Dec 18, 2014

I saw a thread in the Kendrick's section about that, but none on Eminem's.

Share your fav quotes from Em here.

 

Dec 18, 2014

"I always concentrate on lyricism, whether I’m trying to make a point or I’m just buggin’ out. A song like “Toy Soldiers” has an eight-bar drum loop that sounds like marching-band drums. I took it home and I studied the pattern that it was doing. I wrote the rhyme right to it. Just memorized the pattern and learned it by heart. I tried to make every word hit on the kicks and the snares."

"I don’t know if anyone will get this, like this is super-nerdy, but the rhyming words in "Legacy" never change. And that’s just one of the things that I do to try to challenge myself. I wanted to try to make a whole song where the rhyming words never changed."

"There was another version of "Lose Yourself" that I don't even remember recording. I don't remember where I was at when I recorded it. I don't remember any of the first verse. I don't remember. He called me one day and told me, I was like, what?!"

"I think everything switches back and forth from hour to hour, day by day with me. That whole “Rap God” record pretty much from top to bottom is tongue in cheek. So I mean, do I want to feel like that? Maybe sometimes. Again, it goes back to everybody who competitive raps and does this for just purely the sport of it wants to be the best. Again, that’s why Kendrick’s "Control" verse worked so well because he only said what every rapper’s already thinking, if you don’t want to be the best, then why are you rapping?"

 

Dec 18, 2014

"I've always produced or co-produced my shіt, and that's only because a lot of times I'll write a rap first, and I'll get the idea in my head how the beat should go. I always know how I want the beat to go. So I figure who's better to do it than me? Why wouldn't I do my own shіt? Why would I let somebody else just do my beat and it's done and then come in there and rap over it?"

"If you're a true artist, you gotta grow. If your music doesn't grow, forget it. You might as well stop making music, because that's how artists lose their momentum and their career, and how people stop caring about them is when they don't grow.
Music has to get better. The day that it's not better, I don't wanna rap no more. I don't wanna do music anymore. If I don't always get better with every song and with every album, then there's no point in me rapping."

(2002)

I miss this Em.

 

Dec 18, 2014

more great stuff

2014 em ain't a clone foo

 

Dec 21, 2014

"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter."

 

Dec 22, 2014

If that were the case he wuda quit a long time ago lmao