MAJ talks about working with Eminem.
Eminem recently released his new project “Music To Be Murdered By – Side B” which also featured Def Jam’s signee Maj, who’s a YouTuber turned rapper. The Dallas rapper recently did an interview session with BlackySpeakz where he talks about how did he get to collab with Eminem on ‘These Demons‘.
In November 2020, MAJ received a call from his manager asking him to record a hook from an anonymous reference tape. MAJ loved the materials he had to work with, but he needed to know who would utilize them. He wanted to offer the artist the finest possible outcome. It took some convincing to get his boss to confess, but when he found out that a secret customer was Eminem, he couldn’t believe it. MAJ explained to BlackySpeakz:
“It was really crazy. When I heard about it, it was November. I was chilling in my room. And then I got a call from my manager, he was like, you would not believe who just did this or he didn’t even really want to tell me who it was at first. Because Eminem is a very secretive person when it comes to drops and when it comes to releasing anything, he doesn’t want a lot of people to know.”
“When they sent me this reference track, there was some other person singing the hook. And I was like ‘Okay, will do that.’ The first thing I did was go ahead and sit on it for like a few minutes and he didn’t even tell me the name of the artist or anything. Then like two hours later I called my manager back and I was like ‘you have to tell me who is this, who’s this for’ so I can probably do it better so I will know what I’m going to deliver and then he made me guess so many time. And then he straight up told me it’s Eminem, and I was like ‘What? Are you serious?’”
“Eminem does not reach out to people. Eminem doesn’t constantly like seek for stuff like that. He pretty much has everything solidated, He’s a f**kin legend. He doesn’t need anybody, he pretty much has everything in his camp. And It was just crazy to believe that. It was hard to wrap that around my head.”
MAJ spoke with Eminem and Paul Rosenberg over the phone a couple of days later. MAJ was the last artist Paul signed as CEO of Deaf Jam, thus this was not his first contact with him. And, as the young rapper learned from that chat, Paul became the vital link between Eminem and MAJ:
“Paul Rosenberg on a phone call told me, like, he gave [Eminem] a list of artists that were new and he heard one of my songs and he was like, “That’s the guy”. So he picked me. That is just crazy to think about. It’s insane, like Your idol literally just saying “Yeah, I want you”. I just couldn’t believe it until it was out, it was hard to believe. And then he also gave me a description of how he wanted [the hook] because at first I kind of didn’t get it. I got the style of it but I had to make it more jumpy for him.”
“He was literally telling me that I’m so talented, amazing, gifted. I was like ‘bro you f**king Eminem. You can’t be telling me this. He literally said I was gonna blow up. It’s crazy to think about being a part of his discography, just being a huge fan of him while growing up. Listening to his music. Watching my dad and mom listening to Eminem around me when I was young. It’s insane to be a part of this.”
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