Trivia

• “’97 Bonnie & Clyde” is one of three songs on the album adapted from the Slim Shady EP. The song was originally titled “Just The Two Of Us” and featured a different beat.

Words From Eminem

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Kim and I weren’t really seeing eye to eye and whatnot. See, we weren’t together and she was using my daughter, Hailie, as a weapon against me and she wasn’t lettin’ me see her. I originally wrote the song to get back at her so that she could hear it. […] I even went so far as to use Hailie for the vocal you hear on the record. […] I didn’t write the song thinking that I was gonna get a fuckin’ record deal and that this was a song that was going to be huge, or even talked about. […] Regardless, I think it’s one of my favorite concept songs. […] I put a lot of my personal shit out there. But I don’t care. See, it’s like every time somebody disses me, I’ma talk about them. It’s kind of like if you piss me off, l’ma respond in my songs. Okay, Kim, you’re going to piss me off? Then l’ma make you look stupid in front of all these people.

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When she found out [when Kim heard the song], she fuckin’ exploded, and we broke up again. […] I felt it at the time, so I did it. It’s like anything: you feel it at the time, and you do it. You feel like committing suicide, and you do it.