Drift: Tell me about licensing your song “Dying To Love” to Eminem for Tupac Resurrection, a biopic about the late gangsta rapper. That seemed to come from out of left field.
EW: I think that was a brilliant stroke on Eminem’s part. I wrote that song right after Woodstock and it was interpreted as an anti-war song. But to me it’s very personal, and I never would have imagined it in the context of street survival. It turned out to be perfect, though, and I think Eminem really showed imagination with that idea. It was originally recorded as a gospel piano track with a classical string quartet, so that left it open for all kinds of cool rhythms and samples [to be built] in a collage fashion over a beat track.
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