Although Eminem’s highly anticipated album, Revival, didn’t drop on November 17 as his fans were anticipating, Slim Shady did stop by the Shade 45 studios on Friday (November 17) to chop it up with DJ Whoo Kid and Lord Sear.
Throughout the conversation, which also included producer Alchemist, manager Paul Rosenberg and fellow D12 rapper Mr. Porter, Em discussed everything from the current state of Hip Hop to working with Beyoncé on “Walk On Water,” Revival‘s first single.
When Em’s BET Hip Hop Awards appearance was brought up, he expressed similar feelings about Donald Trump that he did in the brutal freestyle he delivered in a video during the show, but also seemed genuinely disappointed that the POTUS hasn’t retaliated yet.
“I was and still am extremely angry,” Em says. “I can’t stand that mother fucker. I feel like he’s not paying attention to me. I was kind of waiting for him to say something and for some reason, he didn’t say anything.”
The Detroit rap giant also talked about what made Beyoncé the ideal choice for “Walk On Water.” Her megastar status in the music industry was something Em took into consideration.
“First of all, Beyoncé is amazing,” he says. “And, it’s been on my wish list for a long time, but I never really had a song that I felt like would be right to present to her. So, I was kinda waitin’, and then me and Paul kicked the idea around after I finished it, you know. And based off what it was about, I felt like she probably could relate to this, too.
“Just because Beyoncé’s always … everything she does is so perfect,” he continues. “But, the pressures behind that to…for her to do it so perfect, you know, I felt like she could probably relate to that. ‘Cause I told her, I said, ‘I never seen you make a mistake before, ever’. Like, performance-wise, everything. Every song she puts out, every album, it’s so calculated and precise. And everything’s always so perfect.”
As Hip Hop fans wait on Shady’s ninth studio album, it sounds like Em is just as hungry for solid Hip Hop. In an interesting side conversation with himself, he commented on the current state of Hip Hop. He’s asked, “Is Eminem aware of all the other songs that’s out there, the way Hip Hop is going, and all the weirdness?”
“He is, he is,” Em responds. “He listens. He does. There’s some stuff that he really likes and thinks it’s really, really good. I gotta ask him again. ‘Yo, what the fuck you think about this shit? What do you think about Hip Hop right now? Hip Hop’s good. I like Hip Hop. Ok cool.'”
“Nah, it’s great,” he adds. “Watching how some of us were able to watch Hip Hop in its infancy stages, and watch it grow and go from Run-DMC to LL [Cool J] to Beastie Boys to Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, Rakim — just all the transformations that it’s gone through, to come to this day and age right now, and the sound and the way people are playing with flows and shit like that, I can certainly appreciate it. I try to stay up on everything that’s out.”
Hear the whole interview on Eminem’s exclusive SiriusXM channel Shade 45 on Saturday, November 18 at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. ET.
Im kinda sad to say that I think Em has really fallen off. He was never the same after he quit drugs, but he still had the occasional hit (like crack a bottle)….
Idk man… Eminem years ago would have had a single with Dr Dre and 50 cent… nowadays it’s always with Rhianna, Beyoncé or Pink. It’s just not the style old Em fans fell in love with. I’m not knocking him personally, because he’s a grown man and people change as they grow older, but man oh man. Eminem glory days were dope looking back.
Crack a bottle sucked!
But yeah, I agree with you that Eminem is different now, and not in a good way. Once I saw he was featuring Beyonce, I knew that song was gonna suck. But hopefully the album is alot better than that.
Its age not the drugs. Hes way better now than he was with that Encore trash he dropped. He’s maturing and we’re not feeling his preachy new direction.
Fallen off? It’s impossible to be as relevant anymore as Em used to be in 1999. So in that case he has “fallen off”, but he’s still way above 95% of the rappers.
Do you even listen to lyrics & wordplay? Did you listen to his “recent” verses? (Detroit vs Everybody, Shady XV Cypher, Best Friend, Campaign Speech, Big Sean – No Favors, Shady XV verses). I can’t understand how you as an “old fan” can say he’s fallen off.
He improved lyrically alot since his first albums. If I listen to his old stuff like The Eminem Show, i miss the worldplay he has today. It’s a different style today, he reinvents himself every album and tries new things, to create NEW music – this is what a great artist does!
“it’s not the style old Em fans fell in love with” Em battled drug addiction, overcome strokes of fade and came back healthier and stronger than ever. If you think he should be like his old self you’re just stupid. You think taking drugs and beefing at 45 years would be cool? He grew up and so did his music. He became more professional. The only thing that sucks is “fans” like you who badmouth everything. Name me one artist that didn’t “fell off” who’s been in the game as long as Eminem. Critisizing is the only thing you are capable of. The right term for you would be “hater”.
I have no more words to describe what I’m thinking of you and i don’t want to waste more time writing this post, cause you’re stuck in a box anyway.
I’m not a hater lol. It’s called opinion bro. Holy crap, stans are so real. Between kendrick and Eminem, the fans suck their dicks hard as fuck lol. Why do u feel the needn’t roc defend him to a random guy on the internet who just said essentially that I respect him, but dislike his music nowadays? And being able to write great lyrics isn’t the same as making great music.
Music is about sound. When you have great sound and great lyrics, you have a legend, like Eminem. He’s not what he used to be though. He still has great lyrical craft… one of the best hands down… but the music? Beyoncé, Rhianna, Pink… and his last tour was him win Rhianna… NUF SAID
Eminem campaigning for Hillary was sad. Eminem is pushing the JWO agenda which is nothing less than white genocide.
You must be retarded.
Nah. Hillary is a globalist sellout phony. She works for the system. Trump, is obviously something else, seeing as his own party, the democrats, the corporate media, obama, past presidents….-were all against him, and still are. Goes to show the establishment is against him… what does that tell us? I’m black and support trump. I don’t hate Eminem for his anti trump stuff, I justness dislike his music for the last 10 years anyway… before that he was one of the best emcees to exist.
Of course he want him to respond. Its great publicity.
I highly doubt that he can come up with 1 legitimate reason as to why he “hates” Trump, without being a hypocrite..
Being president and eminems not the same. People love em but he has no business being president. Trump should be a rapper b4 pres
Em knows his audience. He needs the black points.
I bet he does…every wash up with something to gains strategy has been poke the bear for a reaction to play the victem in the media to help sell their bullshit most pathetic shit ive seen in my adult life… use someone else of notes reaction to boost your position some bitch shit
of course he wanted a reaction to start some buzz cause nobody gave a fuck about that shitty song
I heard your mom sucked him off, would you say she cared?
Since you his Daddy, you saying your wife sucked Ems Diugh??? You pathetic Loser
LOL! Great Come back!
Y’all suck. Lost y’all cot damn mind. Give credit to Em for giving a few underground artist some shine. His anti Trump freestyle was better than some people’s best written. There won’t be another Em. Ever.
The shit was written. Stop pretending like any rapper these day goes actually off the top when they “freestyle”
That wasnt on top of the dome…it was writen, like his other cypher “freestyles”.
Quick to diss Trump but not quick to drop the album on the 17th.
“I was and still am extremely angry,” Em says. “I can’t stand that mother fucker. I feel like he’s not paying attention to me. I was kind of waiting for him to say something and for some reason, he didn’t say anything.” – Upset 13 Year Old Girl.
You really acting salting over Eminem’s political opinions right now? Grow up, he doesn’t like Trump. Move the fuck on.
Eminem might wanna try that same advice he sounds real salty that hes getting no attention anymore
Trump only hates colored people. He will never respond to eminem…..meanwhile he’s still taking jabs at Snoop dogg for using a trump mask….. American this is called democracy, all you white people voted this guy in and got your wish.
I SWEAR YOU PEOPLE ON HERE ARE A BUNCH OF BYATCHES!! NO MATTER WHO THEY PRINT ABOUT ITS ALWAYS SOME SHIT EATERS BUMPIN THEIR GUMS BUT WHY?? IS IT BECUZ THEY ARE STANDING UP FOR YOUR BITCH ASSES WHILE ALL U DO IS WATCH THEIR POCKETS?? YALL SO QUICK TO CALL THEM FAKES & FRAUDS BUT YET U DEEP THROAT WHACK ASS DUDES USING AUTOTUNE OR EITHER THEY GOTTA HAVE COLLABS ON ALL OF THEIR SONGS TO MAKE THEM SOUND RELEVENT SMHL…
I can’t even understand. Always something negative to say about someone. I guess that’s why they are celebrities and y’all in comment sessions.
So then why you not a celebrity and just in the commetn section??
FUCK DONALD TRUMP.
Instill haven’t seen anyone give one example of Trump’s racism, other than him being a confused older white dude that doesn’t know when to say black or African American… he’s doing much better than I thought he would, and is DEFINITELY doing better than Hillary would have IMO. Eminem used to be a great rapper. He fell the fuck off. Dude made his career talking about killing his mom/girlfriend, smoking crack and being white trash. Now he wants to be PC and promote some agenda? BTW Em. There wasn’t one white, Latino or Asian person in your “cypher” vido other than you. Pretty racist, huh? Race traitor. It’s cool to be friends and work with all walks of life, them whiteboys that only fuck with black people (except for his jevvish manager), and blacks who only fuck with white people get 0 credibility when it comes to the race card. Total clown. That new tracks Ickes ass BTw
Get the hell outta here dude. You clearly have no business in Hip Hop. Your definitely just some entitled white dude who bought an eminem CD when you were a teenager and now you think that you understand hip-hop culture? Take your conservative ass over to the Suckin-Donald-Trumps-Dick forums and quit talking about something that you know nothing about
He doesnt watch BET either soo
He’s part of trumps plan …. I don’t know what there doing .. probly distraction there’s a million fake news storys on the internet about Eminem .. and The whole culture stayed up last refreshing there browsers trying to find a album that hasn’t been confirmed
Favorite rapper (looking for) – ataah king
damn dude sounds like a little attention needing bitch thats how my girl acts when she dont get her way lol (refering to him and Trump)
eminem wants to sell more records. so then, hate on a politican who has a 16% approval rating. oh it is gold gerry, it is gold.
Oh wait…are those the polls which said hillary had an 85%+++ chance of winning?? by that margin of error you could say trump has an approval rating of over 100%…lol smh
NF – Let You Down is top 25 on the global seems like the same level as Eminem to me same type of style and flow it’s better than walk on water
Somebody should please tell this retarded lunatic to shut the fuck up, attention seeker #a looser seeker attention to get to the top
He’s full of shit, and a fucking coward. He only disses easy targets check the history. Dissed Bush, Dissed Hilary, to fucking scared to diss Obama who did foul shit for 8 years while Em was a fucking mute.
Dissed Benzino, Mariah, Kim, MJ, Will Smith (Then got shook when Will snapped back with “Mr Nice Guy”, Trump, Bush etc
Ducked like fucking Daffy and Donald from K-Rino, Canibus, Chino XL, and every other credible MC who challenged him.
Dudes a coward, and that Trump diss was wack as fuck too, I’d eat that bullshit.
So hiphopdx feels the need to protect the frail and fragile eminem from the onslaught of patriots and critics alike to his new found role as social justice provocateur and mainsteam media darling by censoring and deleting comments. Communist Chinese Net Style Censorship has come to the west and it is not in the form of a pro-america movement. Hiphopdx should not be censoring free speech especially when it does not involve hate, racism, bigotry and violence. Eminem built his career on hate, racism, misogyny and violence… So now when we try and criticize this entertainer for his hypocrisy we are censored… How bout dat?
Eminem needs attention. He lost his edge a long time ago and nobody cares about the Debbie, Kim or Hailey soap opera anymore. Trump, a businessman that funded his own election, is actually making America great again. Too bad, Marshall. Now, go back to your empty mansion and eat some more pills because we’re all done with you.