Ed Sheeran talks about working with Eminem and 50 Cent.
Ed Sheeran recently made a return to the music with his brand new single called “Bad Habits” and his new album is on the way. During the promo run, the UK singer sat down with “First We Feast” for a new interview where he talks about a lot of things including his new single, upcoming project, salvaging Eric Clapton’s guitar from a fire, the time he brought Courtney Cox to Tesco and much more. Ed Sheeran was also about his collaboration “Remember The Name” with Eminem and 50 Cent, and where does it fall in the list of his career accomplishments.
“I think, probably top 3,” says Ed at around the 12:00 minute mark. “Because when I was in school… I mean, look at me. I looked like that in school but younger, smaller, skinnier, and geekier. And if you’d to go into my school at the high of Shady records and the high of Aftermath and go which one of these kids is going to do a song with Eminem and 50 Cent, no one, no one would have guessed me. And then I’ve done a song with Em for his album. And then, I was putting together the collaborations project. I sort of said to him, could you do it, I’d love to get Fifty on it, and he was like, ‘Yeah, no problem, I’ll get Fifty on it’.”
Eminem and 50 Cent, The two rap superstars, who appear together on the album’s pivotal track “Remember the Name,” give Sheeran the opportunity to fulfill a dream he’s no doubt harboured since rapping along to copies of The Eminem Show and Get Rich or Die Tryin’ as a young teen: to play-act as the duo’s Shady/Aftermath co-star in his very own early-’00s club banger. And it’s about as big a can’t-tell-me-nothing flex as the U.K. world-conqueror could possibly create.
“And I remember walking into this dressing room, Fifty will probably disagree with this, but I remember walking into the Wembley dressing room to meet Em, where we were being presented the plaque. And I don’t think Fifty had a f**king clue who I was. I think afterward he was like, “Oh, ‘The Shape Of You’ guy” But I was like, “Hey,” and you could see in his eyes like, “What? I’m not…”. And at this point, we had actually done the song together. He’ll probably disagree with that, though.”
“Bad Habits” debuted at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, with 38.8 million airplay audience impressions, 17.7 million streaming, and 33,200 units sold. It debuted at No. 2 on Digital Song Sales, No. 6 on Streaming Songs, and jumped 36–11 on Radio Songs. The song earned Sheeran’s eighth top ten hit in the United States, and his first since 2019.
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Watch the interview below.
Thank you @edsheeran and @50cent for joining my collection of legendary selfies #selfie🐐 pic.twitter.com/Zfk7QQIskk
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) July 15, 2018
