Trivia

• This parody of 2Pac’s “Hail Mary” sees Eminem, 50 Cent, and Busta Rhymes go after Ja Rule in retaliation for his diss track “Loose Change.”
• As with other diss tracks from the mixtape, the rappers mock Ja Rule’s wannabe 2Pac persona.
• The song was sent to radio in May 2003, peaking at No. 18 on the Billboard US Hot Rap Songs chart.
• The track marks the second time Eminem released a diss track in the form of a 2Pac parody. The first was “Hit ’Em Up,” a diss track that leaked in 2000 and was later included on the Shady Classics Mixtape in 2014.

Words from DJ Green Lantern

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The first tour — which was the Anger Management Tour — that I was on with Em… I’m a mixtape DJ, I’m trying to get the guy that I now DJ for to rap for my tape, so every now and then you’ll be like, “What does he like? Maybe he wants to rap on that.” He’s a big 2Pac fan, so one day on the tour bus I was like, “Yo, you ever think about rappin’ on some 2Pac beats? […] Maybe this,” and I had the instrumental to “Hail Mary,” and he goes, “Oooh.” And six, seven months later he goes, “Yo, remember that ‘Hail Mary’ thing? I think I got something.” I was like, “Whoa, what is this?” because that was obviously a sign of the times — what they were in, the situation with this one, and them, and them — so it became something more than just me wanting him to rap on “Hail Mary.”