Trivia

• The song’s title references Amityville, New York — a town best known for the 1974 DeFeo family murders and the alleged haunting that inspired Jay Anson’s The Amityville Horror — although, in the song, “Amityville” refers to Detroit.

Words from Eminem

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I wanted to make a song about Detroit, and “Amityville” was a new name I came up with for Detroit. […] The beat was kinda slow. So I decided to put Bizzare of D12 on the song, ’cause he sounds good over this tempo. My first verse and Bizzare’s verse weren’t really dealing with the theme at hand. I said, “Yo, we need to talk about Detroit.” So on the last verse, I kinda summed everything up. The label was actually buggin’ off of Bizzare’s verse. So I knew we did it right.