Eminem and Paul Rosenberg discuss the 2007 drug overdose.
Paul Rosenberg continues his “Paul Pod: Curtain Call 2” podcast and his latest guest was none other than Eminem himself. The two discuss various topics in the first part of the podcast, and Rosenberg also brought up the Detroit rapper’s methadone overdose in late 2007, where he nearly died.
“I remember when I first got sober and all the sh*t was out of my system, I remember just being, like, really happy and everything was f**king new to me again,” recalled Eminem. “It was the first [Relapse] album and the first one that I had fun recording in a long time.”
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“It was like the first time I started having fun with music again and relearning how to rap. You remember that whole process, [It] took a long time for my brain to start working again,” says Eminem about the overdose. “I mean, you literally were coming off of an overdose and they had to sort of stabilize you with a few medications. And some of them took you a minute to adjust to… let’s just leave it at that,” said Rosenberg. “So you’re learning to rap again, almost literally, right? Because it’s the first time probably you were creating without having substances in your body in however many years, right?”
“Didn’t you ask the doctors… when I first started rapping again and sent it to you… didn’t you say like, ‘I just wanna make sure he doesn’t have brain damage,'” responds Eminem. “I thought you might have some permanent problems. Yeah, I was concerned, for sure,” says Paul Rosenberg.
In an interview with MTV in 2010, Eminem spoke candidly about his experience becoming clean from drugs, stating he had to relearn how to rap and drive a vehicle. “I had to learn to write and rap again, and I had to do it sober and 100 percent clean,” he said. “That didn’t feel good at first … I mean it in the literal sense. I actually had to learn how to say my lyrics again; how to phrase them, make them flow, how to use force so they sounded like I meant them.”
Check out the conversation below.
