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Eminem

Yah Yah

Release date: 17th January 2020

From Music To Be Murdered By
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About This Track

'Yah Yah' gathers Eminem, Royce da 5'9", Black Thought and Q-Tip for a frenetic display of technical prowess. The track samples vocals from Busta Rhymes' 'Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check', anchoring its throwback energy in the mid-nineties boom-bap tradition all four MCs emerged from.

Royce da 5'9" opens with rapid-fire internal rhyme schemes before Black Thought arrives with a verse dense with boxing metaphors and references to his Roots lineage, crediting the late J Dilla. Q-Tip's hook frames the song as survival testimony from an era when disputes were settled face-to-face, the chorus punctuated by the title's chanted refrain.

The collaboration plays as a showcase for pure technique, each verse a demonstration of syllabic dexterity and competitive spirit. Eminem's verse closes the track with the same relentless cadence, the whole thing built for listeners who prize lyrical density above all else.

"Yah Yah" is a track by Eminem, from the album Music To Be Murdered By, released 17th January 2020. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Eminem.

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Yah Yah

[Intro: dEnAun & Royce Da 5'9"]

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah (People)

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah (Bitches)

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah (Animals)

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah

[Verse 1: Royce da 5'9"]

Bumstickitty, bumstickitty, bum, huh

I got that old rum-pum-pum-pum

A punk could jump up to get him a beatdown

At least sound, I sound like these clowns, like he sound

My flow all over the place, four-four in the waist, I'm so, so innovative

Po-po in the way, I'll roll over 'em and make bacon

And call 'em a pig, won't you hop up off of my dick?

Words, no way I'm at loss by 'em

I give you a JFK on the front lawn of MLK in the crossfire (Get down, nigga)

I have evolved into the lost diaries of the mob and the Rothschilds (C'mon)

I feel like God broke the vials and I am just layin' down inside 'em like caulkin' tile (Q-Tip)

[Chorus: Q-Tip, Royce da 5'9" & dEnAun]

Man, here we go

I said that we live in the land of criminal

My era, my era, my era so original

Uh-huh, I survived it and that's a miracle, ah, man

'Cause I'm from Slaughterhouse (People), check yourself

Like Ice Cube said, "Before you wreck yourself" (Bitches)

Like Wu-Tang said, "You should protect yourself" (Animals)

I got 'em goin'

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah (Get down, nigga)

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah

[Verse 2: Black Thought & Eminem]

Yo, snappin' necks plus I'm live, in effect

I'm in the Slick Rick eye patch, but I got it from Hex

Rappers avoid eye contact, that's outta respect

For the god in the flesh, the ominous Indominus Rex

They be like, "You put the Thought on? Yikes"

If I told y'all once, I told y'all twice, that motherfucker is nice

I'm the king of the blood sport on mics

I'm from an era you had beef, y'all prolly fist-fought on sight

Get your ass beat at the basketball court on spite

Then tell your wife to put your life support on ice

I'm the rap Pernell Whitaker, the honorable minister

Leavin' every amateur inoperable, I finished 'em

Makin' plaques outta they head like dead venison

Used to be the bad lieutenant with M-Illitant

Spillin' over fabulous jams my man Dilla sent

Rap speak for me, I am the ventriloquist

I'm so stubborn, the government won't govern

That brother you spoke of, it just wasn't as dope, was it?

I'm cold buzzin', I never been low-budget

The taste of your own medicine, here come a dose of it

I break free like Chesimard

Keep 'em guessin' hard while broads say my bars is like ASMR

All my dogs is out the reservoir

Top five, I'm where the legends are (Keep goin')

Live at the edge of darkness and light

One phone call, my youngins takin' flight

You a bark bitch, and never bite, long kiss goodnight

I stay heated, my people in the place need it

If you ain't standin' up for yourself, then stay seated

And they cheated, they lie like Amerigo Vespucci

I'm a miracle, I'm still super lyrical

Live from the Terrordome, loud like a megaphone

Thutmose the Third with seven-inch herringbones

[Chorus: Q-Tip, Royce da 5'9" & dEnAun]

Man, here we go

I said that we live in the land of criminal

My era, my era, my era so original

Uh-huh, I survived it and that's a miracle, ah, man

'Cause I'm from Slaughterhouse (People), check yourself

Like Ice Cube said, "Before you wreck yourself" (Bitches)

Like Wu-Tang said, "You should protect yourself" (Animals)

I got 'em goin'

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah (Get down, nigga)

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah

[Verse 3: Eminem]

Better hope an ambulance is en route

Paper's a hand grenade soon as I pull the pin out

I am the Santa Fe, Mandalay and Orlando and Colorado and Columbine

All combined into one, I don't walk the line, bitch, I run

'Cause we don't got no time to waste, so come on, Denaun

Here come me, 5 Da 9, and Thought, da-dun, da-dun

Then like a shotgun I'm ready to cock it on 'em

Leave these pussies stretched out like the Octomom

Never had no trouble keepin' up with the times

I just adapt to the climate, I treat it like my Levi's

When they ain't buttoned up right, I adjust on the fly

Middle fingers, put 'em high, that's why they call it a bird

'Cause you put it up in the sky

And I'm like a spider crawlin' up your spinal column

I'm climbin' all up the sides of the asylum wall

And dive in a pile of Tylenol, you're like a vagina problem

To a diabolical gynecologist tryna ball a fist, I will

Fuck you, just buy me, double timing the rhyming

I leave you stymied, that's why they still vilify me like Bill O'Reilly

I'ma show you what I mean when they call me the Harvey Weinstein of 2019

I'm a conniving, when I'm on the mic, I'ma stand out

Like a lime green wife beater with a knife out

I'm a sight to see, but you can see from the ring I'm wearing

Me and this game, we got married already

Had the prenup ready, fucked on her, should've seen her belly

She barely was three months pregnant

Bitch had it, gave me a baby, we named it Machine Gun Kelly

Now here's to LL, Big L, and Del

K-Solo, Treach, and G Rap

DJ Polo, Tony D, ODB, Moe Dee, Run-DMC

Ed O.G., and EPMD, D.O.C., Ice-T, Evil Dee

King Tee, UTFO, and Schoolly D, PE, and BDP

YZ and Chi-Ali, Rakim and Eric B., they were like my therapy

From B.I.G. and Paris, Three Times Dope, and some we'll never see, and PRT

N.W.A and Eazy-E, and D-R-E was like my GPS

Without him, I don't know where I'd be

[Chorus: Q-Tip, Royce da 5'9" & dEnAun]

Man, here we go

I said that we live in the land of criminal

My era, my era, my era so original

Uh-huh, I survived it and that's a miracle, ah, man

'Cause I'm from Slaughterhouse (People), check yourself

Like Ice Cube said, "Before you wreck yourself" (Bitches)

Like Wu-Tang said, "You should protect yourself" (Animals)

I got 'em goin'

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah (Get down, nigga)

Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah

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Track details

From Music To Be Murdered By

2020
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Music To Be Murdered By
Music To Be Murdered By
Eminem
17th January 2020
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2020
  1. 1Premonition (Intro)
    2:54
  2. 2Unaccommodating (feat. Young M.A)
    3:37
  3. 3You Gon' Learn (feat. Royce da 5'9" & White Gold)
    3:55
  4. 4Alfred (Interlude)
    0:30
  5. 5Those Kinda Nights (feat. Ed Sheeran)
    2:58
  6. 6In Too Deep
    3:15
  7. 7Godzilla (feat. Juice WRLD)
    3:31
  8. 8Darkness
    5:37
  9. 9Leaving Heaven (feat. Skylar Grey)
    4:26
  10. 10Yah Yah (feat. Royce da 5'9", Black Thought, Q-Tip & Denaun)
    4:47
  11. 11Stepdad (Intro)
    0:15
  12. 12Stepdad
    3:33
  13. 13Marsh
    3:21
  14. 14Never Love Again
    2:58
  15. 15Little Engine
    2:57
  16. 16Lock It Up (feat. Anderson .Paak)
    2:50
  17. 17Farewell
    4:08
  18. 18No Regrets (feat. Don Toliver)
    3:21
  19. 19I Will (feat. KXNG Crooked, Royce da 5'9" & Joell Ortiz)
    5:03
  20. 20Alfred (Outro)
    0:39
  21. —Lock It Up
  22. —Leaving Heaven (feat. Skylar Grey)
    4:26
  23. —Darkness
    5:37
  24. —Godzilla
  25. —Never Love Again
    2:58
  26. —Those Kinda Nights (feat. Ed Sheeran)
    2:58
  27. —Lock It Up (feat. Anderson .Paak)
    2:50
  28. —Unaccommodating
  29. —Yah Yah
  30. —You Gon' Learn
  31. —No Regrets
  32. —Leaving Heaven
  33. —Those Kinda Nights
  34. —I Will

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Production & Engineering

Writer
Black Thought, Busta Rhymes, Charles Bobbit, Denaun, Eminem, Fred Wesley, Galt MacDermot, James Brown, Krazy Drayz, Rashad Smith, Royce Da 5'9", Skoob
Producer
Denaun
Additional Keyboards
Luis Resto
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Joe Strange, Tony Campana
Mastering Engineer
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Mixing Engineer
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