Trivia

• “Good Guy” serves as a loose sequel to the album’s previous track, “Nice Guy.”
• The song marks the first time an artist has been featured on two consecutive songs on an Eminem album.

Words from Eminem

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I got home one night from a video shoot. [Jessie Reyez] was on TV — it was the Seth Meyers show. She was doing that song “Gatekeeper,” and I was like, “Who the fuck is this?” ’Cause her voice to me was so crazy. So I rewound it. I was like, “Oh shit, I gotta check her out,” so I went down the wormhole of looking up shit, and I was like, “Oh, I really want to fuck with this chick” ’cause, in my personal opinion, I think she’s gonna really blow up. […] The first time I got in a studio with her, I played her a couple beats and she just started writing to one right there. Laid a hook — “Good Guy.” There’s “Nice Guy” [and] “Good Guy” — the reason that happened is because, oddly enough, she already had a song called “Nice Guy.” She had that song. I came back home and wrote to that one, and then I was like, “I wanna write to the other one too, but they’re both saying ‘Nice Guy,’ ‘Good Guy,’” then I was like, fuck it — I’ll make it as kind of one song.