Trivia

• Eminem later revisited similar experiences with bullies in the darker-toned song “Brainless,” from his eighth studio album The Marshall Mathers LP 2.

Words from Eminem

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“Brain Damage” was actually a song that I wrote in between The Slim Shady EP and the LP. I wrote it while I was chillin’ in this little duplex that Kim was stayin’ in right before I went to Cali. I wrote the first verse there and wrote the hook, but I was going to throw the song out. I started throwing a lot of my songs away when we didn’t get a record deal. Then, when we got the deal, I was going over the first verse and the hook like “This shit is crazy. You know what? Let me finish this.” I finished the second verse out in Cali in the little apartment the label put me up in when I got my deal. I originally wrote it to a scrap beat. Until a few days later, when I just started thinkin’ of the bass line in my head and the way that it should go. Then we did the version you hear on the album. It’s only two verses, one of regular length and the other a fuckin’ long-ass verse.