Eminem drops part 2 of his interview with Sway. Talks about MGK, SlaughterHouse, Joe Budden’s & others.
After giving us part 1 of his new interview with Sway Calloway where he talks about his new project ‘Kamikaze‘, Eminem has released part 2. In this part, Eminem talks about Joe Budden’s comments, Slaughterhouse & what happened to their Glass House album, MGK Dissing him over the years, and much more.
The Detroit native confesses he’s not close with his old SH running buddy, but he can’t understand why Budden would be so critical of him on Revival when he’s attempted to help him in his own career. “Me and Joe Budden aren’t, you know, we’re not friends like that. We didn’t go to the same f**king high school. You know what I’m saying? I get that part,” Em explains. “But when I’m out here, flying around to different places and doing interviews and trying to use my platform to pump up Slaughterhouse every chance I get, and you’re using your platform to try to trash me.”
Em’s reply to Joe Budden’s criticism of Revival’s “Untouchable” was one of the biggest topics surrounding Kamikaze. Eminem stated that he and Joe “aren’t pals like that” and that he was the one “keeping the ship going” for Slaughterhouse, and that he has never discredited Joe’s work and expects the same courtesy from his signee.
“I’ve never got in a f**kin’ interview and been like Joe Budden’s sh*t is f**kin’ trash, that last album he put out is f**kin’ trash,” he said. “So that’s kind of the attitude I took to this whole album” Eminem’s involvement with Slaughterhouse was recently called into doubt after Joe Budden accused Em and Paul Rosenberg of syphoning off all of the group’s record revenues. Em told Sway that he not only wanted them to succeed but that he had never made any money from the group’s artistic activities.
“I hate to say this because I think the guys are super f**king talented but the album didn’t do much to even recoup the first budget,” Em revealed. “Then we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the second album that never came out. I don’t know if I made a f**king dime off Slaughterhouse. I don’t care if I made nothing. I believed in them.”
Em’s feud with Machine Gun Kelly is perhaps the most prominent storyline that has evolved since the release of Kamikaze. When Em dissed Kelly on “The Ringer” and “Not Alike,” what appeared to be a cold battle escalated into an all-out lyrical knife brawl.
Many assumed Em’s slam was in response to MGK’s tweet calling his daughter Hailie “hot as f** but it was much more rap-related. As Em stated: “The reason that I dissed him is actually a lot more petty than that. The reason I dissed him… First he said, ‘I’m the greatest rapper alive since my fave rapper banned me from Shade 45.’ I could give a f**k about your career. You think I actually f**kin’ think about you? Do you know how many f**kin’ rappers that are better than you? You’re not even in the conversation.”
It appears like the “Stan” rapper will respond to Kelly in some way soon enough “Now I’m in this f**kin’ weird thing, because I’m like, ‘I gotta answer this motherf**ker.’ And every time I do that, it makes that person — as irrelevant as people say I am in hip-hop — I make them bigger by getting into this thing, where I’m like, ‘I want to destroy him.’ But I also don’t want to make him bigger,” Em explains. “Because now you’re a f**king enemy. I’ll leave it at that. I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to do at this point right now.”
Watch the interview below.
