Probably the best of all his lead singles.
While My Name Is is a funny song and Without Me is cool, The Real Slim Shady actually has a message in the lyrics (about the double standards when it comes to censorship) so it gets bonus points. He was actually using the poppy single to put out thinly veiled criticisms. He's pretty much saying what he says/does is no different to what anyone else says/does ("there's a Slim Shady in all of us") yet he gets censored and people like Tom Green don't. Somehow he managed to get these anti-censorship messages through the censors by making the song catchy/poppy. Genius, in a way.
Then there's the whole idea of...if he's so bad, why is everyone trying to be like him? He's kind of expressing disgust at his own celebrity...how he's become a fad/trend.
But even with all these serious messages, he still manages to be funny:
"Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records...well I do. So fuck him and fuck you too."
I love the way he annihilates people who were talking shit about him. He lets Christina have it on this song. Oh, and there are some nice, subtle rhymes you might not have picked up on: he rhymes "Burger King" with "circling," he says "you-know-what" and "you-know-who" because the "you know" part rhymes with "cute, though," he rhymes "return of the" with "furniture," he rhymes "course they" in "of course they gonna know what intercourse is" with "fourth grade."
And who could forget that chorus? Immortalized in rap history. Everybody knows the words...one more time...loud as you can...how does it go? He says in his autobiography he vocally tried to imitate a chainsaw sound at the beginning of the hook: "I'mmm Slim Shady!"
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