I searched the forum and couldn't find this posted anywhere, but it's probably lurking in the archives somewhere, so if it is lock it.
This is why I love Em's music, if he meant it
Put on “Remember Me.” A little under three minutes into the track, Slim spits some bars about getting the critics off his back:
I’m try'na clean up my fuckin' image
So I promised the fuckin' critics
I wouldn’t say “fuckin'” for six minutes
Just typical Slim Shady critic baiting right? Like Eminem could ever go six minutes without dropping an F-bomb. Well, while it’s true that he can’t go without the word “fuck” (he says it in this same verse mere seconds later), incredibly, if you take this promise as avoiding the construction “fucking”, Slim Shady actually makes good on his promise!
These lines come in with about 50 seconds left of “Remember Me”. Slim manages to then avoid the word “fucking” for the entirety of the next track, “I’m Back”, which lasts, get this, five minutes and ten seconds, meaning that from the “six minutes” lines in “Remember Me” to the end of the next song, Slim has indeed gone six minutes without saying the word “fucking.”
The promise fulfilled, Slim is allowed to say it with impunity on the next track, “Marshall Mathers”, which he does early on in the first verse.
Fucking trippy, right? This kind of insane, brilliant detail from the guy who spat that bullshit line about window pane/pain?
Of course, this whole game is in homage to one of the classic lines in all hip-hop, from Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh (Eminem, like James Joyce, is an allusive trove of madness..)
http://rapgenius.com/posts/Six-minutes- ... -you-re-on