In his book '' Edited Clean Version : Technology and the Culture of Control '' , author Raiford Guins writes that the clean version of '' The Marshall Mathers LP '' " resembles a cross between a cell phone chat with terrible reception ... and a noted hip-hop lyricist suffering from an incurable case of hiccups . " This version of the album often either omits words completely or obscures them with added sound effects . The clean version of the album did not censor all profanity . Words like " ass " , " bitch " , " goddamn " , and " shit " were uncensored . However , on the track " The Real Slim Shady " , the words " bitch " and " shit " were censored out , as they used the clean version released for radio . References to violence and weapons were also significantly altered , and the songs " Kill You " , " Drug Ballad " and " Bitch Please II " are written as " Significant edits were made to aggressive and violent lyrics that were aimed at police , prostitutes , women , homosexuals , bullies and schools . In response to the attack that had occurred at Columbine High School in April 1999 , names of guns and sounds of them firing were censored . Interscope Records insisted on censoring the words " kids " and " Columbine " from the line , " I take seven kids from Columbine , stand them all in line " from " I 'm Back " , even on the explicit version of the album . Mike Rubin of '' Spin '' called the censorship a " curious decision , given that lyrics like ' Take drugs / Rape sluts ' are apparently permissible " . Eminem commented on his lyrics regarding the shooting , " That Columbine shit is so fucking touchy . As much sympathy as we give the Columbine shootings , nobody ever looked at it from the fuckin ' point of view of the kids who were bullied — I mean , they took their own fucking life ! And it was because they were pushed so far to the fucking edge that they were fucking so mad . I 've '' been '' that mad . " The full line appears uncensored in Eminem 's song " Rap God " from '' The Marshall Mathers LP 2 '' . The line " It does n't matter your attorney Fred Gibson 's a faggot " was also censored from " Marshall Mathers " , which refers to his mother Debbie Nelson 's lawyer , who assisted her in filing a lawsuit against the rapper for defamation regarding lyrics from '' The Slim Shady LP ''
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