Trivia

• “Mosh” was released as the album’s second single, following “Just Lose It.” Because the song was released exclusively as a digital single, with minimal radio support, it was ineligible for Billboard charts under the rules in place at the time. However, it did reach No. 22 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.
• The music video, produced by Guerrilla News Network, debuted on the company’s website on October 26, 2004 as a direct protest against the George W. Bush administration — just one week before the presidential election. The video aired on MTV the following day and quickly hit No. 1 on the channel’s “Hot Video” chart. Its animation style mirrors parts of the “White America” video, which was also a Guerrilla News Network production.

Words from Eminem

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I’ve never been one to be all that political. Most of it is in the song, and I would prefer to leave it at that, but my personal opinion — and I’m just one person who happens to speak to a lot of people — is that we live in the best country there is, and this guy is fucking it up. There’s people over there [in Iraq] dying and we can’t get a straight answer why.

Obviously, I wasn’t around for Vietnam, but it’s almost becoming like Vietnam 2. […] [9/11] was an attack on America from one guy, and all of a sudden we’re going after someone we haven’t heard about in fucking ten, twelve years. It’s like two people are standing here and one punches you in the face and you don’t do anything back to him—you punch the other guy in the face.