20:20 , I think he is carrying the scheme of his birthday further in making a wish while blowing the candles. Like we do on our birthday with the candles on the birthday cake. Also he points out that it is very childish, but he likes it. I’m not sure, but I think i got something here
@@azurnxo2134 100% facts. He's the GOAT of bar catches and breakdowns. I see soooo many others not going to mention names, try to break Em bars just to build their channel or career. Not #KnoxHill he actually knows what he's fucken doing and don't listen to the 2 or 3 people saying otherwise. I searched for real bar breakdown channels for months bro and swear the fuck to my kids that you're the only one that has the real ear 2nd to none! There's one other that can break bars close, but still not on your tier! Some of these channels, yeah,.. they're so called rappers...BUT, Those guys show their Tier. Yet, if they can't catch em, they ain't spittin' em on that level! --->You're underrated!!
@KING BLITZ ! You should get in on the We Skeem competition too mate! Remix of Alfred's theme without listening to the original, explain more bars and you get $100! th-cam.com/video/1TjQItSfYtU/w-d-xo.html
Your reactions are on point! One you missed I think was the "check my ball hair, make sure it's all there". I think this was a throwback to "Criminal" where he said, "If I ever gave a fuck, I'd shave my nuts." So in checking to make sure he still has ball hair, he's saying he still doesn't give a fuck.
@@TheSolarzEclipse that line is from Cinderella Man. The line before it is about him not supposed to be here (song was released after his overdose). In this song, the preceding lyric is about giving zero fucks. Not saying I'm positive it was a reference to Criminal, but it fits a bit better.
Not sure if you heard this in America, but in the UK we were advised to sing Happy Birthday to ourselves twice while washing our hands so we knew how long 20 seconds were. That's why he starts singing it as he washes his hands.
I i dont understan why people hate Revival much it is one of my favorite albums but my favorite eminem album is relapse it gave me this strength to get of ocs and then I felt like incould do anything
The Happy Birthday skit was for the recommended time to wash hands and he dropped his album on Billie Eilish birthday so he was also singling happy birthday to her. Genius!
@@xWiffler Def not a coincidence. Em does that, matching dates with releases. Killshot; where he said that MGK would be Swayze after he's done with him, he released that disstrack on Patrick Swayzes death day anniversary. There's many more, this is just one example. The man thinks this shit through, there really is no coincidence with Em.
Also 'im fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes...' when you're a kid you make a wish when you blow the candles out on your birthday cake! There is no end to his schemes!
It's about government telling people to sing Happy birthday while washing hands so that people could get rid off covid virus so we have to wash hands for 1 or 2 minutes so sing Happy birthday to pass time
You know Knox is f***ed when he forgot to certify the song at the end. Also that beat suddenly ran off on Em, that beat literally died at the end because Em killed it. The beat got killed. Even the ending is a double would you look at that!
This beat was actually from the late 1800s I forget what its called but however it got used as the Alfred Hitchcock show theme is the early 1980s I do believe I remember as a kid watching this. Alfred Hitchcock has been dead, the beats been dead for years because no one other then Eminem has sampled it. So to wrap it up from the beginning he said overkill and he brought this beat back just to kill it again and I guarantee nobody will use this sample again in music this was meant for Em!!!!
Ahhh, nice catch! The very first time I heard this I was like idk about this cartoony music in the background but then realized that it is the theme to the Alfred Hitchcock program that used to be on TV long long ago. Then it made sense and totally makes the song!
That upbeat music is actually the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock's tv show, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". I watched reruns of it all the time in the 80s so it hits me right in the nostalgia bone. But originally it was called "Funeral March of a Marionette" and was written in the 1879.
18:58. The break with the "Happy Birthday" was due to the instructions on how to wash your hands during the Human Malware Virus pandemic. You are supposed to wash your hands for 20 seconds to do it properly. For those who do not know how long 20 seconds is, you are told to sing the first stanza of "Happy Birthday" twice while washing your hands. Hence hearing Em curse, then the sink water playing as he washes his hands and sings "Happy Birthday" to himself.
@@sushilanadar6693The happy birthday part does link to Billie Eyelish yes, but it does also link to Corona hand washing if you paid attention to him bringing up washing his hands prior to that section.
Thank you was gonna call this one out too!! Other than that banger ass videos ik im couple yrs late bit been binging always good seeing reactions like knox
"Your ass is grass and im not gonna graze you" is a crazy triple. Graze with bullet (shallow wound) Graze the grass (he is one of the GOATs) Grace you (Bless you/give mercy because hes a GOD).
Better yet DIDNT EVEN FINISH 9th grade!!!!!!!!!!! And is TOO SMART!!!!!!! I mean I am HUGE ON English Comp, Lit, and just reading MAJOR advanced stuff always have been and he just blows me away!!!!!!!!!!!!
He knows this planet better than 98 percent of the people who have ever existed. Try to think of how much traveling this man has done. How many countries he has been to.
The Billie Eilish scheme has even more going on. He dropped the side B album on Billie Elish’s birthday, so when he sings happy birthday before the scheme he is singing it to her. He also says sipping wild Irish, Billie is Irish. And fulfilling his wish plays on the birthday scheme before hand because when you blow out candles you make a wish. Like a lot of people in comments said the happy birthday is also for how long you should wash your hands for, making it a double You still did an amazing job Knox, I was just impressed with myself that I caught something you didn’t
Also, adding to the bar he is washing his hands as he sings happy bday which is another bar Bc they tell you to sing the happy birthday song while washing your hands so you wash them for long enough
"Stomping the comp" comp as in competition or competitors. And at the end of the song he asked "wait why did the beat stop" to bring back what he said earlier in the song about not stopping until the beat does.
Comp could also be a composition (in music) so if he is stomping comp it could mean that he is destroying the composition hence why the music stopped because the comp has been destroyed. And this is a reach but stomping also kind of sounds like stopping as well
For me the most fascinating line of this is 'It's obvious that it's impossible for me to be beside myself' ... because one of Hitchcock's enduring themes (literally Alfred's theme!!) is of the danger of doubles and doppelgangers, that you should always kill them before they kill you. And Em is saying, literally, it is impossible for him to be beside himself. There's also a film called Double Take wherein Hitchcock is actually murdered by a younger version of himself, which is similar to the running theme in Em's work of his conflicts with his dark side, being stalked by his own shadow, Shady coming out etc. istg the man is a powerhouse INTELLECTUAL!
oh this is a reference back to when i'm gone I turn around, find a gun on the ground, cock it Put it to my brain, scream, "Die, Shady!" and pop it and guess what that is a YOUNGER VERSION OF HIMSELF this was on curtain call the hits "When I'm Gone" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his first greatest hits album Curtain Call: The Hits (2005
Knox Hill, there should be a new category made for you! You aren't just a reactor, you break down the production of the song, get into music theory and have such a great knowledge of the history of hip-hop that it puts you in a whole different league! It is greatly appreciated and definitely time well spent!
Agreed. These eminem tracks over past few years especially. They are being reviewed by other artist mostly or mainly hip hop listeners. Knox is the only one that's not trying to "react" and entertain the viewers. Hes breaking down poetry and music theory and hes by far the best one doing that probably the only one. We need an unbiased music theory teacher or professor, someone that can really break down poetry and theory to fullest. Knox is teaching classes so imagine if a professor from Berkeley that studies and teaches this for years were to dissect it.
Knox is the GOAT of reactions lol. I had to sit through this 50 minutes because this was my favorite Em track on this album. I wanted to see if I missed anything. Also, Knox! I've been downloading your music on Apple Music and it's 🔥! Keep doing your thing!!
Its actually another quad. There's also the english phrase "Barking mad" (Barking Mad=absolutely crazy) which is sometimes shortened to just "barking". Em also literally barks directly after to highlight all parts of the quadruple and put emphasis on the mad/crazy part
I find it insane that Em can even think of these genius level entendres that fit together so well but he's still been putting in hidden layers even when trying to sound obvious Tbh I only noticed because in one bar on "Not Alike" off Kamikaze he has another quad that has a randomly themed layer that mostly people from the UK more specifically London would understand
Loved the intro bar, how he did like a throwback to Criminal. "Give zero fucks, then I Check my ball hair, make sure it's all there" As a throwback to the line from Criminal "if I ever gave a fuck, I'd shave my nuts"
I thought I was hearing different from everyone else so i always let that go.. you’re the first person I’ve seen reference it. Most rappers struggle to spit a couple good bars.. EM spits multi syllable entendres and has bars in bars. Is there even a word for making an entire bar that has two different meanings but sounds the same? (Even though it is just a play on a single word that has to be more then a homophone)
Also the sour grapes line is about the Netflix documentary called "sour grapes" about a man who sold fake wine for thousands of dollars. 🔥 Also the playful instrumental throughout the song is literally Alfred hitchcock's theme song from the movie. Also he sings happy birthday (to Billie Eilish) but he's washing his hands coz you're supposed to wash your hands for the duration of the happy birthday song.
Anyone else notice the consistent theme of eyes throughout the song? From the cyclops to Visine to all those "i" rhymes and 2020 vision... Even more creepifying considering the background art lol. Love this breakdown.
There's a few reoccurring themes, trees for example: "Like a tree mostly just all bark" "yall picking the wrong tree" "you probably go broke at the dollar tree" "if you shot a tree you wouldn't pop the trunk" It's crazy how interconnected everything is
Ty for doing these proper analysis for Eminem songs, as I'm not native English speaker, lot of these metaphors slip under my radar. You make me appreciate his work even more, thank you
The beat is taken from Alfred Hitchcock’s show “Alfred Hitchcock Presents...” so there’s actually a quadruple for the line “throw in the theme to Alfred, I’ll channel him like the Panama Canal” 1. Panama Canal is a channel 2. Channel Hitchcock’s dark humor 3. Literally throwing in alfred’s theme on his track called alfred’s theme 4. Turning the channel to Hitchcock’s show
It's a homograph...doesn't matter how many at the same time. You are so phenomenal at this!! Been re-tweeting your stuff on Twitter and posting links for your show! More people need to know about this show and your mad skills as a rapper!!!
The instrumental is the “theme music” from “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” Hitchcock’s television series about murder! Hence, the track is called “Alfred’s theme” Lol.
Really a triple because it’s also a play off of the bar on MTBMB side A on the song You Gon’ Learn when he says “thought my name was B side cause they flipped over my tape” so in this song he is saying it’s impossible to B side hisself meaning he doesn’t miss anything like others do. Plus being beside oneself means that you are taken back or dumbfounded and Em is saying it’s impossible for him to be dumbfounded. I mean this bar alone has like 5 different things he is saying. The man is a G E NYUS 🤪
That “double-crossed my fans” bar was also a continuation of when he said “TARGET on my back.” A target has the shape of a cross; one line going up, one line going across. What you said about the Xans could have easily been part of it, too!
I'm old enough (69) to remember the TV series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.😁 The background sample is the theme song to that show.💯 Since Em's song is named "Alfred's Theme", that's a double!🔥😂✌️❤️
When Eminem is washing his hands singing happy birthday.During the pandemic the public were told by the government to sing happy birthday twice to make sure you wash your hands for 20 seconds.
Man this is my first time on this channel, i didn't thing it would be a good idea to watch a 50 min video when i had other options out there too. but i gave it a shot and by the end you shot my head dead. You are amazing bro knoxhill, you deserve my whole friend circle subscribing to you. man you have my heart, Respect for you bro
Check out stevieknight they are on par with each other. Both are number 1 the absolute best at bar breakdowns. Knox is a little more in depth on talking about the music production tho
@@tjpowell234no offense to Stevie but he isn't even close to knox on general knowledge and catching totally random bars. now If the bar is about something rap related he will probably catch it but knox sounds like he needs to go on fucking jeopardy or something he knows so much random shit
This video right here is why you are the best at breakdowns. You didn't try to short change the breakdown needed for this song just to have a "normal" length video. You did what you normally do and just kept going and going like the energizer bunny. Thank you for putting the time and effort into catching every bar possible. I can't wait to see you breakdown the rest of the album. Let's hope your sanity, and camera, can hold up.
He ain't that good better then most but doesn't catch everything. I started to realize people's brains work differently n catch different meanings in eminems work but he can't have 7 different meanings for one line lol
I'm 4 minutes in and I can already tell you're very knowledgeable and genuinely appreciative of great music. You've already earned my subscription. One thing I'll add that I wouldn't expect you to have known is that the album was released on Billie Eilish's birthday which is why is sang happy birthday before going in to that bar.
Ya, and that’s why em planned it. Em is crazy crazy good with that shit! Every day he puts out a song or album he waits for a special date to make it hit harder, like kill shot! Just crazy how talented em really is! Alien 👽
I'm surprised no one caught it, the hand washing part, the CDC recommended people wash their hands while singing happy birthday as that song , when you sing it twice, is exactly the amount of time required to completely clean your hands. another thing that i might be wrong about, but a bare pole? checking his hair?..just a guess on that one though
That skit does one more thing: it addresses people who don't follow the COVID guidelines set by the CDC. He doesn't sing the whole Happy Birthday song, he ends early and says "shhhh", like people want to act like they follow but don't want tell anyone that they actually don't. This skit is 🔥
Mate why do you not have more subs - your breakdowns are insane. You catch literally everything!!!!!!!!!!!! LEAPS and BOUNDS above any other breakdown channel!!!! Keep it up fella 👍
Im 28 and been a stan since i was 12 y.o And i appreciate the hell of how you break down his shit. You're great man Keep the hell up! Ain't no one in this reaction game that does what you do
Damn so you were seven years old when I started listening to eminem. I was 12 years old I'm 34 now. The slim shady LP was still pretty fresh and new by the time I got a hold of it. Ever since then I've been a huge fan of Eminem. I can't really listen to much else unless it has complex lyrics or some good storytelling as well. all I can say is there's a lot of garbage nowadays because people are too hooked on doing drugs and wrapping with no talent. Basically today's rap is all ego no talent
@@hechpee at 12 i was just laughing from the content and how vulgar and funny he was. It was actually the song FACK that made me such a crazed fan and then i got into the "why" would he say what ever it is he was saying
The part where you asked does he sit there all day thinking of words and schemes and such Yes he does he did a 60 minutes interview when he got clean and they showed that he has boxes and boxes full of random napkins and pieces of paper and note pads with ideas that he had written over the years and in interviews since then interviewers have asked him the same question and he said all I do is think of words if I'm driving, eating, or watching television etc he's thinking of words and he writes them down and with put it away in his boxes and go back to them when he needs them he calls it stocking ammunition he said he does that because he can't remember them if he doesn't
Yooo, genius missed 1 bar I cought. He said"happy birthday" to billie eilish cuz her birthday was the same day the album comes out and then he continued addressing the situation but how genius is this,he just knew it.he is trying to keep everthing positive
Also the sour grapes is actually a documentary on Netflix. Hbday 2x while washing hands, a punk bring heat firework bar (punk that actually lights the wick)
"bitch it's 2020, you still ain't seeing me", this could also be taken as saying that you can't see each other in person due to the lockdown because of covid.
Knox Hill is, by far, the best bar breakdown channel. I have a newfound respect for Eminem now after watching these videos. I never knew how masterful a wordsmith Eminem was until I saw these videos.
@@psychrn4796 75% is being generous. Most of them just listen to the video and freak out during some parts, but don't actually break down the lyrics. Knox breaks down every single bar so you know just how amazing the lyrics are. That's why I like his bar breakdown channel the most.
It's nostalgia and his songs were more catchy in those times n also I think ppl miss his old voice.. And his lyrics now is very complex which obviously goes over ppls head.. Or they complain they don't like the beats..
Yep those people are either basic fans or not fans that are living on nostalgia but never bothered to break down his bars. Eminem had literally gotten better with age, like so much better.
@@rogerm4a1 exactly lyrically.. But sonically ppl complain they don't like his beats n generally how the song is built.. This is why ppl hated revival.. I loved a lot of songs of revival and it just doesn't make sense how it got hated.. It's obvious ppl don't listen to the words.. This is why he said in the ringer ".. Maybe if I auto tuned it you would've bought it"
I probably would've missed half of these bars (references, jokes, callbacks - pure genius) without this breakdown! I appreciate how Knox is just as blown away by Em's incredible intelligence and cleverness as I am! 🙌🏼
Agreed Bro like where your heads at that isn’t such a reach that’s a bar in itself Salute broski nice either way. you never know with Em’s beast mode bars zone like that can be interpreted anyway our brains can think. When he most likely didn’t it was simple to him he sittin back laughing at us lol..🤜🏼🤛🏼💯🤙🏼 Peace ✌️
The hand washing cut is a reference to Covid, where the recommended time of washing your hands is around 21 seconds, or for kids they asked them to sing "happy birthday" twice, and thats what he started doing. Em is a genius, but never forget, he's a fucking fool also lmao
Since I live in Australia, these breakdowns help a lot as a lot of Eminem's stuff is American slang (a lot of the gun stuff especially). Keep up the great work. Thank you.
That xanax bar catch was everything!!!! The "double" in "double cross" can also be expanded. An "X" is literally formed by crossing two (double) lines. There's no limit on his entendres and connections!
Every body on TH-cam always says "if you're still here hit that subscribe button" but for real this time I had to. By far the best breakdown channel on the platform. You catch more bars, doubles and triples than anybody else and it makes me appreciate the music that much more! Thank you for all the work you do 👍🙏
Knox seriously deserves some kind of award for how well he understands and knows Music firsthand. If there’s ever a Grammy for Reactors or Breakdowns... Knox deserves several for doing this better than anyone else for years. 💎
'Pipe bomb in your pine box'. That really sums up why I love rap, and more so, the style you see with people like Biggie and Em and Wayne, etc. Killer poetry.
Knox thank you for the break downs. Enjoying your content, love Shaq’s reactions, Knight’s energy, Scru’s honesty, Crypt’s ambition, DuaneTV’s joy, and so many more but your break Downs are another level and I love it man ty
I love Alfred’s little tune sample in this beat. Goes back to the days my grandma and I would take the day and watch Alfredo Hitchcock movies. She especially loved “Birds!”
Man It sucks I cant listen to any other reactors anymore. lol. cause you catch so much more then anyone else. and Now I just get mad at everyone else cause they dont hold a candle to what you catch homie. and thats just keeping it 💯 Thanks for all you do man.
Which could also be seen as stomping a new a**hole in the competition/competitor even if he has to stomp on their head. Killing the competition. Music to be buried by.
Yep. As a dude who lives in the south the mud hole was easy and as a former fps devotee I caught the comp reference. Though it took me a few times to actually catch the bar. Was looking to see if anyone posted about already before I did, good catch Jimmy.
No matter the medium or genre, it's always a treat to see someone who is a really well-informed, excited fan of something explain what they appreciate about it and how they see it.
You missed this: "To treating it like a cyclops, Like it's the only one I've... got..." He matched his pitch to "Not Throwing Away My Shot" in the Hamilton musical, while paying respects to the lyrical acumen of the song itself. Same exact pitch. Shit was a quadruple entendre. Next, next, next level.
Crazy how Knox can pick all of this up and relay it to us. And em is the GOAT. Name another artist to put this many bars, references and doubles into one song. There's more bars in this than your rappers entire best album
The Billie Eilish scheme is a triple. As someone said in a previous comment said, he dropping the music to be murdered by, side B it on her birthday. while singing happy birthday to her. But singing happy birthday whilst washing his hands over coronavirus. Everyone knows singing it twice in a row, is how long your ment to wash your hands for. But what was missed was... While drinking wild irish. The wild irish drink is a cocktail, called the wild irish rose... and the irish rose is aka the rose of tralee, is a female who can only enter it who is irish born or irish ancestry. And Billie eilish has strong irish ancestry on her da's side
I just saw Stevie Knight snapped on his reaction to Alfred theme....lets see how Knox's brain just blow up 😁 Ps. I think that happy birthday was to Billie, her birthday is 18th december - b side came out 18th december also 😂 Also song "happy birthday" is like routine for childrens to wash hands as long as song goes... Soooo.... triple there...
I don't think Em would have dropped a line meant for her bday that ONLY would have applied 1 x to an album drop. It literally has no other relevance beyond that. I don't think he cares about her enough for that. It was more in reference to also G-easy and his happy birthday reference in one of his songs.
i agree that Em can make such bars but sada is too small for Em to dedicate a bar towards him, sada is still finding the beat🤣...........dude sounds off-beat and NO! offbeat is NOT a style of rap he is not an elite rapper, his little fans do not listen to him cos of intelligent lyrics, they are just kids messing around, it wouldn't be a good sport for EM to go back & forth with a baby like sada.....................sada's favorite rapper has Eminem as his favorite rapper
@@hechpee I agree I don't think Em went after Sada butSada off beat style is a Detroit underground rap style. He is original and has a lot of word play as well,he is no Em but he is gifted
The double cross breakdown is something I’ve never heard from anyone and i doubt many (besides Em) could even think of the visual to make that happen. Levels on levels on levels. Fucking mind blowing! 👏 👏 the goat of breaking bars down right here
You need to go breakdown no love. The whole recovery album is Em telling fans he's changing his rap style. Tells you in seduction he's no longer rhyming one syllables. But no love is a farewell to his old style. Absolute 🔥 The awareness of his past and future is ridiculous
“Went from punching the time clock to getting my shot, then treated it like a cyclops - like it’s the only one I (eye) got.” Did this album come out pre or post-Corona vaccine? The most common vaccines (right now, at least; the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines) require two shots. Maybe he’s also saying that he only got one of them, and that’s why he’s so sick. Making this a triple or quadruple entendre - I lost count. Then the “parental ad-Visine” line calls back to the “one eye” pun. Damn! So dense.
I just finished watching Stevie Knight's 40 minute reaction of this song, then went to my subscriptions and saw this 50 minute reaction lol. I'll have to watch this later.
I saw Stevie's notification pop, and then I saw yours, Knox. I had to put Stevie on hold, because there's no way I can wait to see yours. I'm heading to his next.
I will never understand how people dislike eminem, he is lyrically and rhythmically the most superior rapper to ever live, and definitely up their on the knights of the round table of MC’s
Yeah I he also missed part of the Santa bars. Eminem says he's invisible which ties into Santa since no one is ment to see Santa. Eminem then also says he is at the mall, kinda like how there are santas at the malls during Christmas time. Yes I know this is an old comment lol but this dude is crazy at catching bars
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20:20 , I think he is carrying the scheme of his birthday further in making a wish while blowing the candles. Like we do on our birthday with the candles on the birthday cake. Also he points out that it is very childish, but he likes it. I’m not sure, but I think i got something here
How would you know? You're writing this comment 20minutes into the reaction
The birthday scheme is about billie eillish he dropped on her birthday
Also playing on the corona viris that they advise to wash ur hands singing happy birthday
Consider the fact an MC spent an hour to breakdown a 5 minute track and months from now there will be bars we all missed in the comments. Genius.
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YAAASS!! THAT'S what I truly appreciate!! 🤗❤️❤️❤️
@@azurnxo2134 100% facts. He's the GOAT of bar catches and breakdowns. I see soooo many others not going to mention names, try to break Em bars just to build their channel or career. Not #KnoxHill he actually knows what he's fucken doing and don't listen to the 2 or 3 people saying otherwise. I searched for real bar breakdown channels for months bro and swear the fuck to my kids that you're the only one that has the real ear 2nd to none! There's one other that can break bars close, but still not on your tier! Some of these channels, yeah,.. they're so called rappers...BUT, Those guys show their Tier. Yet, if they can't catch em, they ain't spittin' em on that level!
--->You're underrated!!
@@MrAce607 Man you're laying down facts!
@@azurnxo2134 thank you! Respect!
We all asking "How does his mind work like this" lol
Man you’re just appearing Everywhere I go lol
He spent years in the dictionary - Then it became super focus as a result of his ADHD
Dude u be watching every reaction video😂
I see u every reaction video comments section
@KING BLITZ ! You should get in on the We Skeem competition too mate! Remix of Alfred's theme without listening to the original, explain more bars and you get $100!
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Hey, it’s the king!!!
Your reactions are on point! One you missed I think was the "check my ball hair, make sure it's all there". I think this was a throwback to "Criminal" where he said, "If I ever gave a fuck, I'd shave my nuts." So in checking to make sure he still has ball hair, he's saying he still doesn't give a fuck.
Damn man!!! Nice one!!!
Holy shit the fact you even remember that
Wow that's insane 😱
Honestly my first thought was "by the skin of teeth, the hair on my nuts, I've skated by". Idk what song or album tho.
@@TheSolarzEclipse that line is from Cinderella Man. The line before it is about him not supposed to be here (song was released after his overdose). In this song, the preceding lyric is about giving zero fucks. Not saying I'm positive it was a reference to Criminal, but it fits a bit better.
Not sure if you heard this in America, but in the UK we were advised to sing Happy Birthday to ourselves twice while washing our hands so we knew how long 20 seconds were. That's why he starts singing it as he washes his hands.
That’s what I said too! Good catch
Good job i looked down here, i was going to say the same. Good catch
That might be one too but as someone in the comments said he released the song on Billie Eilish’s birthday, so he’s also singing to her
It was also billy eilishes birthday the day of the release
It was also billy eilishes birthday the day of the release 🤦♂️🤯🤯
I think Em is at his best. He’s like wine, getting better with age.
"I'm like wine I'm the best seller (cellar)
Same. This just might be him at his lyrical best
@@mortifer7705 I still wine [whine] I'm the best seller [cellar]*
I i dont understan why people hate Revival much it is one of my favorite albums but my favorite eminem album is relapse it gave me this strength to get of ocs and then I felt like incould do anything
He hardly uses emotion but the passion is still there
The Happy Birthday skit was for the recommended time to wash hands and he dropped his album on Billie Eilish birthday so he was also singling happy birthday to her. Genius!
@@xWiffler with Em, nothings a coincidence
@@xWiffler Def not a coincidence. Em does that, matching dates with releases. Killshot; where he said that MGK would be Swayze after he's done with him, he released that disstrack on Patrick Swayzes death day anniversary.
There's many more, this is just one example.
The man thinks this shit through, there really is no coincidence with Em.
@@xWiffler Truth, you're speaking straight facts there my man!
Also 'im fulfilling my wish of killing rhymes...' when you're a kid you make a wish when you blow the candles out on your birthday cake! There is no end to his schemes!
It's about government telling people to sing Happy birthday while washing hands so that people could get rid off covid virus so we have to wash hands for 1 or 2 minutes so sing Happy birthday to pass time
the beat is actually Alfred's Theme from his show. so the beat is a double entendre itself 🤯
wow😵
Facts
Exactly only those that used to watch the show would remember this as the original music theme. 🙌🏽🙌🏾
You know Knox is f***ed when he forgot to certify the song at the end. Also that beat suddenly ran off on Em, that beat literally died at the end because Em killed it. The beat got killed. Even the ending is a double would you look at that!
Love the way you CAUGHT THAT!!
This beat was actually from the late 1800s I forget what its called but however it got used as the Alfred Hitchcock show theme is the early 1980s I do believe I remember as a kid watching this. Alfred Hitchcock has been dead, the beats been dead for years because no one other then Eminem has sampled it. So to wrap it up from the beginning he said overkill and he brought this beat back just to kill it again and I guarantee nobody will use this sample again in music this was meant for Em!!!!
Ahhh, nice catch! The very first time I heard this I was like idk about this cartoony music in the background but then realized that it is the theme to the Alfred Hitchcock program that used to be on TV long long ago. Then it made sense and totally makes the song!
Also, you could say he was already out of that pocket (outta pocket) in that line, that's why the beat cut off
He's also saying he could of kept going
That upbeat music is actually the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock's tv show, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". I watched reruns of it all the time in the 80s so it hits me right in the nostalgia bone. But originally it was called "Funeral March of a Marionette" and was written in the 1879.
Hence, the track is called “Alfred’s theme.” Even Em’s song titles are bars! Lol
The More You Know
Was going to write this, but you beat me too it :)
@@originoflogos facts!!!
I knew what it was right away... I was like no he didn’t! 😂 surprised that Knox didn’t get that connection but he’s too young maybe
It’s funny how em can make a 5 minute song turn into almost a hour video
Facts lol
I think you fell short, we could talk about this super piece one day and the next we would continue to discuss, why is EMINEM, Men
This video can be 2-3 hours long if he catches every bar
1 minute = 10 minutes lol
Bs. Anyone can make a vid reacting to em this loud lmao
18:58. The break with the "Happy Birthday" was due to the instructions on how to wash your hands during the Human Malware Virus pandemic. You are supposed to wash your hands for 20 seconds to do it properly. For those who do not know how long 20 seconds is, you are told to sing the first stanza of "Happy Birthday" twice while washing your hands. Hence hearing Em curse, then the sink water playing as he washes his hands and sings "Happy Birthday" to himself.
Omg bruuuhhh
No happy birthday of bilie eyelish don't you know😅
@@sushilanadar6693The happy birthday part does link to Billie Eyelish yes, but it does also link to Corona hand washing if you paid attention to him bringing up washing his hands prior to that section.
Thank you was gonna call this one out too!! Other than that banger ass videos ik im couple yrs late bit been binging always good seeing reactions like knox
He said happy birthday to Billie Eilish because he released the album on her birthday.
Alfred's Theme is literally Alfred's theme song for his show back then.
I was checking the comments to see who realized. I'm surprised Knox didn't know that!! LOL
Right figured it was kinda obvious and Alfred's way before my time lol
Yeah it's from "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
@@AznMikey he did know it. He says it when hes breaking down the pipe bomb in a pine box line
Thanks, Captain Obvious
He meant “competition” when he said “stomping my comp, even if it’s off the top of the dome” basically he could freestyle and still kill it.
It's a double compound to as in stomping the hip hop scene
@@pauljones6789 yes, the only bar i understood that knox couldnt catch lamo
🤯
That you! I was lost on that one. 👏
Anyone else fucking love anytime he gets a bar he just sighs, rolls his eyes, and tries to catch himself
"Your ass is grass and im not gonna graze you" is a crazy triple.
Graze with bullet (shallow wound)
Graze the grass (he is one of the GOATs)
Grace you (Bless you/give mercy because hes a GOD).
Graze is a farm-to-table Madison restaurant with menus that feature a range of classics executed on a higher level than traditional pub fare.
Graze you also like your ass is grass and I'm a lawnmower. You mow it down, not graze you
How about graze like eat... like eat a$$ or Vijay
It also reminds me of killshot where em said MGK grazed him, or am I miss remembering?
I love how he didn’t graduate and still is using geography bars like that on us
Better yet DIDNT EVEN FINISH 9th grade!!!!!!!!!!! And is TOO SMART!!!!!!! I mean I am HUGE ON English Comp, Lit, and just reading MAJOR advanced stuff always have been and he just blows me away!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those Kinda Nights is even crazier though- with the Ohio city schemes
@@digitalutopia1 That was really good.
He knows this planet better than 98 percent of the people who have ever existed. Try to think of how much traveling this man has done. How many countries he has been to.
@@Python-xs2iv I'm talking bars and wordplay, not whether or not you liked the track. lol
The Billie Eilish scheme has even more going on. He dropped the side B album on Billie Elish’s birthday, so when he sings happy birthday before the scheme he is singing it to her. He also says sipping wild Irish, Billie is Irish. And fulfilling his wish plays on the birthday scheme before hand because when you blow out candles you make a wish.
Like a lot of people in comments said the happy birthday is also for how long you should wash your hands for, making it a double
You still did an amazing job Knox, I was just impressed with myself that I caught something you didn’t
Damn, that's even deeper than the bar was probably supposed to go 🤣
Also, adding to the bar he is washing his hands as he sings happy bday which is another bar Bc they tell you to sing the happy birthday song while washing your hands so you wash them for long enough
@@jeremiah8475 holy fuck....that's even more clever. Eminem hurts my 🧠
Lol here is another that watches a bunch of reactors and uses bars they caught as their own when other reactors miss a bar
And they say to properly wash your hands its supposed to be as long as the happy birthday song
"Stomping the comp" comp as in competition or competitors.
And at the end of the song he asked "wait why did the beat stop" to bring back what he said earlier in the song about not stopping until the beat does.
🤯❤️🤗😮. WTF?!
Fact!
Comp could also be a composition (in music) so if he is stomping comp it could mean that he is destroying the composition hence why the music stopped because the comp has been destroyed. And this is a reach but stomping also kind of sounds like stopping as well
For me the most fascinating line of this is 'It's obvious that it's impossible for me to be beside myself' ... because one of Hitchcock's enduring themes (literally Alfred's theme!!) is of the danger of doubles and doppelgangers, that you should always kill them before they kill you. And Em is saying, literally, it is impossible for him to be beside himself. There's also a film called Double Take wherein Hitchcock is actually murdered by a younger version of himself, which is similar to the running theme in Em's work of his conflicts with his dark side, being stalked by his own shadow, Shady coming out etc. istg the man is a powerhouse INTELLECTUAL!
oh this is a reference back to when i'm gone I turn around, find a gun on the ground, cock it
Put it to my brain, scream, "Die, Shady!" and pop it and guess what that is a YOUNGER VERSION OF HIMSELF this was on curtain call the hits "When I'm Gone" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his first greatest hits album Curtain Call: The Hits (2005
okay makes even more sense w the new album where slim shady dies
Let’s be real. After Knoxhill vids, we’ll never gonna JUST play Em’s songs.
True..
You're right.
I never did lol i catch these barz first listen i watch reactions to see if they catch em all lol
Yes.. Gotta agree, but I’ll always go watch it once after and like it to support him. (Hope y’all are also doing this.)
breaking down Em lyrics is like self torture, so I appreciate your efforts bro xD
Lol facts bro. Think I broke my brain after this one
@@KnoxHill nah, that was just you leveling up from all the xp you gained.
But it's a beautiful kind of pain
@@Time_to_Believe_in_Yourself I see what you did there ...a "beautiful pain" indeed.
Knox Hill, there should be a new category made for you! You aren't just a reactor, you break down the production of the song, get into music theory and have such a great knowledge of the history of hip-hop that it puts you in a whole different league! It is greatly appreciated and definitely time well spent!
Agreed. These eminem tracks over past few years especially. They are being reviewed by other artist mostly or mainly hip hop listeners. Knox is the only one that's not trying to "react" and entertain the viewers. Hes breaking down poetry and music theory and hes by far the best one doing that probably the only one. We need an unbiased music theory teacher or professor, someone that can really break down poetry and theory to fullest. Knox is teaching classes so imagine if a professor from Berkeley that studies and teaches this for years were to dissect it.
Knox is the GOAT of reactions lol. I had to sit through this 50 minutes because this was my favorite Em track on this album. I wanted to see if I missed anything. Also, Knox! I've been downloading your music on Apple Music and it's 🔥! Keep doing your thing!!
Hell yea man. Appreciate the support on both levels!! 🔥
“They call me dog because I'm bar-king” just a casual double entendre for Em.
Triple. Bark as in tree bark
Soooooo fucking hard lol I didn't catch that bar till like my 10th listen lol
@@VelvetVelva yeah, reference to trees because he said "y'all picking the wrong tree" in the last bar
Its actually another quad. There's also the english phrase "Barking mad" (Barking Mad=absolutely crazy) which is sometimes shortened to just "barking".
Em also literally barks directly after to highlight all parts of the quadruple and put emphasis on the mad/crazy part
I find it insane that Em can even think of these genius level entendres that fit together so well but he's still been putting in hidden layers even when trying to sound obvious
Tbh I only noticed because in one bar on "Not Alike" off Kamikaze he has another quad that has a randomly themed layer that mostly people from the UK more specifically London would understand
"I'm really on some Mary Poppins vibe, like Em is coming down with his umbrella destroying dreams and lives". 🤣😂🤣 this man.
Sounded like Tom and Jerry to me in the background
It's actually a sample mix of Alfred Hitchcock's intro song to his shows from the old days..
and who calls herself Mary Poppins? its rhymes with Pariah Scary.
Petition for Knox to react to “Key - Skit” on the album after one of these breakdowns just for the laughs
Agreed.I think his brain will hurt even more after this trolling
Agree
YEAAAAAAAH C'MON KNOXXXXXXXXX REACT TO KEY - SKIT FROM THIS ALBUM TOOOOO
Agree
Still a 30 min breakdown tho xD
Loved the intro bar, how he did like a throwback to Criminal.
"Give zero fucks, then I
Check my ball hair, make sure it's all there"
As a throwback to the line from Criminal "if I ever gave a fuck, I'd shave my nuts"
Damn i didnt realies that and now i fell dumb
When Em said "gettin cut like abdominals" it also sounds like "gettin cut like a domino's", domino's as in the pizza you cut into pieces to eat
i heard that
Third that
What the hell goes on in Eminem's head bruh 😭😭😭
I thought I was hearing different from everyone else so i always let that go.. you’re the first person I’ve seen reference it. Most rappers struggle to spit a couple good bars.. EM spits multi syllable entendres and has bars in bars. Is there even a word for making an entire bar that has two different meanings but sounds the same? (Even though it is just a play on a single word that has to be more then a homophone)
"Em is just coming down on his umbrella destroying kids hopes and dreams." - " While holding his balls"
Also the sour grapes line is about the Netflix documentary called "sour grapes" about a man who sold fake wine for thousands of dollars. 🔥
Also the playful instrumental throughout the song is literally Alfred hitchcock's theme song from the movie. Also he sings happy birthday (to Billie Eilish) but he's washing his hands coz you're supposed to wash your hands for the duration of the happy birthday song.
Holy shit, nice catch, ny head rn 🤯 EM is to much lol
sposta sing it twice i believe. I've never liked that song honestly
😮😮😮😮😮🤯
Anyone else notice the consistent theme of eyes throughout the song? From the cyclops to Visine to all those "i" rhymes and 2020 vision... Even more creepifying considering the background art lol. Love this breakdown.
There's a few reoccurring themes, trees for example:
"Like a tree mostly just all bark"
"yall picking the wrong tree"
"you probably go broke at the dollar tree"
"if you shot a tree you wouldn't pop the trunk"
It's crazy how interconnected everything is
Ty for doing these proper analysis for Eminem songs, as I'm not native English speaker, lot of these metaphors slip under my radar. You make me appreciate his work even more, thank you
The beat is taken from Alfred Hitchcock’s show “Alfred Hitchcock Presents...” so there’s actually a quadruple for the line “throw in the theme to Alfred, I’ll channel him like the Panama Canal” 1. Panama Canal is a channel 2. Channel Hitchcock’s dark humor 3. Literally throwing in alfred’s theme on his track called alfred’s theme 4. Turning the channel to Hitchcock’s show
And Alfreds movie Notorious has a line by Ingrid Bergman talking about blowing up the Panama canal
That's fucking insane I've never seen a quad entandre 🤯🤯
The beat is called March of the Marionettes if anyone is wondering the name
When does Eminem say that in this video?
@@H2OIsMyBro 8:52
50 mins? Time to get some popcorn because is gonna be next level, Em's level of detail. Great work Knox as always, keep them up
It's a homograph...doesn't matter how many at the same time. You are so phenomenal at this!! Been re-tweeting your stuff on Twitter and posting links for your show! More people need to know about this show and your mad skills as a rapper!!!
Knox..he does it everytime! You poor guy...major props to you!!!
@@Sunny-jz3dywhat did you reply to?
The instrumental is the “theme music” from “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” Hitchcock’s television series about murder! Hence, the track is called “Alfred’s theme” Lol.
"It's obvious that it's impossible for me to B SIDE myself" a double for Beside myself - Since this is the B side of the album
BARS
Nice catch
Really a triple because it’s also a play off of the bar on MTBMB side A on the song You Gon’ Learn when he says “thought my name was B side cause they flipped over my tape” so in this song he is saying it’s impossible to B side hisself meaning he doesn’t miss anything like others do. Plus being beside oneself means that you are taken back or dumbfounded and Em is saying it’s impossible for him to be dumbfounded. I mean this bar alone has like 5 different things he is saying. The man is a G E NYUS 🤪
Like 4 meanings
He’s also saying ‘if cleanliness is next to godliness its impossible to b side my self’ meaning he’s a god so he can’t physically be next to himself
Why Harvard does not give him Doctorate degree.... he is a lyrical genius
one of these universities will.................soon
That “double-crossed my fans” bar was also a continuation of when he said “TARGET on my back.” A target has the shape of a cross; one line going up, one line going across. What you said about the Xans could have easily been part of it, too!
Knox catches 537 punches but his evening is ruined because he missed one. My dude!! Great job!!
Haha this is actually a fact. And since it’s Em I’m always gonna miss one. But the grind still continues
@@KnoxHill I think the comp is referring to composition stomping a mud hole in his composition.. Like composing.. Like Hitchcock 🤷🏼♂️
@@ToyReaper I thought he was stomping a mud hole in his competition for that bar but with em it probably has 70 meanings so everybodies right 😂
@@raz1287 definitely his Competition but you’re probably right lol 😂
I'm old enough (69) to remember the TV series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.😁 The background sample is the theme song to that show.💯 Since Em's song is named "Alfred's Theme", that's a double!🔥😂✌️❤️
Wait... a 70 yr old Eminem fan?....😂😂 nice mate you just got promoted to zoomer lol
Btw zoomer is young and boomer is old
@@exoticpyro7764 I've been a Stan since the Shady days.💯 But I think I'm too slow to be a Zoomer!😂✌️❤️
@@tomaleshire4145 Hitting us with a double for Zoomer! You a certified Stan ❤️
When Eminem is washing his hands singing happy birthday.During the pandemic the public were told by the government to sing happy birthday twice to make sure you wash your hands for 20 seconds.
That's how fast he is? Hahahaha
Also album came out Dec 18. Check out billies birthday
I don't pan dirt. No Gold diggers
Oh, like in the video it actually shows someone washing their hand while singing happy birthday??....I don't get it.
So true gotta love Eminem.
Every single line of every song on Side B is a fire f'n bar. It's insane
This is literally his best album imo.
@@helsharidy123 i like curtain call more but mtbmb is also one of his best albums of all time
@@Python-xs2iv He said in my opinion, for your information.
@@Python-xs2iv Cope
@@Python-xs2iv The fact you're getting mad over someones opinion is pathetic lmao.
Man this is my first time on this channel, i didn't thing it would be a good idea to watch a 50 min video when i had other options out there too. but i gave it a shot and by the end you shot my head dead.
You are amazing bro knoxhill, you deserve my whole friend circle subscribing to you. man you have my heart, Respect for you bro
Check out stevieknight they are on par with each other. Both are number 1 the absolute best at bar breakdowns. Knox is a little more in depth on talking about the music production tho
@@tjpowell234no offense to Stevie but he isn't even close to knox on general knowledge and catching totally random bars. now If the bar is about something rap related he will probably catch it but knox sounds like he needs to go on fucking jeopardy or something he knows so much random shit
@@tjpowell234Stevie is good but Knox is on another level if we are talking bar break downs.
@@tjpowell234Stevie mid
This video right here is why you are the best at breakdowns. You didn't try to short change the breakdown needed for this song just to have a "normal" length video. You did what you normally do and just kept going and going like the energizer bunny. Thank you for putting the time and effort into catching every bar possible. I can't wait to see you breakdown the rest of the album. Let's hope your sanity, and camera, can hold up.
N rest well in between reactions! Cuz he puts in Over time!
He ain't that good better then most but doesn't catch everything. I started to realize people's brains work differently n catch different meanings in eminems work but he can't have 7 different meanings for one line lol
50 minutes? This is going to be a good one!
Much needed
I hate looking at time stamps when I'm on this channel because it raises expectations but WOW 50 MINUTES
Enjoy it
Yessss
I just saw that and grabbed the popcorn
I'm 4 minutes in and I can already tell you're very knowledgeable and genuinely appreciative of great music. You've already earned my subscription. One thing I'll add that I wouldn't expect you to have known is that the album was released on Billie Eilish's birthday which is why is sang happy birthday before going in to that bar.
Ya, and that’s why em planned it. Em is crazy crazy good with that shit! Every day he puts out a song or album he waits for a special date to make it hit harder, like kill shot! Just crazy how talented em really is! Alien 👽
It’s also how long you were supposed to wash your hands during Covid.. 20 seconds, the average time to sing happy birthday.. so it’s a triple
I'm surprised no one caught it, the hand washing part, the CDC recommended people wash their hands while singing happy birthday as that song , when you sing it twice, is exactly the amount of time required to completely clean your hands. another thing that i might be wrong about, but a bare pole? checking his hair?..just a guess on that one though
I was about to say something on the handwashing part, where you need to sing happy birthday.
me too, very surprised. the 20 second happy Birthday song rinses off the rona.
I caught that one, and just like all of us, Em doesn't have time for that sh*t! Lol
Only 1 reactor I've seen caught the happy bday skit, they must not pay attention to the news.
That skit does one more thing: it addresses people who don't follow the COVID guidelines set by the CDC. He doesn't sing the whole Happy Birthday song, he ends early and says "shhhh", like people want to act like they follow but don't want tell anyone that they actually don't. This skit is 🔥
The “frying after” he was talking about is the electric chair. Then the needle was lethal injection.
Also could be with the chicken scheme, as in frying chicken.
I think the burning in hell thing was also intentional too
Mate why do you not have more subs - your breakdowns are insane. You catch literally everything!!!!!!!!!!!! LEAPS and BOUNDS above any other breakdown channel!!!! Keep it up fella 👍
Knox: "How does your mind work like this!?"
Eminem: "Good Question."
Im 28 and been a stan since i was 12 y.o
And i appreciate the hell of how you break down his shit.
You're great man
Keep the hell up!
Ain't no one in this reaction game that does what you do
The third ernest is also good.
Damn so you were seven years old when I started listening to eminem. I was 12 years old I'm 34 now. The slim shady LP was still pretty fresh and new by the time I got a hold of it. Ever since then I've been a huge fan of Eminem. I can't really listen to much else unless it has complex lyrics or some good storytelling as well. all I can say is there's a lot of garbage nowadays because people are too hooked on doing drugs and wrapping with no talent. Basically today's rap is all ego no talent
did u understand a third of what EM was saying at 12??? i doubt it😁,
so when did you develop Em ears?
@@hechpee at 12 i was just laughing from the content and how vulgar and funny he was.
It was actually the song FACK that made me such a crazed fan and then i got into the "why" would he say what ever it is he was saying
Stevieknight is on the same level as knoxhill except he doesn't mention or talk about the music and production as much as knox
The part where you asked does he sit there all day thinking of words and schemes and such
Yes he does he did a 60 minutes interview when he got clean and they showed that he has boxes and boxes full of random napkins and pieces of paper and note pads with ideas that he had written over the years and in interviews since then interviewers have asked him the same question and he said all I do is think of words if I'm driving, eating, or watching television etc he's thinking of words and he writes them down and with put it away in his boxes and go back to them when he needs them he calls it stocking ammunition he said he does that because he can't remember them if he doesn't
Yooo, genius missed 1 bar I cought. He said"happy birthday" to billie eilish cuz her birthday was the same day the album comes out and then he continued addressing the situation but how genius is this,he just knew it.he is trying to keep everthing positive
Ye but fair enough to him , he can’t be a fan of everyone Eminem fires shots at/references/shouts out
99/100
Also because you are supposed to sing happy birthday when you wash your hands, because it is recommended you wash them for 20 seconds.
Also the sour grapes is actually a documentary on Netflix. Hbday 2x while washing hands, a punk bring heat firework bar (punk that actually lights the wick)
also also , he made a huge birthday scheme there , since he also said "im fulfilling my wish", i mean its not big but damn he's a god
3:33 For the Sample/beat ... its a re arrangement of Alfred Hitchcocks theme. From Alfred Hitchcock presents a movie or an episode.
Alfred's theme
"bitch it's 2020,
you still ain't seeing me", this could also be taken as saying that you can't see each other in person due to the lockdown because of covid.
damn... more bar i missed lol
I was thinking this but didn't say anything 🤣
Wtf if Em didn't think of that while writing this bar then fair play because that's a BARR
Oh yeah!! That's a smart one
@@shino190 ?
Knox Hill is, by far, the best bar breakdown channel. I have a newfound respect for Eminem now after watching these videos. I never knew how masterful a wordsmith Eminem was until I saw these videos.
And Knox catches 98% of the bars.......most other reactors....75% @ best!!!
@@psychrn4796 75% is being generous. Most of them just listen to the video and freak out during some parts, but don't actually break down the lyrics. Knox breaks down every single bar so you know just how amazing the lyrics are. That's why I like his bar breakdown channel the most.
He catches shit dat juz fly's over our heads!!! Dis cat is sharp! Da man. Got bars, & flows also
Man how can people say "oh i prefer old em to the new one" when Em is now more mature and killing it harder than ever.
Old em is just funnier and a littler more brutal and reckless when it comes to what he could say. But yes em is killlling it now
It's nostalgia and his songs were more catchy in those times n also I think ppl miss his old voice.. And his lyrics now is very complex which obviously goes over ppls head.. Or they complain they don't like the beats..
Yep those people are either basic fans or not fans that are living on nostalgia but never bothered to break down his bars. Eminem had literally gotten better with age, like so much better.
@@rogerm4a1 exactly lyrically.. But sonically ppl complain they don't like his beats n generally how the song is built.. This is why ppl hated revival.. I loved a lot of songs of revival and it just doesn't make sense how it got hated.. It's obvious ppl don't listen to the words.. This is why he said in the ringer ".. Maybe if I auto tuned it you would've bought it"
I grew up with old em... But this em ripped me 14 new assholes he's in his prime at 48 what the fuck
I probably would've missed half of these bars (references, jokes, callbacks - pure genius) without this breakdown! I appreciate how Knox is just as blown away by Em's incredible intelligence and cleverness as I am! 🙌🏼
Moment of genius, "cause I got a target on my back" could be interpreted "how did this tar get on my back" thanks Knox !
Agreed Bro like where your heads at that isn’t such a reach that’s a bar in itself Salute broski nice either way. you never know with Em’s beast mode bars zone like that can be interpreted anyway our brains can think. When he most likely didn’t it was simple to him he sittin back laughing at us lol..🤜🏼🤛🏼💯🤙🏼 Peace ✌️
I didnt need this guy for that
@@sTr33TThug67 and you just Wacht the vidio
The hand washing cut is a reference to Covid, where the recommended time of washing your hands is around 21 seconds, or for kids they asked them to sing "happy birthday" twice, and thats what he started doing.
Em is a genius, but never forget, he's a fucking fool also lmao
also releasing the album on billie eilish's birthday so hes also wishing her a happy birthday lol
Also also em mentions about being childish shortly after. Billie eilish said she prefers childish gambino rather than em cos em scares her lol
When he sings happy birthday hes actually peeing on his hands if u listen
"Idiotic Savant"
Something you missed slightly is when he says “cut” and “dominoes” he is also referencing the pizza place dominoes and how pizza gets cut into slices
Since I live in Australia, these breakdowns help a lot as a lot of Eminem's stuff is American slang (a lot of the gun stuff especially). Keep up the great work. Thank you.
That xanax bar catch was everything!!!! The "double" in "double cross" can also be expanded. An "X" is literally formed by crossing two (double) lines. There's no limit on his entendres and connections!
Yep when Knox hill paused I thought that’s what he was gonna say, didn’t catch it until he paused though!
Every body on TH-cam always says "if you're still here hit that subscribe button" but for real this time I had to.
By far the best breakdown channel on the platform. You catch more bars, doubles and triples than anybody else and it makes me appreciate the music that much more!
Thank you for all the work you do 👍🙏
He’s the best in breaking down. I’ve seen many but Knox can do it partly because he’s a rapper himself.
Knox seriously deserves some kind of award for how well he understands and knows Music firsthand. If there’s ever a Grammy for Reactors or Breakdowns... Knox deserves several for doing this better than anyone else for years. 💎
ikr! he's way underrated.
'Pipe bomb in your pine box'.
That really sums up why I love rap, and more so, the style you see with people like Biggie and Em and Wayne, etc.
Killer poetry.
Sit back and relax, grab your popcorn, and listen to the genius in work. Ready for a long one
*Genius's.
Knox thank you for the break downs. Enjoying your content, love Shaq’s reactions, Knight’s energy, Scru’s honesty, Crypt’s ambition, DuaneTV’s joy, and so many more but your break Downs are another level and I love it man ty
That "crocodile/croc a dial" went way over my head even with the phone ringing in the background. Gahdamn
I love Alfred’s little tune sample in this beat. Goes back to the days my grandma and I would take the day and watch Alfredo Hitchcock movies. She especially loved “Birds!”
Man It sucks I cant listen to any other reactors anymore. lol. cause you catch so much more then anyone else. and Now I just get mad at everyone else cause they dont hold a candle to what you catch homie. and thats just keeping it 💯 Thanks for all you do man.
I literally just thought the same thing.... His explanations are on point... Not even his cursing bothers me 😂 he's really good at this...
Facts
He was washing his hands and singing happy birthday for the full length of time to wash hands. At least that’s what i think
That was going around online when corona first started
also the album dropped in billie aniversary, so it could be that too, since he talked about billie too
@@andresousa5302 on Billie’s birthday*
@@andresousa5302 its em. It's all of that
It could of been both
"Stompin' a mudhole in my comp even if it's off the top of the dome"... destroying the competition even in freestyle
Which could also be seen as stomping a new a**hole in the competition/competitor even if he has to stomp on their head. Killing the competition. Music to be buried by.
Yep. As a dude who lives in the south the mud hole was easy and as a former fps devotee I caught the comp reference. Though it took me a few times to actually catch the bar. Was looking to see if anyone posted about already before I did, good catch Jimmy.
And meine kompft in German meaning my head also the title of hitlers book. The line Makes sense when you put that in there
No matter the medium or genre, it's always a treat to see someone who is a really well-informed, excited fan of something explain what they appreciate about it and how they see it.
You missed this:
"To treating it like a cyclops,
Like it's the only one I've... got..."
He matched his pitch to "Not Throwing Away My Shot" in the Hamilton musical, while paying respects to the lyrical acumen of the song itself. Same exact pitch. Shit was a quadruple entendre. Next, next, next level.
1 year later. No he didn't miss the "only one eye got. He talked about it four a minute and a half
@@tjpowell234 read the comment again
Also, 1 eye could also reference a cock as well.
Ohhh I have to check that throwing away my shot line, I missed it, I love Hamilton
Crazy part is Lin-Manuel gave Eminem credit for being one of his influences while writing the show.
I'm getting settled in ready for my bar class
It’s a good one. Grab the notepad 🙌
The breakdown I've been waiting for 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.
Hope it was worth the wait!
Yes, it definitely is, Thank you.
Crazy how Knox can pick all of this up and relay it to us. And em is the GOAT. Name another artist to put this many bars, references and doubles into one song. There's more bars in this than your rappers entire best album
The Billie Eilish scheme is a triple.
As someone said in a previous comment said, he dropping the music to be murdered by, side B it on her birthday. while singing happy birthday to her.
But singing happy birthday whilst washing his hands over coronavirus. Everyone knows singing it twice in a row, is how long your ment to wash your hands for.
But what was missed was...
While drinking wild irish. The wild irish drink is a cocktail, called the wild irish rose... and the irish rose is aka the rose of tralee, is a female who can only enter it who is irish born or irish ancestry. And Billie eilish has strong irish ancestry on her da's side
Don't forget the release date was on her birthday.
And the "Childish" line was a hint about Billie chosing Childish Gambino over Eminem because he was guving her nightmares
Eminem is fucking crazy
@@hyphenq oh my fuck 😭😭😭, how does one...
@@shawnlouis7716 Knox Hill said the childish one in the video but ikr wtf how does Em come up with that
“Stomach in knots like you swallowed rope” Rope is a movie by Alfred Hitchcock. It’s about murdering people with no motive, just for the experience.
Thank you I didn't catch that.
Dayum son, that's a good catch! 👍🏿
Man! If Em is the God of creating such genius, props to the Oracle Knox Hill to make us mere mortals understand the entire message
it's like Em is the God and Knox Hill is the prophet 😆
50 minutes! This should be released as a Documentary on Netflix 🙌 "Knoxhill X Eminem Breakdown Episode 1" xd
Nice idea
"Em is just flying down with his umbrella, destroying childrens lives and dreams" That painted a good picture my man, haha!
I actually liked Alfred’s theme. The raps worked really well with the music, even if the words do go over people’s heads.
I cnt believe i spend my 50min of my life on this! Worth it!
1:40
Song: *a woman screaming and being buried*
Knox: *trying to hide a smile*
😂
Am I a psycho? 🤣🤣 Probably
@@KnoxHill nah you were just excited as hell to hear a new eminem song like the rest of us
@@MrDrsoyer Of course man, he's just joking lol
@@KnoxHill after reaction to this song? Just maybe...
It could be me
I just saw Stevie Knight snapped on his reaction to Alfred theme....lets see how Knox's brain just blow up 😁
Ps. I think that happy birthday was to Billie, her birthday is 18th december - b side came out 18th december also 😂
Also song "happy birthday" is like routine for childrens to wash hands as long as song goes...
Soooo.... triple there...
Imagine how freaked billie eilish got when hearing this on her birthday
@@damienechter3014 yeaa lol
I don't think Em would have dropped a line meant for her bday that ONLY would have applied 1 x to an album drop. It literally has no other relevance beyond that. I don't think he cares about her enough for that. It was more in reference to also G-easy and his happy birthday reference in one of his songs.
@@damienechter3014 also how the fuck he come up with that?
@@absbica31 he dropped like 5 bars for her - sooo why not another one?
THAT DOUBLE CROSS STAN TO XAN BAR IS CRAZZYYYYYY MANN WTF, KNOX YOU TRULY KING OF BREAKDOWN MANNN. PROPS TO YOUUU
The Graze line is Eminem referring to himself as a G.O.A.T
The Happy Birthday skit was him washing his hands while singing happy birthday twice which is the length that doctor’s suggest.
Yeah this is it.
@@azurnxo2134 I thought I did some shit when I typed that comment but you guys are smart AF.GG
The way he says “say the” after the haters bars sounds like “Sada”. And Sada has been hating on Em a lot.
U ppl r crazy digging too deep
@@sTr33TThug67 lol it's not too deep because he's right because it was him going after sada baby
i agree that Em can make such bars but sada is too small for Em to dedicate a bar towards him,
sada is still finding the beat🤣...........dude sounds off-beat and NO! offbeat is NOT a style of rap
he is not an elite rapper, his little fans do not listen to him cos of intelligent lyrics, they are just kids messing around,
it wouldn't be a good sport for EM to go back & forth with a baby like sada.....................sada's favorite rapper has Eminem as his favorite rapper
@@hechpee I agree I don't think Em went after Sada butSada off beat style is a Detroit underground rap style. He is original and has a lot of word play as well,he is no Em but he is gifted
Lmao em don’t care about sada baby. He’s not relevant at a national scale, and he isn’t threatened by some local rapper.
The double cross breakdown is something I’ve never heard from anyone and i doubt many (besides Em) could even think of the visual to make that happen. Levels on levels on levels. Fucking mind blowing! 👏 👏 the goat of breaking bars down right here
You need to go breakdown no love. The whole recovery album is Em telling fans he's changing his rap style. Tells you in seduction he's no longer rhyming one syllables. But no love is a farewell to his old style. Absolute 🔥 The awareness of his past and future is ridiculous
“Went from punching the time clock to getting my shot, then treated it like a cyclops - like it’s the only one I (eye) got.” Did this album come out pre or post-Corona vaccine? The most common vaccines (right now, at least; the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines) require two shots. Maybe he’s also saying that he only got one of them, and that’s why he’s so sick. Making this a triple or quadruple entendre - I lost count. Then the “parental ad-Visine” line calls back to the “one eye” pun. Damn! So dense.
This was before any vaccines so unfortunately not but it works still just un-intentionally.
Bruh what the fuck 🤯🤯🤯,, I'm still missing shit after 1 year 😂
I just finished watching Stevie Knight's 40 minute reaction of this song, then went to my subscriptions and saw this 50 minute reaction lol. I'll have to watch this later.
You can tell Stevie this cause I love that man but I beat him on this one 🤣🙌
@@KnoxHill I just did that lol
I saw Stevie's notification pop, and then I saw yours, Knox. I had to put Stevie on hold, because there's no way I can wait to see yours. I'm heading to his next.
weakling. finished stevie 40 min, and continued straight to this one XD
I will never understand how people dislike eminem, he is lyrically and rhythmically the most superior rapper to ever live, and definitely up their on the knights of the round table of MC’s
Hes a word savant, understands words in ways neurotypical folk cant fathom
I believe you missed a flip on the "frying after" bar since when you have electricity run through you it is called frying (electric chair)
Yeah I he also missed part of the Santa bars. Eminem says he's invisible which ties into Santa since no one is ment to see Santa. Eminem then also says he is at the mall, kinda like how there are santas at the malls during Christmas time. Yes I know this is an old comment lol but this dude is crazy at catching bars