Saturday, February 16, 2013

‎Rihanna on Eminem when they worked on “Numb” and how it’s different from their previous songs they made.

The moment I worked with him on “Love the Way You Lie,” I wanted to work with him again, and we did “Love the Way You Lie Part 2.” And then I wanted to work with him again. [Laughs.] I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics—he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him. For this song, I needed someone with not only his skill, but his personality. And I needed someone who really understands the perspective and the metaphor in the song of going numb and being numb to everything around and to say, “Fuck you.” Eminem is definitely the perfect guy for that.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Skylar Grey admits being nervous to work with Eminem and also talks about him working on the her upcoming album.

“I was really nervous when I first met him but then I came to realize that he’s super cool,”…“He makes fun of me and makes me laugh a lot.”

“That can be a tough thing to do when you write a lot of songs. And then making suggestions of where he thinks I can improve bits,”…“[He's] doing whatever he thinks will add to the project. It’s awesome to have somebody there that I can trust to bounce stuff off of and get good feedback.”

‎50 Cent talks about “My Life” & “The Champions” ft. Eminem:

On Eminem’s monstrous verse on “My Life”:

“See, I left ['My Life'] (in the studio) and I didn’t stay there. If you leave Eminem, it’ll turn into a complete Eminem record – he’s gonna make it his regardless. He would have remembered 16 as a mark to stop if I’d have been there, but because he was going off and into it, he just kept going and made it to about 24 bars before he actually stopped rapping and it felt good so there was no reason to edit it.”

On the second Eminem collabo, titled “The Champions” (Fifty had previously declared the song’s title to be ‘The Champion’) on his upcoming Street King Immortal album, due out in Spring 2013:

“We actually recorded it in Detroit. Em was set on this record.. he made some mentions (in the song)… some of the people he has a lot of respect for in music culture. I didn’t want to repeat that.”