Eminem's Philosophy on Diss-Tracks | Full Interview | Friday Night With Jonathan Ross

oh great to have you here thanks for joining us happy to be here okay now I should call you Eminem or Marshall or Slim what do you like to be called I mean there isn't one Marshall every name is the most a little a lot you can call me Now where have you state? What have you been doing? It's been four years, five years since the last album and now you have two unreal EPS coming out, but it's been a long period, this was a deliberate step away from the things that I guess so, I wanted to get away from the spotlight for a while , you know, I guess I reevaluate my entire career, right?

I mean, I ended up in rehab in 2005 and you know, I just wanted to like it. Trying to figure out where I was going, you mean where I was going in my personal life and in my career and everything, where I was, what I was going to do, so I kind of wanted to, I knew I still wanted to do it. I knew I wanted to take a break from the spotlight, but at the same time I still wanted to make music, you know, because I'd go crazy if I didn't make music, you know, I guess you were still creating music, light music at that point, even if you were. keeping an eye on, yeah, I was writing music too, but I don't know, I took the producers room even further and you know, I stepped away from the microphone, although I mean, I was still in this moment.

I was still making songs, but it just wasn't like that. I wasn't doing anything that I thought was good enough to post at the time and so, then, and then what happened just clicked again, oh, you just thought it was the right time, well, me. he got sober in the first place, you mean, so I realized how quickly he got up, it was that difficult journey, it was a difficult thing to do, oh yeah, definitely, it was quite difficult, you know, there was a couple of years that were nice. Pretty bad for me, but you know, I've been sober for a little over a year, so you're welcome, Gretchen, happy, yeah, okay.

I have been ugly. I have the new album, but it's not out yet. They have given me some clues. I have enjoyed them a lot. They're great from the fantastic singles, but I love you. You know I'm a bigger Mario. I think you have a lot of talent. Why that? What was the song you made? Acting was losing eight miles, yeah, that has some of the best things, just such an incredible capture of the kind of fear of acting and the needs of a form and the design. I just thought it was a remarkable piece of work if What weren't you doing now if you weren't complaining about where you would be if you had written beforehand?

Was rap what led you to write in the first place or were you already expressing yourself that way? No, I mean, I didn't, I didn't. actually, like starting off right, it was definitely hip-hop, you know, I didn't know, I didn't pick up a pen and realize I could write anything until you know rap led me to do that, you know, I mean, I heard ice-t Reckless was one of the first songs I heard once I heard Run DMC LL Cool J. I was like, “This is what I want.” guys too oh yes The Fat Boys remember The Fat Boys yes friend oh could you let me write something and I'm sure that the people who rap Garcés how you sing sometimes tell you at home and the humor gets you along well because in your rapping it is involving is kind of talk to you if you're in the shower a little bit of Frank Sinatra baby yeah, a lot of Frank Sinatra you really have a good voice no, I mean, I sing on my records, I really can't.

I'm not a singer, but it's not singing, singing, it's not like, oh, the summer breeze, you know, that's officially singing, regardless of what you think, but are you ever tempted to let loose on a record? I mean, I've done some things, you know? and I like it as much as singing, but you know, I will tell the world that I can't sing, that's not mine, you don't say it. What I feel is that it's my forte, but I know some hooks if you listen to it. this there's no one in them, yeah there's a melody, well the way you use your voice is melodic too, yeah, as long as you can hold down a key, you know, I mean, or a note or whatever , you can do it, yeah, I guess it's okay, well, I'll try.

What was it like when you were starting out? Because I know before you came along there was only one white rap that I was familiar with and that was vanilla ice cream. Okay, she was great, she was an amazing lady, Vaughn Winkle or something, believe it or not. Believe it or not, I

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ed him years ago and I quite liked him, he was a good guy, he was kind of a novelty act though, really oh you came along and it's obviously a real thing, but did you do it? Did you encounter that kind of prejudice? Did you find that attitude from the beginning?

People say he can't do it because he's a white man and his music is essentially black. I mean, yeah, I went through a little bit of that at first, but I mean. I think at the end of the day, I guess if as long as your heart is in it and you know that you keep persevering, you know that you're going to make a breakthrough, I mean, I don't know, I mean, it was certainly not easy, you don't understand. , but I kept it up, you know, I got booed off the stage, you know, a lot of times, like you know, like I did in the movie, sure, you know how long it lasted.

It took you thinking before you were good enough. I think it's okay, this is working. How many times did you have bad experiences on stage? Maybe a very amazing pair. Well, let me talk about your new single because you know what I love about your work. I'm sure a lot of food news has a human meaning, it's funny a lot of the time, it's not always funny, sometimes it's dark and you know other things, but sometimes it's really funny, the new single is really funny and you get it firmly. popular culture, I think the word young people use is this, you feature some people on the new single, some, yeah, now, do you have any comments?

Do you ever meet those people you never contact and know what they think about it? no, I mean, here's the thing, this is the way I see it the way I've always said it's like these aren't personal attacks on people, I've never met these people, you don't I don't mean that These are not personal attacks on his character or anything like that. You know, it's like pulling names out of a hat and whether your name rhymes with something good or whether you know it. a pop figure, you know what I mean, like in this world, like now, in a man, before you do Jessica Simpson and Sarah Palin, I guess it is, but you can see why, if you say we're planning, the People might think, oh, he wants to make a statement about soap aliens or Merc and I probably want to nail it, but if someone is good at it, you have a good chance, hey, you're in good shape.

I'll tell you one of the rumors I heard that followed you, that you swelled up but you became very big, you gained a lot of weight, weren't you quite the clowns? you had beefy, do you get? I think I probably tipped the scale a little over 200 almost it's just that this was just eating everything was eating it was taking pills that I had no business taking you know I mean doing things I just wasn't taking care of myself taking care of myself body, I kind of felt like it was, you know, business as usual. I just wanted to leave it, you know, I mean, I was, you know, I was in a pretty dark place keeping quiet Elise, you must be working out a lot now, I guess and you're maintaining, you have an exercise regimen that you stick to, yeah.

I run a lot I run a lot I get up in the morning I was running twice a day for a while and as far as you want when you say well it's half an hour ten minutes what is it I was running there was me There was a point where I was running like it was too much, it was a little extreme, it was a total of 17 miles, you know, so you are the one who fills the void you had in your life when you gave up on the other. The things that are there are a little addictive, yes, they have to go from one addiction to the next.

Naumann addict, you know what I mean, so I guess extremists like it from one extreme to the next. Well why am I thinking about one of the things that you two did right now and I'm really excited because it's about American comics, oh yeah I had that hobby when I was a kid, I used to collect comics a lot and I guess when I started being sober, I fell in love with comics again, you know, again, like oh, this is cool, why did I leave this alone? There you go, it's Eminem on the cover of Punisher, one of the punishments at least one. that must be it, you have to know you've made it when you're on the cover of The Punisher oh yeah, that's how you know you've made it, yeah, the happy weigh in on that particular session, so these ready ones look more like my wife had someone. that she wears in the shower sometimes giving, but you like the headdress, don't you?

Yes, I do, and what are the names of the boys who perform with the group d12 d12 now here's a photograph, they all look very splendid, but the boy seems to be wearing his grandmother's shower cap. Do you have any? Is there any quality control that goes on with the gang around you? Dee when they come in, they introduce themselves. Do you ever say well, well, well? Oh, absolutely not, or you just did it. It doesn't come and fall like it does no, when he put that thing on, I was like well, well, cool, it's a ball, look, there's no two ways about it, well, are you coming?

Can you do more tours? I haven't gotten that far as far as touring, I even got that far today to really understand it, I don't have that part figured out yet, so, you know, I'm kind of a new album. cycle right now promoting and stuff like that, but we'll see how it goes, do you have any needs to

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about a big human box, maybe we should do everything a cappella and you should beatbox innocently, we might want to beat? sir, I'm old school, I'm old school, really old school, I'm so old school I don't even know what I'm old school nor is it hard to Buster one to Buster women keep time is complicated, complicated, complicated and I can do it.

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