Tom MacDonald breaks down Eminem produced “Dear Stan” with No Life Shaq in a new interview.
After teasing everyone through this past week, Tom MacDonald finally dropped his new track called “Dear Slim” which is over an original Eminem beat. The beat which he got from Eminem’s first NFT Release recently, after a bid of whopping $100,000. The song released along with an official video, which is also heavily inspired by Eminem and it already garnered over 1.8 million views in the first 24 hours. To talk about the process behind the Eminem-produced song, Tom MacDonald sat down with YouTuber No Life Shaq for a new interview.
“I can say is I’ve never been so scared to write a song in my life, my guy,” says Tom MacDonald. “When you start rapping because of Eminem and then the way the universe work and all of a sudden I got an Eminem beat in my hands, I swear to god When I get a beat that motivates me to write, I write that shit right away. And I sat with this beat in my phone for a week before I started writing, I was like Nah bro.”
On asked about people thinking that he will diss Eminem, the Independent Canadian rapper says that, “I let everybody think that all week. It was like, I was just saying Em’s name and doing my promo as an independent artist and I knew where everybody will take that sh*t.”
The music video also featured the car Stan was driving in Eminem’s song. “It’s not the one from Eminem’s video but it’s the same model,” says Tom. “I did some research and found out what Stan was driving. I copped the whip from a junkyard, It was black, I painted the whole thing in the same color as Stan’s car, I went all out.”
On people always comparing him to the Detroit Rapper, he says, “It’s to the point when It can’t be ignored anymore. It’s weird how some things in life just line up. I had written a song about people comparing me to Eminem, then this whole NFT thing happened and I got the beat then I wrote a new song. Everything just came down to this one moment.”
“If you got that beat in $100k, why do people have a problem with that. If you purchase something of a person in $100k, that means you like that person a lot,” points out Shaq.
“When people were saying Tom dissed Em and blah blah blah, apparently I’m the biggest Stan of them all, I dropped $100k on a beat,” says Tom MacDonald. “You gotta think though, Em doesn’t sell beats and If he did sell beats, what do you think gonna cost, quarter million, half a million, or probably more. So for me, A. 14 year old of myself would lose his mind to be in possession of an Eminem beat. And B. To get it in just 100k, which would probably cost more, It’s just business sense too.”
Check out his full interview below.
