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Eminem

Without Me

Release date: 26th May 2002

From The Eminem ShowTrack 104:50
Hip-Hop/RapMusicHip-HopHardcore Rap
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About This Track

Eminem's grand re-entrance, 'Without Me' kicked off 2002's 'The Eminem Show' as a cartoonish victory lap built on a pogo-stick beat. Picking up where 'The Real Slim Shady' left off, it found him cheerfully reminding the pop landscape of the difference between its life with him and without him, skewering targets famous and obscure with the kind of motormouth glee that made him impossible to ignore.

It worked exactly as designed. The single reached number two in the US and topped the charts across more than a dozen countries, earned his first Grammy nod in a major category, and took best video at the ceremony. For a stretch of the early 2000s, this was pop's most reliable troublemaker operating at full tilt.

"Without Me" is a track by Eminem, from the album The Eminem Show, released 26th May 2002. The track is 4:50 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Eminem.

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Eminem

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Lyrics

Without Me

Obie Trice, real name no gimmicks

Two trailer park girls go round the outside
Round the outside, round the outside
Two trailer park girls go round the outside
Round the outside, round the outside

Guess who's back?
Back again
Shady's back
Tell a friend
Guess who's back? Guess who's back?
Guess who's back? Guess who's back?
Guess who's back? Guess who's back?
Guess who's back?

I've created a monster
'Cause nobody wants to see Marshall no more
They want Shady, I'm chopped liver
Well, if you want Shady, this is what I'll give ya
A little bit of weed mixed with some hard liquor

Some vodka that'll jump start my heart quicker
Than a shock when I get shocked at the hospital
By the doctor when I'm not co-operating
When I'm rockin' the table while he's operating

You waited this long, now stop debating
'Cause I'm back, I'm on the rag and ovulating
I know that you got a job, Ms. Cheney
But your husband's heart problem's complicating

So the FCC won't let me be
Or let me be me, so let me see
They try to shut me down on MTV
But it feels so empty, without me

So, come on and dip, bum on your lips
Fuck that, cum on your lips and some on your tits
And get ready, 'cause this is about to get heavy
I just settled all my lawsuits, fuck you, Debbie!

Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me
I said this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me

Little hellions, kids feelin' rebellious
Embarrassed their parents still listen to Elvis
They start feelin' like prisoners, helpless
'Til someone comes along on a mission and yells, "Bitch"

A visionary, vision of scary
Could start a revolution, pollutin' the airwaves
A rebel, so just let me revel and bask
In the fact that I got everyone kissin' my ass

And it's a disaster, such a catastrophe
For you to see so damn much of my ass, you asked for me?
Well, I'm back, da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Fix your bent antenna tune it in and then I'm gonna

Enter in, endin' up under your skin like a splinter
The center of attention, back for the winter
I'm interesting, the best thing since wrestling
Infesting, in your kid's ears and nesting

"Testing, attention, please"
Feel the tension, soon as someone mentions me
Here's my ten cents, my two cents is free
A nuisance, who sent? You sent for me?

Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me
I said, this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me

A-tisket a-tasket, I go tit for tat with
Anybody who's talkin' this shit that shit
Chris Kirkpatrick, you can get your ass kicked
Worse than them little Limp Bizkit bastards
And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie
You 36-year-old bald headed fag, blow me
You don't know me, you're too old, let go
It's over, nobody listen to techno

Now let's go, just gimme the signal
I'll be there with a whole list full of new insults
I been dope, suspenseful with a pencil
Ever since Prince turned himself into a symbol
But sometimes the shit just seems
Everybody only wants to discuss me
So this must mean I'm disgusting
But it's just me, I'm just obscene

No, I'm not the first king of controversy
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley
To do Black music so selfishly
And used it to get myself wealthy (hey)
There's a concept that works
20 million other white rappers emerge
But no matter how many fish in the sea
It'll be so empty, without me

Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty without me
I said this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty without me

Kids!

Track details

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    Bass
    Jeff Bass
    Guitar
    Jeff Bass
    Keyboards
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    Additional Production
    DJ Head
    Additional Recording
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