Trivia

• “Bad Influence” was recorded during the sessions for The Marshall Mathers LP.
• The song was issued as a split promotional single with Limp Bizkit’s “Crushed”.
• The song reuses the verse from “Hazardous Youth” as its second verse.

Words from Eminem

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The hook to “Bad Influence” wasn’t originally a hook, but part of an ill rhyme that I had written. […] I wrote a song two years ago that I wanted to record with the rhyme “People say that I’m a bad influence.” I just wrote the rhyme but never really practiced it. I was gonna practice saying it in my head, but the day after I wrote it, I had lost the sheet of paper that I had written the shit on. […] The only things I could remember from that song were “People say that I’m a bad influence / I say the world’s already fucked, I’m just addin’ to it” and “They say I’m suicidal.” Since those were the only lines I could recall, I used them as a hook.

[It] was one of the few tracks that F.B.T. ever did without me being there. […] I recorded it right after the “Kim” song. I was gonna use it for [The Marshall Mathers LP] and then for the Celebrity Deathmatch soundtrack.