Trivia

• “Guilty Conscience” was released as the album’s second main single and became a major hit in the UK, charting at No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 1 on the UK Hip-Hop/R&B Chart.
• An alternate version, featuring an added chorus and cleaner lyrics, was released for the song’s single and music video. Some singles also included the explicit album version with the added chorus.
• In an interview with NME, Eminem stated that the song was inspired by a scene from the 1978 film National Lampoon’s Animal House, in which a girl passes out and a guy — urged on by a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other — has to decide whether to still have sex with her.
• In 2019, the heavily edited “Radio Version,” featuring censored choruses, was included on The Slim Shady LP (Expanded Edition).
• In the music video, the narrator is portrayed by actor Robert Culp, replacing Mark Avery.
• In 2024, Eminem released “Guilty Conscience 2,” a standalone sequel to the song, on his twelfth studio album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce).

Words from Eminem

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Dre and I were in the gym one day, and we was talkin’ about song concepts and shit. Dre said that we should do a song together called “Night ’n’ Day,” where everything he was sayin’, I was sayin’ the complete opposite. So I thought about it, went home that same night, and wrote it. I came back a couple of days later and told him I had the song, so he booked our studio time. The ill shit is, he did the beat the same day, so we recorded the song right then.

I laid down some “dummy vocals” while Dre learned his parts and we cranked it out a week later. We actually did the skit part first. We hired an announcer from a talent agency to come in and do the part … We left a time length of eight bars for each skit. The announcer came in, did his thing, and we put the sound effects up underneath. We told him his parts and what he had to say, and we made the skit around what he said. Cool, huh?