Originally Posted by
laststepdown
That's actually not terribly surprising to me, and cool to hear from someone else's perspective. On the other hand, i'm 35, started listening to NIN at pretty hate machine, have been listening to hip-hop since 1990, and when I first heard eminem that line stuck with me as genius-NIN has been my favorite band for most of my entire life. I thought 'if you didn't know who NIN was, that line still makes sense, if you just listened to rap you actually would be much more shocked. it lyrically introduces those to eminem that don't listen to hip hop that eminem has a vast appreciation of multiple musical genres. excellent wordplay.' For those that don't listen to eminem, the lyric is 'hi kids, do you like violence? wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids?' and the word violence is added instead of primus for the uncensored version.