Eminem may have three collaborations with Ed Sheeran, but their relationship goes beyond making music together. During a recent interview on BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland, the UK superstar revealed he has a “pen-pal” friendship with Eminem that involves sending cassette tapes back and forth.
“I collect cassettes and I’ve got Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder and they are quite difficult to find,” he said. “The only person I know who collects the same is Eminem. He collects cassettes – that’s his thing. He loves collecting. He is avid at going to find them. We have started having this, it’s like a very cool pen-pal thing.
“I got a message the other day about an LL COOL J cassette. He said, ‘This is the cassette which made me want to start rapping.’ I sent him Van Morrison and I will send him David Gray’s White Ladder next.”
Speaking to Apple Music in December 2020, Eminem recalled not having enough money to buy cassettes when he was a kid.
“I just started [collecting] again,” he said at the time. “It took me about three years to get what I got right now because some tapes are harder to find than others. When I was a kid, I didn’t have money to buy every tape I ever wanted. So usually, what we had to do was go to this place called Record Time and I would take the tape that came out a couple weeks ago and trade it in for the new tape. You know, whatever else was out.”
He added, “Me and my friends would take turns buying the tape and be like, ‘It’s your turn to buy this tape and I get to dub it.’ Then it would be my turn to buy the next tape.”
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Cassettes aren’t the only thing Eminem and Ed Sheeran have bonded over throughout the years. In an August interview with Apple Music, Sheeran revealed they once had a four-hour conversation about Marvel Comics at the rapper’s Detroit studio.
“The first time we met, we didn’t make music,” he said. “I hung out there for about four hours and we just spoke Marvel and Avengers for about four hours. And then the next time I went back, we made a tune. The first tune we made, I was in Mexico and his producer flew to Mexico and I did the hook there and stuff.”
Revisit Ed Sheeran’s “Remember the Name” featuring Eminem and 50 Cent below.
Eminem. Probably the greatest fall from grace in hip hop history. He went from Marshall Mathers LP to talking about having sex with both of his parents.
I guess you never heard the Marshall mathers lp. Can I hear more about things you don’t know about?
How did you come to the conclusion that I’ve never heard the Marshall mathers lp. I’m actually praising it you illiterate fool. Its his later stuff that I’m questioning.
Maybe because he talks about “raping his own mother” on and prior to the MMLP. So indeed, tell us more about things you don’t know about.
Which songs…I know the album well. He didn’t start that nonsense until after mmlp.
Literally, the first song. First verse haha.
I stand corrected. That just makes him an even more disgusting POS. Just think about it for one second. How nasty is that?
So nasty that it’s hard to believe people were so bored 20 years ago that the idea of a white guy who could rap was all they had to live for. If you watch the Oscars audience response to lose yourself, there is a potent, “How did we ever like this?” confusion in the air. It was all bad.
You watch the Oscars? Yikes. The irony. Most people grow out of Eminem, as well as the Oscars lmao
THANK YOU for pointing out the obvious truth that the Marshall Mathers LP was just as stupid as any of his current stuff. But once the youth and the ghetto pass grows stale, people actually listen to your music and realize, “HOLY SHIT this is stupid.” Just took about 15 years cause he jumped on Rihanna’s back that mid-period and people were on a lot of drugs back then.
THANK YOU for pointing out the obvious fact that this human being was disgusting and off-kilter from the beginning. But back then there was youth, MTV, and Dre’s ghetto pass. But you’re absolutely right. All of his stuff was garbage from the very beginning, but he fit the suit.
Ain’t nobody heard that shit since 2003. It’s as hot right now as To the Extreme. lol
Nobody’s listened to that garbage since 2003. It’s right up there with “To the Extreme” on list of albums I can’t believe I ever listened to in the first place or would ever listen to again.
This is the whitest headline I’ve ever seen
That’s fascinating!
*shitting in the floor*
That’s wild!
*Doesn’t give one flying dame*