Eminem Recalls Wanting To Diss Kanye West & Lil Wayne On Record
On "Talkin' 2 Myself" from Recovery, Eminem spoke
of a time when he almost took aim at Lil Wayne and Kanye West on
record. Speaking to Big Boy in an interview with Power 106, Em went into
more detail about those feelings at the time.
“When
I made the record ‘Talkin’ 2 Myself,’ what I was basically talking
about [was] with the time period that I was away," he said. "I was kind
of watching what was going on in the game and it was like anything that
was hot at that moment or anybody who was really killing shit at that
moment I felt like—I felt so bad about myself and the music that I was
creating, that I felt like I started to turn into a hater."
The
Detroit rapper insisted that it wasn't as much about Wayne and 'Ye as
indiviuals, just that they happened to be the biggest rappers at that
particular time. "It wasn’t just—you know, singling Kanye and Wayne out
at that time period, I mean they were the one’s who were the killing it
the most to me," he said. And it hurt. I’d pop the CD in and be like,
‘Fuck man, I’m not doing this no more.’ I felt like I came very close to
like, for me it would have been career suicide because I felt like, ‘I
should make a song just dissing everybody who's doing in it the game
right now.’”
While
he strongly considered directing a verse at the rappers, nothing
actually made it on wax. "I just had the thoughts, just walking around
the studio," he said. "I think that deep down I just wasn’t happy with
myself, man. I knew that there were some really dark moments in there.
When I think about how my thought process was when I was high a lot, it
wasn’t good, man, and it certainly wasn’t me ‘cause I’m not even that
kind of person.”
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