Trivia

• The song’s clean version was recorded in March 1999, after the release of The Slim Shady LP, and was officially announced as a potential follow-up single to “My Name Is.” By late April, those plans were scrapped, and the song instead replaced “Bad Influence” on the MTV Celebrity Deathmatch soundtrack on November 2, 1999. In honor of its inclusion, a claymation music video was reportedly in development, but it ultimately went unreleased.

Words From Eminem

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[Jeff Bass] started singing, “I never meant to give you mushrooms, girl, I never…” And I just finished the hook off. It was really late at night, so we just came back and knocked it out the next day. We made the track first and then I took it home and wrote to it. [It’s] actually sort of a story about one of my friends who had a bad acid trip. But it was a dude, though … So I thought, “What if I wrote it about a girl who’s fucked up having a bad mushroom trip?” It was actually going to be a single. I had done a clean version of it, and put it on the Celebrity Death Match soundtrack. Interscope didn’t want to release it as a single, though, ’cause if I came with that after “My Name Is” instead of “Guilty Conscience,” I would’ve looked like a fuckin’ bubblegum artist. Two goofy songs right back-to-back. That probably would’ve fucked me up till this day.

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The first drum pattern I ever made was to [“My Fault.”] I already had the melody in my head from the night before. I didn’t know how to work the metronome, but if you put the click on for me, I knew how to make a drum pattern. Then I was like, “Yo, I know how to do this!” After that, I did the drum pattern to “Still Don’t Give A Fuck”.