Samples and Interpolations
Dreaming About You - The Blackbyrds
Drum Sample
Trivia
- “Drug Ballad” is the second “” on an Eminem album to feature singer , following “Cum On Everybody” from The Slim Shady LP.
- The song was played on American radio in March 2001 and peaked at No. 71 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Words from Eminem
“This song is just another one of those tracks that we did one day just fucking around. I wrote the rhyme in about twenty minutes. All three verses. […] I hummed Jeff the bass line. I wanted to touch on how last year I was always fucked up. Life was like a big party for me. It was the first year that I blew up, and I did a lot of celebrating.