2 Chainz has revealed that he was banned from smoking weed around Eminem when they were in the studio together.
Appearing on Club Shay Shay, the Atlanta rapper opened up about his experience working the rap legend on songs such as “Chloraseptic” and “Kyrie & Luka”.
Chainz said: “When I did work with Eminem, I couldn’t smoke in there. It was kinda funny. It was his people, not Eminem. Eminem was somewhere writing but his people are just so concerned with him, they put the speakers outside so I could listen to the beat.”
The “No Lie” rapper continued: “It’s a beautiful day in Malibu, I’m just smoking. I come back in to do my verse and the door’s closed and I’m in the booth smoking and I see Em out there and I’m like ‘he in there while I’m recording, that’s hard’. He’s about to come in and say something but his people are like ‘no, don’t go in there, he’s smoking’.
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“Em looks like ‘sit the fuck down, what do you think I’m about to do?’ I remember them tripping on him and he was not tripping at all.”
Eminem and 2 Chainz hooked up last year on “Kyrie & Luka” which was produced by DJ Premier.
The track, named after former Dallas Mavericks stars Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, also uses elements of Eric B. & Rakim’s 1987 classic “Move the Crowd” in the new song’s beat.
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Keeping with the NBA theme of “Kyrie & Luka,” 2 Chainz made two basketball references on the song. On one line, he rapped, “Things are going left like Julius Randle,” the Knicks player who has been criticized for his “inability to drive right.”
Chainz remained on topic by closing his verse with a reference to point guard Irving: “Just like Kyrie, I got this shit handled.”
2 Chainz has been busy this year, dropping Life is Beautiful, a collaborative project with both Larry June and The Alchemist that was also his first album since departing his longtime home of Def Jam.
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He also previously revealed that he plans to drop a joint album with Statik Selektah before the year is out.
