"I hope that I don't sound too heinous when I say this, Nicki Minaj/But I wanna stick my pain-us in your anus," Eminem rhymes on "Fast Lane." Oh, please, Em, you've been way ­heinouser before. And, in fact, the track - the first single from Bad Meets Evil, the newly revived duo with his Detroit pal Royce da 5'9" - is fired by mic-ninja rap attack, not jaundiced shock tactics. Eminem kicks it 1999-style, reconnecting with the hungry young lunatic who sounded like he only had a stanza to blow us away or it was back to the auto plant. Royce eggs him on with psycho shit like "Slap up a cop and then snatch him out of his uniform...Hang him by his balls from the horn of a unicorn," and Shady returns to his 8 Mile roots: "Drive them trailer parks crazy/I am back, and I am razor-sharp, baby."

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“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.