With Eminem in full Slim Shady mode, and paired with Deric 'D-Dot' Angelettie's famed rapping alter ego The Madd Rapper, the song leaps head first into controversy. Produced by a then unknown Kanye West, 'Stir Crazy' is as crazy as the title suggests. 'I'm sicker than Boy George picturing Michael Jackson in little boys' drawers shopping at toy stores/ Shady said it, Shady meant it.' Dre was beefing with at the time - and the Pet Shop Boys, this is classic Em, coupling comedy with clever wordplay. Dre fly over the Canadian border to find Canibus to put a beat down on him for sending Em some weird fan mail. Also taking jabs at Jermaine Dupri - who Dr. Taking his time in the 5 minute all out lyrical assault on Wyclef Jean's former protege, Em attacked everything from Canibus' excessive use of metaphors, his attraction to using big words, and his strange obsession with the internet.īeginning 'Can-I-Bitch' in the same way Slick Rick did his classic 'Children's Story', Em tells a fictional tale where he and Dr.

So when another talented MC by the name Canibus stepped to Em he welcomed the challenge. 'Hey, mister, would you care to bear witness to the ass-whippin' I'm about to administer/ To this ass-kissin' little vaginal blister?/ Stanibus, little Marshall Mathers' sister.'Įminem is no stranger to beefing on wax. Making sure he paid back the guys who gave him a platform when no one else was paying attention, Eminem, at a time when his star was taking off in a big way, joined a stellar cast to deliver a witty set of bars, and he even found time to appear in the music video. Going on to appear on the show a few more times with an open invitation, Sway says of the slots: 'I think those sessions were like his training, and he eventually found his voice and who he would become as an artist.'įast forward to 1999 when Sway and King Tech put out their second album, This or That. Giving new and established artists a platform to showcase their skills, a then unknown Eminem appeared on the show back in 1997. 'This place is my house/ I might as well erase my face with Wite-Out ‘cause y'all can't see me like Ma$e's eyebrows.'īefore Sway Calloway was ever a household name through his role as an iconic MTV jock he was the host on the Wake Up Show radio show alongside his partner King Tech. 4) 'The Anthem' w/ Sway & King Tech, Pharoahe Monch, Xzibit, RZA, Tech N9ne, Kool G Rap, Chino XL, KRS-One, Jayo Felony & DJ Revolution

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