Background
The song is considered to be a response to disses made by Death Row artists on Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000, a compilation released by Suge Knight which takes its title from Dre's 1992 album The Chronic. The song samples "The Climb" by No Doubt. The line "Who you think brought you the od's(old dirty bastard), Eazy-Es, Ice Cubes, and The D.O.C.s, the Snoop D-O-double-Gs, and the group that said 'Motherfuck the police'?" outlines Dre's importance in the rap world, the theme of the song. Eminem's verse features the bizarre violence and aggression typical of his "Slim Shady" alter ego. In the music video, a few explicit lines in Eminem's verse are replaced with a skit in which Eminem is answering reporter Jane Yamamoto's questions about a fire he and Dre had started. This video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video in 2000. The track was performed at the 2012 Coachella festival, with the instrumental altered to a more techno sounding style during Dre's first verse.
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