I'm Back (Eminem Song)

    "I'm Back" is a song by American rapper Eminem on his third studio album The Marshall Mathers LP. A little-known fact is that "I'm Back" is the fourth single on The Marshall Mathers LP. The song is essentially about Eminem being back from his second studio album, The Slim Shady LP. In the song, he uses his alter ego "Slim Shady".

  There was controversy surrounding the lyrics of "I'm Back"because Eminem referenced the Columbine High School Massacre, which only occured a year before The Marshall Mathers LP was released. He raps:

     "I take seven kids from Columbine, stand 'em all in line
      Add an AK-47, a revolver, a .9
      A MAC-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine
      And that's a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time (Ahh-! Ahh-ahh-!)"

    It is interesting to note that the Columbine shooters did not use the guns mentioned, instead using a TEC-9, two shotguns and a carbine. Eminem used the alternative guns to better fit his rhyme scheme. He later referenced this line as well as the backlash it received on "Rap God", from The Marshall Mathers LP2. Even in the explicit version of the album, the words "Kids" and "Columbine" were censored. In his autobiography "Angry Blonde", he said:

    "I was getting shit about the Columbine reference on “I’m Back” and the label was 
    telling me that I wasn’t gonna be able to say it. My whole thing was, what is the big 
    fucking deal? That shit happens all the time. Why is that topic so touchy as opposed 
    to, say a four-year-old kid drowning? Why isn’t that considered a huge tragedy? People 
    die in the city all the time. People get shot, people get stabbed, raped, mugged, 
    killed and all kinds of shit. What the fuck is the big deal with Columbine that makes 
    it separate from any other tragedy in America?"
    
    Though "I'm Back" was not a very famous nor successful single in the United States, it peaked at #55 in Belgium.

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