What is the meaning behind “You get too big and here they come tryin’ To censor you like that one line I said on “I’m Back” from The Mathers LP 1 when I Tried to say I’ll take seven kids from Columbine Put ’em all in a line, add an AK-47, a revolver and a 9 See if I get away with it now that I ain’t as big as I was,”? Rap God by Eminem
- by imrk
- March 24, 2023
On “I’m Back” off The Marshall Mathers LP he spat the following lines (influenced by the famous Rakim line ). I take seven kids from Columbine, stand ‘em all in line / Add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine / A MAC-11 and it oughta solve the problem of mine / And that’s a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time These lines were so controversial in the wake of the school massacre that the words ‘kids’ and ‘Columbine' were censored even on the explicit version of the album. Eminem wonders if he can spit the same lines now and get away with it because of his alleged decreased popularity. Ironically enough, on the track’s official clean version , these lines are censored.