Inför albumreleasen 5:e november öppnade Slim Shady upp i Rolling Stone-intervju.

Det är knappt två till albumreleasen av Eminems kommande album “Marshall Mathers LP 2”, eller i kortare variant “MMLP2”. I en ny intervju med Rolling Stone berättade Eminem om bakgrunden till albumtiteln samt valet att slå Rick Rubin en signal för att samarbeta.

Om MMLP2:

Calling it The Marshall Mathers LP 2, obviously I knew that there might be certain expectations. 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.

It’s 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. To me, it’s more about the vibe, and it’s more about the nostalgia.

Om samarbetet med Rick Rubin:

Getting with him was like, ‘Holy shit!’ 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.