The song is basically about the rap wars and how much the danger of being hurt or killed by your rivals is highly possible. Eminem sings a little about most of his feuds with multiple artists and the video is just what could possibly happen to someone from his crew due to all of the fighting between the groups. The person that dies in the video actually dies 2 years later after the song was made. He was shot in a bar after shooting someone over a game of pool.
There are some people that he has named, I will try to clarify the situation.
Benzino is an older rapper, whom had control over Source magazine for a while and used it to bash on Eminem and even made a new album with a lot of songs directed to Eminem and I'm assuming that Eminem believed Benzino was irrelevant to everything that was going on and decided to try to be on top of the rap game by starting drama with him.
50 Cent's feud is said to be started in his words that Ja Rule was robbed out of his jewelry and Ja Rule thought 50 Cent had something to do with it and Ja Rule said that 50 Cent was jealous over the fact that when he was making videos in his 'hood, he got a lot of love from the people there. That's when they started to make diss song at each other with Ja Rule and Murder Inc artists and 50 Cent with his G-Unit. 50 Cent was nearly killed after being shot 9 times. It's said that a local drug kingpin sent the hit after 50 Cent made an album that exposed Murder Inc's illegal activties with the said drug dealer. It's also believed that the same drug dealer killed Jam Master Jay for helping out 50 Cent make and send the album and pretty much taught 50 Cent how to actually make music. 50 Cent later joined in Eminem's record label and Ja Rule threatened Eminem and Dre to not make any diss songs about him and they didn't until Dre produced a 50 Cent song that pretty much destroyed Ja Rule and his family and that's when Ja Rule came out with ''Loose Change'' and it was directed to Dre and Eminem and people from their labels and that's when Eminem/D12, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent/G-Unit battled Ja Rule/Murder Inc and other artists for a while. There was a time where Dre and Eminem talked with 50 Cent to try kill the drama with Ja Rule, but Ja Rule was talking and joking about how he was the one that stabbed 50 Cent in a club and that continued the fued. It was actually Black Child from Murder Inc that stabbed 50 Cent because he thought he was pulling out a gun.
Now to the Suge Knight thing. Eminem wasn't afraid of Suge Knight, he just didn't attack Suge Knight out of respect for his friend Dr. Dre who told him to stay out of it because it wasn't his beef and wanted to do things by himself.
The song is basically about the rap wars and how much the danger of being hurt or killed by your rivals is highly possible. Eminem sings a little about most of his feuds with multiple artists and the video is just what could possibly happen to someone from his crew due to all of the fighting between the groups. The person that dies in the video actually dies 2 years later after the song was made. He was shot in a bar after shooting someone over a game of pool.
There are some people that he has named, I will try to clarify the situation.
Benzino is an older rapper, whom had control over Source magazine for a while and used it to bash on Eminem and even made a new album with a lot of songs directed to Eminem and I'm assuming that Eminem believed Benzino was irrelevant to everything that was going on and decided to try to be on top of the rap game by starting drama with him.
50 Cent's feud is said to be started in his words that Ja Rule was robbed out of his jewelry and Ja Rule thought 50 Cent had something to do with it and Ja Rule said that 50 Cent was jealous over the fact that when he was making videos in his 'hood, he got a lot of love from the people there. That's when they started to make diss song at each other with Ja Rule and Murder Inc artists and 50 Cent with his G-Unit. 50 Cent was nearly killed after being shot 9 times. It's said that a local drug kingpin sent the hit after 50 Cent made an album that exposed Murder Inc's illegal activties with the said drug dealer. It's also believed that the same drug dealer killed Jam Master Jay for helping out 50 Cent make and send the album and pretty much taught 50 Cent how to actually make music. 50 Cent later joined in Eminem's record label and Ja Rule threatened Eminem and Dre to not make any diss songs about him and they didn't until Dre produced a 50 Cent song that pretty much destroyed Ja Rule and his family and that's when Ja Rule came out with ''Loose Change'' and it was directed to Dre and Eminem and people from their labels and that's when Eminem/D12, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent/G-Unit battled Ja Rule/Murder Inc and other artists for a while. There was a time where Dre and Eminem talked with 50 Cent to try kill the drama with Ja Rule, but Ja Rule was talking and joking about how he was the one that stabbed 50 Cent in a club and that continued the fued. It was actually Black Child from Murder Inc that stabbed 50 Cent because he thought he was pulling out a gun.
Now to the Suge Knight thing. Eminem wasn't afraid of Suge Knight, he just didn't attack Suge Knight out of respect for his friend Dr. Dre who told him to stay out of it because it wasn't his beef and wanted to do things by himself.