Trivia

• In Eminem’s autobiography The Way I Am, he comments on a photograph of the handwritten lyrics of his verse from this song, saying he never used them — forgetting that he in fact did.

Words from Eminem

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I was paying homage to old-school hip-hop. “The Message” [by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five] was one of the first songs I heard when I was getting into rap.