Trivia
- Aimed at , this diss track credits Eminem alongside , , and individually, rather than under the collective G-Unit name.
- The version of “Bump Heads” that appears on The Eminem Show (Expanded Edition) first appeared on ’s Shady Records Mixtape-CD, released internationally in 2003. The original version, without DJ Green Lantern’s vocals, can be found on his mixtape Invasion Part II: Conspiracy Theory, released earlier that same year.
- The Eminem Show (Expanded Edition) uses the international version of the song because it was included on the “Business” single, thereby tying it to the album.
Words from Ja Rule and Eminem
“If you’re gonna be authorizing [50 Cent] to spew records on me, then I wanna do what I gotta do to take your company under. And that goes for Dre, Em or whoever.
“First of all, me and Dre didn’t realize that we need to consult with Ja Rule and Irv Gotti on all of our business moves. Second, I’m gonna tell you some real shit, and that man cannot deny any of it. During the end of the tour for The Eminem Show, I was waiting to get off my bus and get onto a jet, and Ja was getting off the jet. And it was me and Bizarre, and one of my security guys. Bizzy gets on and says, “Yo, Ja’s out there. You wanna holla at him?” So I came up to him on some humble shit and said, “What’s up Ja? What’re you trying to get into?” And he was like, “Shit, just about to swallow this pill.” Took it right in front of me. Basically he was like, “I’m about to go to this club keep doing your thing.”
Now, we had already signed 50 at that point, I was basically saying, “What up?” to be cool about the situation. And to see that if there was a problem, if he was going to address it. He said nothing to me about it. Then, two weeks later that issue of The Source came out, and I see what he said. At first, I was confused, like, “How long does it take for them to print a magazine?” If he had a problem with me signing 50 Cent, why didn’t he address it that night? Now all of a sudden he’s got an album coming out and it’s a problem?
It’s funny because the night of the [MTV] Video Music Awards, the article had come out, but I didn’t see it ’till the next day. So at one point, I’m going down the stairs and he’s coming up the stairs and we almost cross paths. I’m thinking it’s all good, so I’m trying to look make a little eye contact and say, “What up?” He had his head to the floor and he walked straight up the steps. I was kinda confused ’till the next day when I read the article. Then I was like, “Oh, I see, he put it out there in the article, so now he has to play it up for the public.”