Eminem‘s doing a little bit of closet cleansing … in an intensive and uncommon interview the place he particulars his previous drug use and divulges his greatest influencers presently in the rap recreation!!!
In a first-person spill with XXL, Eminem admitted he nonetheless takes his music critically today — a lot so, he has the likes of Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Joyner Lucas and Big Sean in his crosshairs … on a aggressive stage, after all.
Eminem is the highest-selling rapper of all time, and overtly admits chasing numbers and stats does not entice him anymore. Instead, he says watching the quartet of youthful rappers’ each transfer has grow to be a pastime for the 49-year-old hip hop legend.
He says he is “watching them and how the fuck they’re doing their s***, because they’re also focused on being the best rappers.”
Em continued, “I nonetheless like to rap. It’s at all times been an important factor to me. I nonetheless have enjoyable writing. I’ve enjoyable watching the rappers I simply talked about, and being like, OK, let me see if I can do one thing that inside I feel I can prime that. And each time one of the best rappers drop an album, it adjustments the panorama of the fuckin’ recreation.
“At least it does for me, and I’m like, I need to be able to rap like that. Because if I don’t do that, someone’s going to come behind me, probably in the next couple of years, and wash me.”
Marshall additionally chronicled his timeline of drug use, together with his near-fatal overdose, and likewise recalled a time 50 Cent saved his butt on reside tv when he was too excessive to even reply questions on 106 & Park!!!
The painful clip is the way it appears to be like … Em says his “wheels started to come off” as he stumbled via the 20-minute interview.
Of course, Slim Shady has been clear for years and is presently swimming in rumors he is prepping to launch new music … in addition to serving to Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre on their upcoming joint album.
Kendrick, Sean and them higher prepare!!!
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