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3026798, I'm still discovering lyrical nuances to this day.
Posted by Brew, Wed Sep-09-20 12:46 PM
Just the other day I realized this, from "You Should Know":

"I came out of my momma's womb, with a box cutter
Lyrical spitting image, that mirrors the birth of Slim ..."

In that line he's referencing that his "lyrical birth" mirrors the "birth" of Eminem in that they both started their careers together essentially. But the part I didn't pick up on until just now, almost SIX YEARS LATER, is that the first part of that line is also a reference to this lyric from Eminem's "Any Man":

"I slit her stomach open with a scalpel when she was six months
And said 'I'm ready now, bitch! Ain't you feelin' these kicks, cunt?'"

Royce is a fucking monster, man.

This album still goes super, super hard by the way. My favorite of the 2010s.