Words from Eminem

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I had actually meant it to be an uplifting song, but when we were sitting around making the track, Head had a sample that we played over the beat and it was so sad. I said fuck it, let’s go with this one. Not surprisingly I wrote it while I was going through a fucked-up time. The night I recorded the song, I had taken a bunch of pills, thrown up, and was just real fucking depressed. So I took a bunch of codeine tablets. Problem was, I took too many of them shits and got real sick. When I wrote the song, it was right before the Rap Olympics happened. It was during the week when I had gotten evicted from my house. […] It was a real fucked period in my life, and I felt like I had hit rock bottom.