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    Inside Eminem's Restaurant Mom’s Spaghetti

    Eminem opened a restaurant in Detroit. We checked it out.DETROIT — On Sept. 27, a strange 30-second film appeared on Eminem’s YouTube channel: not a music video teaser, or the first few verses of a new rap single, but a quick-moving advertisement.In the video, cartons brimming with marinara sauce spin hypnotically on checkered tablecloths. A voice-over rattles off vaguely Italian dishes: spaghetti, spaghetti and meatballs, and a “‘sghetti sandwich” — a scoop of pasta squeezed between two pieces of buttery white bread. Eminem, dressed in a thin gold chain and an eggplant-colored flight jacket, holds up what the viewer can only assume are two middle fingers, their message censored by twin takeout containers bearing the phrase “Mom’s Spaghetti.”Marshall Mathers, the man who brought white working-class angst to the top of the charts, was opening a restaurant.Two days later, the rapper surprised fans at the grand opening in downtown Detroit, where he served heaping ladlefuls of pasta to a queue of customers that snaked around the block. A photo of the rapper standing behind the order window — flipping the bird, of course — quickly shot to the top of Reddit’s front page.Mom’s Spaghetti is named for the famed first verse of “Lose Yourself,” a single written for the movie “8 Mile” that sold more than 10 million copies and earned Eminem a pair of Grammys in 2004. The lyrics are imbued with nauseating, do-or-die dread: Our protagonist is locked in a bathroom, drenched with sweat, washing off a regurgitated wad of pasta clinging to his hoodie. “Knees weak, arms are heavy, there’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti.” It was only a matter of time before the lyric became a meme.Nearly two decades later, the restaurant appears to be Eminem’s way of embracing — or one-upping — the joke.On a visit to Mom’s Spaghetti in December, three months after the initial fanfare, the place did not immediately register as a shrine to a rapper’s career. Instead, I found myself at a small counter-service restaurant, tucked in an alley next to the Little Caesars World Headquarters. (Yes, the pizza chain.) I perused the abbreviated menu and placed my order at an outdoor cashier. Almost as soon as my credit card cleared, a steaming, carb-laden paper bag was handed to me through the window.The restaurant’s abbreviated menu includes spaghetti and meatballs, served in an oyster pail, and a ‘sghetti sandwich.Elaine Cromie for The New York TimesAfterward, I was escorted inside a gastropub called Union Assembly, where all of the food served at Mom’s Spaghetti is prepared, to a tiny suite of tables and bar stools where customers can eat.Here is where the Slim Shady aesthetic becomes apparent: Most of the “E’s” on the menu and packaging have been turned backward, and the kitchen is made to look like a street corner bodega. I tucked into a booth, already overwhelmed, preparing for a long night in the afterlife of Eminem’s cultural empire.Curt Catallo, 54, is the owner of Union Joints, which operates several restaurants around Detroit, including this one. He described Mom’s Spaghetti as a “true joint venture” between his business and Eminem. The restaurant first appeared as a pop-up shop in 2017 and has been a fixture at the rapper’s various festival performances since. (During the pandemic, Union Joints and Eminem’s Shady Records delivered the pasta to frontline medical workers.)Mr. Catallo said the restaurant’s busiest periods occur “postgame and pregame,” where the staff harvests customers from the foot traffic pouring through Detroit’s pro sports district. Spaghetti is not typically deployed as a takeout food — noodles take a while to cook — but Mr. Catallo’s staff makes all the pasta a day ahead, then reheats the product in a pair of woks. He believes that method blesses the spaghetti with a delectable down-home texture.“Today’s spaghetti is better tomorrow,” Mr. Catallo said.I’d ordered the spaghetti and meatballs, which was served in an oyster pail and covered with a snowy dusting of Parmesan, as well as a ‘sghetti sandwich. This is not Italian cooking, nor does it try to be. Instead, it might be best described as … well, downright motherly. The greasy slop of the pasta, the sugary tang of the red sauce; it’s the spaghetti that emerges from your pantry on the last night before a grocery trip. Mr. Catallo said the noodles possess an inscrutable leftover chemistry. He means that as an endorsement, and he should.Emily Davenport prepares an order of spaghetti.Elaine Cromie for The New York TimesIan McManus, the general manager of the Trailer.Elaine Cromie for The New York TimesEminem is not here, nor should he be expected anytime soon. Ian McManus, 22, who manages the Trailer — a merchandise shop above the dining area — told me the rapper has dropped by the restaurant a “handful” of times since it opened. “He only lets a few of us know when he’s coming,” Mr. McManus said. “And he only lets us know day-of. If he’s coming through, I’ll find out when I’m on my way downtown.”A smattering of Eminem-themed pint glasses, T-shirts and sneakers filled the room, but the real pièce de résistance was at the back: the Robin costume from the music video for “Without Me,” encased in glass. The sound was the soundtrack to the year I turned 10; seeing a relic of it up close felt like being in the Louvre.Eminem has been famous, and will remain famous, for a long time, but it has also been eight years since his last No. 1 hit. Perhaps that’s why he’s preserved himself in a mini-museum. The rapper is entering that vexing post-prime era that inevitably hunts down every enormously successful person. How should Eminem structure his third and fourth acts? Ideally with some humor and some grace. If Paul Newman could sell salad dressing and enjoy his golden years, maybe Marshall Mathers can do the same with spaghetti.After all, the Eminem brand is still strong, even now. Misty Jesse, 49, and her 15-year-old son, Romeo Jesse, who were dining at Mom’s Spaghetti that December night, told me they grew up with Eminem, which sounds confusing but is honestly quite plausible if you do the math. “I saw him live at the old Detroit Tigers stadium,” said Ms. Jesse, who made the trip to the restaurant from the Dearborn Heights suburbs so that Romeo could shop for some Eminem gear. “It’s crazy how it all circles back around.”Eminem’s Robin costume from the music video for “Without Me” is kept in a glass case inside the Trailer.Elaine Cromie for The New York TimesFans will also find notes and lyrics written by Eminem on display.Elaine Cromie for The New York Times“She was surprised that he was one of the first people I started listening to,” Romeo said. “She’s happy that we could bond over his music and sing along to it in the car.”The Jesses are locals, which makes them outliers here. Almost everyone else inside the restaurant, save for the employees, was visiting Detroit for business, pleasure, or a combination of both. A trio of auditors from Atlanta crowded around a table glazed with spaghetti sauce; they were only in town for a few days, and they’d arrived at Mom’s Spaghetti out of passive curiosity — the same gravitational force that pulls New York City sightseers into the Times Square Madame Tussauds.Morgan Martin, 28, said that Eminem’s 2010 album “Recovery” got stuck in her car’s CD player when she was in high school. For 10 years, she exclusively listened to that record as she drove around Georgia. Her friends claim that the experience endowed her with the ability to rap with a near-perfect Eminem cadence.“I’ve since gotten a new car that connects to Bluetooth,” Ms. Martin said, “so now I’m learning more of his work.”For her, Mom’s Spaghetti was a destination. “When I learned we were coming to Detroit, I knew where we were eating,” she said.An illuminated sign above the order window outside Mom’s Spaghetti.Elaine Cromie for The New York TimesHer friend and dinner date, Caylen Hemme, 27, was not apprised of that plan. “I didn’t know this was Eminem’s restaurant,” she said from across the table. “I just saw that they had vegan meatballs.”John Farran, a 32-year old service engineer from Orlando, had dined at a high-end Italian restaurant the previous night. The experience, he said, paled in comparison what Mom’s Spaghetti had to offer. “Their sauce was like a soup,” Mr. Farran said, “plus they didn’t give you bread.” He then gestured toward the caramelized chunk of starch half-submerged in the noodles. “It made the whole trip for us, pretty much,” he said. “Otherwise I wouldn’t have had anything to look forward to.”“No offense to Detroit,” Mr. Farran said. “Great city.”Mr. Catallo, the restaurant operator, said Mom’s Spaghetti is planning on expanding its menu. Soon there will be Bolognese sauce, from a recipe Mr. Mathers has taste tested. I imagined the rapper, whose career was once defined by rage and controversy, letting a meat sauce linger on his palate for a moment before giving it his stamp of approval. Could Eminem become a latter-day Jimmy Buffett, bringing Mom’s Spaghetti to tourist districts around the country? He declined to be interviewed for this article, so I can’t say for sure.But I can tell you with certainty that on a cold night in Detroit, after scarfing down a pound of pasta, I felt changed. Knees weak, arms heavy. More

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    Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg to Share Super Bowl Halftime

    The N.F.L. announced the three Southern California natives will share billing with Mary J. Blige and Eminem at Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles.The N.F.L. announced Thursday that five performers would share headlining duties at the Super Bowl, with a distinct nod to West Coast hip-hop given the game’s location at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. Three Southern California natives and rap titans — Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar — will take the stage alongside Mary J. Blige and Eminem during the halftime show scheduled for Feb. 13, 2022. The game will air on NBC.“The opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime show, and to do it in my own backyard, will be one of the biggest thrills of my career,” Dr. Dre said in a statement.The halftime show for Super Bowl 56 will be the third produced by Roc Nation, the entertainment and sports company started by the music impresario Jay-Z, as the N.F.L. pushes to modernize the show and appeal to a more diverse audience. Jennifer Lopez and Shakira were dual headliners of the 2020 performance in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Canadian pop superstar the Weeknd performed at halftime of February’s Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., before a crowd limited by coronavirus pandemic restrictions. He reportedly spent $7 million of his own money on the production, in part to ensure that the spectacle would wow TV audiences.Organizers said the expected return of the Super Bowl’s usual capacity crowd at SoFi Stadium, the $5 billion venue near Los Angeles International Airport that opened in 2020, would restore energy to the festivities.“This year we are blowing the roof off the concept of collaboration,” said Adam Harter, the senior vice president of media, sports and entertainment at PepsiCo, which sponsors the show. “Along with the N.F.L. and Roc Nation, we continue to try and push the limits on what fans can expect during the most exciting 12 minutes in music.”The Super Bowl is typically the most watched broadcast of the year, despite ratings declining in five of the past six years, notably among the advertiser-coveted demographic of people aged between 18 and 49. In February, 96 million people watched the Super Bowl between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs, the game’s smallest audience in 15 years, despite the N.F.L.’s biggest star, quarterback Tom Brady, leading Tampa to victory. That decrease was in line with overall drops in viewership for sporting events held amid the pandemic.If advertiser interest is any indication, though, this season’s Super Bowl could mark a resurgence. NBC said earlier this month that it had nearly sold out of Super Bowl advertising spots, which cost a record $6.5 million for 30 seconds.Kevin Draper contributed reporting. More

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    Eminem Announces 'Shady Con' as His First NFT Collection

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    The Slim Shady announces his first non-fungible token collection which is inspired by his ‘passion as a vintage toy, comic book and trading card collector.’

    Apr 24, 2021

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    Eminem will be dropping his first NFT collection on Sunday (25Apr21).

    The Stan rapper announced “Shady Con”, featuring original instrumental beats produced by Eminem himself specifically for the release, on Thursday. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are an emerging market within blockchain where single-impression unique digital art and goods known as the ‘token’ can be sold.

    He explained in a statement, “I’ve been collecting since I was a kid, everything from comic books to baseball cards to toys, as well as every rap album on cassette I could get my hands on. Not much has changed for me as an adult…”

    “I’ve attempted to re-create some of those collections from that time in my life, and I know I’m not alone. I wanted to give this drop the same vibe of, ‘Oh, man I gotta get just that one or maybe even the whole set!’ ”

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    “It’s been a lot of fun coming up with ideas from my own collecting passion.”

    A description for the “Shady Con” digital drop, which is available from 6.30 pm ET, adds, “Shady Con provides Stans, fans, NFT enthusiasts and collectors ONE OPPORTUNITY to own a piece from this premier drop.”

    “Born from the convergence of blockchain technology, creative enthusiasm, and pandemic doldrums, this drop was inspired by Eminem’s passion as a vintage toy, comic book and trading card collector that traces back to his childhood days as just ‘plain old Marshall.’ ”

    The Weeknd, Kings of Leon, Grimes, Charli XCX, and Calvin Harris are among those who have released material via the format.

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    Cardi B Dubs Rumors That Eminem Declines Her Collaboration Request 'Big Lies'

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    While setting the record straight on her Twitter account, the ‘Bodak Yellow’ raptress informs her online devotees that she hasn’t ‘sent no songs to no artist yet.’

    Mar 27, 2021

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    Cardi B has set the record straight on rumors about her collaboration with Eminem. Having heard speculations suggesting that the “Rap God” spitter rejected her feature request for her next album, the “WAP” hitmaker labelled the claims as “big lies.”

    The 28-year-old femcee offered her clarification via Twitter on Thursday, March 25. Retweeting a post that contained a shady report, she argued, “BIG LIES….I get off the internet and ya makin s**t up. I haven’t sent no songs to no artist yet. Love his work and much respect.This don’t even make sense.”

    Cardi B shut down rumors suggesting that Eminem rejected her collaboration request.

    The original post, which Cardi reacted to, read, “Insiders Report: that Eminem has now declined a ft request for Cardi B’s upcoming project: says ‘she doesn’t care about the culture or her craft.’ ” The user who brought up the fake news then added in another tweet, “Don’t shoot me I’m just reporting what the insiders said.”

    The “Bodak Yellow” raptress also set aside time to hit back at an individual who put out a since-deleted tweet. “CAUSE YA MAKE LIES ABOUT ME ALL THE TIME!!! Leave me the f**k alone !!!Ya be eating my d**k with mayonnaise even when I’m chillin then run with it,” she raged.

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    Cardi B urged one troll to leave her alone.

    Later on Friday, March 26, the wife of Offset made use of Twitter to tease her new project. “Since they like to make up LIES about me cause their so obsessed just know this .. y’all laughing about this fake rumor but wait until y’all see these next collab,” she pointed out.

    Cardi B teased her upcoming project.

    Cardi, whose song “Up” managed to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, previously shut down rumors about whether or not her latest track landed on the first position due to radio-play payola. “They love to run with that ‘Payola’ to make them feel better,” she stated on Instagram. “Mind you, I didn’t [debut] number 1 because of my low radio play and ‘WAP’ barely made radio cause it was so explicit yet still made number 1.”

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    Eminem Makes Billboard History as 'Curtain Call: The Hits' Spends Full Decade on 200 Chart

    Released in 2005, the ‘Stan’ hitmaker’s greatest hits compilation has just notched up its 520th consecutive week on the countdown, making it the only rap release to achieve such feat.

    Mar 25, 2021

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    Eminem has made U.S. chart history as his album “Curtain Call: The Hits” has become the only rap release to spend a full decade in the Billboard 200.

    The greatest hits compilation, which featured the classic singles “Stan”, “Without Me”, “My Name Is”, and “Lose Yourself”, was released in 2005 and has just notched up its 520th consecutive week on the countdown.

    The impressive feat makes “Curtain Call: The Hits” the sixth longest-running album on the chart, behind Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” (958 weeks), Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “Legend” (669 weeks), Journey’s “Greatest Hits” (659 weeks), the “Black Album” by Metallica (598 weeks), and Guns N’ Roses’ “Greatest Hits” (520 weeks).

    Meanwhile, producer Benny Blanco has revealed Rihanna’s “Diamonds” single could have been another big smash for Eminem, as he had recorded a track to the beat before losing the 2012 song to his “Love the Way You Lie” collaborator.

    Blanco explains he, Stargate, and Sia Furler had originally created the tune for either Kanye West or Lana Del Rey.

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    “Stargate’s like, ‘Yo, we’re giving this song to Rihanna. It’s going to go,'” Blanco recalled during an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “And I was like, ‘I don’t know, man. Should we keep the beat for Kanye? I don’t know about it.'”

    He continued, “I remember, at the same time, I had given a beat CD like, a month earlier to [music manager] Paul Rosenberg to give to Eminem. And apparently, Eminem had done a song to it, too. And I didn’t even know… So when it happened [was sold to Rihanna], Paul was like, ‘Man, Em had that beat on hold.’ I was like, ‘What? I didn’t even know.'”

    However, Blanco was pleased with the way the song turned out with Rihanna, “I’m sitting there, and then I finally am like, ‘You know what, Stargate?’ I let go. I said, ‘You guys know better. Let’s do it.’ She cut the song. First of all, the second she cut the song, they were completely right. I was like, ‘This is the best song I’ve ever done.'”

    And Kanye even got the chance to rap on the single as he was recruited for the “Diamonds” remix, “This is how life works, full circle. Kanye West does a remix to the song.”

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    Lil Nas X Laughs Off Attempt to Cancel Eminem in Bad Rap Video

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    The ‘Old Town Road’ hitmaker trolls generation Z, who has been criticizing the Slim Shady over his controversial lyrics, in a TikTok video showing him delivering a terrible freestyle.

    Mar 10, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Lil Nas X has jumped to Eminem’s defense after the latter has been widely criticized over some of his controversial lyrics. There has been a war between Generation Z and Millennials on whether the Slim Shady should be canceled or given a pass for his shocking lyrics and the younger rapper didn’t miss the chance to step into the ring.
    Arguably one of the music industry’s most savvy Internet users, Lil Nas took to TikTok to respond to the heated debate. Instead of giving his serious take on it, the Grammy Award-winning artist trolled Generation Z who is trying to cancel the 48-year-old star with some bad rap.
    Lil Nas seemingly laughed off the trolls’ worthless effort to cancel the more senior artist as he delivered a bad freestyle. “Generation Z wants to cancel Eminem?” he asked with a chuckle in the video. “Generation Z wants to cancel Eminem?” He went on repeating similar lines, “Yeah, listen up, Generation/ Z, you’re a generation of Z/ Z, generation of Z.”
    Lil Nas isn’t the only musician who has weighed in on the attempt to cancel Eminem. The issue also caught the attention of rocker Corey Taylor, who spoke out about concerns regarding cancel culture.

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    “I was just reading about how Gen Z is trying to cancel Eminem because of one line that was in a Rihanna song that he did with her,” the Slipknot vocalist said in a discussion on Los Angeles radio station KLOS. “And I’m just like ‘Is that where we are right now?’ I mean, at this point, you’re talking about the Salem witch trials. You’re talking about America in the ’20s where the KKK was like a political force. You’re talking about complete condemnation without context or any rationalization for an action like that.”
    “To me, that’s the most dangerous – when the mob decides that you’re gone,” he explained. “I mean, that is Caesar at the Colosseum, for God’s sake. That’s when it’s dangerous. The level of censorship that we’re starting to see – and I’m not saying that certain things haven’t been said that easily offend people.”
    “However, the flip side of that is that you can’t even make a joke anymore, even in the cleanest of situations. I mean, they completely turn on you. And there’s not one hint of satire, no hint of irony – it’s just all outrage,” he argued, adding that if people “can’t understand the difference between metaphor and complete reality, then we’re in real trouble.”
    Eminem himself previously responded to the backlash by releasing an animated music video for his existing song aptly titled “Tone Deaf”. Lifted off his 2020 album “Music to Be Murdered By”, the song reflects his defiant attitude to the cancel culture.
    “It’s okay not to like my s**t/ Everything’s fine, drink your wine, b***h/ And get offline, quit whinin’, this is just a rhyme, b***h,” he raps on the song. “I can’t understand a word you say (I’m tone-deaf)/ I think this way I prefer to stay (I’m tone-deaf).” He also tweeted, “I won’t stop even when my hair turns grey (I’m tone-deaf)/ ‘Cause they won’t stop until they cancel me,” referencing another line from the track, when announcing the release of the animated video on Friday, March 6.

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    Eminem Doubles Down on Defiant Attitude to Critics' Attempt to Cancel Him With 'Tone Deaf' Video

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    Armed and ready to respond to the new social media campaign that seeks to cancel him over his controversial lyrics, Em releases an animated video for his 2020 song.

    Mar 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Eminem has responded to social media campaign that sought for his cancellation over his controversial lyrics. No stranger to backlash since early of his rising career, instead of dropping a new freestyle or recording a new track, the Grammy Award-winning artist released a music video for his already existing song aptly titled “Tone Deaf”.
    Lifted off his 2020 album “Music to Be Murdered By”, the song reflects his defiant attitude to the cancel culture. “It’s okay not to like my s**t/ Everything’s fine, drink your wine, b***h/ And get offline, quit whinin’, this is just a rhyme, b***h,” he raps on the song.
    Em adds in the chorus, “I can’t understand a word you say (I’m tone-deaf)/ I think this way I prefer to stay (I’m tone-deaf).” He also tweeted, “I won’t stop even when my hair turns grey (I’m tone-deaf)/ ‘Cause they won’t stop until they cancel me,” referencing another line from the track, when announcing the release of the animated video on Friday, March 6.
    The attempt to cancel Em apparently kicked off in February, when a Gen Z TikTok user argued the rapper’s 2010 hit “Love the Way You Lie” glorifies toxic relationships and domestic violence. A user, who has been banned from the video-sharing application, played a snippet of the song and appeared to take issue with the lyric which goes, “If she ever tries to f**king leave again, I’ma tie her/ to the bed and set this house on fire.”

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    In the critic’s video, the song plays while someone looks into the camera with the text “Yesssss lets [sic] cancel him” being displayed.
    Em, however, has survived from attempts to cancel him in the past. Throughout his career, he faced backlash for creating far more offensive music than “Love the Way You Lie”. One person even noted that the rapper’s debut single, “My Name Is”, opened with the line, “Hi kids, do you like violence?”
    Em was also heavily criticized when his unreleased song “Things Get Worse” leaked online in 2019. In the said song, he dissed Rihanna, whom he has collaborated with several times, including on “Love the Way You Lie”.
    “I’m not playing, Rihanna, where’d you get the VD at?/ Let me add my two cents/ Of course I side with Chris Brown/ I’d beat a b***h down too/ If she gave my d**k an itch now,” he raps on the controversial song.
    He then apologized to Rih on his song “Zeus” off “Music to Be Murdered By – Side B”, which part of the lyrics goes, “And wholeheartedly, apologies, Rihanna/ For that song that leaked, I’m sorry, Ri/ It wasn’t meant to cause you grief.”

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    Eminem Reveals Near-Fatal Drug Overdose Almost Stripped Him of Rapping Skills

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    Addressing his diss track at Rihanna, the ‘Lose Yourself’ spitter says he was just rapping whatever rhymed because the song was recorded during the time that he was relearning how to rhyme.

    Jan 5, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Eminem may be one of the best rappers alive today, but a near-fatal drug overdose almost stripped him of the ability. The Grammy Award-winning artist admits he had to relearn how to rhyme again after the 2007 incident that almost took his life.
    The Slim Shady briefly touched on his drug issue and its aftermath when addressing his diss track “Things Get Worse” aimed at Rihanna. “When it first happened, I was like, first, I didn’t know how, how somebody got it,” he said to SiriusXM’s Gray Rizzy on Monday, January 4.
    The 48-year-old star claimed he had no recollection of the lyrics and figured he was just rapping whatever rhymed because the song was recorded during the time he was relearning how to rap. “Second of all, I have no, zero recollection of even remembering doing that, that verse, like ‘The rhyme schemes didn’t even sound familiar to me.’ So I was caught off guard, too,” he shared.

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    Em went on recounting, “I was like, ‘What the f**k, I said that?’ And that was during early stages of the ‘Relapse’ record that I was working on. So, you know, it’s ten-plus years old, but not making excuses for it. I said it and I was wrong for saying that, it was f**king stupid.”
    “A lot of times, especially with the ‘Relapse’ record, when I first started learning how to rap again, because of the drug situation that I went through and having to relearn a lot of things,” the “8 Mile” star continued. “That was one of those things that it was like, well, if it rhymes, say it. I think that being able to look back – I mean, that’s not even an excuse – but I’m just saying there was a phase I was going through with that ‘Relapse’ record.”
    In the said diss track, which was recorded during sessions for his 2009 album “Relapse”, Em rapped, “I’m not playing, Rihanna, where’d you get the VD at?/ Let me add my two cents/ Of course I side with Chris Brown/ I’d beat a b***h down too/ If she gave my d**k an itch now.” The song was leaked in 2019.
    Em later addressed the controversial lyrics in his new song “Zeus”, on which he apologized to his “Love the Way You Live” collaborator, “And wholeheartedly, apologies, Rihanna/ For that song that leaked, I’m sorry, Ri/ It wasn’t meant to cause you grief.”

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