Probably the first controversial song he released.a lot of people pointed to this song as advocating violence, not seeing it for the concept/message it had. Guilty Conscience is quite an infamous song in Eminem's catalog. It really accommodates Eminem's nasally, high-pitched Shady voice. The beat has that melody that you instantly nod your head to, yet a dark tinge to it. Eminem recorded a chorus that went with the melody of the beat ("these voices.these voices") for the video and I'm disappointed he didn't put that in the studio version.I guess it takes away from the uniqueness of this song having no chorus, just spoken interludes (from Jeff Bass presumably).
Eminem also wrote Dre's verses in this song. Dre produced all of these tracks and Eminem wrote to them. He did this song, My Name Is, and Role Model. This is one of the songs Eminem recorded with Dre on the day they met, and the first time he recorded with Dre in the studio. Whenever people face a moral dilemma, Shady always seems to win, and Dre caves in. I recall Eminem saying in the same radio interview (might have been Howard Stern) that that is the reality of most Americans' behavior: sure, people get a guilty conscience but it's always overpowered by the evil thoughts that manifest in their head. At the end of this song, the bad side Slim Shady manages to convince the good side Dre to do the bad thing, so Grady kills his girl. It's got a point, which is that the bad side always wins in the end. Part of what makes this song great is it's more than just an angel-devil song. I remember an Eminem radio interview where he said he made this song a single to show the world he's a serious rapper and he can write concept songs.he's not just a novelty act who makes songs like "My Name Is." And it's a classic Dre/Em back-'n'-forth. Eminem just decided to make a rap version of it. The album is pretty grungy in places tooc - Rock Bottom and If I Had bearing the most pronounced influence.Okay, so we've all seen this concept in movies.the angel on one shoulder, the devil on the other. Throughout the album, he namedrops Cobain, the Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, and Vanilla Ice (directing adressing the unflattering comparisons he knew he would face). Whether Eminem is also left-handed is a question I can't answer. Of course, he comes from the same state as two of those acts. Eminem himself confesses a debt to rock bands that he listened to while growing up - Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Nirvana are three he specifically names. 'Hey kids.do you like Primus?' This almost constitutes a theme to the album. Hell, why else do you think the second line you hear on this album was 'You wanna see me put Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids?' If you've got the uncensored version, you get there even earlier.
A lot of the white youth Eminem was talking to, though, buried their dreams and frustrations in rock music - a genre about as explicity 'white' as rap was explicity 'black'.