Rolling Stones Interview- Nov. 7th

[Ugetnolove]

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[sbolli1]

"Calling it The Marshall Mathers LP 2, obviously I knew that there might be certain expectations," he says. "I wouldn't want to call it that just for the sake of calling it that. I had to make sure that I had the right songs – and just when you think you got it, you listen and you're like, 'Fuck, man! I feel like it needs this or that,' to paint the whole picture."

Em knows exactly what he's doing.

[Ares]

"Calling it The Marshall Mathers LP 2, obviously I knew that there might be certain expectations," he says. "I wouldn't want to call it that just for the sake of calling it that. I had to make sure that I had the right songs – and just when you think you got it, you listen and you're like, 'Fuck, man! I feel like it needs this or that,' to paint the whole picture."

Em knows exactly what he's doing.

Let's hope so

[NextEpisode]

Eminem Revives the Real Slim Shady
Inside the grueling sessions for fall's biggest rap album

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"Right now, I'm probably working harder than I've ever worked in my life," says a sleep-deprived Eminem, gulping diet Red Bull in his suburban Detroit studio. He's well past deadline ("They keep telling me a different day," he says) on his new album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – out November 5th – and the final mixes still aren't quite done. "Aside from around the time of The Eminem Show, when I was also doing the 8 Mile movie and soundtrack and score and shit like that. This is probably the equivalent of that, but all focused on the record."

A lot of fans – including Eminem himself, most days – consider 2000's original The Marshall Mathers LP his best. So making an album worthy of the name meant recording, and then discarding, dozens of extra songs. "Calling it The Marshall Mathers LP 2, obviously I knew that there might be certain expectations," he says. "I wouldn't want to call it that just for the sake of calling it that. I had to make sure that I had the right songs – and just when you think you got it, you listen and you're like, 'Fuck, man! I feel like it needs this or that,' to paint the whole picture."

Some tracks, including the Rick Rubin-produced, Beastie-esque single "Berzerk," draw on old-school hip-hop. Eminem was already headed that way when his manager, Paul Rosenberg, hooked him up with Rubin. "Getting with him was like, 'Holy shit!'" says Eminem. "As many genres of music that he is able to fuck with, he's like Yoda. I couldn't do it. You sit me there with a rock group, I don't know the first fucking thing about banging on the drums."

Eminem emphasizes that the album, which includes collaborations with Kendrick Lamar, Nate Ruess and Rihanna (again), is "not necessarily a sequel, as much as it is a revisitation.

"So there's not gonna be, like, continuations of every old song on there or anything like that," he adds. "To me, it's more about the vibe, and it's more about the nostalgia."

[Hansen]

DOPE!!!!

[emusic]

Oh god thanks op

he really seems to know what's he is doing, these few paragraphs are gold, thank you for posting.

[JAGODA]

Damn, this part of the interview makes me hyped for the album as fuck!

[Never_Enough]

mmh... "it's more about the vibe and nostalgia"... I don't know what to expect.

[Mr Change]

IN

[emusic]

"not necessarily a sequel, as much as it is a revisitation. "So there's not gonna be, like, continuations of every old song on there or anything like that," he adds. "To me, it's more about the vibe, and it's more about the nostalgia."

this what I thought he was doing from the start, I didn't expect a sequel.

[JAGODA]

Em should be on the cover when he has an interview.

[Raul]

This is exactly what I needed to be 100% hyped. Holy shit, album's gonna be awesome.

[Ares]

"Right now, I'm probably working harder than I've ever worked in my life," says a sleep-deprived Eminem, gulping diet Red Bull in his suburban Detroit studio. He's well past deadline ("They keep telling me a different day," he says) on his new album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – out November 5th – and the final mixes still aren't quite done. "Aside from around the time of The Eminem Show, when I was also doing the 8 Mile movie and soundtrack and score and shit like that. This is probably the equivalent of that, but all focused on the record."

Damn He is preparing classic

[PAINKILLƎR]

Interesting

[Jimmy Conway]

He spent 20 hour days with dre for the MMLP. He also said he worked his hardest on the Eminem show ten years ago.

So if he really worked that hard on this, which I'm sure he did, it's going to be a classic.

When Em works hard, it's always a classic. He called Infinite a pressed up demo. Encore he didn't care anymore. Recovery was rushed and he wasn't into it.

Everything else he put everything into and it was classic.

This will be the same.