The Eminem Show is one of the best rap albums ever.

The entire song is about rhyming unrhymable words in a manner so smooth we do not even notice. Verse 1 He spends his first few lines directly saying that we're about to witness a masterpiece. He says this with the primary words, "witness," "purest," "rawest," "flawless," "hardest," "honest," and "artist," all of which are essentially or completely rhymeless. (They have, respectively, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, and 0 rhymes.) The next line has the phrases "chip off," "old block," and "old dock," none of which have any rhymes. The name of the song is "Business," which has zero rhymes, and the theme of the song is Batman and Robin, both of which have zero rhymes. He employs both of these words in the subsequent line, and in the next line employs the words "Saddam" and "Laden," neither of which rhyme with anything. He ends the next line with the rhymeless word "pilot." He ends the line after this with the rhymeless word "hinges," rhymes with "oranges," "syringes," and then transitions to rhyming "inches" (again, none have rhymes). The first line of the hook ends with the rhymeless name of the song, "Business," which he rhymes with "what is this" and "get a witness" (which also has no rhymes). Verse 2 The first line ends with "miracles," which has no rhymes. He promptly rhymes it with "wilikers" and "syllables," neither of which has any rhymes. The next line ends with "Gotham," which has no rhymes, and the next line ends with "criminals," which has no rhymes. He rhymes "rap criminals" with previous "bat syllables." The line after this employs the phrase "skip to your lou" ("your lou" has no rhymes) and ends with the phrase "do best" (no word or word-string rhymes with this). He ends the next line with "do it," then "the shit," then "hated on," obviously no rhymes. He ends the next line with "no such thing," as if saying there's no such thing as a rhyme for it, but then immediately rhymes "no such thing" twice, and then says "so much more"-and rhymes it. Then, as if signing the piece, he finishes with two rhymes of his own name "Marshal," neither of which has any rhyme. Verse 3 Third verse functions the same way. In the first two lines he's found two rhymes for "duo" (one of which is the first two syllables of "you already"), and rhymes "dynamic" with "why panic," and rhymes "fully capable." He then rhymes "duet" 5 times in the space of 2 lines. In the next two lines, he rhymes "get to see an MC" with "these beats and be," while beginning a rhyme-streak with rhymeless "so freely"-as if saying he's still free even with the constraint of using only rhymeless words-and then rhymes it thirty times in eight lines. The whole thing is like how Bach would impose extraordinary constraints on his work and compose within those constraints as if they weren't even there because that's how much of a genius he was. Eminem is the Bach of rap.

This dropped on The Eminem Show, circa 2002.

I was hoping to hear you talk about him rhyming orange!

The eminem show had his best flow i ever heard .....he had a mean flow on this record gat damn

"The most feared duet since me and Elton played career Russian roulette." Stevie Knight slept on that bar heavy. Easily the best line in the song.

Anyone else look forward to Marshall Mondays or just me? Glad it was one of his good songs...

Man do drug ballads if you didn't already. That ending got me every time.

So Stevie does “Business” with the lyrics up and still doesn’t realize that Em is rhyming words that don’t go together... a masterpiece indeed

As much as I love SSLP and MMLP1, this album is straight up gold. Still remember sitting in class with this in my diskman haha. The whole thing just sounds so effortless

"till we grow beards, get weird" he said it himself so long ago and MGK used it 2 years ago xDDD

"Till we grow beards, get weird" I remember a guy who died because of this line😅

His flow on this man.. incredible

The Eminem show is the best. I was 8 when this album came out and my mom and I would be jamming to this while she took me to school, still bump it to this day!!

Banger. This ages so well. Still one of my favorites.

02-03 was my favorite Eminem flows. Rode the beats to perfectly.

Man, this takes me back. I freaking love this song, gets me smiling as soon as I hear the first bars. The whole extended batman scheme is perfect.

The Eminem show is his best album from production to content to his raps and how he was rapping he was in rare form with his pen as he was working on 8 mile at the time too 🔥🔥🔥🔥

You are now listening to a track off of one of Eminem’s diamond certified albums-The Eminem Show. One of the greatest hip hop albums ever made. A classic.

the flow, rhyme scheme and cadence is just untouchable in this song.

This is one of my all time favorite Em songs . I still hit this on play and instantly feel good. Love it. Also glad to see I'm not the only one that notices and appreciates his cadence.

TES is a near perfect album, and IMO his best album. Classic masterpiece.

One of the best hip hop albums in history The Eminem Show

Can we acknowledge how different Eminems sound is. Just listening to the beat/instrumentals is so underrated.

The fact that what he is talking about in this song is still relevant to this day is so scary and freaking good at the same time. #THEEMINEMSHOW WAS FUCKING AMAZING

You should do Baby next... Oh and keep it up you're definitely the best on KZfaq! Got me over here waiting for Mondays...

I’ve literally been waiting about 9 months for this 😂😂

I feel old after hearing this track.. I'm 47 I've been listening to Em for half my life now crazy

Such a good track. One of the greatest rap albums of all time

I love this song. Beat, hook,flow, everything.

Think I commented on about 50 videos asking for this and I knew Stevie would love it. I was proven right 😂

9:41 EMINEM : "till we grow beards, get weird." MBK : "your beard is weird" EMINEM : "......"

I see my man Stevie Knight...I hit like before the video even start. Get on one of these THANGS, Fam!

The Eminem Show imo is the best production of any rapper ever. Especially considering Em solo produced a lot of the best songs on it

Do "one shot, two shot" featuring D12. Not really a bar heavy song but the cadences and flows from everyone on that track flow seamlessly together and just make for a super dope song. Plus the story telling is pretty damn good too.

One of your best breakdowns Stevie! Business is a dope song indeed with great bars, talk yo sh*t fun, insane flows, and all around fire 🔥!

This was when he was still beefing with insane clown posse. Hard to think he wasn't specifically referring to them throughout the song although he may be taking about the game in general.

It’s amazing to see how well this song aged the lyrics are very much still relevant to today

That song slaps if you got a system in your car! The bottom end in the bass track is so solid! Great reaction!

Holy shit, I just realized... Em kept his promise about growing that beard 😂. But yeah, back when I was vibing to this as a kid, I didn't realize how batshit crazy good he really was/is. His flow was so perfectly in sync with the music that I didn't even realize how masterful it all was. It just felt natural. I guess it makes sense why everyone was rockin with it. Anyway, thanks man. Great content!

I feel like people don't appreciate how good his rhyming is, especially in this song

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One of my favorite tracks off of my favorite Em album, you love to see it

*This is 2-year-old Stevie night we need a refresh course on this track he knows more Eminem backstory it & he would pick up way more*

Eminem "baby" next. I've been recommending this for so long

We need a "when the music stops" reaction 🤞🏼🎧🎶

eminem show was a fucking masterpiece

As soon as the song ended I could hear cleaning out my closet in my head… Done heard TES so many times, holy album

I remember back then everybody use to say you can’t rhyme any word with “orange” and then Em drops this on us rhyming like 3 different words with it 😂😂🐐

BEAT IS FIRE! TES IS A CLASSIC!

This really is for me, one of the best hook ever

I fking love your reactions, you understand the whole fking meaning everytime and you react like you should in some verses and you open up my mind to alot of them aswell and helps me understand.

He's actually talking about himself when he says "You ain't even impressed no more, you're used to it." Referencing when his first two albums dropped and then 8 mile came after it, everybody was surprised by how well he rapped being white and all that. So by the time his third album "The Eminem Show" came out, even tho he's getting even better at rapping, "everybodys" used to how good he is, and aren't as impressed at this point. It had become a regular thing.

Stevie my mahn! Greetings from South Africa. You are my favorite reactor. Please do Eminem right for me. Bars,flow,wordplay everything. Just a brilliant song.

This came out when I was 12 and it was the first album to have all the lyrics written on the inside cover of the CD, I know this whole album word for word thanks to that haha

one of my all time favorites from Eminem!

WHAT'S UP STEVIE KNIGHT ,.. LOVE THE REACTIONS!! REACT TO EMINEM "LOVE YOU MORE"

Yo Stevie you missed two doubles: 1. Em is referring to himself as the Batman (DRE being Robin) and he says that "it must be circus in town, lets shut this shit down on these clowns" which makes you think about Batmans biggest enemy - the Joker. Which means he thinks of all whack rappers (Ja rule, Benzino and others) as his archenemies and they have to go down. 2. As it was 2002 and Twin Towers happened already he gives 9.11 reference - first he talks about Saddam having his Laden and point out at the end of this scheme that hip-hop is in the state of 911. Of course it means that hip-hop is in poor condition and it needs an ambulance but it is a double - he thinks that hip-hop is a much bigger mess comparable to 9.11 Hope you read it 😉

I love the speed of his rap on this song. it goes well with the flow.

Check this out too: Dodgers won 4-2 Jackie Robinson's number is 42. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Chadwick Bowesman played both Black Panther and Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was part of the 761st Tank Battalion Black Panthers in WW2. 135 is the prime number of 761. Dodgers playoff record was 13-5 Dodgers away record in Arlington's Stadium was 13-5 From October 27 to April 15(which was Jackie Robinson Day this year) is a span of 135 days. Chadwick Bowesman died on Jackie Robinson Day August 28(original date) On October 27 1972 was the day of Jackie Robinson's Funeral. Dodgers won the World Series on the anniversary of Jackie Robinson's Funeral. Also October 27 was the National Black Cat Day(like Black Panther) And the starting pitcher for the Dodgers, Tony Gosolin's nickname is Catman. The pitcher that through the winning pitch wears #7. Dodgers won their 7th World Series.

My first exposure to Eminem was when I first saw him performed "Forgot About Dre" with Dr. Dre on MTV awards show 1999 and am a fan ever since, if you haven't heard or react to it, check it out man

gotta get some D12 songs to react to, Eminem's got some sick verses on those

MGK showed how much of a Stan he is when he referenced this record by calling Eminem's beard "weird".

This beat and everything what Eminem is saying is so PERFECT‼️‼️‼️👌😄

Everyone says MMLP is his best album i say THE EMINEM SHOW is his best album.

Easily the best reactor on KZfaq! Im from the uk so don’t always hear the full bars because of the accents and American events they talk about, break downs are to perfection, im also a stan so catch most of Eminem bars tho! 😉 also this song was released in 2002.... big love from Manchester

Ah now you know why this song is probably my favorite Eminem song and one of my favorite rap song ever in general.

I’m still in disbelief how some completely missed this album, I was in 4th grade when it dropped and I knew it word for word, bumpin it with my CD 💿 player(Walkman)....... guess I’ve just always been a stan 💯

He was talking about Insane Clown Posse as he was beefing with them at the time as as he is batman and going to save the rap game from the clown (the Joker)

I'm not going to lie, I was wondering where my Marshall Monday was!

This song is probably more revalent now than it's ever been!!

This song is a BANGER CHARLAGMANE

As much as I believe em destroyed MGK, MGK gets loads of grief for the “beard is weird” line but I definitely think he was referring to his comment And how Em grew a beard and disappeared in real life for ages

SO MGK wasnt the first to say the beard is weird.... "till we grow beards, get weird, and disappear in the mountains"

The cadence to this song is something else!

Daaaayum I’m today years as many fan never caught Em 3x rhyme line 🔥🔥🔥🔥

2002 Eminen - " Till we grow beards get weird" 2018 MGK - "Your beards weird" 🤣🤣

I think this was a diss to ICP if I remember correctly, hence the chorus

We used to freestyle battle with my friends using this beat back in the days, fire🔥 RESPECT FROM FINLAND . EM GOAT, like it or not.

Please do Heat of Revival, such an underrated song and has bars for days

Does anyone know if Stevie has heard "Beautiful" yet?

You should react to "GATman And Robbin" by 50 Cent and Eminem

The flow in this song is fucking crazy

Eminem - Music Box Eminem - Deja Vu Crazy ass rhymes schemes and storytelling

3:20 I can't believe you missed he rhymed "orange" several times

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This is one of my favorite Eminem songs ever

One of my favorite beats ever

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9:59 "grow beards, get weird" maybe that's where MGK got his "Beard is weird" thing from

NGL I'm really thinking of checking out the Patreon just to see that reaction to Above the Law from the intro.

You know your good when you are making a song about how good you are and no one questions it years after the fact !

My favorit Em track of all time!!!!

That was way back in 02 the times of classic rap albums. That was like his third album if I am not mistaken that was my shit.

The Eminem show, was Eminem’s greatest album

Simply put... just a great Song!

i remember when this cd came out, may 2002, the year after 9/11. Whole cd is fire, i went on a camping trip that weekend and i couldnt get wait to get back and listen to this on repeat.

One of my favorites EM songs right there!

Dawg your whole mood changed after listening to this song, at the end you were pumping and dancing haha i’m glad you enjoyed it

The Em show, the em show, the em show!!! His best album, I’ve been telling people. Keep it going.