This song mainly continues off of the previous track on the album, “Nice Guy,” in which Eminem talks about confusing relationships and how he tries to turn them into stable, healthy relationships. Jessie Reyez is also featured on the track.
[Verse: Eminem]
Here we go aga-ain, from heroes to villains
Used to be your Romeo, but we both were jilted
A couple of times, so we had a slippery slope to deal with
But still, it gave me hope that we'll get
Through it together, a severed earlobe
Mailed to you in a E-N-V-E-lope
Would be dope, but what kind of lengths can you go?
Pull a Vincent van Gogh, just to convince a damn ho (Damn ho)
To be a housewife who outright lies
She's blackout drunk, now she's backin' out my drive
I ran outside, why is she tryna act out?
She's just about my size, hit me in the mouth twice
Guys, when someone you'd die for
Sticks a steak knife in your heart, do you try more?
Another late night in, she stumbles through my door
Lets the daylight in and all we do's fight more
And I ain't violent, but she's goin' through my drawers (Illa, Illa, Illa)
To plant the K-Y in, I'm gettin' accused by a whore
Who smells like St. Ides and who's prob'ly screwed five more
Guys, sucked eight-nine men
I'm takin' two-by-fours to our eight-by-tens
Bitch, it's you I tore out the frame, I win
Put up a new high score, beat this game I'm in
And here's some two-ply for when you date my friends
In order to wipe your ass when you moved your bowels
When we renewed our vows, this the thanks I get?
I'm waitin' for the day I can
Hear you say, "Marshall, what a skank I've been."
"And there's a new guy, you're being replaced by him."
Got your tubes tied for him, got that boob job for him
Hurts me to my core, but the pain I'm in
After you, I swore to make the grey skies end
Here come the rays like when
You get a pay hike and
Am I the good guy or do I just play like him (Illa, Illa, Illa)
And hope that he dumps you?
It's like a dream come true, just to scream "Fuck you!" (Fuck you!)
Guess you take life in the same way you play dice then
'Cause you just look at me and roll them little snake eyes in
Since—
[Chorus: Jessie Reyez]
Since you bought the jury, they'll call me guilty
They'll call me guilty
You bought the jury, they'll call me guilty
Even though you know the real me
You can't beat a cheater, convince a nonbeliever
And I ain't in my feelings, I'm out
But I'll let you say that you're the good guy
'Cause this ain't what love looks like
You can't beat a cheater, convince a nonbeliever
I ain't in my feelings, I'm out
But I'll let you say that you're the good guy
Play like you're the good guy
Play like, play like, play like you're the good guy
Good Guy was written by やまだ豊 (Yutaka Yamada) & 胡麻本りさ (Lisa Gomamoto) & IllaDaProducer & Jessie Reyez & Eminem.
Good Guy was produced by IllaDaProducer.
Producer IllaDaProducer confirmed via twitter that it was “Glassy Sky” and that he confused it with another beat he had done using Kingdom Hearts theme.
Yes! You can watch it here:
In the video version of the song, the chorus does not only appear at the end, but also at the beginning.
So far, there’s nothing from any official source to suggest that it does. Em is not one for subtlety. He has already named Kim in multiple songs before and has made his disdain for subliminal disses pretty clear. So it’s unlikely that this song is anything but a story depicting fictional characters....
Yes. In the music video, exactly at the end when Jessie buried Em and laid with him, there was actually a reference to the skeletons of “ The Lovers of Valdaro”
As this article on ancient-origins.net puts it
The “Lovers of Valdaro” are a pair of human skeletons that were discovered in 2007 by a te...
“Good Guy” was certified gold by the RIAA on March 8, 2022.