“My English teacher wanted to flunk me in Junior High(Damn)…thanks a lot, next semester I'll be 35…I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and told him to change the grade on the paper.”

— Eminem

"My Name Is" (Track 2).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)

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