilled on the side and then watched they niggas

Spit game over there and take notes, while I get this number

I stepped to her, first I cleared my throat

And said: "Hey, bitch, haven't I seen you before?"

Looked at my nigga, turned around and got slapped

Threw out my hands, and said: "Oh, it's like that?"

She said she just broke up with her nigga and shit

She started cryin', and asked me to forgive her and shit

She said her name was Maxine (Maxine!)

So I told her I wanted her number

She asked could I give her mine too

Got to the crib and called her up

We got into a good conversation

That's when she asked me could I fuck

I said: "Maxine, check this out

Give me your address, I'll be through, and you'll find out"

Got to the crib, she let me in

She didn't waste time, she grabbed my hand

And proceeded to the bedroom

I said, "Hold up, and stop proceedin', you rushin' things!

What the fuck are you doin'?!" So I went for my protection

Took off my clothes and started flexin'

As she went for my midsection

I threw her down as I tore off her shirt

Pulled out my jimmy and I thought about puttin' in work

Before I hit it she said: "3, don't get mad

But there's somethin' that I gotta tell your ass"

I said, "What is it? Another nigga? It's okay"

She said: "No, I forgot to tell you

That I got AIDS, I got a problem."

[Outro: Maxine & Denaun Porter]

Hey, Maxine

What?

You thinkin' about suckin' my dick?

Yeah, for a small price

For a small price? What you mean?

You know, money, nigga

You don't need no damn money; I can't give you no money anyways, I heard you got some shit

What you, what you hear I got?

AIDS

Who told you that bullshit?

My nigga Kyu, he wouldn't lie

Well, if that's the case, Kyu got it then

Oh, for real, it's like that?

Well, I ain't got shit, so he ain't got shit

And if he do, he ain't get that shit from me

I ain't fuckin' around with no third, nigga

Fuck that, I ain't fuckin' with you

No, see…

You got that shit, I ain't gotta fuck with you

Hold on, why it ain't even like that

I want y'all to get paid, fuckin'

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Track details

From Infinite - Single

1996
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Infinite - Single
Infinite - Single
Eminem
12th November 1996
Release year
1996
  1. —Maxine
  2. —Infinite
  3. —313
  4. —Backstabber
  5. —It’s O.K.
  6. —Jealousy Woes II
  7. —Open Mic
  8. —Tonite
  9. —Never 2 Far
  10. —Searchin
  11. —W.E.G.O. (Interlude)
  12. —Infinite
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