Ez Mil talks about meeting and signing with Eminem and Dr. Dre.
Filipino-American rapper Ez Mil recently signed a deal with Eminem & Dr. Dre’s Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. He becomes one of only a few artists who signed a deal directly to all three labels.
The rapper sat down with RX931’s All Out show, where he reflected on meeting the two hip-hop giants. “We were all minding our businesses and then suddenly we get hit with this message from our people that there’s gonna be a secret meeting,” he said. “I had already made the beat for “Realest” by myself and it kinda had first verse and a hook little bit and that was even before we knew it was them! It was Em and Dre. I was trying to contain myself. Even keeping it in secret you know?!” said Ez Mil.”
“And then you get hit with the info that you gonna be meeting Em and Dre. Then we went to LA and meeting them, it was the whole trip man. Even going through the lobby, Dre was sitting right there, and Em was inside the studio. I was peeking through the door, my girl and my mama we all went in. Then Dre stood up with his huge self and he was like ‘Hey superstar’ and I was like ‘What the heck… what the hell you talking about?’ I shook his hand and when I saw Em I almost fainted. Thank god I stood up and kept it firm. He stood up and said ‘Ezekiel, where have you been for the last twenty years? Alright, you were 4.’”
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He continued, “And then they were talking about how they really messed with ‘Up Down’, they heard that, and the story of that goes like, they said that Em was just going through Wormhole and Paul said that he found ‘Up Down’ and they really f–ked with it.”
“Right at that point when Eminem stood up there and I asked him straight up ‘Why you never went to the Philippines bro?!’ And he was like ‘Never went? Oh, Okay.’ I was talking about ‘Not Afraid’ cause when I went to high school we thought he was rapping ‘Philippines, It’s gassed up’ instead of ‘Feed it beans, It’s gassed up’ and he was laughing bro… I made Eminem laugh!”
“About the collaboration, like I said, I had already made the beat and some vocals. And right there at the studio, I played it for them. And Dre was like [nodding his head] and right after the beat was playing, he was like ‘yup, Marshall gonna eat that up.’ And Em was at the back like ‘yup, give it to me’ Straight like that.”
“We’ve never been out there signing a lot of artists, and one of the great things about how we built Shady is how selective we’ve been,” said Eminem after signing Ez Mil. “And it’s even rarer that Dre and I sign something together – but I heard Ez’s music and was like, ‘this is really special” so I took it to Dre. We both agreed it would be a great fit and we wanted to work with him right on the spot.”
Dr. Dre added, “I’m really only interested in working on shit that sounds different from anything else going on out there, and only then if I feel I can really bring something to it. Em played me Ez and I had that feeling…that thing that happens when we both know we’ve found something special. And that was it….let’s get to work.”
Check out the interview below.
