Bad Influence
Eminem Lyrics


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(Just pull the plug)
People say that I'm a bad influence
I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol (c'mon)
C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it
(Just pull the plug)
People say that I'm a bad influence
I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol (c'mon)
C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it (just let it go)

Hand me an eighth, beam me up and land me in space
I'ma sit on top of the world, and shit on Brandy and Mase
I'm more than ill, scarier than a white journalist
In a room with Lauryn Hill human horror film
But with a lot funnier plot and people'll feel me
'Cause I'ma still be The Mad Rapper whether I got money or not
As long as I'm on pills and I got plenty of pot
I'll be in a canoe paddling, making fun of your yacht
But I would like an award for the best rapper to get
One mic in The Source and a wardrobe I can afford
Otherwise I might just end up back strikin' at Ford
And you wonder what the fuck I need more Vicodin for?
Everybody's pissin' me off, even the No Limit Tank
Looks like a middle finger sideways flippin' me off
No shit, I'm a grave danger to my health
Why else would I kill you then jump in a grave and bury myself?

(Just pull the plug)
People say that I'm a bad influence
I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol (c'mon)
C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it
(Just let it go)
People say that I'm a bad influence
I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol (c'mon)
C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it (just do it)

I'm the illest rapper to hold the cordless, patrollin' corners
Lookin' for hookers to punch in the mouth with a roll of quarters
I'm meaner in action than Roscoe beatin' James Todd Senior
Across the back with vacuum cleaner attachments
I grew up in a wild hood as a hazardous youth
With a fucked up childhood that I used as an excuse
And ain't shit changed, I kept the same mindstate
Since the third time that I failed ninth grade
You probably think that I'm a negative person, don't be so sure of it
I don't promote violence, I just encourage it
I laugh at the sight of death, as I fall down a cement flight of steps
And land inside a bed of spider webs
So throw caution to the wind, you and a friend
Can jump off of a bridge, and if you live, do it again
Shit, why not? Blow your brain out, I'm blowin' mine out
Fuck it, you only live once, you might as well die now

(Just let it go)
People say that I'm a bad influence
I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol (c'mon)
C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it
(Just pull the plug)
People say that I'm a bad influence
I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol (c'mon)
C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it (just do it)

My laser disc'll make you take a razor to your wrist
Make you Satanistic, make you take the pistol to your face
And place the clip and cock it back
And let it go until your brains are rippin' out your skull
So bad to sew you back would be a waste of stitches
I'm not a role model, I don't wanna babysit kids
I got one little girl, and Hailie Jade is Shady's business
And Shady's just an alias I made to make you pissed off
Where the fuck were you when Gilbert's paid to make me dishwash?
I make a couple statements and now look how crazy shit got
You made me get a bigger attitude than eighty Kim Scotts
And she almost got the same fate that Grady's bitch got
I knew that "Just the Two of Us" would make you hate me this much
And "Just the Two of Us," that ain't got shit to do with us
And our personal life, it's just words on a mic
So you can call me a punk, a pervert or a chauvinist pig
But the funny shit is that I still go with the bitch

(Just pull the plug)
People say that I'm a bad influence
I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol (c'mon)
C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it
(Just let it go)
People say that I'm a bad influence
I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol




C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it
(Just do it)

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Eminem’s song “Bad Influence” depicts a nihilistic worldview where he rebels against societal norms and invites his listeners to join him in his recklessness. Eminem acknowledges people’s claims of him being a bad influence and instead of denying them, he chooses to embrace them. Eminem rationalizes his addiction to drugs by stating that the world is already messed up, and he is just adding to it. He goes on to claim that he is teenagers’ newest idol and encourages them to do as he does. Eminem also brags about his rhyming skills and alleges that he is scarier than a white journalist, and with much funnier plots.


Eminem’s negative attitude towards life and his message of self-destruction has caused controversies, and many have expressed concerns about the influence his music may have on his young audience. The song is a reflection of the nihilistic and angry character Eminem portrayed in his early career. The lyrics are graphic and descriptive, and they promote violent behavior, drug abuse, and suicide. Although Eminem has stated in interviews that some of his songs are humorous or satirical, the message this song conveys is not one to take likely as it can negatively impact individuals with mental health issues.


Line by Line Meaning

(Just pull the plug)
I am frequently accused of being a bad influence on people


People say that I'm a bad influence
I am frequently accused of being a bad influence on people


I say the world's already fucked, I'm just addin' to it
I believe the world is already messed up beyond repair, and I'm just contributing to it


They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol (c'mon)
People call me suicidal, but teenagers are still attracted to me as their role model


C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it
Just follow my lead and do whatever you want, even if it makes you angry


Hand me an eighth, beam me up and land me in space
Give me some weed, take me to space, and let me sit on top of the world


I'ma sit on top of the world, and shit on Brandy and Mase
I will be on top of the world and disrespect other famous people like Brandy and Mase


I'm more than ill, scarier than a white journalist
I am more than just sick; in fact, I'm so terrifying that I'm scarier than a white journalist


In a room with Lauryn Hill human horror film
If I and Lauryn Hill were locked in a room together, it would be a horror movie


But with a lot funnier plot and people'll feel me
The horror movie would be funny, and people would still like me


'Cause I'ma still be The Mad Rapper whether I got money or not
Whether or not I have money, I will still be the crazy rapper


As long as I'm on pills and I got plenty of pot
As long as I have drugs like pills and weed, I'll stick to my crazy behavior


I'll be in a canoe paddling, making fun of your yacht
I'll still find a way to make fun of you, even if I'm in a canoe while you're on a fancy yacht


But I would like an award for the best rapper to get
I still want to receive recognition and awards for being the best rapper


One mic in The Source and a wardrobe I can afford
Just give me one microphone and a wardrobe I can afford, and I'll be happy


Otherwise I might just end up back strikin' at Ford
If I don't receive recognition, I might end up working at Ford again


And you wonder what the fuck I need more Vicodin for?
You might be wondering why I need more Vicodin to cope with everything


Everybody's pissin' me off, even the No Limit Tank
Everyone is irritating me, even the No Limit Tank


Looks like a middle finger sideways flippin' me off
Even the No Limit Tank looks like it's flipping me off


No shit, I'm a grave danger to my health
I am severely damaging my own health


Why else would I kill you then jump in a grave and bury myself?
The way I'm living my life is like slowly killing myself, even while I harm others


I'm the illest rapper to hold the cordless, patrollin' corners
I'm an amazing rapper, and I wander around corners without a corded phone


Lookin' for hookers to punch in the mouth with a roll of quarters
I'm looking for sex workers to beat up with a roll of quarters


I'm meaner in action than Roscoe beatin' James Todd Senior
I'm even more violent than Roscoe, who viciously attacked James Todd Senior


Across the back with vacuum cleaner attachments
I'm so violent that I even use vacuum cleaner attachments as weapons


I grew up in a wild hood as a hazardous youth
I came from a rough neighborhood and had a dangerous upbringing


With a fucked up childhood that I used as an excuse
I blame my messed-up childhood for my current behavior


And ain't shit changed, I kept the same mindstate
I'm still the same despite growing up; my mentality hasn't changed


Since the third time that I failed ninth grade
I've been this way since I failed ninth grade for the third time


You probably think that I'm a negative person, don't be so sure of it
You might think that I'm a pessimistic person, but don't be so confident about it


I don't promote violence, I just encourage it
I don't actively urge people to be violent, but I don't discourage it either


I laugh at the sight of death, as I fall down a cement flight of steps
I find death amusing, even while I'm in danger myself


And land inside a bed of spider webs
I end up falling into a bed of spider webs


So throw caution to the wind, you and a friend
So let go of any worries and do something reckless with a friend


Can jump off of a bridge, and if you live, do it again
Jump off a bridge and if you don't die, do it again


Shit, why not? Blow your brain out, I'm blowin' mine out
Why not? Let's shoot ourselves in the head. I'm already doing it myself


Fuck it, you only live once, you might as well die now
Life is short, so we might as well die now and get it over with


My laser disc'll make you take a razor to your wrist
My music is so depressing that it might make you self-harm


Make you Satanistic, make you take the pistol to your face
My music might turn you into a Satan worshipper or even make you commit suicide


And place the clip and cock it back
Load the gun and prepare to shoot


And let it go until your brains are rippin' out your skull
Shoot yourself in the head until your brains explode out of your skull


So bad to sew you back would be a waste of stitches
Trying to sew your head back together would be pointless because you're so dead


I'm not a role model, I don't wanna babysit kids
I don't want to be seen as a role model, and I don't want to be responsible for children


I got one little girl, and Hailie Jade is Shady's business
I have one daughter, and her name is Hailie Jade, which is also my stage name


And Shady's just an alias I made to make you pissed off
Shady is just a stage name I created to provoke a reaction from people


Where the fuck were you when Gilbert's paid to make me dishwash?
Where were you when I was washed dishes for my job because I had no other options?


I make a couple statements and now look how crazy shit got
I said a few things and now look at how insane everything has become


You made me get a bigger attitude than eighty Kim Scotts
You all made me develop an even bigger ego than Kim Scott, my ex-wife


And she almost got the same fate that Grady's bitch got
My ex-wife almost ended up with the same consequences as Grady's wife in my song


I knew that "Just the Two of Us" would make you hate me this much
I knew that my song "Just the Two of Us" would make you all hate me even more


And "Just the Two of Us," that ain't got shit to do with us
The song "Just the Two of Us" has nothing to do with our personal lives


And our personal life, it's just words on a mic
Our personal lives are just words I put onto a microphone for my music


So you can call me a punk, a pervert or a chauvinist pig
You can insult me by calling me any of those names


But the funny shit is that I still go with the bitch
But the funny thing is that I am still with the woman people insult me for


(Just let it go)


C'mon, do as I do, go ahead, get mad and do it (just do it)
Just follow my example and do whatever you want, even if it makes you angry


They say I'm suicidal, teenagers' newest idol
People call me suicidal, but teenagers still see me as their role model


(Just do it)




Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Jeffrey Irwin Bass, Mark Randy Bass, Marshall B Mathers

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Honour


on The Real Slim Shady

May I have your attention, please?
May I have your attention, please?
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
We're gonna have a problem here

Y'all act like you never seen a white person before
Jaws all on the floor like Pam like Tommy just burst in the door
And started whoopin' her ass worse than before
They first were divorced, throwing' her over furniture (ah)
It's the return of the "ah, wait, no way, you're kidding
He didn't just say what I think he did, did he?"
And Dr. Dre said, nothing, you idiots
Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement (ha ha)
Feminist women love Eminem
"Chicka, chicka, chicka, Slim Shady, I'm sick of him
Look at him, walkin' around, grabbing' his you-know-what
Flippin' the you-know-who"
"Yeah, but he's so cute though"
Yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
But no worse than what s going' on in your parents' bedrooms
Sometimes I wanna get on TV and just let loose
But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose
"My bum is on your lips, my bum is on your lips"
And if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss
And that's the message that we deliver to little kids
And expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is
Of course they're gonna know what intercourse is
By the time they hit fourth grade
They've got the Discovery Channel, don't they?
We ain't nothin' but mammals, well, some of us, cannibals
Who cut other people open like cantaloupes
But if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
Then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope
But if you feel like I feel, I got the antidote
Women, wave your pantyhose, sing the chorus, and it goes

I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?
'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?

Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records
Well, I do, so fuck him and fuck you too
You think I give a damn about a Grammy?
Half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me
"But Slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird?"
Why, so you guys could just lie to get me here?
So you can sit me here next to Britney Spears?
Shit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs
So I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst
And hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first
Little bitch put me on blast on MTV
"Yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee-hee"
I should download her audio on MP3
And show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD (ah)
I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups
All you do is annoy me, so I have been sent here to destroy you
And there's a million of us just like me
Who cuss like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
Who dress like me, walk, talk and act like me
And just might be the next best thing, but not quite me

'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?
'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?

I'm like a headtrip to listen to, 'cause I'm only giving' you
Things you joke about with your friends inside your living' room
The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all
And I don't gotta be false or sugarcoat it at all
I just get on the mic and spit it
And whether you like to admit it, I just shit it
Better than ninety percent of you rappers out can
Then you wonder, "how can
Kids eat up these albums like Valiums?"
It's funny, 'cause at the rate I'm going, when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person in the nursing home flirting
Pinching nurses asses when I'm jacking off with Jergens
And I'm jerking, but this whole bag of Viagra isn't working
And every single person is a Slim Shady lurking
He could be working at Burger King, spitting' on your onion rings
Or in the parking lot, circling, screaming, "I don't give a fuck"
With his windows down and his system up
So will the real Shady please stand up
And put one of those fingers on each hand up?
And be proud to be outta your mind and outta control
And one more time, loud as you can, how does it go?

I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?
'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?
'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?
'Cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Slim Shady please stand up
Please stand up, please stand up?

Ha ha, I guess there's a Slim Shady in all of us
Fuck it, let's all stand up

Noah


on Remember Me?

Remember me? S executions
Remember me? I have no remorse
Remember me? I'm high-powered
Remember me? I drop bombs like Hiroshima

For this one, they scream "X, you retarded?!"
'Cause I grab the mic and get down like syndrome
Hide and roam into the masses
Without boundaries, which qualifies me
For the term "universal" without no rehearsal
I leak words that's controversial
Like I'm not the one you wanna contest, see
'Cause I'll hit your ass like the train did that bitch
That got banned from TV, heavyweight getup
Hit you, watch your whole head split up
Loco is the motion, we comin' through
Hollow-tips is the lead the .45 threw

Remember me? Throw your guns in the air
Remember me? Slam, slam
Remember me? Nigga, back the fuck up
Remember me? Chka-chka-Onyx

Niggas that take no for an answer get told no
Yeah, I been told no, but it was more like "No! No! No!"
Life a bitch, met her, fuck you if you let her
Better come better than better to be a competitor
This vet is ahead of the shit, it's all redder, you deader and deader
A medic instead of the cheddars and credda
Settle vendetta with metal Beretta from ghetto to ghetto
Evidence, nope, never leave a shred of
I got the soul of every rapper in me, love me or hate me
My moms got raped by the industry and made me
I'm the illest nigga ever, I told you
I get more pussy than them dyke bitches Total
Want beef, nigga? Pfft, you better dead that shit
My name should be Can't-Believe-That-Nigga-Said-That-Shit
Probably sayin' he ain't a killer, but I'm killin' myself
Smoke death, fuck bitches raw on the kitchen floor
So think what I'ma do to you, have done to you
Got niggas in my hood who'd do that shit for a blunt or two
What you wanna do? Cocksuckers, we Glock busters
'Til the cops cuff us, gon' start ruckus and drop blockbusters
Round the clock hustlers, you cannot touch us
I'm gettin' wires, niggas wantin' me dead
Wantin' my head, you think it could be somethin' I said?

Remember me? I just don't give a fuck
Remember me? Yeah, fuck you too
Remember me? I'm low down and I'm shifty
Remember me? I'm Shady

When I go out, I'ma go out shootin'
I don't mean when I die, I mean when I go out to the club, stupid
I'm tryin' to clean up my fuckin' image
So I promised the fuckin' critics
I wouldn't say "fuckin'" for six minutes
(Six minutes, Slim Shady, you're on)
My baby's mom, bitch made me an angry blonde
So I made me a song, killed her and put Hailie on
I may be wrong, I keep thinkin' these crazy thoughts
In my cranium, but I'm stuck with a crazy mom
(Is she really on as much dope as you say she's on?)
Came home and somebody must've broke in the back window
And stole two loaded machine guns and both of my trench coats
Six sick dreams of picnic scenes
Two kids, sixteen, with M-16s and ten clips each
And them shits reach through six kids each
And Slim gets blamed in Bill Clint's speech to fix these streets?!
Fuck that! Pfft, you faggots can vanish to volcanic ash
And reappear in hell with a can of gas and a match
Aftermath, Dre, grab the gat, show 'em where it's at
(What the fuck you starin' at, nigga?)

Don't you remember me?
Remember me?
Remember me?
Remember me? (Slim Shady!)

28Rivals


on Lose Yourself

@elchihuahua420 Damn bro, stay strong "You only get one shot don't miss your chance to blow." Don't let them bring you down in life and keep pushing

Noah


on Till ICollapse

Not Afraid

hope


on The Real Slim Shady

hi

eminem


on Crazy In Love

great song

serenity noble


on Lose Yourself

awesome

serenity noble


on The Real Slim Shady

awesome

serenity noble


on Lose Yourself

i love it
#eminemfan

Mind Space Apocalypse


on ShadyXV

Greatest of all time

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