Peak
4
Weeks
22
Score
4,582
Chart Year
2011
Bad Meets Evil is the duo of Eminem and Royce da 5'9. The pair first teamed up in the late '90s when they were underground Detroit MC's. After releasing a few recordings, the rappers pursued solo careers after their initial work together and became embroiled in a feud. After reconciling they revived their project a decade later and released their Hell: The Sequel EP on Shady/Interscope Records on June 14, 2011. This soft-hop track features Bruno Mars and was produced by his production team The Smeezingtons along with Eminem and Battle Roy. Mars' refrain gives the tune similar dynamics to his collaboration with B.O.B., "Nothin' on You." Royce's verse finds him recalling his dad hanging up his postal carrier uniform. "I cried plenty tears, my daddy gotta bad back," he rap-sings. "So it's only right, that I write till he can march right/In to that post office and tell 'em to hang it up." "It was always a goal of mine to hopefully retire my father someday," Royce explained to The Boombox. He added: "I'm so tired of hearing him complain about his back. I was always a daddy's boy; always looked up to my daddy. So that's just a goal of mine for my parents to chill, while they are still young. If they could spend their 60s and 70s just chillin', that'd be good for me." Hell: The Sequel topped the Billboard 200 in its debut week, having sold 171,000 copies. Though Eminem has reached the summit many times previously, Royce's previous best chart position had been the #110 ranking of 2009's Street Hop.
This one's for you and me, living out our dreams We're all right where we should be With my arms out wide I open my eyes And now all I wanna see Is a sky full of lighters A sky full of lighters By the time you hear this I will have already spiraled up I would never do nothing to let you cowards fuck my world up If I was you, I would duck, or get struck like lightening, Fighters keep fighting, put your lighters up, point 'em' skyward uh Had a dream I was king, I woke up, still king This rap game's nipple is mine for the milking, Till nobody else even fucking feels me, till' it kills me I swear to god I'll be the fucking illest in this music There is or there ever will be, disagree? Feel free, but from now on I'm refusing to ever give up Only thing I ever gave up's using no more excuses Excuse me if my head is too big for this building And pardon me if I'm a cocky prick but you cocks are slick Poppin' shit on how you flipped ya life around, crock-o-shit Who you dicks try to kid, flipped dick, you did the opposite You stayed the same, 'cause cock backwards is still cock you pricks I love it when I tell 'em shove it Cause it wasn't that long ago when Marshall sat, luster lacked, lustered 'Cause he couldn't cut mustard, muster up nothing Brain fuzzy, 'cause he's buzzin', woke up from that buzz Now you wonder why he does it, how he does it Wasn't 'cause he had buzzards circle around his head Waiting for him to drop dead, was it? Or was it, 'cause them bitches wrote him off Little hussy ass buzzards, fuck it, guess it doesn't matter now, does it What difference it make? What it take to get it through your thick skulls As if this ain't some bullshit People don't usually come back this way From a place that was dark as I was in Just to get to this place Now let these words be like a switch blade to a haters rib cage And let it be known from this day forward I wanna just say thanks 'cause your hate is what gave me the strength So let 'em bic's raise 'cause I came with five nine But I feel like I'm six eight This one's for you and me, living out our dreams We're all right where we should be With my arms out wide I open my eyes And now all I wanna see Is a sky full of lighters A sky full of lighters By the time you hear this I'll probably already be outtie I advance like going from toting iron To going and buying four or five of the homies the iron man Audi My daddy told me slow down, boy, you goin' to blow it And I ain't gotta stop the beat a minute To tell Shady I love him the same way that he did Dr.Dre on the Chronic Tell him how real he is or how high I am Or how I would kill for him for him to know it I cried plenty tears, my daddy got a bad back So it's only right that I right Till he can march right Into that post office and tell 'em to hang it up Now his career's Lebron's jersey in twenty years I'll stop when I'm at the very top You shitted on me on your way up It's 'bout to be a scary drop Cause what goes up must come down You going down on something you don't wanna see like a hairy box Every hour, happy hour now Life is wacky now Used to have to eat the cat to get the pussy Now I'm just the cats meow, ow Classic cow, always down for the catch weight like Pacquiao Y'all are doomed I remember when T-Pain ain't wanna work with me My car starts itself, parks itself and auto-tunes 'Cause now I'm in the Aston I went from having my city locked up To getting treated like Kwame Kilpatrick And now I'm fantastic Compared to a weed high And y'all niggas just gossipin' like bitches on a radio and TV See me, we fly Y'all buggin' out like Wendy Williams staring at a bee-hive And how real is that I remember signing my first deal And now I'm the second best I can deal with that Now Bruno can show his ass, without the MTV awards gag You and I know what it's like to be kicked down Forced to fight, but tonight we're alright So hold up your light, let it shine 'cause This one's for you and me, living out our dreams We're all right where we should be With my arms out wide I open my eyes And now all I wanna see Is a sky full of lighters A sky full of lighters
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jul 2, 2011 | 16 | 110 |
| 2 | Jul 9, 2011 | 36 | 90 |
| 3 | Jul 16, 2011 | 58 | 68 |
| 4 | Jul 23, 2011 | 33 | 93 |
| 5 | Jul 30, 2011 | 17 | 109 |
| 6 | Aug 6, 2011 | 10 | 116 |
| 7 | Aug 13, 2011 | 7 | 119 |
| 8 | Aug 20, 2011 | 5 | 121 |
| 9 | Aug 27, 2011 | 5 | 121 |
| 10 | Sep 3, 2011 | 6 | 120 |
| 11 | Sep 10, 2011 | 4 | 122 |
| 12 | Sep 17, 2011 | 7 | 119 |
| 13 | Sep 24, 2011 | 5 | 121 |
| 14 | Oct 1, 2011 | 6 | 120 |
| 15 | Oct 8, 2011 | 6 | 120 |
| 16 | Oct 15, 2011 | 11 | 115 |
| 17 | Oct 22, 2011 | 12 | 114 |
| 18 | Oct 29, 2011 | 16 | 110 |
| 19 | Nov 5, 2011 | 22 | 104 |
| 20 | Nov 12, 2011 | 26 | 100 |