Eminem Describes Returning To Producing On “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”

    Since his 1999 debut The Slim Shady LP, Eminem has produced on his albums. However, on 2009’s Relapse and 2010’s Recovery, Em’s beats largely took a backseat to other producers.

    In part two of his interview with BBC 1’s Zane Lowe, Eminem addressed his increased role on the production side of things on his latest album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2. “It was fun to be able to just mess around with beats from scratch again,” said Em. “I think Recovery was the first time that I ever got super open to working with a lot of other producers. That was the most that I had ever done, aside from working with Dre. So on that album, kind of opened those doors a little bit, so that’s kind of how early on I started approaching this record, this album.”

    Shady continued, explaining that there are times when only he can create the sound he’s looking for. “Sometimes, I may get something in my head, like an idea or the mood of something that I would want, and I’m not always gonna get that by going through different tracks that other people have made. They don’t know what’s in my head. …I think maybe it helps, a little bit, with diversity, the sound of it, but also, I would get something in my head and want to be able to lay down that idea from scratch.”

    Eminem was also asked about his much-discussed stance on fame, which he has addressed throughout his career, and most recently on the Rihanna-assisted “The Monster.”

    “It was like this thing where, and I’m not gonna lie, I still want it today… I want this attention for this music, but then I want to be able to go in public, and I want to be able to eat a fuckin’ sandwich and be left alone,” he said.

    Eminem continued, “I’ve never been an attention-seeker, and it seems like probably a hell of a career choice, but I don’t like… that’s not why I do it, is just to get attention,” he said. “I don’t like to go in public and walk around and be like, ‘Here I am.’ That’s not what I want. I just wanted…my dream was… my dream was… fuck, man, like, hear rappers that I looked up to on the radio, and be like, ‘Yo, what if Jay Z, whoever, what if they heard of me? What if they thought I was dope?’ That was where my mentality always was with it. So when it all went crazy, it was really hard to wrap my head around it.”

    Watch the interview below:

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    34 thoughts on “Eminem Describes Returning To Producing On “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”

    1. GIVE ME A CHANCE
      Youtube is all about finding new artist, & though I been rapping for a while im still consider a new artist. I just want my music heard thats all, im not looking for no record deal, getting famous ‘r anything like that.! so please just spare a few sec. to check me out, & if you like what you heard please SUBSCRIBE so ill know you actually listen & support
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSNK0pm4eY

      1. Keep pushin big homie. I checked your ish and sounds good. I may not have gone to college and got deep in the loan thing, but I went homeless after a drug raid and stuggled until I got my ish together, so keep staring at the pushers, as there is no retirement plan on the streets… I know its not much of anything to say this, but after getting my life right and getting with a down ass chick, she developed cancer and had a heart attach. Which as the person watching her struggle with both, life was tough… My point is, those that surrounded you during the time you were in the coma, expected you to get out of it, to wake up and make it happen… for you… not them. And you did. And as I watch my now wife survive two devastating issues, she’s well, loved and keeps making it happen in her life because she was allowed to get up again and live… keep pushin big homie.

        Peace goes out.

      1. Not even remotely terrible. Yeah, he has made some bad beats, but overall he’s a dope producer. That “Layin’ In The Cut’ by Cashis has a fucking dope beat.
        Of course he fucked up Slaughterhouse’s latest album with terrible beats, but not even Dre make great beats all the time.

    2. Fact: Eminem beats women.

      Weezy and Drake don’t play that shit.

      Don’t hate, just stating facts. If you like Eminem you support beating women and being gay.

    3. Fuck Eminem,m he’s a poser. Did you know he wanted to be a country star originally until record execs pressured him to rap so they’d have a white poster boy? Too bad he sucks at country and at rap.

      Weezy’s more true to hip hop and makes more honest music and knowsm ore about about music.

      1. I always read ‘they have some good hip hop and oral videos”. And then I realize.. I misread.
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    4. before I looked at the check ov $4526, I have faith that my friend woz actualie erning money parttime on their apple laptop.. there best friend has been doing this 4 only about 14 months and resently repaid the mortgage on their place and bourt Ford. look at this website… http://www.Fb39.com

      Where do you think David Blaine gets his magical powers from? Lemme guess, Hogwarts or Princeton or some shit? WRONG! David Blane gets all his powers from Yeezus.

    5. holy shit every single verse in that rap rhymed and it had a meaning to it! This is rap song of the year right above now if we could get eminem to rap it for us…

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